Patent ID: 6732437
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: B43L

Abstract:
A sharpener for pencils with a soft lead, comprising a sharpener housing, which has a conical sharpener channel, with a sharpening knife, which is fastened at the sharpener housing and is set tangentially to the sharpener channel, and with a shape-cutting knife, which can be swivelled into the sharpener channel, is provided with a manually actuated lever, and is provided with an arc-shaped, curved cutting edge for the selective shaping of a front end section of the lead, wherein the sharpener is constructed as a double sharpener with individual sharpeners for pencils of different diameters placed opposite to one another in a common housing (3) and that the shape-cutting knives (8, 8â€²) can be swivelled alternatively upward against the lead (2, 2â€²) in the respective individual sharpener about a common axis, which is disposed at a common front end of the sharpener channels (4,4â€²), which are open in the upward and downward directions in this region.