IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS, AND IN PENCIL CASES, AND IN THE PROCESS OF AND MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND ORNAMENTING PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS AND PENCIL CASES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hezekiah Hewitt, of the Firm of Hewitt and Company,
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS, AND IN PENCIL CASES, AND
IN THE PROCESS OF AND MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND ORNAMENTING PEN
AND PENCIL HOLDERS AND PENCIL CASES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hezekiah Hewitt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th June 1877.
HEZEKIAH HEWITT, of the Firm of Hewitt and Company, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS,
AND IN PENCIL CASES, AND IN THE PROCESS OF AND MACHINERY FOR DRAWING
AND ORNAMENTING PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS AND PENCIL CASES."
My improvements in pen and pencil holders, and in pencil cases, consist in
arranging the parts in the manner herein-after explained, whereby the holder or
case is made telescopic, and capable of being lengthened and shortened at pleasure,
and is also made to protect the pen or point of the pencil when the pen or pencil
is not in use.
The body of the holder or case consists of a tube, in one end of which the pen, or
pencil, or ever pointed pencil is fixed. On the outside of this tube or body is
another tube capable of sliding on the body. This tube may by a sliding motion
be either made to incase the body, or to project from the body, and cover and protect
the pen or pencil. A third tube sliding in the upper part of the body serves to
lengthen the holder or case when required; or more than one of the said lengthening
tubes may be employed.
My improvements in the process of and machinery for drawing and ornamenting
pen and pencil holders and pencil cases consist in finishing the drawing process and
ornamenting or partly ornamenting the tubular parts of the holder or case by one
operation by means of the machinery constructed as herein-after described.

page_text: The said machinery resembles generally the ordinary machinery employed in
making tubular articles, closed at one end by what is called the drawing-through
process, but differs in the following respects:-
The peg or mandril on which the tube is supported, and by which it is forced
through the die by which the drawing is effected, is not fixed as is usual, but is so
connected with the bolt or slide of the press by which it is worked that it is
capable of rotatory motion; the hole in the die through which the tube is forced by
the peg or mandril is of the ordinary form, excepting that it has a series of inclined
or diagonal grooves or depressions made in it.
When the tube is forced through the die described through the inclined or
diagonal grooves impress a series of screw-like depressions upon the outside of the
tube, the tube and mandril taking a rotatory motion. The tube thus acted upon is
both lengthened and ornamented, so as to have the appearance of what is commonly
called a twisted tube. By afterwards passing the tube through a die having grooves
inclined in an opposite direction to those on the first described die, a second series
of screw-like depressions is formed crossing those first formed, and producing a
series of small lozenge-shaped ornaments on the tube.
By varying the pattern of the grooves in the dies a great variety of ornamental
patterns may be produced.
By the use of straight depressions in the die, straight flutes, either convex, or
concave, or alternating, may be produced; and other designs may be produced by
crossing these with oblique flutes.
Instead of connecting the peg or mandril to the bolt or slide at the press, and the
die to the bolt of the press, the peg or mandril may be connected to the bed of the
press, and the die to the bolt or slide with the same effect.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Hezekiah Hewitt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
December 1877.
HEZEKIAH HEWITT, of the Firm of Hewitt and Company, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS,
AND IN PENCIL CASES, AND IN THE PROCESS OF AND MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND
ORNAMENTING PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS AND PENCIL CASES."
My improvements in pen and pencil holders, and in pencil cases, consist in
arranging the parts in the manner herein-after explained, whereby the holder or
case is made telescopic and capable of being lengthened and shortened at pleasure,
and is also made to protect the pen or point of the pencil when the pen or pencil is
not in use.
The body of the holder or case consists of a tube, in one end of which the pen, or
pencil, or ever pointed pencil is fixed. On the outside of this tube or body is
another tube capable of sliding on the body. This tube may by a sliding motion
be either made to encase the body or to project from the body, and protect the pen
or pencil. A third tube sliding in the upper part of the body serves to lengthen
the holder or case when required; or more than one of the said lengthening tubes
may be employed.
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent elevations partly in section of a telescopic pen-
holder made according to my Invention.
a is the tube or body of the holder, the holding end of which is furnished with an
elastic tubular grip or other analagous part for holding the pen b between it and the
body a. On the outside of the body a of the penholder is a larger tube a² capable of
sliding upon it. By sliding the tube a² into the position Figure 1, so as to cover or
encase nearly the whole of the body a, the pen b is exposed, and the pen may be
used. When the tube a² is moved on the body a into the position represented in
Figures 2, 3, and 4, the pen b is covered and protected by the tube a². Sliding in
the upper part of the body a is a third and smaller tube c, by which the body or
holder a may be lengthened or shortened at pleasure.
In Figures 1, 2, and 3 the lengthening tube c is shown drawn out of the holder
a to its full extent; and in Figure 4 the said lengthening tube is represented pushed
into the holder for the purpose of shortening the same. When the parts of the
holder are in the position represented in Figure 4, the holder is ready for the
pocket, the pen being protected by the outer or larger tube a², and the holder being
shortened to its full extent by the pushing in of the tube c.
Instead of a single
lengthening tube c two or more may be used.
In pencil holders, the pencil is held fixed or carried by the middle part or body
a of the holder, and the point of the pencil is protected by the sliding over it of the
outer tube a in the way described with respect to the protecting of a pen.
My improvements in the process of and machinery for drawing and ornamenting
pen and pencil holders, and pencil cases, consist in finishing the drawing process and
ornamenting or partly ornamenting the tubular parts of the holder or case by
one operation by means of the machinery constructed as herein-after described.
The said machinery resembles generally the ordinary machinery employed in
making tubular articles closed at one end by what is called the drawing-through
process, but differs in the following respects :-
The peg or mandril on which the tube is supported, and by which it is forced
through the die by which the drawing is effected, is not fixed as is usual, but is
so connected with the bolt or slide of the press by which it is worked that it is
capable of a rotatory motion. The hole in the die through which the tube is forced
by the peg or mandril is of the ordinary form, excepting that it has a series of
inclined or diagonal grooves or depressions made in it.
..When the tube is forced through the die described, the inclined or diagonal,
grooves impress a series of screw-like depressions upon the outside of the tube, the,

