Patent ID: 7144254
Filing Date: 2006-12-05
Classification: B43K,B43L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An underwater writing tablet/instrument apparatus comprising: a writing tablet having a perimeter edge; a resilient protective border being secured to the perimeter edge of the writing tablet for protecting the perimeter edge; a resilient elongate member having opposed first and second ends, the first end of the resilient elongate member being integrally molded with the protective border while the second end having a writing instrument receiving component for retaining a desired writing instrument and releasably securing the writing instrument to the resilient protective border, and the elongate member having an normal unexpanded state and an expanded state in which a coil member is resiliently expanded to facilitate writing on the writing tablet with the writing instrument; the protective border further comprises a tip receiving component for retaining a tip of the writing instrument when attached to the instrument receiving component, and the tin receiving component is located in a spaced relationship to the attachment of the first end of the resilient elongate member to the protective border; the writing instrument receiving component is an instrument cavity which has an opening slightly smaller in size than the exterior diameter of the writing instrument so that the instrument cavity frictionally engages with a remote end of the writing instrument and retains the writing instrument in engagement with the instrument cavity; and the instrument cavity has a hexagonal shaped transverse cross section.