Improvements in Pocket Pencil and like Cases and Holders.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Pencil and like Cases and Holders.
I, Thomas BIRD, of 59A, Brook Street, London, W., Surgeon, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in pocket pen, pencil, knife, and like
cases and holders, the object being chiefly to provide a rapid or automatic with-
drawal motion of the pencil or other article after it has been used.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing a pocket pencil case
I make the case of metal or other suitable material and place within it a holder
or carrier for receiving the lead or ordinary pencil stick which is to be used
with the case. I make the holder with its lead or ordinary pencil length to slide
up and down within the case being guided by means of a projecting stud or pin
carried in any convenient position upon the holder, which stud I cause to travel
in a groove channel or slot cut or provided within the case and at the upper or
outer end of the slot I form a side passage or passages into which the pin may be
turned out of its vertical channel so as to secure the pencil from sliding back
within the case when in use. I make the side passage of a shape or form as will
best hold the pin firmly in position, sometimes forming it as a short supple-
mentary locking passage or recess leading out of the first side entering passage.
To bring the pencil and its holder back from the outer exposed to the inner
protected position I secure a spring of metal or other elastic material within the
case one end of the spring being attached to the sliding carrier while the other
is secured to the end cap or bottom portion of the case, the tension of the spring
being employed to bring the pencil back within the case after the guide pin has
been turned or removed from the side locking channel or recess into the ordinary
plain groove or sløt.
When providing a pencil case of the most convenient form I arrange a plug
or block of india-rubber at the back end of my tube and secure it preferably
to the case by means of a pin passing through the rubber and the end of the
case, the pin also being employed to carry a loop or swivel to enable the pencil
case to be attached to a chain or the like, this pivot may also carry one end of
the spring. Instead of employing a pin as a pivot for carrying the swivel I may
sometimes make the ends of the wire forming the ring or the swivel to pass
direct through the rubber and the case.
I vary the method of attaching the end of the spring to the case or the cap
and also the method of forming the side passage for locking the holder in its
outer position to suit the type of metal case, end collar or tube employed for any
particular case as at present in use for the ordinary sliding pencil cases.
Similarly I modify the form of my carrier or holder working within the barrel
or tube to suit the pen knife blade or other article that is to be used and that is
to be quickly withdrawn after use into the holder or case, sometimes arranging

page_text: two or more springs within one barrel or tube when two or more pencils pens
or other articles are to be carried within.
Dated this 1st day of February 1800
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents
I, THOMAS BIRD, of 59A, Brook Street, London, W., Doctor of Medicine, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:—
This invention relates to improvements in pocket pen, pencil, knife, button
hook, tooth pick, cigar cutter, and like cases and holders, the object being chiefly
to provide a rapid or automatic withdrawal motion of the pencil or other article
after it has been used.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings
Figure is a sectional elevation, and
Figure 2a plan of one form of my improved pencil case.
Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 show modifications of my invention.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing a pocket pencil case
I make the case A of metal or other suitable material and place within it a
holder or carrier B for receiving the lead or ordinary pencil stick which is
to be used with the case. I make the holder with its lead or ordinary pencil
length to slide up and down within the case being guided by means of a project-
ing stud or pin D carried in any convenient position upon the holder, which
stud I cause to travel in a groove, channel or slot E cut or provided within the
case and at the upper or outer end of the slot I form a side passage or passages E¹
into which the pin may be turned out of its vertical channel E so as to secure
the pencil from sliding back within the case when in usc. I make the side pass-
age of a shape or form as will best hold the pin firmly in position, sometimes
forming it as a short supplementary locking passage or recess e as shown in
Figure 7 leading out of the first side entering passage E.
To bring the pencil and its holder back from the outer exposed to the inner
protected position I secure a spring of metal, india rubber strip or other clastic
material within the case one end of the spring being attached to the sliding
carrier B while the other is secured to the end cap G or bottom portion of the
case A, the tension of the spring being employed to bring the pencil and holder
back within the case after the guide pin D has been turned or removed from the
side locking channel or recess E' into the ordinary plain groove or slot E.
When providing a pencil case of the most convenient form I arrange a plug
or block of india rubber H. Figure 3 at the back end of my tube and secure it
preferably to the case by means of a pin Z passing through the rubber and the
end of the case, the pin also being employed to carry a ring, loop or swivel K
to enable the pencil case to be attached to a chain or the like, this pivot may
also carry one end of the spring. Instead of employing a pin as a
carrying the swivel or ring K I may sometimes make the ends of the wire form-
pivot for
ing the ring or the swivel to pass direct through the rubber H and the case
or cap.
I vary the method of attaching the end of the spring F to the case or the cap

page_text: and also the method of forming the side passage E¹ and e for locking the holder
n its outer position to suit the type of metal case, end collar or tube employed
for any particular case as at present in use for the ordinary sliding pencil cases.
Similarly I modify the form of my carrier or holder working within the barrel
or tube to suit the pen, knife blade L, tooth pick, button hook or other article
that is to be quickly withdrawn after use into the holder or case, sometimes
arranging two or more springs within one barrel or tube when two or more
pencils, pens or other articles are to be carried within as in Figures 8 and 9.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In pencil cases and cases for the like pocket articles, the combination of a
drawback spring with a holder having a projecting pin for working in a slot or
passage formed within the case, such slot terminating at its outer end in a lock-
ing or retaining side passage substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In pocket pencil and like cases the combination of a sliding holder or car-
rier with a case having a pin or stud guiding slot or channel, the end of which
slot terminates in a side passage or passages for holding the carrier firmly in the
outer position, substantially as herein before described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of November
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents.