For those here that travel, particularly air travel, with fountain pens, safely traveling with ink is always the trick. I have traveled extensively for business, mostly by air for most of my 42 year career. Somewhere in the late 1980s or early 1990s, I bought the Visconti Traveling Inkpot shown below. In the second picture it is fully dissembled and you can see that it contains not only space for your ink, but a bit of blotter and 3 ink pellets for those times when you are really in a bind for ink. I have never used these ink pellets.
The way this works is that with the bottom 2 sections screwed together, you put your ink into the second section - the larger black section. Because of the seal and the small opening at the bottom of this section, the ink will not flow into the clear section. You then screw the top 2 sections on to the section with the ink in it and you are good to go. Put it in its leather sleeve to safeguard it and put it in your pen case.
If you will be gone for a while, you can fill the bottom (clear) section about 75% full of ink then screw the second section on it and fill it as normal, then put the top 2 sections on and you are good to go.
The way you get the ink to flow from the second section into the clear first section is to unscrew the clear section from the second section then slowly begin unscrewing the top 2 sections from the section with the ink. Once the seal is broken, ink will flow and you can recap to stop the flow. Be sure that you have the assembly vertical for obvious reasons. If you have used the second method of filling above and the clear section already has ink in it, DO NOT remove the top 2 sections and ink will stay in the large black section. Either way, once you have ink in the bottom section, insert you pen and fill as if from a bottle.
This inkwell will fit pretty large pens. Pictured below is a Mont Blanc 149 inserted into the lower section of the inkpot. I don't remember what I paid for this inkpot, but it has served me well for decades and continues to do so.
NOTE: It has come to my attention that Visconti has changed the design of their traveling inkpot. I have inserted a link at the bottom for a YouTube review of the current inkpot. The new inkpot operates differently and will not accommodate some smaller pens that mine will work with, but it should still work well for those who travel and need to bring along ink as long as you bring pens that will work with it.
The way this works is that with the bottom 2 sections screwed together, you put your ink into the second section - the larger black section. Because of the seal and the small opening at the bottom of this section, the ink will not flow into the clear section. You then screw the top 2 sections on to the section with the ink in it and you are good to go. Put it in its leather sleeve to safeguard it and put it in your pen case.
If you will be gone for a while, you can fill the bottom (clear) section about 75% full of ink then screw the second section on it and fill it as normal, then put the top 2 sections on and you are good to go.
The way you get the ink to flow from the second section into the clear first section is to unscrew the clear section from the second section then slowly begin unscrewing the top 2 sections from the section with the ink. Once the seal is broken, ink will flow and you can recap to stop the flow. Be sure that you have the assembly vertical for obvious reasons. If you have used the second method of filling above and the clear section already has ink in it, DO NOT remove the top 2 sections and ink will stay in the large black section. Either way, once you have ink in the bottom section, insert you pen and fill as if from a bottle.
This inkwell will fit pretty large pens. Pictured below is a Mont Blanc 149 inserted into the lower section of the inkpot. I don't remember what I paid for this inkpot, but it has served me well for decades and continues to do so.
NOTE: It has come to my attention that Visconti has changed the design of their traveling inkpot. I have inserted a link at the bottom for a YouTube review of the current inkpot. The new inkpot operates differently and will not accommodate some smaller pens that mine will work with, but it should still work well for those who travel and need to bring along ink as long as you bring pens that will work with it.