IMPROVE- MENTS IN PENHOLDERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I RICHARD GOSKY, Engineer of 107 Königgrätzer Strasse in the City of Berlin
and German Empire, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PENHOLDERS 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 improvements in penholders the object of which is to
produce a penholder of such novel construction that the disadvantages experienced
with the present kind of holder are entirely avoided.
The difficulties which are so frequently experienced when writing with the
ordinary penholder are generally caused either by gripping the holder too tightly
or by giving the fingers such a position on the holder that the muscles of the hand
have an incorrect position and are liable to produce a cramp in the hand.
These difficulties induced me to construct a novel kind of holder so called
"Thumb penholder" by means of which all the difficulties hitherto experienced
are overcome and even persons who are not good penmen enabled to write in good
flowing style and without any fear of the hand being cramped.
The holder proper consists of a thimble like pocket a which is formed to receive
the tip of the thumb.
The said thimble like pocket is tapered towards the forward end b and is
provided with a suitable slot or cut or with one of the ordinary short metallic tips
to receive the pen c.
A projection d to the right hand side of the thimble like pocket a is hollowed
out or perforated so as to receive the style e and also serves to give the middle
finger the necessary and correct hold on the pocket a.
In writing with my said improved penholder the tip of the thumb is loosely
inserted in the thimble like pocket a and the said pocket so turned that the style
connected to the same lies in the crotch of the hand between the thumb and fore
finger.
The middle finger will now lay against the projection d as already explained so
as to prevent the said thimble like pocket a from slipping off the thumb whilst the
fore finger lies quite lightly on the said pocket a.
The same rules are observed in writing with my improved holder as with the
ordinary holders.

page_text: It is evident from the foregoing that the thimble like pocket a is held by means
of the thumb.
The said pocket-holder can be made of light material such as wood, cork,
vulcanite, ebonite, thin sheet metal or other suitable material.
It is evident that the same holder can also be adapted to contain or receive a
lead or other pencil or pencil case.
In this instance small clips or spring or other holders can be either affixed direct
to the thimble like holder or to separate rings which can be fixed to the pocket or
slid onto the same as required or a small cylindrical case can be affixed to the said
pocket and serve to receive the ordinary lead pencil holders.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1-The arrangement application and employment of the thimble like pocket a
of wood, cork, ebonite, metal or other suitable material for receiving the tip of the
thum substantially as described.
2-The combination of the thimble like pocket a with a style of suitable form
substantially as described and shown.
3-The combination of the thimble like pocket a with a cylinder or suitable
clips or their equivalents for holding a pencil substantially as described and shown.
*LOOT JOON TO ARDO SU DAINT
Witnesses,
ANTHONY STEFFEN.
STUTZER.
RICHARD GOSKY.