Improved Means for Ejecting or Extracting a Pen from its Holder.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left. 25th Feb.. 1890-Accepted. 29th Mar.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Ejecting or Extracting a Pen from its Holder.
1 ELLEN ELIZA WOOD of Abbey View House, Bath, Spinster do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the steel tube or barrel which holds the pen at one end and the holder at the
other, a narrow groove or slot is cut lengthwise extending from the end of the holder
to the end of the clip or clamp that secures the pen and in the centre of the space
occupied by the pen. Then a narrow flat piece of steel or other metal is doubled
and pressed flat so as to work in the groove, and after being inserted therein the ends
are pressed down and round the barrel so as to clip and slide on the same.
It is therefore only necessary to push this last described piece down to eject the
pen, the part that is doubled and works in the slot pushing the pen before it.
Dated this 29th day of May 1889.
ELLEN ELIZA WOOD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Ejecting or Extracting a Pen from its Holder.
I ELLEN ELIZA WOOD of Abbey View House Bath Spinster 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 relates to devices for forcing or ejecting a pen or nib from its holder
without the necessity for taking hold of the said pen or nib with the fingers or
otherwise.
My improved device is particularly adapted for use in combination with a penholder
of the kind or class indicated in the accompanying drawings.
By my present invention I am enabled to produce a penholder having a pen-ejecting
device combined therewith which is both simple and cheap in construction and is
moreover very compact and free from projecting parts which are calculated to cause
inconvenience in writing.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 shows a plan, and
Figure 2 a vertical central section of a penholder having my said device combined
therewith.
Figures 3, 4, and 5, show my improved device in course of manufacture as herein-
after described.
In the portion A, Fig. 1, of the holder into which the pen is inserted an elongated
perforation B of suitable length is formed extending nearly to the end of the clip or
clamp that secures the pen and situated along the centre of the said portion A.
A flat piece or strip of metal is doubled or folded upon itself for about three sixteenths
of an inch and pressed flat as at C, Fig. 3, the thickness thereof being such as to
permit the portion to work in the aforesaid slot the ends, D D, of the said strip being
open right and left as shewn in Fig. 3-The flat folded part C is then inserted in the
groove to form the pusher or ejecting piece and the ends, D D, are pressed down as
in Fig. 4 around the penholder so as to clip the same forming a sliding piece or
collar D thereon. If the metal used for this sliding piece is steel a modification of
this plan may be necessary. Instead of the strip being folded and pressed flat to fit
in the slot B and form the pusher a small projection E may be left on each side
thereof as shown in Fig. 5 the two projections being bent down into the slot B thus
forming the pusher. This plan may also be used in the construction of sliding pieces
formed of other metals or they may be formed in the manner first above described
Pain 1

page_text: It is obvious that the pen-ejecting device comprising the push piece C and the parts D
or their equivalent may be otherwise formed as may be desirable without departing
from the nature of my said invention. To use the pen-ejector it is only necessary to
push this sliding piece or collar D down to eject the pen the part C working in the
slot B pushing the pen before it.
I am aware that devices having a similar object to that of my present invention
have heretofore been proposed but these have been constructed not only in a less
simple and inexpensive manner than my improved device but have by reason of
certain projecting parts been liable to cause inconvenience in the use of the pen to
which they were attached.
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 I do not
claim the groove or slot, and slide but what I do claim is
A pen ejector consisting of a sliding piece or collar D having a downwardly
extending projection C adapted to work in a slot B in the penholder as above described
and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 24th day of February 1800