IMPROVEMENTS IN PENCIL HOLDERS AND PENHOLDERS, AND IN HOLDERS FOR CRAYONS AND OTHER MARKING, WRITING, OR DRAWING MATERIALS
Year: 1865

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Wiley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
February 1865.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of Graham Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Gold Pen and Pencil Case Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENCIL HOLDERS
AND PENHOLDERS, AND IN HOLDERS FOR CRAYONS AND OTHER MARKING, WRITING,
OR DRAWING MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
My Invention has reference to such pencil holders, penholders, and holders
for crayons and other marking, writing, or drawing materials as are provided
with sliding propellers, and consists of the improvements herein-after explained
in fixing the said sliding propellers in any required position, and in preventing
the return of the pen, lead, or marking material into the holder by the pres-
sure used in writing or marking. The body of the holder in which the sliding
propeller carrying the pen, lead, or marking material works has a longitudinal
slot in it as is usual, in which slot a slide works, which said slide is fixed to the
propeller. By moving the slide up or down the slot, the pen, lead, or marking
material is propelled from or withdrawn into the holder. The said slide is
carried by a spring on the upper side of the propeller. On one side of the
longitudinal slot, and parallel thereto, I make a row or series of holes or
perforations, the said holes or perforations being separated from one another,
and from the side or edge of the slot. I do not limit myself to the number
or shape of the said holes or perforations. On the top of the spring which
carries the before-mentioned slide is a pin or projection, which pin or projec-

page_text: tion is made by the elasticity of the spring to enter one or other of the holes
or perforations on the side of the longitudinal slot, and thus fix the slide and
propeller in the position to which they have been advanced, and prevent the
pen, lead, or marking material being pressed back into the holder in writing.
By pressing the slide towards the axis of the holder the spring is compressed,
and the pin or projection withdrawn from the hole or perforation in which it
was engaged. The slide can now be moved up or down in the longitudinal
slot without interference from the pin or projection. On removing the pressure
from the slide the spring is raised, and the pin or projection re-engaged with
the hole or perforation opposite to which it has been brought, when the propeller
is again fixed, and the pen, lead, or marking material prevented from being
pushed back into the holder in writing. Instead of making the longitudinal
slot and the row of holes on the same side of the holder, the said slot and row
of boles may be situated at opposite sides of the holder. In this form of my
Invention the slide, pin or projection, and spring are so arranged that pressure
on the slide causes the pin or projection to be lifted out of the hole in which
it was engaged and liberate the propeller, and on the removal of the pressure
the pin becomes again engaged with a hole, and fixes the propeller.
By my Invention the sides of the longitudinal slot in which the slide which
works the propeller moves are left smooth, and are not interfered with by
the fixing mechanism; the slide can thereby move with freedom and ease in
the longitudinal slot,