IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER-POINTED PENCIL CASES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Johann Faber, trading under the Style or Firm of
Anton Wilhelm Faber, of Stein, near Nuremberg, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER-POINTED PENCIL CASES."
Sealed the 27th July 1860, and dated the 25th February 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Johann Faber at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
February 1860.
I, JOHANN FABER, trading under the Style or Firm of Anton Wilhelm
Faber, of Stein, near Nuremberg, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER-POINTED PENCIL CASES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ever-pointed pencil cases.
For this purpose I employ a hollow cylinder or case of wood or other material
closed at one end, and fitted at the other end with a nozzle, through which
the lead or marking material used with the pencil case is able to pass very
freely. This nozzle has longitudinal notches cut in it. On the exterior of the
nozzle a screw is cut, and to receive a cap which completely covers the nozzle,
and has a hole at its end through which the point of the lead protrudes. The
interior of the cap and the end of the nozzle are so formed that as the cap is
screwed on to the nozzle it compresses the split end thereof, and holds the lead

page_text: firmly, and by partially unscrewing the cap the lead or marking material will
be released, and may then be drawn forward out of the case, or pushed back
into it as desired.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Johann Faber in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHANN
FABER, trading under the Style or Firm of Anton Wilhelm Faber, of Stein,
near Nuremberg, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Jobann Faber, Her special licence that I, the said Johann
Faber, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Johann Faber, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Iж-
PROVEMENTS. IN EVER-POINTED PENCIL CASES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Jobann Faber, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Johann Faber, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ever-pointed pencil cases.
For this purpose I employ a hollow cylinder or case of wood or other material
closed at one end, and fitted at the other end with a nozzle, through which the
lead or marking material used with the pencil case is able to pass very freely.
This nozzle has longitudinal notches cut in it. On the exterior of the nozzle

page_text: a screw is cut to receive a cap, which completely covers the nozzle, and has a
hole at its end through which the point of the lead protrudes. The interior of
the cap and the end of the nozzle are so formed that as the cap is screwed on
to the nozzle it compresses the split end thereof, and so holds the lead firmly,
and by partially unscrewing the cap the lead or marking material will be
released, and may then be drawn forward out of the case, or pushed back into
to the nozzle it compresses the split end thereof, and so holds the lead firmly,
and by partially unscrewing the cap the lead or marking material will be
released, and may then be drawn forward out of the case, or pushed back into
it as desired.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view of an ever-pointed pencil case constructed according
to my Invention; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section; and Figure 3 is a sido
view of the same with the cap removed.
a is the hollow cylinder or case; bis the nozzle with which the same is
fitted; it has notches formed in it at 6', and a screw thread cut upon its
exterior at b²; c is the lead or marking material; d is a cap which screws on
to the nozzle, as is shown. The lead or marking material c is made of such a
size, that when the cap d is removed it will slide freely through the nozzle b,
and its end may then be readily drawn out or pushed into the case, as may be
required; but when the cap d is screwed on, the split end of the nozzle is
compressed by it, and the lead or marking material nipped and firmly held.
In witness whereof, I, the said Johann Faber, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JOHANN FADER. (L.S.)