An Improved Pencil-holder.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pencil-holder.
We JAMES FAIRBAIRN of Whitehall Road, Landscape Gardener and GRIFFITH
DAVID JONES of Westfield Schoolmaster, both in Wyke near Bradford in the County
of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to provide a pencil holder, more especially applicable
to slate pencils, by which they can be held within the holder, without danger of
breakage, adjusted and used up to the smallest possible size, without any inconvenience.
We employ a tubular holder provided with a slot in which slides a bar or clip, or
slide, for receiving the end of the pencil, and by pushing the bar or clip one way or
the other, the pencil is projected or withdrawn in the holder; cross notches are
provided in the slot, to fix the bar, clip, or slide, at given points whilst in use.
Dated this Eleventh day of February 1890.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pencil-holder.
We JAMES FAIRBAIRN, Landscape Gardener, of Whitehall Road, and GRIFFITH
DAVID JONES, Schoolmaster of Westfield, both of Wyke, near Bradford in the County
of York, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to provide a pencil holder more especially applicable
to slate pencils, by which they can be held within the holder without danger of
breakage, and adjusted and used up to the smallest possible size without any incon-
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pencil-holder.
We JAMES FAIRBAIRN, Landscape Gardener, of Whitehall Road, and GRIFFITH
DAVID JONES, Schoolmaster of Westfield, both of Wyke, near Bradford in the County
of York, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to provide a pencil holder more especially applicable
to slate pencils, by which they can be held within the holder without danger of
breakage, and adjusted and used up to the smallest possible size without any incon-
venience.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a view of pencil holder with adjustable pencil.
Fig. 2 is a view of pencil and slide detached.
Fig. 3 is a section of pencil holder and slide.
Fig. 4 shows pencil holder without slide, and with a scale upon the same.
Fig. 5 shows pencil holder with pen.
Fig. 6 shows pencil holder with pen also sliding within the socket.
A is the tubular holder provided with a slot B in which slides a bar clip or slide (
for receiving the end of the pencil D and by pushing the bar or clip one way or the
other the pencil is projected out of or withdrawn into the holder; cross notches E,
are provided in the slot to fix the bar clip or slide at given points whilst in use.
The cross notches are of various shapes, see Figs. 1, 4, 5 and 6, in some they
are formed so that the bar can only slide one way, in others it can slide both ways
from notch to notch, and may form a pen holder by placing a pen F in at the other
end see Fig. 5, or a second bar or slide may carry the pen see Fig. 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we would have it understood
that we do not limit ourselves to the exact shape or form of notches, pencil holder or
slide but we claim :-
1. In pencil holders the use of an adjustable slide which can be fixed in any

page_text: required position within the slot and notches of the holder such as shown and described
and for the purposes set forth.
2. The combination of pencil holder A, slot B, notches E, and slide C, such as
shown and described.
Dated this Tenth day of November 1890.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Waterhouse Chambers, Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.