IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR EVERPOINTED PENCILS, PENS, KNIFE BLADES, TOOTHPICKS OR OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, JOSEPH APPLEBY of 36 Lancaster Street Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer's Foreman, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR EVERPOINTED PENCILS, PENS, KNIFE BLADES,
TOOTHPICKS OR OTHER LIKE ARTICLES and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My Invention consists in constructing holders for everpointed pencils, pens,
knife blades, toothpicks or other like articles in the manner hereinafter described
whereby the part containing the writing instrument or material or the knife blade
or other like article is projected by its own weight by pressing upon the closed end
of the holder while it is held in a vertical position with its open end downwards,
the projected part being fixed or locked by ceasing to press on the closed end of
the holder. After use or when it is wished to return the projected part it is only
necessary to invert the holder that is to hold it open end upwards and press upon
the closed end when the projected part falls into the holder and on ceasing to press
the closed end the said part is fixed in the interior of the holder.
I will now proceed to describe my Invention as applied to an everpointed pencil
case and for that purpose will refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the
corresponding Figures.
Fig. 1 represents a slotted metallic tube provided with one or more toothed
springs a. a., a longitudinal slot b. and two small slots c. c. which said slots allow
the teeth e. e. of the springs to pass through, this said tube also has a pin p.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 represents the movement or part containing the lead or writing material
which has two small grooves or recesses d. d. which allow the teeth e. c. of the
springs a. a. Fig. 1 to enter when the said movement is in its withdrawn position.
The said movement is made to slide inside the slotted tube Fig. 1 and is provided
with a pin f. which pin passes through the longitudinal slot b. and limits the
distance traversed by the said movement.
Fig. 4 represents an outer slotted tube this said tube is fitted outside the slotted
tube Fig.
and has two slots g opposite to each other, these slots allow the

page_text: springs a. a. to expand while opposite to them and as this said outer tube is raised
the plain part of the tube at h. is brought opposite to the said springs which causes
them to contract the teeth e. c. then enter the recesses d. d. of the movement and
hold it firmly while in its withdrawn position as shewn in Fig. 5 when the said
movement is in its advanced or projected position the teeth e. c. of the springs are
contracted and form a stop against the end of the movement.
Fig. 6 shews the section of the holder with the movement in its advanced
position while the springs a. a. are expanded.
The action of the above described mechanism is as follows:-
Pressure is applied to the cap m. Fig. 5 while the holder is held in a vertical
position with its open end downwards which at the same time compresses the
spring 8., the cap m. is attached to the outer slotted tube (Fig. 4) which is by this
means pressed downwards as far as the small slot t. and the pin p. will allow,
this position is shewn in Fig. 6. The slots g. g. of the outer slotted tube are
brought opposite to the springs a. a. which expand and allow the movement to
drop into its advanced or projected position its fall being checked by the pin of the
movement f. in the slot b. of the inner tube, the pressure is now released from
the cap m., the spring 8. expands and brings the outer slotted tube to its former
position the plain part of the tube at h. is brought opposite the springs a. a. and
contracts them and so forms a stop against the end of the movement and holds it
firmly in its advanced position. To return the projected part it is only necessary
to invert the holder that is to hold it open end upwards and apply pressure to the
cap m. when the springs a. a. are allowed to expand in the manner hereinbefore
described and the movement falls into the interior of the holder, when the pressure
is released the teeth of the springs a. a. enter the recesses or grooves of d. d. of the
movement and hold it firmly in its withdrawn position.
Fig. 7 represents the external appearance of the holder.
The application of my Invention to holders for pens, knife blades, toothpicks
or other like articles differs in no essential respect from its application to holders
for everpointed pencils as herein before described.
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
Constructing and arranging the parts, of holders for everpointed pencils, pens,
knife blades, toothpicks or other like articles in the manner hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing whereby the movement
or part containing the writing material pen, knife blade, toothpick or other
instrument may be made to fall by its own weight either into its projected or
withdrawn position by first pressing upon and afterwards withdrawing pressure
from the closed end of the case or holder the several parts operating substantially
in the manner described and illustrated.