Never before in the history of The Parker Pen Company had there been an avalanche of business like in the Christmas season of 1897, in which urgent last-minute orders had to be rejected due to the impossibility of supplying them. Parker pen business was achieving considerable success, further increased by winning large contracts with the U.S. government. George S. Parker was drawing his own trajectory of the American Dream.
In line with this expansion at the end of 1998 Parker acquired the 3 upper floors of the McKey Building Block at 17-19 South Main Street in the heart of Janesville´s downtown. Operations moved into this building in the middle of 1900. This edifice would have on the side a large-scale ad, where they could read: «The PARKER PEN COMPANY, Home of the JOINTLESS FOUNTAIN PEN.»
The new year began precisely with its Jointless announcement so, in Side Talks’ January, where its magazine let it be known they are manufacturing new models for to supply the public with a fountain pen without a joint. Parker were working in a fountain pen that they expect to place on the market just as soon as they had enough stocks. This holder promised to revolutionize the trade of fountain pens. The fountain pen without a joint patent 622,256 was filed on March 7, 1898 and in April the Parker Jointless were already commercialized.