A NEW ECONOMIC COMBINED EVER-POINT PENCIL AND PEN HOLDER FOR THE POCKET, POCKET BOOK, OR OTHERWISE.”
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Nelson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th July 1876.
WILLIAM NELSON, Stamper and Piercer, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick. "A NEW ECONOMIC COMBINED EVER-POINT PENCIL AND PEN HOLDER
FOR THE POCKET, POCKET BOOK, OR OTHERWISE.”
My improvements in ever-pointed pencil and pen holders are intended for an
economic article that may be sold retail in a general way as a penny or two-
penny article, and instead of using prepared leads for marking other materials may
be substituted, and of a variety of colours; and in some instances the ever-pointed
marker may be used solely as a marker without the provision for holding a pen, but
will describe my Invention as arranged for an ever-pointed pencil and pen holder.
I provide a short length of tube made of very thin metal for holding a length of
prepared lead. The inner end of the tube, herein-after called the propeller, is
finished with a notched flanged projection. This propeller slides within another
tube sufficiently long to hold the propeller, as also the length of lead before
mentioned, and which tube has a slot formed through it for the notched flange of
the propeller to work in, and which slot defines its range of action. The inner end
of the tube last described may be flanged over or have a small washer fixed on it by
contracting the tube for receiving the washer, a concentric hole being formed
through it for that purpose, and then expanding the tube for holding the said
washer in position. Over the tube I place a regularly twisted or spiral wire which
I now form the outer case from
abuts against the washer before described.
ornamented tin or other metal with its lower end coned down to the size of the
inner tube. This outer tube in its parallel length should be slightly smaller in its
internal circumference to the external circumference of the wire spiral, but in
putting the parts together the spiral will worm over the notch of the propeller
before referred to. The internal parts have now to be pushed down from the open
top end of the outer case until the spiral comes in contact with the conical con-
traction on the lower or pointed end, when a partially pierced and depressed small
part of the outer case is bent inward on the top of the washer before described,
thus holding the parts together, so that by holding the outer end of the inner tube
which protrudes through the conical end of the outer case and turning the said
outer case, and with it the internal spiral, which spiral operates on the notch of the

page_text: propeller, which holding the lead the same will be advanced beyond the end of the
inner tube for use, or retired when not required by reversing the action of the
outer case.
The diameter of the parts depend upon the material used for marking, as coloured
compositions are generally fragile and are made more bulky than leads.
In the open end of the outer case I apply an ordinary reversable pen holder, that
is to say, one for receiving a pen with the means for fitting in the case, as the latter
may be used as a penholder, whilst the pen holder proper is capable of being reversed
so as to place the pen within the inetal case for the pocket, or otherwise.