Improvements in Holders for Pencils, Pens, or the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 21st Feb., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Pencils, Pens, or the like.
A communication from abroad by HARTIN MEYER (trading as T. M. Viertel), of
Nuremberg, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer of Patent and Artists'
Pencils.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, & 6, Bank Street, Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster, & 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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, shown in Figures 1-2 of the accompanying drawings, repre-
sents a holder or case with a drop out pencil or similar article, in which the
holding firm and releasing of the pencil or other article when projected take place
in a novel manner by means of a swinging piece in combination with a free moving
weight of suitable form.
A pencil case or holder on this principle is shown in the accompanying drawing,
and the pencil tube a ends in a sheath b freely adjustable in the case A, which
sheath, when projected, rests with its shoulder on the flange c¹ and is thereby
prevented from falling entirely out.
The sheath is pushed over a second sheath & which otherwise is immovably
fixed in the case. The sheath d has a fixed pivote on which the two armed
swinging bar g is capable of oscillating, and this is provided for by the longitudinal
slot in the sheath d. The said bar can be made with arms of equal or unequal
length, and they are bent at the ends and provided with contact surfaces h² in
a suitable manner. Between these two latter a weight i is freely movable within
the sheath d which weight can be made of any suitable shape and material.
If the pencil case constructed in this way be now held with the point downwards,
the pencil together with its sheath drops by its own weight into the position
shown in Figure 1. Simultaneously however the freely adjustable weight i also
drops downwards by gravity and in fact on to the end g of the swinging bar g.
In consequence of this, the latter is forced out of its position of equilibrium and
receives a movement on its pivot e, by which the end g' is pressed outwards against
the inner circumference of the holder case c, (Figure 1).
In this position the end 12 of the sheath
any unintentional return of the pencil, in
whilst writing, is prevented.
rests against the bent end g¹ whereby
consequence of the pressure exerted
When finished using, the pencil case is reversed, that is to say it is held
point upwards whereby the weight at once falls back again, and rests on the
end g².
The two armed bar g swings in consequence in the opposite direction to the one
above described. The end 92 moves towards the outside and the end g¹ towards
the centre or axis of the case in the position shown in Figure 2. The sheath b
thereby looses its support on the end g' and sliding over the latter drops back
together with the pencil into the case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is-
1. A case or holder for a drop out pen, pencil or the like, in which the securing
and releasing of the latter take place by means of a double armed swinging bar g

page_text: in conjunction with a weight moving freely between the two bent ends g¹g² of
the said bar, substantially as described.
2. The herein described arrangement of parts forming the improved pen or
pencil case or holder substantially as set forth.
Dated this 9th day of January 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.