Improvements in and Additions to Pencil Sharpeners.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Pencil Sharpeners.
I, ALFRED HAVILAH WOODWARD of Vittoria Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer (a communication from abroad by Bonfils Monneret
and Company of Paris, in the Republic of France, Manufacturers), do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to improvements in, and additions to, instruments for the
sharpening of pencils, and in commerce known as pencil sharpeners.
The said pencil sharpener is simple in its construction, efficient in its action, and
not likely to get out of order by use.
This invention relates in the first part, to a pencil sharpener, and in the second
part, to a combined pencil sharpener and pencil point protector.
The pencil sharpener of the first part, consists of a handle or long U shaped
frame, with the terminal ends of the branches, directed outwardly, and clipping the
outer ends of an inverted guillotine shaped cutter, which comes between or abridges
the said ends.
The cutting edge of the said cutter or blade, is parallel or inclined.
The handle part, which constitutes the holder, is made from paragon strips,
that is, metal folded longitudinally into a nearly closed trough, and between the
outer ends, the blade with its inwardly directed cutting edge, is pinched, and there
held.
Or the holder part, may be made of an elongated horse-shoe-shaped figure, with
the ends of the branches, turned and closed over the ends of the cutter, which is
thereby held.
In using the instrument, the same is drawn forward over the end of the pencil
to be cut, when the cutting edge pares or cuts the edge and wood to the required
angle.
To give the required angle of cutting to that part of the instrument, I may
employ a guide in connection with it.
In carrying out the second part of my invention, I provide the inner or handle
end of the holder, with a point protector, in the form of an open jointed barrel,
with the junctions of it with the carrying branches of the sharpener, preferably
swelled or enlarged.
Dated this 31st day of October 1890.
ALFRED HAVILAH WOODWARD.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Pencil Sharpeners.
.
I, ALFRED HAVILAH WOODWARD of Vittoria Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, (a communication from abroad by Bonfils Monneret
and Company of Paris, in the Republic of France, Manufacturers 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 relates to improvements in, and additions to, instruments for the
sharpening of pencils, and which are in commerce known, as pencil sharpeners.
This said invention consists in the first part, to a simple instrument for the

page_text: sharpening only of lead pencils, in the second part to a combined cutting instrument,
and pencil point protector, in the third part, to a pencil sharpener, provided with a
directing guide.
The pencil sharpener of the first part, consists of a handle or holder, having at one
end, guillotine shaped cross cutter, or cutter blade, with its cutting edge, presented
inwards.
The cutting edge of the said cutter or blade, is parallel or inclined.
The handle part, which constitutes the holder, is preferably made from sheet
metal, and shaped trough-wise, to give rigidity and impart strength thereto.
Or the holder part, may be made of an elongated horse shoe shaped figure, with
the ends of the branches, turned and closed over the outer end parts of the cutter.
In using the instrument, the cutter blade is drawn forward over the end of the
pencil to be cut, hence the sharpening.
In the second and third parts of this invention, the sharpener in the second part,
has added to it, a pencil point protector, and in the third part,
has a guide.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in front elevation, a pencil
sharpner, made according to this invention.
Figure 2 is a cross section of the holder part of the same, upon the dotted
lines A B.
Figure 3 is an underside plan of Figure 1, while Figure 4 is a longitudinal
section upon the dotted lines CD Figure 1.
Figure 5 is a top side view and section of the cutter separately.
Figure 6 shows how the sharpener is applied when in use.
Figure 7 is an enlarged view of the cutter end of the sharpener.
Figure 8 is a section of the same upon the dotted lines E F, showing the
indentations for the affixing of the ends of the branches of the holder part.
a is an elongated horse shoe-shaped handle or holder, with the ends of the
branches a² of it, carrying a cross cutter b, the cutting edge of it, being directed
inwardly, and adapted to sharpen a pencil by a drawing action, as represented in
Figure 6, in which the arrow indicates the direction in which the sharpener is
pulled.
The cutter or blade, is secured to the branches, by turning the extreme ends a³
of them, over the end parts of the cutter; then by a squeezing or an indenting
process, the affixing is performed.
Figure 9 represents another form of sharpener, with the metal of the handle part,
made tubular.
Figure 10 is a cross section of Figure 9 upon the dotted lines G. H.
Figure 11 is a combined pencil sharpener, and pencil point protector.
ay
is the pencil sharpener, and the point protector or holder, the former
consisting, as before described, of a branched handle part a, and the cutter b, while
the latter consists of an open jointed barrel c, made from the metal of the handle or
holder part, although the same may be made separately, and connected to the said
holder or handle part in any desired way.
Figure 12 represents a transverse section, on the dotted lines I. J. Figure 11.
In pointing a pencil, the said pencil is held, whilst the cutter of the sharpener, is
drawn in a slicing manner, over the end to be cut.
Figure 13 represents a pencil sharpener, provided with a guide. abis the
sharpener, consisting of a handle a, with a cutter b, having an outside cutting
edge b².
c is a tubular guide, hinged or flexibly jointed at d, on its front underside,
to the holder or carrier of the cutter.
The end of the pencil to be sharpened, is drawn across the cutting edge, and
with the stem of the pencil, working up the barrel, as a guide.
The barrel, when not in use as a guide for a pencil sharpener, may be used as a
point protector, and further by jointing the guide part, to the holder or carrier of
the sharpener part, the pencil admits of making any angular movement, as the
nature of the sharpening requires. The cutter may be carried by a single arm or
stem, instead of by two branches.

page_text: The handle holder part, of the said apparatus, may be made from wire if desired
instead of from sheet metal as represented.
Figure 14 represents a pencil sharpener, with a cutter having an oblique cutting
edge.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
:-
First A pencil sharpener, consisting of a cutter or a cross cutter, carried by
or at one end of, a handle or holder part, and with the cutting edge of the said
cutter, presented inwards, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly A pencil sharpener, consisting of a cross cutter, secured to a sheet
metal, or wire holder part, by the turning of the end, or the ends of the branches of
the said holder part, over the end part or parts of the said cutter, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Thirdly A combined pencil sharpener, and pencil point protector or holder, as
set forth in Figures 11 and 12.
Fourthly-A pencil sharpener, consisting of a holder a, cutter b, and jointed
guide e, all arranged, and combined, substantially as described, and set forth in
Figure 13.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1891.
ALFRED HAVILAH WOODWARD.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.