Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 16th Aug., 1887.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman 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 is an improvement upon the holder shown and described in the
Specification of Letters Patent No. 1580 dated February 1st 1887. The spid holder
comprises the combination of a sheath or handle a freely-sliding pen-holder or other
article contained therein and provided with a tubular shank or stem, a pressure cap
a retracting spring, a pusher rod connected to said pressure cap and a cover or
stopper hinged or loosely jointed to the pusher rod and arranged and adapted to
operate in connection with the sheath and the pen holder in such manner as to close
the mouth of the sheath when the pen holder is retracted and to lock said pen holder
in place when the latter is protruded. In the present invention the same general
combination of elements is employed, but the cover is hinged to the sheath so that
when said cover is pushed by the pusher rod it will turn upon its hinge as a pivot and
will thus open the mouth of the sheath far enough to permit the pen holder to drop
and protrude therefrom the requisite distance.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of a pen
holder embodying the invention with the pen holder proper (typical of any article
similarly combined) protruding and locked in place. Figure 2 is a like view of the
same with the pen holder retracted within the sheath. Figure 3 is a perspective view
of a modified arrangement of the cover to be hereinafter referred to.
A. is the sheath or handle.
B. is the tubular pen holder proper loose within the sheath and free to slide back
and forth therein.
C. is the cover or stopper hinged to the mouth of the sheath either at one edge as
at Figures 1 and 2 or at opposite sides, as at c Figure 3.

page_text: E. is the retracting spring.
F. is the spring case fitted and secured in the rear end of the sheath.
F
G. is the pusher rod passing through an opening in the bottom of the spring case
attached at its rear end to the pressure cap D, jointed at its front end to the cover or
stopper C. and passing through the tubular stem or barrel of the pen holder B. By
reason of this connection the cover or stopper C. is spring controlled and normally
closes the mouth of the sheath. By pushing forward the pressure cap D, the rod is
advanced and thus causes the cover to turn upon its hinge in a direction to open the
mouth of the sheath. When the cover is tilted back and the sheath held mouth
downward the penholder will drop as far as permitted.
At the point in the pon holder opposite which the tilted edge of the cover comes
when the penholder has dropped is formed a notch a into which the cover when
pressure is removed from cap D. is drawn by the retracting spring E. In this way
the pen holder is locked in protruded position as seen in Figure 1.
To unlock the pen holder the cover by the pressure cap and pusher rod is pushed
outwardly far enough to remove it from the notch a. Then by holding the sheath
mouth upward the penholder will drop back within it and pressure upon
the cap
being removed the retracting spring will draw the cover down to close the sheath as
seen in Figure 2.
By this improvement the cover when pushed outwardly is by reason of its hinge-
connection with the sheath positively tilted or inclined to one side so as to open the
mouth of the sheath.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.
The combination of the sheath the freely sliding pen-holder or other article contained
therein and provided with an opening for the passage of the pusher-rod, the pressure
cap, the retracting spring, the cover or stopper hinged to the mouth of the sheath
and adapted to operate in connection with the pen holder as described, and the
pusher rod attached at one end to the pressure cap and jointed at the other end to the
cover substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.