New or Improved Device for Extracting Pens from their Holders.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Device for Extracting Pens from their Holders.
1, LUIGI BODOANO, of 35 Via Casaregio, Genoa, in the Kingdom of Italy..
Commission Agent, 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 :-
My invention has for its object a simple and efficient device wherewith pens.
may be easily and quickly extracted from their holders without soiling the
fingers.
This I construct in the form of tweezers shaped preferably from a single sheet
of hard metal, or other suitable material and having the inner surfaces of the
blades or arms thereof so shaped and roughened, or having pads of rubber, or the
like, mounted thereon, that they may be caused to firmly grip, when forced together,
a pen previously placed between them.
By preference I adopt the particular construction shown in the accompanying
drawings, and by the aid of these drawings I will more particularly describe
the device and the manner in which my invention may be carried into practical
effect.
Of these drawings Fig. 1 is a perspective view and Figs. 2 and 3 a plan of the
upper and under side respectively of the device.
As shown the tweezers a are formed of a single sheet of metal or other material
by stamping or otherwise, the inner surface of one of its blades or arms b being
roughened by perforating it as shown in Fig. 3, and over this roughened surface a
pad of corrugated or roughened rubber c secured by a suitable adhesive solution
and flanges d or otherwise.
The second blade or arm & has a hook at its free end, and is formed with a
projecting ridge e, which will fit into the concave surface of a pen, said ridge being
suitably roughened or corrugated to enable it to grip the pen.
Where desired, instead of employing a flat rubber pad on the lower blade, the
pad inay be shaped to receive the pen, whilst in the case of the upper blade this
may also be provided with a rubber pad either flat or shaped to fit into the
concave surface of a pen, or in place of the roughened ridge projecting from the
inner surface thereof, or in addition thereto, a row of points may be provided
which will engage with the eye of or any projection on a pen.
The blades might also be otherwise modified to enable them to firmly grip a pen
when forced together with the same between them.
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 I claim is :-
(1.) A device for extracting peus from their holders formed of tweezers having
the arms or blades thereof shaped to enable them when forced together to firmly
grip a pen previously placed between them.
(2.) A device for extracting pens from their holders formed of tweezers having
one of the arms or blades thereof provided with a ridge or projection which
will engage with the concave surface of a pen and the other blade or arm
fitted with an elastic or yielding pad which will engage with the convex surface
of a pen.

page_text: (3.) A device for extracting pens from their holders formed of tweezers having
both of the blades or arms thereof fitted with elastic or yielding pads on their
inner surface to enable them when forced together to firmly grip a pen previously
placed between them.
Dated this 20th day of June 1896.
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.