Patent ID: 6571480
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: B43L

Abstract:
A hand-operable and portable pencil sharpener comprising a housing having a conical cavity therein, said cavity being of circular cross-section and defining an open inlet end tapering to a narrow inner end, a collar about said open inlet end and formed integral with said housing and defining a circular cavity concentric with said open inlet end, a pencil centering insert in close rotational fit within said circular cavity and rotatable therein, said pencil centering insert having a pencil centering slot, removable attachment means for retaining said pencil centering insert in said circular cavity, a longitudinal through slot along a side wall of said conical cavity, a flat straight blade having a sharp longitudinal edge secured adjacent to said longitudinal through slot with said sharp longitudinal edge projecting into said conical cavity whereby to shave a portion of the extremity of a pencil rotated in said conical cavity and centered by said centering slot of said pencil centering insert.