IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER POINTED PENCIL CASES AND OTHER LIKE HOLDERS FOR WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND MATERIALS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Wiley of Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturer for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER POINTED PENCIL
CASES AND OTHER LIKE HOLDERS FOR WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND MATERIALS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Wiley at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th May 1883.
WILLIAM WILEY of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER POINTED PENCIL CASES AND OTHER LIKE HOLDers for
WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND MATERIALS "
My invention consists in constructing. ever pointed pencil cases and other like
holders for writing instruments and materials such for example as cases for holding
pens and solid aniline ink in the manner hereinafter described whereby the part
containing the lead or writing instrument or material is projected by holding the
case in a vertical position with its writing end downwards and pressing the finger
on the top or closed end of the case the projected writing end being fixed in
position by ceasing to press on the top of the case. After use or when it is wished
to close the case it is only necessary to invert it that is to hold it point upwards
and press upon the closed end of the case when the part containing the lead or
writing instrument or material falls into the case and on ceasing to press the closed
end of the case the said part is fixed in the interior of the case.
For convenience of description I will describe my invention in connection with
an ever pointed pencil case.
The part containing the lead or writing material which part is commonly called
the movement slides between spring arms which in their normal position permit
the said movement to slide freely between them but which when closed upon the
said movement fix it either in its projected or withdrawn position. These springs
are surrounded by a tube which slides upon them. The said tube is contracted
at its end and when the contracted end is drawn upon the ends of the spring arms
it closes them upon and thereby fixes the movement. This tube is connected with

page_text: the sliding top of the pencil case which top is pressed outwards by a coiled spring.
By the action of the said coiled spring the contracted end of the sliding tube is
drawn upon the spring arms and closes them. When the sliding top of the case
is pressed upon the contracted end of the sliding tube retires from the spring arms
and they open Hence whenever the sliding top of the case is pressed home the
movement is free to slide in and out of the case the required distance by its own
weight and is fixed in either position by ceasing to press the top of the case.
When the movement is in the case it is retained by the closed spring arins pre-
venting its passage outwards. When the movement is projected it is fixed by the
said spring arms closing upon and engaging in a groove in the said movement.
The application of my invention to other like holders for writing instruments and
materials differs in no essential respect from it application to ever pointed pencil
cases hereinbefore described

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Wiley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd November 1883.
WILLIAM WILEY of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER POINTED PENCIL CASES AND OTHER LIKE HOLDERS FOR
WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND MATERIALS
"
My invention consists in constructing ever pointed pencil cases and other like
holders for writing instruments and materials, such for example as cases for
holding pens and solid aniline ink, in the manner herein after described, whereby
the part containing the lead or writing instrument or material is projected by
holding the case in a vertical position with its writing end downwards and
pressing the finger on the top or closed end of the case, the projected writing end
being fixed in position by ceasing to press on the top of the case.
After use, or when it is wished to close the case, it is only necessary to invert it
that is, to hold it point upwards and press upon the closed end of the case when
the part containing the lead or writing instrument or material falls into the case
and on ceasing to press the closed end of the case, the said part is fixed in the
interior of the case.
For convenience of description I will describe my invention in connection with
an ever-pointed pencil case..
The part containing the lead or writing material, which part is commonly called
the "movement," slides between spring arms which in their normal position permit
the said movement to slide freely between them but which when closed upon the
said movement fix it either in its projected or withdrawn position. These springs
are surrounded by a tube which slides upon them. The said tube is contracted at
its end and when the contracted end is drawn upon the ends of the spring arms
it closes them upon and thereby fixes the movement. This tube is connected with
the sliding top of the pencil case, which top is pressed outwards by a coiled spring.
By the action of the said coiled spring the contracted end of the sliding tube is
drawn upon the spring arms and closes them. When the sliding top of the case
is pressed upon the contracted end of the sliding tube retires from the spring arms
and they open.
Hence whenever the sliding top of the case is pressed home, the movement is
free to slide in and out of the case the required distance by its own weight and is
fixed in either position by ceasing to press the top of the case.
When the move-
ment is in the case it is retained by the closed spring arms preventing its passage
outwards. When the movement is projected it is fixed by the said spring arms
closing upon and engaging in a groove in or a shoulder on the said movement
The application of my invention to other like bolders for writing instruments
and materials differs in no essential respect from its application to ever pointed
pencil cases herein before described.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in elevation and Figure 2 in longitudinal section, an ever
pointed pencil case constructed according to my invention, the "movement" being
shown in its withdrawn position and fixed in that position.
Figure 3 represents a longitudinal section of the pencil case after the movement
has been released and is free to fall from the case in the direction indicated by the
arrow; Figure 4 represents in longitudinal section and Figure 5 in elevation the
pencil case after the writing end of the movement has been projected from the

