Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th Jan., 1889
We WILLIAM SQUIRE of No. 8 Prospect Terrace, Pontefract Lane, Leeds, in the
County of York, Schoolmaster, and JOHN ROBERT BEANLAND of No. 210 Dewsbury Road,
Leeds in the County of York, Plumber do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :―
The object of the present invention, is to form a pencil holder in such a way, that a
pencil or more particularly an ordinary slate pencil may be easily placed in the
holder and held firmly or as casily removed.
The holder may be constructed so as to hold a pencil at each end, or only at one
end, and may also be applied to the leg of a compass. As constructed for holding
only one pencil, it has two parts. The first is a long tube, which by preference is
made of steel, and consists of a sheet of metal which is bent into the form of a tube
of the size required; at a short distance from one end a tongue is formed in the sheet
of the metal, the end of the tongue is bent so as to point towards the interior of the
tube. The second part is a short tube which fits around the outside of the long tube,
and may be moved along the same, and so press upon the inclined tongue and cause
the bent end of the same to move towards the interior of the long tube, in this way
any kind of pencil placed in the long tube would be held firmly.
When the pressure of the short tube upon the tongue, is taken off, the tongue
returns to its inclined position.
The extreme ends of the long tube are made a little larger so that the short tube
cannot be taken off.
Dated this Second day of October 1888.

page_text: Improvements in Pencil Holders.
We WILLIAM SQUIRE of No. 8 Prospect Terrace Pontefract Lane Leeds, in the
County of York, Schoolmaster and JOHN ROBERT BEANLAND of No. 210 Dewsbury
Road, Leeds in the County of York, Plumber 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 :-
that
The object of the present Invention is to form a pencil holder in such a way,
a pencil or more particularly an ordinary slate pencil may be easily placed in the
holder and held firmly, or as easily removed. The holder may be. constructed so as to
hold a pencil at each end, or only at one end, and may also be applied to the leg of a
compass. As constructed for holding only one pencil, it has two parts.
The first is a long tube which by preference is made of steel, and consists of a sheet
of metal which is bent into the form of a tube of the size required. At a short
distance from one end a tongue is formed in the sheet of metal, the end of the tongue
is bent so as to point towards the interior of the tube. The second part is a short
tube which fits around the outside of the long tube, and may be moved along the
same, and so press upon the inclined tongue and cause the bent end of the same to
move towards the interior of the long tube, in this way any kind of pencil placed in
the long tube would be held firmly. When the pressure of the short tube upon the
tongue is taken off the tongue returns to its inclined position. The extreme ends of
the long tube are made a little larger so that the short tube cannot be taken off.
In order that this invention may be better understood, herewith is annexed a
sheet of drawings, showing a pencil holder as constructed for holding one pencil.
Fig. 1 is a flat sheet of metal at one end of which a tongue is formed as at A.
Fig. 2 is a view of the sheet of metal when formed into a pencil-holder of which A
is the tongue and B the short tube-Fig. 3 is an end view of the pencil-holder
showing the tongue projecting in the tube, the end of the tongue is serrated, in
order to hold the pencil more firmly. The preceding description will apply to a
pencil-holder for the leg of a compass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is--
A pencil-holder in which the pencil is held by means of a tongue which is pressed
upon by a tube, the same being also applicable to the leg of a compass, substantially
as herein set forth and described.
Dated this 28th day of November 1888.