IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER-POINTED PENCILS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of 34, Great Hampton
Street, Birmingham, Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, for the Invention
T
ADSTALL"
Sealed the 25th May 1858, and dated the 23rd March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Wiley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd March 1858.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham,
Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER-POINTED PENCILS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ever-pointed pencils.
For these purposes, in constructing an ever-pointed pencil in which it is
desired that there should be provision for receiving several lengths of lead or
other marking material at the same time, and yet admit of the protruding
part being drawn back, the lengths of marking material are placed within
a tube or hollow holder, the edges of which are not soldered or fixed to
each other, but spring together and embrace the marking material in such
manner as to allow a forcer to be forced or slid along between the edges of
such tube, and force out the marking material. This spring tube or holder
is eontained within an outer tube or case in such manner that it may be
moved longitudinally a short distance within the outer tube or case, in order

page_text: that so much of the marking material which is protruding beyond the point
may be drawn back within the nozzel of the outer case by moving back
the spring tube.
Another improvement consists in making the outer case of a spring tube
so that it will retain the forcer which passes through the slit between the two
edges in any position to which it may be moved.
Another improvement consists in forming one or more holes. or openings
in the pointed end of the case, and near the point, in order that when the end
of the holder with the end of a piece of marking material in it arrives
opposite the hole or holes, the last piece may be forced out of the holder by
introducing a pointed instrument through a hole or opening.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Wiley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, Pen and Pencil
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her. heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Edward Wiley, Her special licence that I, the said William
Edward Wiley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Edward Wiley, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN EVER-POINTED PENCILS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Wiley, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Wiley, 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 pencils.
For these purposes, in constructing an ever-pointed pencil in which it is
desired that there should be provision for receiving several lengths of
lead or other marking material at the same time, and yet admit of the pro-
truding part being drawn back, the lengths of marking material are placed
within a tube or hollow holder, the edges of which are not soldered or fixed
to each other, but spring together and embrace the marking material in
such manner as to allow a forcer to be forced or slid along between the edges
of such tube, and force out the marking material. This spring tube or holder
is contained within an outer tube or case, in such manner that it may be
moved longitudinally a short distance within the outer tube or case, in order
that so much of the marking material which is protruding beyond the point
may be drawn back within the nozzel of the outer case by moving back the
spring tube.
Another improvement consists in making the outer case of a spring tube so
that it will retain the forcer, which passes through the slit between the two
edges in any position to which it may be moved.
Another improvement consists in forming one or more holes or openings in
the pointed end of the case, and near the point, in order that when the end of
the holder with the end of a piece of marking material in it arrives opposite
the hole or holes, the last piece may be forced out of the holder by introducing
a pointed instrument through a hole or opening.
Having thus stated the nature of my said improvements, I will proceed
more fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews an external view of an ever-pointed pencil; Figure 2
shows a longitudinal section thereof; Figure 3 shows a section of the
external tube separately, by which the form of screw is shewn, which is of
the ordinary construction; Figure 4 shews a longitudinal section of the tube,
with the point or nozzle, within which is contained another tube, shewn. at
Figure 5, in which the pieces of black lead or other marking material are
placed; Figure 6 is the forcer.
:
a is the external case of the ever-pointed pencil; b-is the cap fixed at the
upper end; c is the inner tube, having fixed to it the point or nozzel c¹, which

page_text: in the tube c; the
after using an ever-
may be made of two parts, and elastic at its point, as formerly described by
me, or it may be otherwise formed. The tube c is not soldered or fastened
at the edges, but-such edges have a tendency to spring together and yet admit
the forcer moving between the two edges of the metal. d is the tube which
receives and holds the pieces of lead or other marking material, and at its
lower end it is formed somewhat less in its interior diameter, in order to hold
the piece of lead or of other marking material somewhat more tightly than
at the other parts. The edges of this tube d are not soldered or fixed together,
but by the elasticity of the metal they spring towards each other when free to
do so, and they hold the forcer e somewhat tightly, yet allow of its being
moved along the tube in such manner as to force out the lead or marking
material at the point or outer end. d is a small stud or projection on the
upper end of the tube d. This projection enters the slot at d³ in the upper
end of the tube c, hence the tube d may be moved up and down within the
tube c a distance depending on the length of the slot
object of this is that when the forcer e is moved back,
pointed pencil made according to this improvement, the holding tube d may
be moved back a short distance, and thus bring the portion of lead or marking
material which for the time is protruding beyond the outer end of the tube d
within the point or nozzle of the pencil case. By thus using a tube d to hold
the marking material several pieces of such marking material may be at one
time contained within the tube d, the lowest piece being securely held, so as
to admit of its being moved back with the tube d, and so also as to bring the
protruding portion of the marking material within the point or nozzle when
the forcer is moved back, the forcer being held back by the tube d sufficiently
to cause the forcer when it is moved back to carry with it the tube da
distance depending on the length of slot d², as above mentioned. The form
of the tube or hollow holder & may be greatly varied; it may consist of a
simple tube d, with the edges capable of springing together, whether of metal
or other suitable material. Or such hollow holder may be made by two plates,
as shown at Figures 7, 8, and 9, where two plates of metal or suitable
material grooved longitudinally and fastened together at one edge only are,
employed; or it may be by a single piece of material bent to the form shewn
in transverse section at Figure 10, or in any other manner, so long as the
sliding of the forcer between the edges which spring together is insured.
Another part of my Invention consists in dispensing with the use of a screw
to move the forcer, and simply to use a sliding forcer with a tube or case, with
its edges. capable of springing together, so as to retain the forcer in any position
to which it may be moved. Figures 11 and 12 show two views, an exterior

page_text: view and a longitudinal section of an ever-pointed pencil made according to
this part of my Invention. In this arrangement I do not employ a tube d,
such as above described, but I use therewith a holder such as is shown in
Figures 18 and 14, with an elastic tubular end to receive the upper end of a
piece of lead or of other marking material. The sliding of the forcer in this
arrangement will be sufficiently resisted by the interior and exterior tubes, by
their edges closing on and holding the forcer wherever it may be left.
Another part of my Invention consists in forming an opening or openings
through the nozzle near the point, as shown at Figure 15, by which means
the holder attached to the forcer or slide, Figure 14, does not require to be
moved through the point in order to get out the last piece, as was described
in my former Specification, but the last piece may be forced out of the spring
holder by introducing a pointed instrument through the hole near the point.
In making the nozzles with holes through near their points, they may be
such as were described in my former Specification, that is, elastic and
capable of opening at the points, or they may be such as simply to allow
the marking material to be protruded through them by the movement of the
forcer.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Wiley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the
year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY. (L.S.)`