Improvements in or relating to Note Books and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22rd June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Mar., 1594-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Note Books and the like.
I, GUSTAV ERNST KILIAN of Yorkstrasse 3, Leipzig in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The purpose of this invention is to so arrange the pencil or pencil holder in a
pocket or other writing implement such as a note book, folding tablet, or case with
a block of paper or the like to be carried in the pocket, suspended from a watch
chain or otherwise, that when the same is opened for the purpose of writing the
pencil suitably enclosed within it may be moved into a position where it may be
readily received in the hand.
The pencil may be carried in a hinged socket acted upon by a spring so that the
socket with the pencil is thrown upward when the case or cover is opened and
projects freely beyond or above the other parts so that it may be readily taken
hold of; or it may be carried in a recess from which a spring partially pushes it
outwards when the case is opened. The closing of the case will bring the pencil,
when replaced, back into the usual position occupied by it when the case or cover
or book is closed and fastened.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1893.
R. HADDAN,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Note Books and the like.
I, GUSTAV ERNST KILIAN of Yorkstrasse 3, Leipzig in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to so arrange a pencil or pencil holder in a pocket
or other writing implement such as a note book, folding tablet, or case with a block
of paper or the like to be carried in the pocket, suspended from a watch chain or
otherwise, that, when the same is opened for the purpose of writing, the pencil
suitably enclosed within it will be moved into a position where it may be readily
received in the hand.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 shows the tablet or case when closed :
Figure 2, the same open :
Figure 3 is a cross section of Figure 2.
Figures 4 and 5 show a modified form of construction.
The arrangement of this closable writing tablet or case is as follows:-
Thin writing tablets of slate, paper or the like are arranged on the inside of the
case a which may be made of suitable metal, leather, or the like, whilst the actual
writing block b is clamped in the hinge between the two halves of the case.
The pencil sheath, socket or holder d, which is movably arranged on a hinge c,
and in which the pencil e is inserted, is placed above the writing block or tablet,
or at some suitable position in one half of the case. The pencil may be made half
of aluminium and half of graphite, in order to allow of its being used both for the
slate tablet and the paper block. A spring f, arranged at a suitable place, facilitates

page_text: the opening of the case, and throws the pencil into such a position that it projects
freely beyond or above the other parts, so that it may easily be taken hold of and
drawn out of the socket. The case is fastened like an ordinary watch by means of
a so-called snap-spring.
The pencil may also be inserted in a recess and held by a loop or retaining
clasp formed in the inside of the case, as shown in the modified form of
construction, in Figures 4 and 5, the pencil being partially pushed outwards by
a spring when the case is opened. The closing of the case will bring the pencil,
when replaced, back into the usual position occupied by it when the case is
closed.
The advantages of this writing tablet or note book consist in that the writing is
not so easily obliterated, and the paper block cannot be rubbed off, and further
that the writing tablet or note book can be easily attached to a chain so that, on
journeys or the like, it is not so easily lost as the ordinary note books.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A closable note book, tablet or case, comprising a hinged case a having a
snap-spring, and an opening-spring f, writing surfaces (slate, paper or the like),
movable writing block 6 held in a hinge, and pencil socket d holding a pencil e and
adapted to automatically spring up and project the latter ready to hand, whereby
the writing is protected against obliteration, substantially as described and shown."
2. In a closable note book or the like such as described, a pencil socket or
holder d adapted to automatically spring up on the opening of the case and to thus
project the pencil ready to hand, substantially as described and shown.
3. In a closable note book or the like such as described, a pencil recess having a
loop or retaining clasp g and a spring whereby the pencil is projected above the
other parts on the opening of the case, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 20th day of March 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.