Improvements relating to Pencils and Attachments therefor.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1894--Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Pencils and Attachments therefor.
1, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan and Co. of 18
Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Horace Stephen
Buckland, Attorney-at-Law and Manufacturer, and Louis Philip Wickland,
Machinist and Manufacturer, both of Fremont, in the County of Sandusky, and
State of Ohio, United States of America, and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in pencils and attachments; and the
invention consists, firstly in a pencil-attachment comprising a tube having a knife-
blade located centrally therein and adapted to engage a corresponding hole
centrally within the sheath of the pencil, so that the blade is not visible when the
attachment is secured to the sheath of the pencil. The invention also consists in
the peculiar construction hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure is a side elevation partly in central longitudinal section, of a pencil-
attachment embodying this invention, a portion of the pencil being broken away
to reduce the size of the figure.
Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 2-2, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the
arrow.
Referring to the drawings, A designates a pencil the sheath whereof, at the
non-writing end of the pencil, is provided with a centrally located hole a that
extends longitudinally into the pencil and is designed to receive a knife-blade B
suitably secured within a tube or holder C that, at one end, is adapted to slip over
the end of the pencil, and, at its other end, bears an eraser D. Hole a in the
sheath of the pencil is of such size relative to the knife-blade as to nicely and
easily receive said blade.
By the construction hereinafter described, it is obvious that the blade, when the
attachment is secured to the pencil, is not visible, and that dust and dirt is not
liable to get into hole a in the sheath of the pencil.
The knife-blade is rigid with a plug E, preferably of lead, secured within the
tube of the attachment, and projects beyond the forward or inner end of the tube a
sufficient distance to enable it to be conveniently used for sharpening the pencil
and other purposes. The rear or outer end of the tube is shown provided with
threads C for the purpose of more securely holding the rubber or other material
that may be used for the eraser, and said end of the tube is preferably bent or
turned into the eraser, as at C³, for the purpose of more securely holding the eraser
in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The combination with a pencil whose sheath, at the non-writing end of the
pencil, is provided with a centrally located hole extending into the pencil a suitable
distance, of a knife-blade engaging said hole and suitably secured within a holder
removably secured to said end of the pencil substantially as shown, for the purpose
specified.
2. The combination of a pencil whose sheath, at the non-writing end of the
pencil, is provided with a centrally located and longitudinally arranged hole, of a

page_text: tube removably mounted upon said end of the pencil, said tube, at its outer end,
bearing an eraser, and having suitably secured within it a knife-blade extending
into the aforesaid hole in the pencil, substantially as shown, for the purpose
specified.
3. A pencil attachment consisting of a tube adapted to be slipped over the
non-writing end of a pencil, a knife blade projecting from one end of and suitably
secured within the tube by means of a plug and an eraser borne at the opposite end
of the tube, substantially as set forth.
4. A combined pencil eraser and knife consisting of a tube C, a plug E within
said tube, a knife-blade B rigid with said plug and adapted to fit into a pencil, a
rubber or eraser D in the opposite end of the tube, and the tube being bent into
said eraser, as at C², substantially as set forth.
5. A pencil provided with a knife-blade and eraser-bearing attachment substan-
tially as shown, for the purpose specified.
Din 1st do of Cantamben 1001
R. HADDAN.