Improvements in Pencil-cases.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 20th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pencil-cases.
I, BERNHARD KÖLLISCH of Nuremberg in the Kingdom of Bavaria Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is an improved pencil case essentially constructed
as follows:
The pencil holder is adapted to be moved up and down in a main tube by means of
a short outer tube connected with the holder either by means of a pin guided in a
slot or in any other convenient manner. A spiral spring secured to the bottom of the
case and to the holder tends to protrude the latter.
The holder is near its bottom end provided with an annular broadening to which is
secured an upwardly extending longitudinal spring bent round hook-fashion at its free
extremity. This spring, by shifting the holder some distance up by means of the
short tube referred to, slides with its hook upward along the inclined curve of a
stationary projection on the inner side of the main tube. Consequently this spring
receives lateral tension and catches with its bend or hook audibly into a notch or
indent provided on said projection, the holder being thereby fixed in its position. To
release or protrude the holder, it is shifted a short distance back by means of the short
tube, until the hook of the spring leaves the indent and resumes its inoperative
position. When now the short outer tube is released, the holder is returned by the
action of the spiral spring to its former position, the spring hook being enabled by
its conical bottom end to pass the projection which is slightly slanted at the
contiguous end, thus allowing the pencil holder to be protruded by the action of
the spiral spring.
Dated this 18th day of November 1800
HUELSER & Co.,
Attorneys.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pencil-cases.
I, BERNHARD KÖLLISOH of Nuremberg in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object an improved pencil case in which the holder is
adapted to be moved up and down in a main tube by means of a short outer tube
connected with the holder either through a pin guided in a slot or in any other suitable
manner.
Reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which like letters designate
like or corresponding parts,
Fig. 1 is a partial longitudinal section of the improved pencil case showing the
holder as introduced.
Fig. 2 illustrates the pencil case ready for use.
Fig. 3 is a cross section along line A B Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 illustrates how the holder is prepared for use, and
Fig. 5 is a detail.
The pencil holder 6 is movable up and down in sheet metal tube c connected to the
holder through pin e guided in slot d or in any other convenient way as mentioned
above. Holder 6 is acted on by spiral spring f tending to maintain it in the position

page_text: shown in Fig. 2. To the stop or ring g of the holder is secured a spring / the end i
of which is bent round hook-fashion.
When the pencil holder is lifted by means of tube c into position Fig. 1, the
spring slides with its hook i upward along the inclined curve of the auxiliary partial
tube secured to the inside of tube a, thereby receives lateral tension and catches with
its hook into the notch or indent of said inclined portion of partial tube k, which can be
easily perceived from the noise thereby produced. The holder is now fixed and can
in this position be conveniently carried.
The holder is released or protruded as follows: By means of outer tube c the holder
is shifted a little further back into position Fig. 4, until hook i of spring / leaves
tube and the spring rebounds from the strained position Fig. 1, into its inoperative
position.
After releasing outer tube c, spiral spring f comes into action and returns the holder
into position Fig. 1, while hook i of spring, which hook tapers conically towards
the bottom end as shown in Fig. IV, can easily evade the inner tube k, which is
slightly bevelled at the top and does consequently not form an obstacle during the
displacement of the holder by spring f.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
A pencil case, in which, while the holder proper 6 is being shifted back into the
main tube a, a spring or elastic hook i, conically tapering towards its bottom end,
consecutively slides along the inclined rim, and catches into notch 1, of an auxiliary
partial tube k secured within tube a, subsequently, i.e. after being thus fixed, inoves
further along said inclined portion and leaves the same, when it is allowed to return
into its inoperative position whereby the holder can be pressed forward by spiral
spring while hook i elastically evades the inner or auxiliary tube k, the whole
substantially as illustrated and described.
Dated this 6th day of August 1890.
BERNHARD KOLLISCH.
By Huelser & Co.,
Attorneys.