Improvements relating to Pencil Holders and Sharpeners.
Year: 1887

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by LÉON HENRY MALZARD, of Saint-Cloud (Seine),
France, Merchant.]
Improvements relating to Pencil Holders and Sharpeners.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 following statement :—
This invention has for its object to combine a point-protector and porti-crayon or
pencil holder with a pencil sharpener.
In the accompanying drawing
Figures 1 and 2 represent a pencil holder combined with a pencil sharpener and
provided with a piece of india-rubber.
Figure 3 represents the pencil sharpener detached.
Figures 4 and 5 represent the pencil holder with a pencil sharpener but without a
piece of india rubber.
Figures 6, 7 and 8 represent another arrangement of a point protecting pencil
holder combined with a pencil sharpener.
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The point protecting pencil holder represented in Figures 1 and 2 comprises
metallic sheath A B, C, D, in the interior of which is placed the pencil
sharpener E, F, G, H, represented in detail in Figure 3. At the extremity opposite
to that for the pencil sharpener is placed a piece I of india-rubber.
In Figure 1 the pencil is represented as being inserted in the metallic sheath, and
to sharpen the pencil it is sufficient to give it a rotary motion while pressing it
slightly, which operation is well known and which is here performed as with the
ordinary pencil sharpeners.
As represented in Figure 2 the point of the pencil is turned to the exterior and can
be used for writing.
When after having made use of the pencil, the point is to be protected, the said
pencil is turned round, and is placed in the position represented in Figure 1, without
pressing the point upon the pencil sharpener.

page_text: The pencil sharpener represented in Figure 3, which I make use of, is composed
like all the devices of this kind, of an inclined blade which cuts the wood, the chips or
shavings of which pass out through an opening provided for this purpose. The
extremity of the pencil sharpener is provided with an opening J (Figure 1) through
which small pieces of lead or the like can escape.
In the arrangement represented in Figures 4 and 5 the pencil sharpener E, F, G, H,
is placed at one extremity of the metallic sheath A, B, C, D, and the india rubber is
dispensed with. To cut the pencil it is placed in the position represented in Figure 4
and is pressed upwards while a rotary motion is imparted to it. When it is to be
used for writing, its extremity is inserted in the part A E F B of the sheath as
shown in Figure 5. If, on the contrary the point of the pencil is to be
protected the pointed end of the latter is inserted in the said part A, E, F, B, of the
sheath.
In the modification represented in Figures 6, 7 and 8 the pencil holder is formed
of a sheath A, B, C, D, provided at one of its extremities with a ring K.
In the interior of this sheath is placed the pencil sharpener E F G H composed as
hereinbefore set forth, and attached to the ring E F sliding on the exterior of the
sheath.
When the pencil is to be cut it is inserted in the position represented in Figure 6,
and is pressed while giving it a rotary motion.
When the pencil is to be used, it is fixed in the inverse position as shown in
Figure 7. The pencil can be fixed by simple adherence or by a slight screw thread
formed at its extremity L M, in the opposite direction to a screw thread provided
upon the sheath which retains it.
When the point is to be protected, it is sufficient to cause the exterior ring E F to
slide so that the pencil enters the interior of the sheath, as shown in Figure 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my Foreign
Correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
First The arrangement of a pencil holder and point protector in combination
with a pencil sharpener and with or without a piece of india-rubber, substantially as
above described.
Second-The arrangement of a point-protecting pencil holder with a pencil
sharpener movable in the interior of the holder substantially as described.
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Dated this 2nd day
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.