IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING THE POINTS OF PENCILS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Barnet Solomon Cohen, of No. 9, Magdalen Row,
Great Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
Pencil Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR PROTECTING THE POINTS OF PENCILS."
Sealed the 21st August 1863, and dated the 3rd March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Barnet Solomon Cohen at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd March 1868.
I, BARNET SOLOMON COHEN, of No. 9, Magdalen Row, Great Prescott
Street, Goodman's Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Pencil Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR PROTECTING THE POINTS OF PENCILS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for protecting
the points of pencils. In order to protect the points of pencils where the lead
or other marking material is enclosed in wood, and where the points are
formed by cutting away the wood, a sliding elastic tube (by preference of
metal) is applied; this tube is split longitudinally, and has a tendency to close.
on and embrace the pencil with an elastic holding, so as not readily to be
moved along the pencil when out of use and in the pocket. In addition to the
tube embracing the pencil by its elasticity, there is an internal spring or
springs which rest against the conical or inclined shoulder which is formed by
the cutting away one end of the pencil; hence, when the pencil is out of use

page_text: and the guard tube has been slid over the point thereof, this spring or springs
will press on such conical end or shoulder and prevent the tubular guard being
forced back along the pencil by any force it may be liable to meet with when
carried in a pocket, nevertheless when the pencil is required for use the
tubular guard may be readily moved back off the point, the pressing spring or
springs near the end giving way for that purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Barnet Solomon Cohen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st September 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BARNET
SOLOMON COHEN, of No. 9, Magdalen Row, Great Prescott Street, Goodman's
Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Pencil Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Barnet Solomon Cohen, Her special licence that I, the said Barnet Solo-
mon Cohen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Barnet Solomon Cohen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING THE POINTS OF PENCILS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Barnet Solomon Cohen, my executors or administra-
tors, 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 Barnet Solomon Cohen, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, 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 apparatus for protecting

page_text: caused to move along the pencil either to cover the point to protect it, or to
expose it for use by turning it round in one or other direction.
In witness whereof, I, the said Barnet Solomon Cohen, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
B. S. COHEN. (L.B.)