Year: 1898

page_text: I, ALFRED BEAUPRÉ BELL, of 122, Unthanks Road, Norwich, Banker's Clerk,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A split tube or barrel of steel, brass or other suitable metal about one much or
more in length and about a quarter of an inch in diameter in which in about the
centie is an incision holding an internal concave stip of metal between which
and the banel a pen may be inserted at the free end and a stick or holder at
the other end which stick on being inserted in the barrel presses the pen between
the strip of metal and the inside of the bariel, holding the pen firmly in its
place and the stick or holder being withdrawn releases the pen and permits its
Pasy removal
I, ALFRED BEAUPRÉ BELL, 122, Unthanks Road, Norwich, Bank Clerk, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in penholders, and has for its object
an article of this description in which the removal of the pen is readily and in-
stantaneously effected by the simple movement of withdiawing the stick or handle
from the barrel such penholder being adapted to receive practically any size of
pen and to hold same securely in place
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein,
Fig 1 is a sectional view of a complete penholder made in accordance with
my invention, the pen being shewn in position therein, Fig. a plan of the barrel
and
Fig 319 a perspective view of the main feature of my invention.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corres-
ponding parts throughout both figures a is a split metal or other barrel adapted
to receive a shouldered stick or handle 6 of ordinary construction
Within this said barrel a a concave tongue is situated, such tongue preferably

page_text: tapering toward its rear extremity which is struck-up at a right angle to the
body of such tongue as at c¹
of
A small slot is provided in the upper part of the barrel a about midway of
its length, such slot being for the purpose of receiving the struck-up end
the tongue c, which end is preferably, subsequently bent over toward the for-
ward end of the said tongue so as to securely hold the latter in place within the
barrel a
The pene is inserted between the said tongue c (at the point thereof)
and the bariel a, the action of the stick b, when same is inserted into the barrel,
firmly wedging such pen between the concave tongue and the barrel
The simple action of withdrawing the stick b causes the pen e to drop out of
the barrel a automatically
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim 18:-
1 The improvements in penholders, consisting in a split barrel having a slot
in the upper side of same through which projects the struck-up rear end of a
concave tapering tongue adapted to hold the pen firmly between same and the
said bariel when the stick is inserted into the rear end of the barrel, substantially
as described, and as illustrated by the drawings.
2 In penholders, the concave tapering tongue e having a struck-up and bent
over end c¹ in combination with a split bariel a having a slot d in its upper side
through which the said struck-up end of the tongue projects, the pen being held
between the tongue and the barrel when the stick is inserted in the rear end of
said barrel, all arranged, combined and operating substantially as and for the
purpose described, and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings
Dated vinto oth day of March
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, WC, for the Applicant