IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Webster Rammell, of Trafalgar Square, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND
PENCIL HOLDERS."
Sealed the 17th October 1856, and dated the 29th April 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Webster Rammell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th April 1856.
I, THOMAS WEBSTER RAMMELL, of Trafalgar Square, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pen and pencil holders;
for which purposes, the tube or case, in place of being made with a simple slit
with parallel sides, is made with a slit having on either side enlargements
which will admit of an enlargement of the pin or projection, which is fixed to
the spring tube or holder of the pen or pencil, passing into one or other of the
enlargements, and becoming locked or held therein. The outermost part of
the pin or projection from the holder is made of a size suitable to slide in the
narrowest part of the slit in the case or tube. The pin or projection has con-
stantly a tendency to spring outward, and therefore requires to be forced
inwards when being slided.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Webster Rammell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WEBSTER RAMMELL, of Trafalgar Square, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Webster Rammell, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Webster Rammell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Webster Rammell, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Thomas Webster Rammell, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Webster Rammell, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pen and pencil holders;
for which purposes, the tube or case, in place of being made with a simple slit
with parallel sides, is made with a slit having on either side enlargements,
which will admit of an enlargement of the pin or projection, which is fixed to
the spring tube or holder of the pen or pencil, passing into one or other of the
enlargements and becoming locked or held therein. The outermost part of the
pin or projection from the holder is made of a size suitable to slide in the
narrowest part of the slit in the case or tube. The pin or projection has con-
stantly a tendency to spring outward, and therefore requires to be forced
inwards when being slided.

page_text: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 2 a side view, of a pencil
holder constructed according to my Invention; Figure 3 shows, on an enlarged
scale, a portion of a longitudinal section and a transverse section of the same.
a is a tube of metal or other suitable material, having a longitudinal slot'
formed in it, which slot connects a number of holes a¹, a'. Inside the tube a
a short steel tube 6 slides. This tube is split longitudinally throughout the
whole of its length, so as to enable it to spring over and hold tightly the end
of the pencil c. The tube b is also split longitudinally for a portion of its
length at 6, 6, so as to form an elastic tongue, to which the rib d is attached.
The rib d is of such a thickness that it can pass freely from end to end of the
slot in the tube a, and it has a button or plate e attached to its upper edge at
the bottom of the rib d, and on the tongue of the tube b an enlargement is
formed of such a size that it enters and fits the holes a¹ in the tube, and of
such a height that it may be relieved therefrom by pressing the button e, and
deflecting the tongue of metal to which it is attached; when this is done
the tube may be slid along freely within the tube a, but as soon as the
pressure is removed from the button, the enlargement is again forced into one
of the holes a', so as to lock the sliding tube b.
What I claim is, the mode herein described of constructing or combining
the parts of pencil and pen holders.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Webster Rammell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
5 Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
T. W. RAMMELL. (L.S.)