Improved Combined Implement for Writing, Drawing, or other Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improved Combined Implement for Writing, Drawing, or other
Purposes.
We, GEORGE CARLYLE and THOMAS CARLYLE both of 6 Colquitt Street, in the City
of Liverpool, Paper Makers, 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 :-
There are numerous instances of a pen and pencil, a pen and style or other two
different writing instruments being combined in one case for the pocket, in which
each of them slides into the case or is covered by a sheath, but we know of none where
an ordinary penholder formed of a metal portion and a stick or their equivalent is
combined with a pencil, a style, or an interior penholder so that the person writing can
shoot out the other writing implement, and commence to use that without shutting
down the instrument he was originally using. Now our invention is designed to give
a business man, a traveller or other person the opportunity, while writing with a style,
say a letter, of being able, without looking for another instrument or changing even to
the opposite end of his own instrument, to write the direction in ordinary ink; or to
write a letter in black ink with interlineations or other parts in red; or to be able
to use both pencil and pen without having to change his instrument.
Our invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, setting forth
a pen and a style combined in one instrument. It being obvious however, that in
place of the style another smaller penholder, a paint brush, a pencil, a pricker, a knife-
blade for scratching out, or other implement can be inserted in the handles.
In the drawings, Figure i is an elevation of the apparatus with the style propelled
nearly its full length out. Figure 2 is a part sectional elevation of the same instrument
taken on a plane of 90 degrees from that in which Figure 1 is taken, and showing the
style withdrawn into the penholder.
In the drawings, A is the ordinary penholder. B the pen. C the handle. D is the
slot cut in the barrel of the penholder. E a ring surrounding the penholder, and
having a pin or rivet F passing through the slot, and connecting said ring with the
arrel of the holder H of the internal implement, (in this instance the style I).
The object of the ring E is to enable one to propel the style from its position, as
hown in the sectional elevation, Figure 2, into the position shown in the ordinary
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page_text: elevation, Figure 1, or still further advance it, and to again, when it is no longer
required, bring it back into the position set forth in Figure 2.
It will be obvious that in place of a slot and ring, a slot with a projection, would do,
but this is not nearly as good as the slot and ring for two reasons 1st. it is not so
comfortable in the hand, and 2nd. the ring closely embracing the barrel of the penholder
on the outside, and the cylinder H of the internal instrument holder, also lying close
against the internal cylindrical surface of the penholder, either partially or all round
its circumference, this internal instrument is held rigidly in place without chance of
the sagging motion so frequently found in pocket pencils.
It will be obvious that the apparatus might be modified as follows:-
The pencil, agate point, or other article might be fixed, and the pen made movable
upon it, the agate point, pencil, or other article being in the centre fixed to the stick,
and the penholder being movable on a ring such as E, sliding on the barrel of the
interior instrument. Instead of having a solid stick, the combined instrument can be
enclosed in a metal or other case, and the holder be made telescopic so as to be adapted
for the pocket, or the case can be reversed, so as to be used as a continuation of the
stick.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. As a new article of manufacture, a penholder formed with an internal
holder carrying any required instrument, substantially as described, and so fixed in
the penholder, that the user at any moment can slide it out to a position sufficiently
in advance of the pen for use, and yet which can at once he withdrawn so far into the
penholder as to allow the pen to be dipped into the ink without fear of soiling the
internal instrument.
2. The combination of two penholders in one instrument, the one being placed inside
the other, and sliding therein.
3. The modification, substantially as described, in which the internal instrument is
fixed, and the outer one slides on it, whether made with a long stick or for private use,
substantially as described.
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