Patent ID: 6540421
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: B43L

Abstract:
A leash for a writing implement, comprising:a flexible, resilient, and substantially planar body; a first aperture passing through said body and sized to receive a human thumb; a second aperture, spaced apart from said first aperture, passing through said body and sized smaller than a shaft of a writing implement to form a self-biased, holding, engagement with an installed said shaft; wherein said body is operable, when worn on a user's thumb like a ring, resiliently to move an installed writing implement to a storage position subsequent to release of said implement from a writing position in a multi-tasking user's fingers, said storage position being at a substantially uniform and repeatable orientation and at a substantially fixed distance relative to the user's hand, said body further permitting said writing implement to be retrieved from said storage position by manipulating said fingers of said hand without requiring a global displacement of said hand to retrieve said implement.