Improvements in Holders for Leads, Orayons, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Leads, Orayons, and the like.
I, LOTHAR VON FABER of the Town of Stein, near Nuremberg, Bavaria,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
My invention relates to improvements in holders for leads, crayons and the like, the
object of the same being to so improve the construction of the said holders that the
leads, crayons or the like are not held or pinched at one point but are held and
supported in their entire length and consequently perfectly protected.
Holders for leads or crayons have been in use for many decennaries but all of such
said holders have been constructed in manifold manner to attain the one object, that
is, to securely clamp or pinch the lead or crayon at the upper end or tip of the
holder.
The consequence of the construction of the holders hitherto manufactured is that
soft crayons or leads are pinched off, in fact it is difficult to prevent this occurring,
but a still greater disadvantage than the pinching off of the tip of the lead or crayon
is that the lead or crayon is held only at one point near the tip whilst the remainder
of the length of the same or nearly the entire length hangs loosely in the boring or
tube of the holder, so that a blow or a fall will cause the lead or crayon to be broken
into several pieces.
My improved holder is so constructed that the lead or crayon is not pinched in any
one special part, but is securely held in its entire length as if the lead or crayon were
glued into the holder, as is the case with ordinary pencils.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the holder without
lead, with the ring drawn down.
Figure 2 a like section with lead, in closed condition.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the holder.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are horizontal sections of Figures 1, 2, and 3 on the lines a, b, c, d,
and e, f.
Figure 7 represents a modification of the holder as shown in Figures 1 to 6, and
Figure 8 a pocket pencil.
The holders represented in the accompanying drawings are made of wood, but can
be made of metal, ebonite, vulcanite or other appropriate material to like advantage.
Instead of the long spring for compressing or holding the lead or crayon being
made of wood and glued or otherwise attached to the cap of the holder, the said spring,
when made of metal, can be hinged to the cap of the holder and be held under spring
pressure.
The holder A of wood or metal is provided with a longitudinal groove a in which a
spring B is so arranged that the upper end, id est, the end towards the tip springs
outward and thus leaves room between the holder A and the spring B for the lead or
crayon. The upper end of the spring B is provided with a wedge-like extension 6², 63,
the thicker end 62 being directed towards the tip of the holder.
C is a ring preferably milled or ribbed arranged around the holder A, and when
this ring is moved upwards onto the projecting wedge like surface b', 6' the spring B
will securely press the lead or crayon in its entire length onto the holder, so that the
said lead or crayon is not pinched or clamped at any special point but is uniformly
held by a gentle pressure on its entire length.
When the ring C is withdrawn from the wedge-like surface 61, 62 of the spring B
the lead, crayon or the like will be released from the pressure. The lower end of the
holder can be closed by a suitable cap in order to prevent the ring C from leaving the
holder A. Instead of providing the spring B with a wedge-like surface the holder

page_text: itself can be made of wedge-like or eccentrical form at the forward or at both ends in
order to attain the object of securely holding the lead or crayon in its entire length
without pinching or clamping the same at any one special point.
It will be evident from the foregoing that holders for leads or crayons constructed
on iny improved system can be made in all forms and sizes and of any appropriate
material according to desire, the main principle of the same being that the lead or
crayon is held in its entire length or approximately so and is not sharply pinched or
clamped at any one point.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1: A holder for lead or crayon in which the latter is not pinched or clamped
at any one point, but is securely held in its entire length by means of a long pressure
spring or rod, substantially as and for the purpose set forth and shown.
2: The manufacture of holders for leads or crayons in the longitudinal slot of
which a spring is arranged which is provided at its one or at both ends with a wedge-
like extension or projection or extensions or projections onto which a ring is pushed,
thus depressing the said spring so that the lead or crayon is securely held in its entire
length, substantially as and for the purpose set forth and shown.
3A holder for leads or crayons with longitudinal slot, a spring or rod and
a sliding ring for securely holding the lead or crayon, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth and shown.
Dated this 6th day of January 1890.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.