AN IMPROVED PEN AND PENCIL CASE OR HOLDER AND ERASER
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jacob Wolf Spear, of South Place, Finsbury, in the
County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PEN
AND PENCIL CASE OR HOLDER AND ERASER."
Sealed the 20th December 1878, and dated the 14th October 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jacob Wolf Spear at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th October 1878.
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JACOB WOLF SPEAR, of South Place, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer. AN IMPROVED PEN AND PENCIL CASE OR HOLDER AND ERASER."
This Invention consists in a novel and simple construction of pencil case for lead
and slate pencils, serving also as a penholder and ink or pencil eraser.
The improved case or holder consists of a metal or other tubular case open at
both ends and formed with a longitudinal slot nearly through the whole of its
length with a small transverse slot at each end of the same so as to form bayonet
slots.
Within the tubular case is a tubular holder which receives a lead pencil at one
end and slate pencil or crayon at the other end, and the said pencil holder is provided
with a pin or slide passing through the said slot and formed into a push piece outside
a tubular case. This push piece allows the pencil holder to be moved along within
the holder so as to project either the lead or slate pencil out through the open ends
of the holder, according to the direction in which it is moved, and then by slightly
turning the push piece into the transverse slot to fix the pencil for use. When neither.
pencil is required for use the bolder is withdrawn by its push piece within the holder
so as to protect the points of the pencils.
I also provide a short holder for receiving a pen at one end and an eraser at the
other. This pen and eraser holder fits into either of the open ends of the herein-
before described tubular holder, thus forming a convenient penholder, serving also-
for protecting the pen when not in use.
I thus combine in a simple manner a case or holder for lead and slate pencils, pen,
and eraser, the case or holder serving also as a protector for the points of the pencils,
and for the pen, as herein-before described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Jacob Wolf Spear in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th April
1879.
JACOB WOLF SPEAR, of South Place, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer. "AN IMPROVED PEN AND PENCIL CASE OR HOLDER AND ERASER."
This Invention consists in a novel and simple construction of pencil case for lead
and slate pencils, serving also as a penholder and ink or pencil eraser.
The improved case or holder consists of a metal or other tubular case open at
both ends and formed with a longitudinal slot nearly through the whole of its
length with a small transverse slot at each end of the same so as to form bayonet
slots.
Within the tubular case is a tubular holder which receives a lead pencil at one
end and slate pencil or crayon at the other end, and the said pencil holder is provided
with a pin or slide passing through the said slot and formed into a push piece outside
the tubular case. This push piece allows the pencil holder to be moved along within
the tubular case so as to project either the lead or slate pencil out through the open
ends of the holder according to the direction in which it is moved, and then by
slightly turning the push picce into the transverse slot to fix the pencil for use.
When neither pencil is required for use the inner holder is withdrawn by its push
piece within the outer tubular case so as to protect the points of the pencils.
I also provide a short holder for receiving a pen at one end and an eraser at the
other. This pen and eraser holder fits into either of the open ends of the herein-
before described tubular holder, thus forming a convenient penholder, serving also
for protecting the pen when not in use.
1 thus combine in a simple manner a case or holder for lead and slate pencils, pen,
and eraser, the case or holder serving also as a protector for the points of the pencils
and for the pen, as herein-before described.
But to make my Invention better understood I will proceed to describe the same
by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation
of my improved combined pen and pencil case or holder and eraser closed up;
Figure 2, back elevation of the same as a penholder; Figure 3, elevation with the
pen and eraser removed; Figure 4, section on line A, B, of Figure 3; Figure 5,
similar view to Figure 3 shewing the pencil opened out; Figure 6, detached view of
the slotted tubular case; Figure 7, detached view of the pen and eraser with their
holder; Figure 8, detached view of the inner tubular pencil holder with pencils
placed therein; Figure 9, section of Figure 3. Similar letters in all the Figures
represent similar parts.
a, a, is the tubular metal case open at both ends as shewn; b is the longitudinal
slot of same; and c, c, the transverse slots at each end forming the bayonet slots;
d is the inner tubular holder receiving a lead pencil e at one end and slate pencil or
crayon fat the other end. A projection in the middle of the holder & serving as a
stop to the lower ends of the pencils while the annular enlarged parts b¹, b', keep the
holder d against the inner surface of the case a and prevent shake. g is the push
piece of the holder d, the said push piece y passing through the slot b, as scen in the
Drawing, and by which the said holder d may be moved along within the tubular
case a so as to project either pencil for use, the said push piece being turned into
either of the bayonet slots c (according to which pencil is required) so as to keep it
in position while being used.
h is the short holder having a pen i at one end and eraser j at the other. This
pen and eraser holder fits into the end of the tubular case a, as shown in Figures 1,
and 2, the case a serving as a point protector for the pen when not in use, as shewn
in Figure 1.
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Having thus described my Invention, and the manner of performing the same,
what I claim is,―
Firstly. The improved combined pen and pencil case or holder and eraser, arranged

page_text: and operating substantially as herein-before described, and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. In a pen and pencil case or holder I claim the tubular case a with
longitudinal slot b in combination with the bayonet slots c, c, as and for the purposes
described.
Thirdly. The combination with the slotted tubular case a of the tubular pencil
holder d with push piece g working in the slot b, as and for the purposes described.
Fourthly. The combination with the pencil case herein-before described of the pen
and eraser holder, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jacob Wolf Spear, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.
Witness,
G. F. REDFERN,
Patent Agent,
4, South Street, Finsbury.
J. W. SPEAR. (L.S.)