A Sharpener for Pencils and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Sharpener for Pencils and the like.
JOHN WOOD, Builder, etc., High Street, opposite the Club Hall, Sevenoaks,
Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The above sharpener for pencils and the like is to consist of two pieces of steel
or the like with rough surface or with deep cutts in it similar to that of a file,
and fixed togather in the shape of a V and fixed to the end of a tube or the like, 30
that the composition and the like desired to be sharpened may be passed in untill
it reaches the sharpener and by turning round the thing to be sharpened it receives
a fine point.
I, JOHN WOOD, High Street, opposite the Club Hall, Sevenoaks, Kent, Builder,
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:-
1
This invention relates to an improved device for sharpening pencils and the like
and the object of my invention is to provide means for readily pointing or sharpen-
ing the lead or other writing material of a pencil or the like said sharpener
being also adapted to be carried on or attached to the pencil.
On the accompanying drawing my invention is shown in sectional side elevation.
In carrying my invention into practice I employ a tube or equivalent A which
fits on the pencil and for this purpose I may employ tubes or equivalents such as
those already employed for protecting the points of pencils. In the top end of said
tube i.e., the end where the point of the pencil is situated when said tube is on the
pencil I provide a cylindrical piece B of steel or other suitable metal of con-
venient length and of such diameter as to fit into the tube. Said piece of metal-
which forms the cutter is formed at its lower end--which faces the pencil-with
a V groove and the surfaces c of said groove are roughened or fluted so as to form
cutting edges the arrangement being such that if the pencil be pushed up the tube
until the lead" or other writing material come in contact with the cutter and
said pencil or the tube or both rotated, the exposed end of the "lead" or other
writing material will be sharpened.

page_text: Said cutter may if desired be formed of two pieces of metal, each having one end
tapered off said tapered ends being "cut" like a file or otherwise roughened and
the two parts fixed together say by a rivet or otherwise the action being similar
to the action of the cutter firstly described.
The tube which carries the cutter is preferably formed with an aperture d so
as to permit the cuttings to fall out.
I wish it to be understood that in referring to pencils I do not confine myself to
lead pencils, as chalk, crayons, or other writing material of a like kind may be
equally readily sharpened by means of my improved sharpener.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
A sharpener for pencils and the like constructed, arranged and adapted to operate
for the purposes and substantially as set forth.
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Dated this 10th day of February 1898.
JOHN WOOD
By his Agents, Horn & Son,
151, Strand (next to Somerset House), London.