Improvements in or connected with Pencil Sharpeners.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Pencil Sharpeners.
I, JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has been com-
municated to me from abroad by The Eagle Pencil Company of No. 73 Franklin
Street, New York City, State of New York in the United States of America) and
in what manuer the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in aud by the following statement :-
This invention consists in a device which comprises in combination a holder
and a pencil sharpener detachably connected to, but held from rotation in, the
holder. The pencil sharpener for which this invention is more particularly
designed is that which is the subject of Letters Patent for the United States
No. 502,632 of August 1st 1893. It is the purpose of this invention to provide
more especially for that sharpener, a holder by which the sharpener can be more
easily, steadily and continuously rotated than has hitherto been possible and also
to so connect the two parts that the sharpener when it becomes dull can readily be
removed and replaced by a new one. This invention however is not confined to
application to that particular pencil sharpener.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device in its preferred form.
Figure 2 is a like view of the parts detached from one another.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of another form of holder with the sharpener
represented by dotted lines.
Figure 4 is a like view of still another form of the device.
Figure 5 is a cross section on line 5-5 Figure 4.
In Figures 1 and 2 A is the pencil sharpener which may be of any suitable form
and construction but which in the present instance is shewn as being the sharpener
which is the subject of the aforesaid United States Letters Patent No. 502,632.
The holder consists of a sheet metal strip B bent into a frame like form with its
two ends shaped as jaws 6 to fit around the tubular neck of the sharpener, the body
of which sharpener is received and contained within the frame. A ring or sleeve C
fits over the jaws b and clamps them upon the sharpener.
The form and arrangement of the parts is such that the sharpener, while
detachably connected to the holder, is so held therein as to be incapable of
independent rotation.
Upon the front of the holder is a device such as a crank handle D by which the
device can be rotated upon the pencil to be sharpened.
In the modification shewn in Figure the holder consists of a wire bent to form
a cylindrical loop e for encircling the neck of the sharpener. One of the ends of
this loop extends forward diagonally away from the sharpener and terminates in a
handle d. The other end e extends forward parallel with and just beneath the
knife bed g of the sharpener forming a rest or stop on which the said bed bears so
as to prevent any independent rotary movement of the sharpener in that direction;
and the extreme tip f of the portion e is bent up just in front of the tip of the
sharpener, forming a stop to prevent the sharpener from becoming accidentally
separated from the holder. The arm e is of spring metal so that the tip ƒ can be
pulled to one side of the tip of the sharpener whenever it is desired to remove the
latter.
In the modification shewn in Figures 4, 5 the holder consists of a plain ring h
which fits on the neck of the sharpener and is provided with a handle mounted on
a rod or stem i attached to the ring and extending to the front of the sharpener.

page_text: The sharpener is prevented from rotating independently of its holder, by a rib
or projection on the sharpener which enters a groove k in the ring or vice versa.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is―
A holder provided with a socket and a device such as a crank handle for use in
combination with a pencil sharpener detachably mounted and held in the said
socket substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this and do of Anvil 1801
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Agents.