page_text: tube and mandril taking a rotatory motion. The tube thus acted upon is both
lengthened and ornamented, so as to have the appearance of what is commonly.
called a twisted tube. By afterwards passing the tube through a die having grooves
inclined in an opposite direction to those on the first described die, a second series
of screw-like depressions is made crossing those first formed, and producing a series
of small lozenge-shaped ornaments on the tube.
By varying the pattern of the grooves in the dies, a great variety of ornamental
patterns may be produced.
Figure 5 represents in section, partly in elevation, machinery which I use in
conducting the said drawing and ornamenting process.
Figure 6 represents in section and elevation the second ornamenting die, which
may be used for the ornamenting process.
And Figures, 7, 8, and 9 represent the tubular part of a pen or pencil holder or
case in its finishing stages, Figure 7 representing the partly drawn tube closed
at one end, made by the ordinary drawing-through process, and Figures 8 and 9
represent the tube after the drawing has been completed and the surface of the
tube ornamented according to my Invention.
d, Figure 5, is the peg or mandril on which the tube or tubular part of the
holder or case is supported during the finishing and ornamenting process, and by
which it is forced through the die e. The said peg or mandril d is so connected
with the bolt or slide f of the press by which it is worked that the said peg or
mandril is capable of a rotatory motion. For this purpose the top of the peg or
mandril d is furnished with a collar or head d², which works in a recess g in the
holder h, by which the said peg or mandril is secured to the bolt or slide f of the
press. The die e is fixed on the bed i of the press in the usual way; but the hole in
the die instead of being plain as usual is provided with a series of inclined or
diagonal grooves or depressions at . The partly made tube or tubular part of the
holder or case, Figure 7, being placed on the peg or mandril d (which tube fits the
mandril loosely), as represented at 1, Figure 5, the bolt or slide f of the press is
brought down. The tube on the mandril d is thereby forced through the hole in
die e, and elongated and reduced in diameter; the inclined or diagonal grooves
the die at the same time impressing upon the outside of the tube a series of screw-
like shallow depressions; the said tube and mandril during the drawing and orna-
menting process taking a rotatory motion.
in
The tube, Figure 7, after it has been thus. operated upon has the diameter and
ornamental surface represented in Figure 8, that is, it has the appearance of a
twisted tube, the screw-like depressions being very shallow. The drawn and
ornamented tube or tubular part of the holder or case, Figure 8, is ready to be used in
the manufacture of a pen, or pencil holder, or case; or it may be further ornamented
in the manner represented in Figure 9, that is, a second series of screw-like
depressions may be formed upon its surface, crossing those first formed and
producing a series of small lozenge-shaped ornaments on the tube, as represented.
This second ornamenting process is effected by using the die represented in Figure 6
in the same way as the die represented in Figure 5. The said die, Figure 6, has
grooves m made in its interior inclined in an opposite direction to those marked k
in the die, Figure 5, as represented; the said Figure 6, when the tube, Figure 8, is
forced through it upon the mandril d, producing the crossing screw-like depressions
represented on the tube, Figure 9. The tube is slightly elongated each time it is
drawn through the die or dies.
Instead of impressing the patterns, represented in Figures 8 and 9, upon the
tubes, other patterns may be impressed upon the tubes, by varying the patterns in
the dies; for example, by the use of straight depressions in the die, straight flutes,
either convex, or concave, or alternating may be produced, and other designs may be
impressed by crossing these with oblique flutes.
The ornamentation produced by impressing the surface of the tube, by means of
dies according to my Invention, resembles generally the ornamentation known as
engine turning, and is produced at less cost.

page_text: Instead of connecting the peg or mandril d to the bolt or slide of the press, and
the die, Figure 5 or Figure 6, to the bed of the press, the peg or mandril may be
connected to the bed of the press, and the die to the bolt or slide with the same
effect. In this case the bed of the press is furnished with a holder, in which the
peg or mandril d is capable of rotating, and the die slides over the peg and tube,
supported upon the said peg, to effect the drawing and ornamenting process.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention.
of improvements in pen and pencil holders and in pencil cases, and in the process
of and machinery for drawing and ornamenting pen and pencil holders and pencil
cases,-
First. The improvements in pen and pencil holders and in pencil cases, herein-
before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the accompanying
Drawing, that is say, making the holder or case telescopic in the manner and
for the purpose described and illustrated.
Secondly. The process of and machinery for drawing and ornamenting pen and
pencil holders and cases, herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7, 8,
and 9 of the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, effecting the final drawing of
the tube or tubular part of the holder or case, and ornamenting the same by sub-
jecting the tube to the action of a die or dies, the hole or holes of which die or dies
is or are provided with grooves, which impress upon the tube an ornamental
pattern, as described, the peg or mandril on which the tube is drawn and
ornamented, or ornamented only, being capable of a rotatory motion, substantially
as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
HEZEKIAH HEWITT. (L.S.)