Combined Weighing Device and Protector for Pencil Points and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combined Weighing Device and Protector for Pencil Points
and the like.
І, Отто BECKMANN, of 9, Friedenstrasse, Magdeburg, German Empire,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention refers to a point protector consisting of a slit sleeve which
is pushed over the pointed end of a lead or colour pencil or over the pen
carrying end of a penholder, for the purpose of covering the point and of
preserving it against damage.
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In the sleeve of such a point protector, a bar, divided in grammes or other
divisions of weight, said bar being surrounded by a helical spring, is, according
to my invention, so arranged that the point protector can be used for weighing
pieces of fabric, letters and other flat light objects.
The sleeve, the end of which is pushed over the pencil or penholder carries
at its outer end a sliding ring which serves to contract the slitted end of the
sleeve more or less upon the pencil or penholder inserted therein.
Into the sleeve from the slitted end of same is inserted a measuring bar
which is surrounded with a helical spring and which protrudes a little beyond
the other open end of the sleeve and is there provided with a ring such as
is used for carbines. The helical spring abuts at one end against a shoulder
on the bar and at the other end against a flange in the unslitted end of the
sleeve.
If a sample piece of fabric is inserted in the ring and hangs down from the
said ring then the measure bar will be pulled out of the sleeve to the division
line which indicates the weight of the piece of fabric. When the latter is taken
out of the carbine ring the measure bar recedes with the sleeve to the zero
division line.
Or the apparatus may be used in the opposite manner, the article to be weighed,
say, for instance, a letter being inserted in the slit end of the sleeve, that
end of same being held downwards and the aforesaid contracting ring being
pushed forward so as to nip the letter in the slit if the latter does not hold it
by itself. The carbine ring of the measure bar is then taken hold of (or an
ordinary ring will answer the same purpose in that case). The sleeve with the
letter suspended therefrom will then drop so far that the division line indicating
the weight of the letter becomes visible.
Dated this 18th day of December 1899

page_text: Combined Weighing Device and Protector for Pencil Points
and the like.
I, OTTO BECKMANN, of 9, Friedenstrasse, Magdeburg, German Empire,
Merchant, 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 refers to a point protector consisting of a slit sleeve which
is pushed over the pointed end of a lead or coloured chalk pencil or over the pen
carrying end of a penholder, for the purpose of covering the point and of
preserving it against damage.
In the sleeve of such a point protector a bar divided in grammes or other
divisions of weight, said bar being surrounded by a helical spring, is according
to my invention so arranged that the point protector can be used for weighing
pieces of fabric, letters and other flat light objects.
Figure 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings represents a combined weigh-
ing device and pencil protector in sectional elevation.
Figure 2 is an elevation of same when in use and
Figure 3 is a slightly modified construction inasmuch as the apparatus is
intended to be used in the opposite way to the construction shewn in Figures 1
and 2.
The end of the sleeve a is pushed over the pencil or penholder (not shown)
and carries a sliding ring c which serves to contract the slotted end of the
sleeve a more or less upon the pencil or penholder inserted therein.
This end of the sleeve, may have one or more slits as found most convenient
and in the constructions shewn there are two slits.
Into the sleeve from the slit end of same is inserted a measuring bar e which
is surrounded by a helical spring d and which as shewn in Figure 1 protrudes a
little beyond the other open end f of the sleeve a and is there provided with
a split or spring ring y such as is used for carbines trinkets and the like. The
helical spring & abuts at one end against a shoulder h on the bar e and at the
other end against a flange in the unslitted or plain end f of the sleeve a.
If a sample piece of fabric k is inserted in the ring 9 and as shewn in Figure 2
hangs down from the said ring 9 then the measure bar will be pulled out of the
sleeve to the division line which indicates the weight of the piece of fabric.
When the latter is taken out of the carbine ring the measure bar recedes into
the sleeve to the zero division line.
Or the apparatus may be used in the opposite. manner, as shewn in Figure 3,
the article to be weighed say for instance a letter m being inserted in the slit
end of the sleeve, that end of same being held downwards and the aforesaid
contracting ringe being pushed forwards so as to nip the letter in the slit if
the latter does not hold it by itself. The ring g of the measure bar is then taken
hold of (or as shewn an ordinary ring will answer the same purpose in that
case). The sleeve with the letter suspended therefrom will then drop so far
that the division line indicating the weight of the letter becomes visible..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A combined weighing device and pencil protector consisting of a sleeve

page_text: one end of which is provided with a measuring bar and a spring and the other
end with a slit or slits substantially as set forth.
2. The constructions of combined weighing device and pencil protector as
described and shewn on the drawings.
Dated this Twentieth day of February 1900.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.