Pencil Pockets for Attachment to Coat or Dress.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 24th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Pencil Pockets for Attachment to Coat or Dress.
I, JAMES ROBERT ALEXANDER, No. 2, East Savile Road, Powburn, Edinburgh, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I make a plate which may be any size from a quarter of an inch in breadth, and
any size from one to six inches in length. I fix to this plate a tube tapering at the
bottom end, the tube being the gauge suited for the pencil it is intended to receive
within it. The tube and plate may be made solid in one piece, or made separate,
plate, and tube, and fixed together after. I make holes round the edge of the plate
that thereby the pencil pocket may be sewn, pinned, or hooked by or through these
holes on to the dress of a lady, or coat of a gentleman, or any article of clothing where
a pencil will be most convenient to the wearer of the pencil pocket.
I make the plate also with hooks fixed, and also with pins, similar to the pin of an
ordinary brooch, for the purpose of hooking, or pinning, the pencil pocket to any
article of dress instantly. I purpose making the plate of the pencil pockets of some
kinds with a hole for buttoning on to the dress, or with a button on the back of plate
to go through a button hole on dress. My main idea is to produce a neat pencil
pocket that can be attached by any ordinary means easily and quickly to the dress,
and that can be changed from one dress to another when such is required, by pinning,
hooking, buttoning, or sewing, the pencil pocket being narrowed or tapered at the
bottom sufficiently to slightly grip the pencil, that it may not fall out when the pocket
is turned upside down. The usefulness of this invention is suggested by observing
where most people keep their pencils, and by noteing how unsuitable an article a
pencil is for keeping in ordinary clothes pockets, and how difficult it often is to
many persons to find the pencil, and bave it in a condition fit to use at once when
required.
By my invention a person shall be able to buy for a small price, a neat bandy
pencil pocket, which he can in a minute attach to his dress in the most convenient place
when he requires to use it, it is instantly at hand, he knows ever where to find it
ready, the point safe as when last he pocketed it, and when he is done using it, he
pockets and protects it in the one action of replacing pencil in pocket, which is a
great advance on all old methods. I have described my idea and the simple con-
struction of one kind of pencil pocket, but on an article like this much artistic skill
can be shown in carvings, and shapes, especially when made from precious metals,
and while the pockets serve a useful purpose, they may be worn as articles of adorn-
ment like ordinary jewellery. The pencil pockets shall be made from all kinds of
suitable materials such as cloth, rubber, rubber-compositions, paper, paper com-
positions, or any other compositions, all kinds of metals, wood, bone, ivory, horn, or
leather. I shall make them in any shape or design suggested by taste and utility, but
always with the idea carried out of supplying a handy and neat pencil pocket for
easily attaching to the coat or dress.
Dated this 25th day of February 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Pencil Pockets for Attachment to Coat or Dress.
I, JAMES ROBERT ALEXANDER Leather & Boot Merchant No. 2 East Savile Road
5 Powburn Edinburgh 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 :-
I make a plate which may be any size from a quarter of an inch in breadth, and

page_text: any size from one to six inches in length. I fix to this plate a tube tapering at the
bottom end, that the taper end of this tube, by being tapered more in degree than the
tapered or sharpened end of a pencil, shall catch or grip the pencil slightly, so that
when the pencil pocket is turned upside down the pencil does not fall out of its place,
but yet is easily and pleasantly taken out of the pocket by the hand when required.
The tube for receiving the pencil which I call the pocket, shall be the gauge suited
to fit the pencil it is intended to receive within it, the tube and plate may be made
solid in one piece, or made separate, plate, and tube, and fixed together after, or the
pocket may be used without a plate at all. I make holes round the edge of the plate
that thereby the pencil pocket may be sewn, pinned, or hooked, by or through these
holes on to the dress of a lady, or coat of a gentleman, or any article of clothing where
a pencil will be most convenient to the wearer of a pencil pocket. I make the plate
or the tube also with hooks fixed, and also with pins fixed on, similar to the pin of an
ordinary brooch, for the purpose of pinning or hooking the pencil pocket to any
article of dress instantly. I purpose making the plates or the pencil pockets of some
kinds with a hole for buttoning on to the dress, or with a button on the back of the
plato to go through a button hole on the dress. My main idea is to produce a neat
pencil pocket that can be attached by any ordinary means easily and quickly to the
dress, and that can be changed from one dress to another when such is required, by
pinning, hooking, or buttoning instantly or sewing if that manner bo preferred by
some. The usefulness of this invention is suggested to the mind by observing where
most people keep their pencils, and by noteing how unsuitable an article a pencil is
for keeping in ordinary clothes pockets, and how difficult it often is to many persons
to find the pencil and have it in a condition fit to use at once when required. By my
invention a person shall be able to buy for a small price a neat handy pencil pocket,
which he can in a minute attach to his dress in the most convenient place, it is
instantly at hand, he knows where to find it ready, the point safe as when last he
pocketed it, and when he is done using it, he pockets and protects it by the one action
of replacing the pencil in the pocket. 1 have described my idea and the simple
construction of pencil pockets, but on an article like this, much artistic skill can
be shown in carvings and shapes especially when made from precious metals, and
while the pockets serve a useful purpose they may be worn as articles of adornment
like ordinary jewellery. The pencil pockets shall be made from all kinds of suitable
materials such as cloth, rubber, rubber composition, or any other composition, all
kinds of metals, wood, bone, ivory, horn or leather. I shall make them in any
shape or design suggested by taste and utility, but always with the idea carried
out of supplying a handy and neat pencil pocket for easily attaching to the coat
or dress.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
(1.) That I have invented the first pencil pockets for attachment to coat or
dress, and that until my invention, the idea has not been known that such an
article as described in my declaration could be used for pocketing, and at the same
time protecting the point of a sharpened pencil.
(2.) That no pencil pockets of any description hitherto invented, have been made
out of any solid hard material such as wood, or metal, and at the same time have
had the cavity for receiving the pencil tapered in degree more than the tapered
point of a sharpened pencil with the object of gripping the pencil to prevent it
falling out even though the pencil pocket be turned upside down. I have found that
this my simple and yet novel idea has accomplished this object.
Dated this 28th day of November 1890
JAMES ROBERT ALEXANDER