IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR PENCILS, CRAYONS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR PENCILS, CRAYONS, AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES.” - A communication from abroad by William
Henry Wilson Campbell, of Norwich, Connecticut, United States
of America.
Sealed the 9th May 1878, and dated the 4th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Haseltine at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th March 1878.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office,"
Southampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR
PENCILS, CRAYONS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," a communication, to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to a device for clamping and holding pencils
and various other analogous articles. It obviates the necessity for

page_text: clamping rings and screw threads, and serves to firmly hold in position
the pencil, whether long or short, thus utilizing short pencils.
The said Invention consists in a tubular case of metal, hard rubber,
wood or any suitable material, combined with the clamping dovico proper,
which is a tube preferably of spring metal or tempered rubber open at
both ends and slotted.
Tho said tubular case or handle may be of any suitable material, such
as metal, rubber, wood, ivory, or porcelain. It must be sufficiently
hollowed out at one end for the passage of the clamping device with the
pencil or other article in position. The case may be silver plated, nickle
plated, or electro-plated, if desired.
The clamping device which, like the case, may be of various suitable
materials, as above stated, is a short tube open at both ends, and pro-
vided with slots which permit the end of the clamping device to be
compressed firmly upon the pencil, the compression being effected 1
automatically by the act of inserting the clamping device into the case
or handle.
If preferred, the clamping device may be provided with stops, either
struck up, riveted, or soldered upon the clamping tube, or these stops
may be placed within the case in such position that the end of the
clamping device, when properly inserted, will rest thereon. These stops
provent the clamping device being forced too far within the case.
In some instances a cap or cover is fitted over the exposed end. In
order to make the clamping device take a firmer hold of either a pencil
or tuft of bristles or hair, small projections may be struck up inwardly,
or a rim may be turned inwardly upon all or a part only of the divisions
of the said clamping device at their lower ends, or upon the outer ond
of the clamping tube.
The said device may also be employed for holding a rubber tip upon
a pencil, if desired, and for this purpose the clamping device may be
duplicated upon the reverse end of the case or handle. The inner end of
the clamping device may be made of thin corrugated metal, if desired,
instead of being slotted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Haseltine in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th August 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," Southampton Build-
ings, London, Doctor of Laws, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me,' the said George Haseltine, Her special licence that
I, the said George Haseltine, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Haseltine, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS
FOR PENCILS, CRAYONS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," a communication to me from .
abroad by William Henry Wilson Campbell, of Norwich, Connecticut,
United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said George Haseltine, my executors or administrators, by an.
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Haseltine, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing
forming a part of this Specification :—
This Invention relates to a device for clamping and holding. pencils
5 and various other analogous articles. It obviates the necessity for:

page_text: clamping rings and screw threads, and serves to firmly hold in position
the pencil, whether long or short, thus utilizing short pencils.
The said Invention consists in a tubular case of metal, hard rubber,
wood, or any suitable material, combined with the clamping device
proper, which is a tube preferably of spring metal or tempered india- t
rubber, open at both ends and slotted.
Figure 3 is the said clamping device detached.
The said tubular case or handle a may be of any suitable material,
such as metal, india-rubber, wood, ivory, or porcelain; it must be
sufficiently hollow at one end for the passage of the clamping device 15
with the pencil or other article in position. The said case a may be
silver plated, nickel plated, or electro-plated, if desired.
The clamping device 6 which, like the case, may be of various suitable
materials, as above stated, is a short tube open at both ends, and pro-
vided with any desired number of slots c, according to the size of the 20
pencil or other article inserted, or as preferred by the maker. These slots
permit the end of the clamping device 6 to be compressed firmly upon
the pencil, the compression being effected automatically by the act of
inserting the said clamping device 6 into the case or handle a.
If preferred, the clamping device 6 may be provided with stops of any 25
kind, cither struck up, or rivetted, or soldered upon the clamping tube;
or these stops may be placed within the case in such position that the
end of the clamping device when properly inserted will rest thereon.
These stops keep the clamping device from being forced too far within
the case. A ridge or collar d struck up on the clamping tube at the 80
base of the portions seperated by the slots c is preferred for this
purpose.

page_text: . This Invention may be employed for holding a slate pencil, a wooden
pencil, leads, crayons of various descriptions, a stick of lunar caustic for.
surgical use in place of the ordinary porte caustique. When employed
for the last-named use a cap or cover should be fitted over the exposed
end.
The said Invention may also be employed for holding bristles, thereby
serving as a mucilage or other brush. In order to make the said clamping
device take a firmer hold of either a pencil or tuft of bristles or hair,
small projections may be struck up inwardly, or a rim may be turned
inwardly, upon all or a part only of the divisions of the said clamping
device at their lower ends, or upon the outer end of the clamping
tube.
The said Invention may also be employed for holding a rubber tip upon
a pencil, if desired; for this purpose the clamping device may be
duplicated upon the reverse end of the case or handle.
The interior of the case a and the exterior of the clamping tube b
(either or both) may be ground rough, so that the parts of the device
may be more readily held in position. A milled collar may be made
upon the case a or the clamping tube b, either or both, to afford the
hands a firmer grasp in using the said Invention and in putting the parts
together for use. The inner end of the clamping device 6 may be made
of thin corrugated metal, if desired, instead of being slotted.
P
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood I am aware that slotted tubes of metal have been
employed for holding the leads of pencils, the leads being clamped and
retained therein by screwing a metal tip over the slotted tube; also that
port-crayons have been used consisting of a clamping tube, the divisions
of which are compressed by a sliding ring or similar device; but I am
not aware that a device for analogous use, complete in itself in two parts,
and with the compression and retention of the pencil or other articlo
effected by the act of inserting the clamping device within the tubular
case without the use of screws or rings has been heretofore known, and
I therefore claim, the combination of the tubular case and the clamping
device composed of a section of tube open at both ends and slotted at
one ond, the retention of the pencil being effected by forcing the

page_text: clamping device within the case, as herein set forth and for the purposes
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
JAMES EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)