PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PENCIL CASES AND PENHOLDERS
Year: 1871

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LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PENCIL CASES AND PENHOLDERS."
Sealed the 4th June 1872, and dated the 7th December 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Wiley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 7th December 1871.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of Birmingham, in the County of
3 Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PENCIL CASES AND
PENHOLDERS," to be as follows :—
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The Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of
pencil cases and penholders, and relates, firstly, to an improved mode
of locking the " motion or sliding part in position for use. For this
purpose I form or fix the stud or button to a spring connected to the
"motion" or sliding part, and on the outer end of the spring I form a

page_text: catch, which when the motion or sliding part is protruded for use
passes into a hole formed in the case or holder. Thus by pressing upon
the stud or button the catch may be withdrawn from its hole and the
"motion" or sliding part drawn within the case or holder, whilst when
the "motion" or sliding part is fully protruded the catch will spring into
the hole and prevent the motion or sliding part running back into the
case or holder.
Instead of forming a hole in the case or holder to receive the catch,
I sometimes cause the catch to pass beyond the end of the case or
holder or into a recess therein.
The Invention relates, secondly, to a novel arrangement of parts
forming the "motion" of pencil cases, in order to prevent pencil
cases having the first part of my Invention applied thereto becoming
too large or clumsy in appearance. For this purpose I form the point
of the pencil case with a tube fitting within an outer tube having a
split or opening therein. In the rear end of the point tube I form or
fix a female screw, into which the propellor wire takes, such propellor
wire being screwed along its entire length, and being provided with a
tongue to pass into the split or opening in the outer tube. This mode
of forming the motion may be also employed without the first part of
my Invention being applied thereto.
The Invention relates, thirdly, to a novel mode of forming the "coiled
tube" or screwed tube for the motion, whereby a thinner metal may
be employed for the tube than heretofore. For this purpose I take a
thin tube, or a number of them, and embed them in soft metal or in
cement; I then tap them in the usual way, after which I melt away
or remove the soft metal or cement from the screwed tubes.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Wiley, Her special
licence that I, the said William Edward Wiley, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Wiley,
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
THE CONSTRUCTION OF PENCIL CASES AND PENHOLDERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Wiley, my executors
or administrators, 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

page_text: Instead of forming a hole in the case or holder to receive the catch,
I sometimes cause the catch to pass beyond the end of the case or
holder or into a recess therein.
The Invention relates, secondly, to a novel arrangement of parts
forming the "motion" of pencil cases, in order to prevent pencil cases
having the first part of my Invention applied thereto becoming too large
or clumsy in appearance. For this purpose I form the point of the
pencil case with a tube fitting within an outer tube, having a split or
opening therein. In the rear end of the point tube I form or fix a
female screw, into which the propeller wire takes, such propeller wire
being screwed along its entire length, and being provided with a tongue
to pass into the split or opening in the outer tube. This mode of
forming the motion may be also employed without the first part of my
Invention being applied thereto.
The Invention relates, thirdly, to a novel mode of forming the "coiled
tube" or screwed tube for the motion, whereby a thinner metal may
be employed for the tube than heretofore. For this purpose I take a
thin tube, or a number of them, and embed them in soft metal or in
cement; I then tap them in the usual way, after which I melt away
or remove the soft metal or cement from the screwed tubes.
and 6.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 2 is an external
view; Figure 3 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 4 is an external
view of pen and pencil cases, in which the pen and pencil work out
from the same end; and Figure 5 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 6
is an outside view of a pen and pencil case having the pen at one end
and the pencil at the other. In all the aforesaid Figures the same
letters indicate like parts.

page_text: a is the case; b is the "motion" or sliding part for the pencil; and c
is the "motion" or sliding part for the pen.
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In Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 the "motions or sliding parts b and c are
provided with springs b¹, c¹, to which studs or buttons 68, c³, are fixed,
the outer ends of the springs 6¹, c¹, being formed or provided with
catches 6', c³. In the pen and pencil case shown at Figures 1 and 2,
when the pen and pencil are protruded for use the catch b³ passes into
the hole a¹ formed in the case or holder, and the catch c³ passes into the
hole a* in the case or holder, thereby preventing the "motions from
running back into the case or holder whilst in use.
"
In the pen and pencil case shown at Figures 3, 4; 5, and 6, instead
of forming holes a¹, a³, in the case or holder for the reception of the
catches 6, c³, such catches pass beyond the end of the case or holder, a
recess being shown in the end of the case or holder shown at Figures 3
and 4 to receive the catch c³, whilst the other catches b³, c³, of such
Figures rest against the plain ends of the cases or holders.
In Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 the springs b', c', are formed separately
from the "motions " or sliding parts, and are of a width to fit easily
the slots or openings in the cases or holders, they are consequently
somewhat liable to spring outside of the cases or holders and thereby
become injured; but in Figures 5 and 6 such springs are formed by
cutting slits in the motion tube to within a short distance from the inner
ends thereof, thereby forming the springs out of the motion tubes, and
obviating the necessity for employing separate springs fixed thereto,
whilst such springs formed as shown at Figures 5 and 6, may be wider
than the slots or openings in the case or holder, whereby the possibility
of such springs springing out of and beyond the slots or openings is
prevented. If desired slides may be used to operate the motions or
sliding parts, as shown by red lines in Figure 6, the studs 6³, c³, passing
loosely through them.
Figure 7 is a longitudinal section, Figure 8 is an external view, and
Figure 9 is a detail view of a pencil case constructed according to the
second part of my Invention. a is the point of the pencil case, which
has connected therewith a tube a¹, at the inner or rear end of which is

page_text: And, thirdly. I claim the mode herein described of forming the
"coiled tube or screwed tube ordinarily employed for the motion of a
pencil case.
"
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Wiley, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.