Patent ID: 6347875
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: A45C,B26B

Abstract:
A holder for implements, comprising:a housing body defining a plurality of housing compartments therein including at least a writing implement housing compartment and an additional housing compartment; a writing implement disposed in the writing implement housing compartment and an additional implement disposed in the additional housing compartment, the writing implement being movable in an axial direction between a stowed position inside the housing body and an extended position partially protruding out from the housing body such that the housing body forms a gripping part therefor; and an operating element connected to the writing implement, the operating element having an elastically deformable portion that extends through a slot formed in the housing body and terminates in a gripping element outside the housing body, the slot extending parallel to the axial direction and having a locating recess comprising a widened portion of the slot at each opposite end of the slot, the deformable portion being arranged to be elastically biased into each of the locating recesses to fix the writing implement in the stowed and extended positions, whereby pressing the gripping element laterally disengages the deformable portion of the operating element from the locating recess so that the writing implement can be extended or stowed.