page_text: outer case and fixed in, position for use. The other Figures represent parts of
the pencil case as hereinafter explained.
The same letters indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the Drawing.
a is the outer case; b is the sliding part of the pencil case containing the lead or
writing material or instrument, which part is herein after called the "movement."
The said movement b (shown separately in Figure 6) has at its top a pin 63 and
slides in a tube c, the lower parts of which tube c constitute spring arms d, d by
the action of which spring arms the movement b is fixed in its withdrawn position
Figures 1 and 2 or in its projected position Figures 4 and 5. The tube c carrying
the spring arms d, d is represented separately in Figure 7. The said tube o is
fixed to the outer case a by the cross pin e. This pin e is passed from the outer
side of the case a and made to take into a hole in the top of the tube c. The
fixed tubular part c of the spring arms d, d has a longitudinal slot f in it in which
slot the pin 62 on the top of the movement 6 works, the sliding motion of the
movement being limited by the said slot f. Surrounding the said tube c and
spring arms dd, is a sliding inner slotted tube g (shown separately in Figure 8).
This tube g is contracted at its end h and when the said contracted end is drawn
upon the ends of the spring arms d, d it closes the said arms and causes them to
grip the movement b; a² is the front mount soldered to the sliding tube g, the said
mount a covering and protecting the ends of the spring arms d, d.
The said inner sliding tube g is connected with the cap or top
separately in Figure 9) of the pencil case, which cap i can slide within the outer
tube a.
The cap or tube i is pressed outwards by the coiled spring k within it
(shown separately in Figure 10), the said spring taking its abutment at one end
against the closed end of the cap and at its other end against the top of the fixed
tube c of the spring arms d, d.
(shown
The sliding inner tube g has a long slot at one side in which slot the pin 62
on the moveinent b works and a short slot m at the opposite side which works
upon the fixed pine connecting together the outer tube a and the tube c of the
spring arms d, d.
By means of the short slot m the required sliding motion of the inner tube g is
permitted. The inward motion of the cap i to which the inner sliding tube g is
fixed is limited by the cross pine which acts as a stop.
When the pencil case is in its closed position as represented in Figures 1 and 2,
the cap i is in its fully pressed out position and the contracted end h of the inner
sliding tube g is closed or drawn upon the spring arms d, d and the latter made to
grip the lower end of the movement b and retain it in the outer case a. When it
is wished to use the pencil case, the cap or top i is pressed inwards into the
position represented in Figure 3. The contracted end h of the sliding inner
tube g is thereby made to retire from the spring arms d, d, when the latter open and
release the movement 6 as illustrated in the said Figure 3; and by holding the
pencil case in a vertical position with its writing end downwards the said
movement b falls out of the case by its own weight, being retained therein only by
the pin b² coming to the bottom of the slot f in the fixed tube c of the spring
arins. By ceasing to press upon the top or cap i the latter takes its outward
position by the action of the spring k and the tube g being carried with it
contracts the spring arms d, d which engaging with the shoulder 63 of the
inovement 6 retain the latter in its projected position as represented in Figure 4.
In order to close the pencil case for use, it is only necessary to press upon the
cap i so as to release the movement b and then invert the case with its writing end
upwards. The movement b then falls into the case and on ceasing to press the cap i
the parts take the positions represented in Figures 1 and 2 and fix the movement
in the case as herein before described.
.
In applying my invention to holders for pens I substitute for the lower part of
the movement b a holder suitable for holding the pen and in applying my invention
to solid writing materials I employ a movement of the kind herein before referred
to and used in ordinary ever pointed pencil cases,

page_text: Having now described the nature of my invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention
of "Improvements in ever pointed pencil cases and other like holders for writing
instruments and materials ;-
Constructing and arranging the parts of the said cases and holders in the
manner herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing,
whereby the "movement" containing the lead or writing material, or the holder of
the pen, may be made to fall by its own weight either into its projected or with-
drawn position by first pressing upon and afterwards withdrawing pressure from
the sliding top or cap of the case or holder, the several parts operating substantially
in the manner described and illustrated.
In witness whereof I the said William Wiley have hereunto set my hand and
seal this twenty ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.