Combined renen font sharpener and ProtecOT WITH Duvbor and Eraser.
Year: 1885

page_text: Combined renen font sharpener and ProtecOT WITH Duvbor
and Eraser.
WILLIAM HUGHES Ahenny Carrick on Suir, Civil Engineer and JOHN SYLVESTER
HUGHES 6 Roche Terrace Portmadoc, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for COMBINED PENCIL POINT SHARPENER AND PROTECTOR WITH
RUBBER OR ERASER and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
We fix on a pencil a combined pencil point sharpener and protector made of
suitable material. This is formed of a tube which is elastic at one end and has a
rubber or eraser at the other-There is a slot at one part of the tube at which
a cutter or a file sharpener is fastened by suitable means inside the tube--Or the
elastic tube protector may be in one piece, and a tube containing the sharpener
and rubber or eraser, forming another piece which would be inserted in the end of
the elastic tube so that the sharpener is opposite the slot and in such a manner
that the sharpener tube can be taken out whenever required provision being made
by suitable means to keep it from turning round when the pencil is being pointed.
To use this invention the combined pencil point sharpener and protector is fixed
on a pencil the head of the latter being inserted in the elastic end of the tube
protector when the pencil is in use-When the pencil is not use it is reversed and
the pointed end is inserted into the tube and when requiring to be sharpened the
tube is held tight and the pencil pressed forward and turned round to the right
until a fine point is obtained.
By the use of this invention having it attached to a pencil it forms a point
sharpener and protector and the pencil can be sharpened at any time thus doing
away with the necessity for a knife or a seperate sharpener which might not be at
hand when required.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained reference is hereby made to the accompanying Drawings,-in which
similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1. shews the general arrangement of our invention. is the pencil. a is
the elastic tube protector, 6 the slot, c the sharpener and d the rubber and
eraser.
Fig. 2 shows a plan and Fig. 3 an elevation. The sharpener c is made of steel or
other suitable material and may be made in the shape of a narrow strip or may
form part of the cone e and is fastened in the elastic tube protector by rivet, solder
or cement.
The cone e may be of steel iron, tin, or other suitable material or may be shaped
in plaster or cement by filling up the parts marked i.
Fig. 4 shows our invention with the elastic tube protector in one piece and
Fig. 5 the sharpener with rubber and eraser in another piece-The sharpener c
may be of steel or other suitable material rivetted, soldered, or cemented in the
cone for may form a part of such cone.
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page_text: To ensure the sharpener c being in proper position at the slot b when the two
pieces are fitted together and to keep the first piece shewn by Fig. 5 from turning
round in the elastic tube protector, a stud g fits into the groove g¹ or the part h
and h may be properly corrugated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
The arrangement of a combined pencil point sharpener and protector with
rubber and eraser substantially as herein set forth.