Improvements in Attachments for Dividers.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date Clanned for ratent under Sect. 103 UI ACL,
being date of firat Foreign Application (in 3rd Apr., 1893
United States of America).
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 2nd Nov, 1893
Complete Specification Left. 2nd Nov.. 1893-Accepted. 16th Dec.. 1893
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 2nd Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 2nd Nov.. 1893-Accepted. 16th Dec.. 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachments for Dividers.
I, WARREN SILAS SMITH, of St. Johnsbury, in the County of Caledonia,
State of Vermont, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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 relates to pencil holders.applicable to the ordinary carpenters'
dividers, of the class which are easily attached and detached the object being
to provide ready means for the use of a lead pencil instead of the steel point of a
divider which has no socket for receiving a pencil.
The invention consists in the novelty of construction hereinafter shown, and in
the adjustability of the pencil socket relative to the divider point socket which
are connected one to the other, all of which will be fully set forth in the following
Specification and claims and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings
forming a part of the same, of which―
Figure 1, represents a pair of common dividers having my improved pencil
holder attached all shown in elevation.
Fig. 2, is a detached sectional plan view showing an adjusting screw in elevation..
Fig. 3, represents a blank from which either side of the pencil holder is
formed.
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Fig. 4, is the blank from which the divider point socket is bent into form.
Similar letters denote corresponding parts.
A represents a pair of common carpenters' dividers having two steel-points B,
which are well enough for their intended use, viz. -for marking upon wood, but
when required for marking on paper, or other soft material, even upon some soft
wood, a lead pencil is preferable.
To avoid the necessity of providing two pairs of dividers, one with a permanent
socket for lead pencils, and the other without, I provide a detachable pencil
holding device comprising a socket for the pencil, a socket for either divider
point, and an attaching pin, or adjusting sorow, by which the two sockets are
united.
The socket C, designed for attachment to either point B, of the dividers, is
cut from thin sheet metal in the form shown in Fig. 4, and then bent to that
form shown in Fig. 2, to receive the tapering circular divider point, and having
its ends c, projecting parallel and slightly separated to receive the pencil socket, D,
and perforated as shown at c'.
The socket D, for receiving a pencil, X, is best formed of pieces such as seen
in Fig. 3, having their ends d, extending parallel and normally in contact, and
perforated as at d, their remainder being bent to the form shown in Fig. 2. The
sockets may then be pivoted together by means of a pivot or pin E, headed on
each side sufficiently tight to create a friction of the parts o-d of said
sockets C-D, for retaining them in any desired position, or angle one with the
other as seen in Fig. 1 ;-or, a thumb screw E', may be substituted for a pivot,

page_text: and one of the perforations c¹, of the socket C, may contain threads to fit the
threads of the screw E, and thus the pencil may be "set" at any angle with the
divider point desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manuer the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
1. In a divider attachment, a pair of sockets formed of sheet metal and pivotally
connected one to the other, one socket adapted to be placed upon one leg of a pair
of dividers and the other adapted to carry a lead pencil at any desired angle with
said dividers.
2. In a pencil holding device, a pencil socket adjustably connected to a
socket for attachment to a pair of dividers, both sockets being made of sheet
metal and bent into the desired form substantially for the purpose set forth.
October 14th 1893
WARREN SILAS SMITH,
St. Johnsbury, Vermont.