Improvements in or relating to Holders for Pens or Pencils.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th May, 1892-Accepted, 16th July. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Holders for Pens or Pencils.
I, WILLIAM HOLROYD, of 52 Wesley Street, Morley near Leeds, in the
County of York, Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in holders for pens or pencils, and its
object is first, facilitating the means of learning how to write; and second, enabling
a writer to have complete control over the pen or pencil when in use, and at the
same time to allow of greater freedom of the hand.
According to this invention the holder for the pen or pencil may consist of what
are practically two sockets or tubes constructed as hereafter described (and
respectively termed the socket or tube) with their axes parallel (or nearly so) with
each other. That is to say the socket may be slightly conical and in the form of a
thimble like ring, or spring, or clip, or tube of any suitable width so as to fit the
fore or other finger of the writers hand. To the periphery of the socket, is either
fixed or formed by any suitable means, such as soldering, brazing, casting, stamping,
or other like means a second, tube which is smaller in diameter and broader than
the socket. The tube may be circular as shown, or in the form of a spring or clip,
or it may consist of any desired number of narrow rings, or clips, or coils of a
spring, or of one or more square, polygonal, or other shaped pieces (all of which
arrangements are herein termed the tube) fixed or formed out of or on the
periphery of the socket so that the axes of the socket and tube shall practically be
parallel with each other.
The socket and tube may be made of any material such as sheet gold, silver,
steel, brass, ebonite, vulcanite, xylonite, or the like.
In the tube may be fixed a pen or pencil holding device which may consist of
a small removable barrel made to fit tightly into the tube and armed with a pen
or pencil holding device of ordinary construction, or the tube may be prolonged
to any desired length and one of its ends shaped to form a pen or pencil holding
device of any suitable construction, or in place thereof, a short pen holder or a
pencil may be inserted in the tube.
In practice when the socket has been placed on, say the writer's fore finger with
the tube under the same, it will be found that only a slight pressure of the thumb
and middle finger are required for retaining the improved holder in position
thereby giving greater freedom to the hand for writing purposes, but at the same
time enabling the writer to have perfect control over the pen or pencil.
Dated the Twenty-third day of April 1892.
WILLIAM HOLROYD,
By W. Fairburn-Hart,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Holders for Pens or Pencils.
I, WILLIAM HOLROYD, of 52 Wesley Street, Morley near Leeds in the County
of York, Commission Agent, 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 relates to improvements in holders for pens or pencils, and its
object is first, facilitating the means of learning how-to write,-and-second, enabling
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page_text: a writer to have complete control over the pen or pencil when in use, and at the
same time to allow of greater freedom of the hand.
I attain these objects by the holder illustrated in the accompanying drawings in
which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end elevation and Fig. 3 a plan looking at
the top of a holder constructed according to my invention.
Fig. 4 illustrates the holder in position when attached to the hand for writing
. purposes.
A is a socket which is made slightly conical and in the form of a thimble like
ring, or spring-clip, or tube of any suitable width so as to fit the fore or other
finger of the writer's hand. To the periphery of the socket A, is either fixed or
formed by any suitable means, such as soldering, brazing, casting, stamping, or
other like means a second tube B which is smaller in diameter and broader than
the socket A. The tube B may be circular as shown, or in the form of a spring-
clip, or it may consist of any desired number of narrow rings, or clips, or coils of a
spring, or of one or more square, polygonal, or other shaped pieces (all of which
arrangements are herein termed the tube B) fixed or formed out of or on the
periphery of the socket A, so that the axes of the socket A and tube B shall be
practically parallel with each other.
The socket and tube may be made of any material such as sheet gold, silver,
steel, brass, ebonite, vulcanite, xylonite, or the like.
In the tube B may be fixed the pepholder C. as shown in the drawings. The
holder C, as illustrated, consists of a small removable barrel made to fit tightly
into the tube B and armed with a pen holding device of ordinary construction.
But I distinctly wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to this
particular arrangement, as the tube B may be prolonged to any desired length, and
one of its ends shaped to form a pen holding device of any suitable construction, or
in place thereof of a short penholder, or pencil may be inserted in the tube B.
In practice when the socket B has been placed on the writer's fore-finger (as
illustrated) with the tube B under the same, it will be found that only a slight
pressure of the thumb and middle finger are required for retaining the improved
holder in position thereby giving greater freedom to the hand for writing purposes,
but at the same time enabling the writer to have perfect control over the pen or
pencil.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I. declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvements in or relating to holders for pens or pencils, which
improvements consist essentially in the combination of a finger socket such as
herein described with a tube of smaller diameter formed on or attached to the
periphery of said socket so that their axes are parallel (or nearly) with each
other, substantially as and for the purposes hercin set forth.
2. A holder for peus or pencils substantially as herein described so constructed
that the writer has full control over the pen or pencil, which construction consists
essentially in adapting a portion of the holder to fit onto one of the writers fingers,
whilst the other portion receives or forms the pen or pencil holding device as
set forth.
3. A holder for pens or pencils, having a socket such as A for the reception
of one of the writer's fingers and a tube such as B formed on or attached to the
periphery of said socket for receiving or forming the pen and pencil holding device
substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 4 of the accompanying
drawings.