for Cleaning Slates.PE
Year: 1885

page_text: for Cleaning Slates.
We SILAS HALL of 30 Northfield Square Mechanician and Samuel Gee of
26 Albion Street Tailor and Habit Maker both in Leeds in the County of York
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for PENCIL HOLDING SHARPENING
AND SLATE CLEANING to be as follows:-
Scholars companion, Pencil holder, sharpener and slate cleaner combined. One
end of pencil holder is cut in sections and made to expand or contract to the
various sizes of pencils and held by a rubber or metal collar causing sections to
press tightly to the pencil. On the other end is a piece of moistened cloth or
sponge covered by casing of suitable shape. The casing or cover is moved a little
to allow moistened material to project for cleaning slate and reversed for drying
the slate. The case has also roughened surface for sharpening pencils. This three-
fold useful article is attached to slate frame by a spring or otherwise carried in the
pocket. It possesses great advantages being instantly transferable to either of the
uses above mentioned. Also the material for cleaning the slate can easily be taken
out, washed and dried, thereby preventing offensive smell resulting from remaining
in damp state,
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page_text: Improved Appliance for Holding and Sharpening Pencils and
for Cleaning Slates.
We SILAS HALL of 30 Northfield Square, Mechanician, and SAMUEL GEE of
26, Albion Street, Tailor and Habit Maker, both in Leeds in the County of York
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:—
According to this invention we construct a case, casing or cover by preference of
thin sheet metal such as "tin" and provided with a clip spring or so formed with
a clip spring part that it can be easily attached or clipped on to the frame of a
slate and as easily detached therefrom if it be preferred to carry it in the pocket.
Inside the casing or cover I place a pad or piece of cloth, sponge or felt which at one
end is moistened for cleaning the slate and at the other or reverse end is dry for
drying the slate. The piece or pad can be pulled out beyond one end of the cover
or the other for either of the two purposes and can easily be taken out, washed.
and dryed, thereby preventing offensive smell which would result from remaining
long in a damp state when dirty.
The second purpose of use is that of a pencil sharpener and with this view the
casing has roughened surface.
The third purpose of use is that of holding the pencil, which latter by preference
is put into the casing between its inner side and the elastic pad and can thus also
be easily removed when required.
The pencil might as shown in the longitudinal and transverse sections figs. A
and B be fixed to one end of a clip holder C¹ with metal or rubber.collar C³ and
the pad B pushed on to the other end, the pad being covered by a casing A with
clip spring part having roughened surface Aso. that when the holder is pulled
out and the casing moved a little to one side or the other, the wet or dry end
of the pad B may be used, but we prefer the arrangement which is shown in.
perspective view in Figure 1 and in end view in Figure 2.
The case or casing A made from a piece of tin shown in plan and side view in
Figures 3 and 4 is bent into the shape shown in Figures 1 and 2 for holding the
pad B, Figure 5, and pencil C and is formed with a clip A¹ that clasps on to the
alate frame D as shown in the perspective view, Figure 6. The part A¹ is
roughened or punched through and serves for pencil sharpening. This clip part
may if desired be fixed to the slate frame by two tacks.
This appliance may also as shown in the perspective view, Figure 7, be clasped
on to a school book E and keep the desired page open as a book marker, the felt
pad B being used as a pen wiper and the roughened part A¹ for pointing crayons.
Peu, crayon and pencil if placing in the casing with the felt will be safe from
injury and very conveniently carried.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is!
The combined pencil or crayon sharpener, holder for slate cleaner or penwiper
and holder for pencil, crayon or pen substantially as described and shown and
attachable to a slate or book by a spring clip.