A Combined Pen and Pencil Holder and Eraser.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th May, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Pen and Pencil Holder and Eraser.
Communicated to me from abroad by HERMANN ARNOLD, of Stuttgart, in the Empire
of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co. Patent Agents and Engineers,
of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to automatic pencil holders which in addition to the load
or pencil proper, contain a writing pen and a rubber, or eraser for lead or ink.
The main body of the improved pencil holder consists of an outer tube or shell
preferably of metal, divided by a transverse diaphragm into two compartments, one
of which contains a screw stopper carrying a writing pen which stopper being
unscrewed and re-adjusted with the pen outside, allows the instrument to be used as a
pen holder.
The other compartment of the main shell contains the pencil holder, which is
formed of a cylindrical shell having a tapering front or forward end.
Into the open rear end of the said shell or tube a piece of india rubber is secured,
which when the shell is put into the outer shell with its tapering end inside, serves to
rub off or erase either load or ink.
Within the inner shell or cylinder just described another shell is arranged and
fitted which for the greater part of its length, is of cylindrical shape, whilst the
smaller part is square or polygonal in cross-section. The square or polygonal part
serves as a guide for a slide picce of similar cross section, which slide piece is secured
upon the end of a tube of small diameter containing the lead or pencil proper. The
front end of the small tube is slit so as to form tongues which grasp the lead as they
are forced towards each other by an outer nut screwed upon the tube, or release the
lead if the said nut. is unscrewed, in the way well known in automatic pencil
holders.
At any convenient part of the length of the small tube behind the nut a plato or
sheet metal piece or stop is soldered or secured to the tube against the end of which
plate fits a yoke or ring surrounding the tube freely the free ends of the ring being
soldered or secured to an elastic plate or tongue fixed to the tube having the square
end. Opposite the ring an aperture is provided in the side of the outer tube which
aperture allows the spring to be touched and forced down with a finger.
The use of this device is as follows:-
When the lead or pencil is to be used, the writer with his finger nail forces the
spring and ring down so as to release the small tube which carries the poncil. The
point or tapered end of the pencil case being turned downward, the tube by its own
weight, will fall down or forward till stopped by the square slide piece striking against
the front end of the corresponding guide in which it works.
This limited advance is sufficient to make the pencil holder and lead project from
the case and, on loosening the nut the lead may be brought forward as much as
required and adjusted by screwing the nut down again. The spring being released
draws the ring up again and the latter catches.behind the plate or stop thus preventing
the inner tube from being forced back into the pencil case while writing.
The inner tube with lead are thus locked in position.
To make them slide back into the interior of the pencil holder the spring is again
forced down and the ring removed from behind the stop or plate.

page_text: The tube can now slide down again by its own weight, the point being turned up.
The spring and yoke or ring again released, hold it in place, as before.
Dated this 28th day of August 1888.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Pen and Pencil Holder and Eraser.
Communicated to me from abroad by HERMANN ARNOLD, of Stuttgart, in the Empire
of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co. Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 and accompanying drawings, (that is to say):
This invention relates to automatic pencil holders which, in addition to the lead or
pencil proper, contain a writing pen and a rubber or eraser for lead or ink.
The accompanying drawings are in illustration of the invention, figure 1
representing the pencil in longitudinal section. Figure
being a cross-section
through the line - (figure 1) and figure 3 being a cross section through the
line.
The main body of the improved pencil holder consists of an outer tube or shell A
preferably of metal, divided by a transverse diaphragm a into two compartments, one
of which contains a screw stopper B carrying a writing pen F which stopper being
unscrewed and re-adjusted with the pen outside, allows the instrument to be used as a
pen holder.
The other compartment of the main shell A contains the pencil holder C which is
formed of a cylindrical shell having a tapering front or forward end.
Into the open rear end of this shell or tube C a piece of india rubber R is secured,
which when the shell C is put into the outer shell A with its tapering end inside, serves
to rub off or erase either lead or ink.
Within the shell or cylinder C just described another shell or tube D is arranged
and fitted, which for the greater part of its length is of cylindrical shape, whilst the
smaller part is square or polygonal in cross-section. The square or polygonal part
serves as a guide for a slide piece M of similar cross-section, which slide piece is
secured upon the end of a tube E of small diameter containing the lead or pencil
proper s.
The front end of the small tube E is slit so as to form tongues which
grasp the leads as they are forced towards each other by an outer nut H screwed
upon the tube E, or release the leads if the said nut is unscrewed, in the way well
known in automatic pencil holders.
At any convenient part of the length of the small tube E behind the nut H, a
plate or sheet metal piece or stop P is soldered or secured to the tube E against the
end of which plate P fits a yoke or ring U surrounding the tube freely, the free ends
of this ring or yoke being soldered or secured to an elastic plate or tongue S fixed
to the shell or tube D. Opposite the ring U an aperture O is provided in the side of
the outer tube C which aperture allows the spring S to be touched and forced down
with a finger.
The use of this device is as follows:-
When the lead or pencils is to be used the writer with his finger_nail forces the
spring S and ring or yoke U down so as to release the small tube E which carries
the pencil. The point or tapered end of the pencil case C being turned downward
the tube E by its own weight will fall down or forward till stopped by the square
slide piece M striking against the front end of the corresponding guide of the shell D

page_text: in which it works. This limited advance is sufficient to make the pencil holder H
and leads project from the case C and on loosening the nut H the lead may be
brought forward as much as required and adjusted by screwing the nut H down
again. The springs being released draws the ring or yoke U up again and the latter
catches behind the plate or stop P thus preventing the inner tube E from being
forced back into the pencil case while writing. The inner tube E with leads are
thus locked in position.
In order to make them slide back into the interior of the pencil holder, the
spring S is again forced down and the ring or yoke U removed from behind the stop
or plate P.
The tube can now slide down again by its own weight, the point being turned up.
The spring and yoke or ring again released, hold it in place as before, (as shewn in
figure 1).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a combined pen and pencil holder and eraser the arrangement of a lead or
pencil tube E with screw shell H to grasp the lead, arranged to slide for a determined
distance in guides formed by a corresponding shell D, to allow the pencil to come out
from and recede into the pencil holder as required.
2. The arrangement of a spring S and yoke or ring U to be forced down when
required through an aperture O of the shell, the said yoke serving to stop the pencil
tube E and preventing it from sliding forward when out of use, and from receding,
when in use substantially as described and shewn.
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CM1000
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Patentee.