AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE MENTS IN PENCIL CASES, AND HOLDERS FOR CRAYONS AND OTHER SOLID WRITING OR MARKING MATERIALS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO CROCHET NEEDLE HOLDERS."
Year: 1861

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ETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of No. 34, Great Hampton
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gold Pen, and Pencil
Case Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE
MENTS IN PENCIL CASES, AND HOLDERS FOR CRAYONS AND OTHER SOLID WRITING
OR MARKING MATERIALS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE
APPLIED TO CROCHET NEEDLE HOLDERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Wiley.
at the Office of the Commissioners, of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th December 1861.
50917.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of No. 34, Great: Hampton Street, Birming-.
5 ham, in the County of Warwick, Gold Pen and Pencil Case Manufacturer,,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " AN IMPROVEMENT, OR IM-
PROVEMENTS IN PENCIL CASES AND HOLDERS FOR CRAYONS AND OTHER SOLID WRITING.
OR MARKING MATERIALS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS. MAY. ALSO. BE,
APPLIED TO CROCHET NEEDLE HOLDERS," to be as follows:-::
My: Invention consists in the combination herein-after described of the.
parts of a pencil case, which combination of parts is also applicable to holders
for crayons and other solid writing or marking materials, and, also to the
holders of crochet needles! →
I will describe my Invention with reference to a. pencil case. I make the

page_text: body of an open jointed tube, that is, a tube having a straight slit running
from end to end. The top or head of the pencil case has a collar, on which
one end of the tube is sprung, and a groove in the tube engages with the
collar of the said top. The head is capable of a rotatory motion in the tube.
The screw consists of a helical coil of wire fixed at one end to the top or head
of the pencil case. The propeller is situated within the screw, and the hook
of the propeller slides in the slit or opening in the tube. The said hook of the
propeller engages with the screw by means of a notch or depression in the
said. hook, in which notch or depression the wire of the screw works. By
turning the head of the pencil case the hook of the propeller is carried up or
down the tube. The part of the propeller which holds the lead is made in the
ordinary manner. Crayon holders or holders for other solid writing or marking
materials are made in the same way as the pencil case described, excepting
that they are usually made larger than pencil cases.
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In applying. my Invention to. crochet needle holders, the arrangement of
parts I have described is employed to propel the crochet needle out of and
withdraw it into the holder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Wiley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th June 1862.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I WILLIAM
EDWARD WILEY, of No. 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Gold Pen and Pencil Case Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Hér Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth-year-of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant untó
me, the said William Edward Wiley, Her special -licence that I, the said
William Edward Wiley, my executors, administrators, 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 "AN-IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PENCIL CASES, AND

page_text: HOLDERS FOR CRAYONS AND OTHER SOLID WRITING OR MARKING MATERIALS, WHICH
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED. TO CROCHET NEEDLE
HOLDERS," 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 of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Wiley, 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 :―
My Invention consists in the combination herein-after described, and illus-
trated in the accompanying Drawing, of the parts of a pencil case, which
combination of parts is also applicable to holders for crayons and other solid
writing or marking materials, and also to the holders of crochet needles.
I will describe and illustrate my Invention with reference to a pencil case..
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation, and
Figure 2 in longitudinal section, a pencil case made according to my Inven-
tion; Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 represent separate parts of, the same, as
herein-after explained. The same letters indicate the same parts in the
several Figures.
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I make the body of the pencil case of an open jointed tube a, having a
straight slit running nearly-from end to end. Figure 4 represents the tube a.
separately and Figure 3 represents a plan of the blank from which the said
tube is made, the said blank being fashioned into the tube by means of dies,
as is well understood. The top or head c of the pencil case (shewn separately
in elevation in Figure 6) has a collar d, on which one end of the tube a is.
sprung, and a groove'e in the tube engages with the said collar d of the said
head.
The head c is capable of a rotatory motion in the end of the tube a.
The screw f, by which the propeller 9 is worked, consists of a helical coil' of,
wire soldered or otherwise fixed at one end to the head' c of the pencil case, as
represented in the separate view; Figure. 5. The propeller 9 is situated within
the screw f, and the hook h of the propeller slides in the slit or opening b in
the tube a, the said hook and propeller being thereby incapable of rotating.
The hook of the propeller engages with the screw f by means of a notch, or.
depression i in the said hook, in which notch 'or depression the wire of the.

page_text: screw f. works, as seen in Figure 2. The propeller g is shewn separately in
elevation in Figure 7. That part of the propeller which holds the lead k
consists of an open tube capable of yielding so as to hold the lead firmly
therein; the said part is of the ordinary construction. By turning the head c
of the pencil case in one or other direction the screw f is. rotated, and the
threads of the said screw working in the notch or depression in the hook of
the propeller g, carry the said propeller up or down the tube a, the hook h
working in the slot or opening 6, and the lead is thereby propelled out of or
withdrawn into the tube or case a. Instead of propelling the lead from and
withdrawing it into its case by giving a rotatory motion to the head of the
pencil case, the-same may be effected by giving a rotatory motion to the point
or nozzle of the pencil case.
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Figure 8 represents in elevation a pencil case constructed according to this.
arrangement of my Invention, and Figure 9 represents a longitudinal section
of the same; Figure 10 represents the blank from which the tube of the
pencil cases, Figures 8 and 9, is made; Figure 11 represents the tube separately
in elevation; Figure 12 represents the nozzle, and Figure 13.the nozzle and
screw.
In this arrangement one end of the coil of wire constituting the screw / is
soldered or otherwise fixed to the nozzle m, the said nozzle being capable of
a rotatory motion in the end of the tube n.. The nozzle m is fastened. to the
tube n by the serrated end of the said tube being burnished into the groove o
in the said nozzle, as seen in Figures 8 and 9 of the Drawing. The opposite.
end of the tuben is closed by turning in the teeth on the said end of the tube,
as represented. The other parts of the pencil case, Figures 8 and 9, are con-
structed and act precisely in the same manner as those herein-before described
and represented in the pencil case, Figures 1 and 2. By turning the nozzle.m
in one or other direction the lead p can be propelled out of or withdrawn into
the case n.
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The surface of the pencil cases, Figures 1, 2, 8, and 9, may be finished-by
japanning or otherwise ornamenting it, or the pencil cases, made as described,.
may be enclosed in cases or coverings of bone, ivory, or other material,
or be used without any case or covering.
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Crayon holders or holders for other solid writing or marking materials are
made in the same way as the pencil cases described and represented, excepting.
that they are usually made larger than pencil cases.
.
In applying my Invention to crochet needle holders, either of the arrange-
ments of parts described and represented may be employed to propel the
crochet needle out of and. withdraw it into its holder, the straight or

page_text: unhooked end of the crochet needle being permanently fixed in the propeller,.
as will be readily understood by an examination of the Drawing.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention; but I
claim as my Invention combining or arranging the parts of pencil cases,
holders for crayons, and other solid writing or marking materials and crochet
needle holders essentially in the manner herein-before described, and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.
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In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Wiley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham..