Improvements in Lead, Crayon, and other Marking Pencil Holders.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1892-Accepted, 10th Sept., 1892
Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1892-Accepted, 10th Sept., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lead, Crayon, and other Marking Pencil Holders.
I, ALFRED FORNANDER of No. 244 Sixth Avenue New York City in the
County and State of New York, United States of America, Mechanical 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:-
My invention is essentially a contrivance whereby sharp points of the lead,
crayon or other marking pencils may be renewed more readily and in a simple
manner in pencils having adjustable leads or other markers, and it is also a con-
trivance for holding such markers more substantially in the nose of the holding
tube, all as hereinafter fully described reference being made to the accompanying
drawings in which
Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a lead, or crayon pencil with the point holder pro-
jected as for placing a new point in position.
Fig. 2, is a longitudinal sectional clevation of a lead or crayon pencil
constructed according to my invention, with the point holder returned part way to
the normal position.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a portion of the pencil showing the manner of
discharging a worn or broken point.
Fig. 4 is a detail in section on an enlarged scale.
The general principle of the invention consists of the leads or other markers a,
made in short taper pieces; a magazine tube b, containing a number of such
markers,, and means for displacing a broken or worn point and substituting a
new one through the instrumentality of a movable device as a push piece c, to
be worked with a finger by the person holding the pencil, and the taper point
is pressed and held firmly in the taper nose d of the holder by a spring e; the
said means for displacing the worn or broken point being in this example of
my invention a slot f, in the side of the magazine tube back of the taper point
and the cover y thereto along which the magazine is moved to uncover said
slot by pressure of the finger on the push piece and permit the worn or broken
point to drop out when pressed back out of the taper nose by hand over the slot,
the pencil being then first turned upward so that the points in the magazine will
drop away from the slot and then held horizontally or thereabout with the slot in
the under side as in Fig. 3.
The cover of the slot is in this example a flat strip attached to the inside of a
handle tube near the lower end enclosing the magazine tube so that one slides
relatively to the other for covering and uncovering the slot the movement in the
direction for covering the slot is caused by the aforesaid spring e, which is coiled
around the magazine tube within suitable space provided for it between said tube
and the handle tube, and is seated on the inside of the lower end of the handle tube,
which is shorter than the magazine tube, and bears on the shoulder ; of the latter
near but a suitable distance within the upper end of the handle tube.
The new point is substituted by holding the pencil point downward sufficiently
to permit the next point in the magazine to slide into position in the nose and it is
then secured therein by its upper end being pressed against the lower end of the
cover which when the pressure is removed from the push piece and the spring is
released projects inward over the upper end of the point and bears thereon subject
to the pressure of the spring; the said lower end of the cover is bent and springs
inward through the slot and over the end of the point when it slides downward
over the ledge l, at the upper end of the slot, said bent portion being provided to
force the lower end outward as the cover is drawn back and leave free passage for
the points along said lower end.

page_text: It will be seen that with the magazine thus charged with sharpened points, a
new sharp point is always ready when required and the waste of time and labor of
sharpening worn or broken points is wholly avoided.
In this example I have provided a separate larger magazine m, on the upper
part of the magazine tube in which slate or other pencils larger than the points
may be carried, the push piece c, being a cap to close this magazine.
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. In a pencil a number of individual marking points, a magazine containing
said points, a push piece and means adapted to be actuated thereby to renew the
points substantially as described.
2. The combination in a pencil of a magazine containing a number of individual
marking points, a point holding nose, a pusher adapted to hold the points in said
nose individually and means for discharging the worn or broken points out of said
point holding nose below or in advance of the points in reserve in the magazine
substantially as described.
3. The combination in a pencil of a magazine containing a number of individual
marking points; a point holding nose, a pusher adapted to hold the points in said
nose individually and means for discharging the worn or broken points backward
out of said point holding nose below or in advance of the points in reserve in the
magazine substantially as described.
4. The combination in a pencil of a magazine containing a number of individual
marking points, a point holding nosc, a pusher adapted to hold the points in said
nose individually, a discharge opening for the worn or broken points through the
side of the magazine above or back of the point holding nose and an adjustable
cover for said opening substantially as described.
5. The combination in a pencil of a magazine containing a number of individual
marking points, a point holding nose, a pusher adapted to hold the points in said
nose individually, a discharge opening for the worn or broken points through the
side of the magazine above or back of the point holding nose and a cover for said
opening consisting of the point holding pusher substantially as described.
6. The combination in a pencil of a magazine containing a number of individual
marking points, a point holding nose, a pusher adapted to hold the points in said
nose individually, a tube enclosing the magazine and having the pusher attached,
said tube and magazine movable lengthwise relatively to each other and a spring
actuating the pusher substantially as described.
7. The combination in a pencil of a magazine containing a number of individual
marking points, a point holding nose, a pusher adapted to hold the points in said
nose individually, a discharge opening for the worn or broken points through the
side of the magazine above or back of the point holding nose, a tube enclosing the
magazine and having the pusher attached said tube and magazine movable length-
wise relatively to each other and a spring actuating the pusher substantially as
described.
8. The combination in a pencil of a magazine containing a number of individual
marking points, a point holding nose, a discharge opening through the side of the
magazine above or back of the point holding nose, the spring point pusher and
discharge opening cover, the tube enclosing the magazine and having the pusher
attached, said tube and magazine movable lengthwise relatively to each other, and
the ledge of the discharge opening adapted to effect the lateral movement of the
pusher substantially as described.