Improvements
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 10th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug.,
1894
1, HENRIETTA LINDSAY PRESTON MURPHY of Palace Mansions, Hammersmith
Road, West Kensington, London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention:
to be as follows :—
This invention relates to improvements in or relating to pocket knives. In
accordance with my invention I provide the back of the knife with a pencil and a
piece of india rubber. The pencil may take the form of a metallic pencil case
having the lead at one end and india rubber at the other end, the said pencil case
being attached to the back of a knife in any convenient manner. Or the handle
of the knife may be made deeper than usual so as to provide a recess or aperture
to receive the pencil case. The pencil case may be provided with the ordinary
spiral mechanism so that on pulling out the lead end of the pencil the piece of
india-rubber at the other end is simultaneously projected out; or the lead and
rubber can be protruded out from the case of the pencil in any other well known
manner.
Dated this 10th day of October 1893.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Pocket Knives.
I, HENRIETTA LINDSAY PRESTON MURPHY of Palace Mansions, Hammersmith
Road, West Kensington, London, 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 or relating to pocket knives and has
for its object to provide a combined pocket knife, pencil case and rubber case.
In carrying out my said invention as illustrated in elevation and plan Figures 1
and 2 of the drawings I employ an ordinary pocket knife A having one, two or
more blades a, to the back of which I attach by any suitable means a case B,
preferably made of metal, in such a manner as to contain a pencil C and a piece of
india rubber D; said pencil C and rubber D being held in a sliding or moveable
portion E which is provided with an actuating pin or knob F which works in an
opening or groove G provided or formed in the case B; said groove G being
formed at either end with stop or side grooves g, so as to enable either the pencil C
or rubber D to be retained in its out or open position as shown.
As a modification, I may form the handle of the knife deeper than as shown, so
as to provide a recess or aperture at its back for the reception of the pencil case B,
which if desired may be so constructed and arranged with spiral or other mechanism,
that on the pencil being pushed out at the one end, the rubber will also be pushed
out at the other and vice versa. Also if desired I may employ a metallic pencil.
case in lieu of the wooden pencil C.
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
1 claim is.
The general arrangement, construction and combination of the various parts,

page_text: constituting the improvements in pocket knives, substantially as hereinbefore-
described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of July 1894.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.