An Improvement in Penholders, Lead Pencils, and Pencil Cases.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Penholders, Lead Pencils, and Pencil Cases.
1, FREDERICK WOODWARD of 147, Granville Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to penholders lead pencils and to pencil cases and
has for its object to provide means whereby the said penholder lead pencil
and pencil case can also be used as a rule measure and as a date calendar.
I will describe my invention as applied to a lead pencil.
In carrying out my invention I impress or otherwise mark on the lead pencil a
date calendar for one year and a rule measure divided say into inches and parts of
an inch. The date calender is by preference arranged by the names of the months
being in one vertical column and there are seven other vertical columns marked at
the top or at the bottom with the days of the week and containing numbers
corresponding with the dates these numbers being arranged in horizontal lines
round the pencil opposite the months. Upon the pencil I may also impress or
otherwise mark the dates of the bank-holidays.
My invention is applicable to lead pencils pencil cases and penholders made of
metal as well as to such as are made of wood or other suitable substance.
Dated this 2nd day of January 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
An Improvement in Penholders, Lead Pencils, and Pencil Cases.
I, FREDERICK WOODWARD, of 147, Granville Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention has reference to penholders lead pencils and to pencil cases and
has for its object to provide means whereby the said penholder lead pencil
and pencil case can also be used as a rule measure and a date calendar.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing which
illustrates my invention as applied to a lead pencil; Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a
lead pencil and Fig. 2 represents the surface of the same as if opened out into a flat
state so as to shew the markings thereon.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.
In carrying out my invention I impress or otherwise mark on the lead pencil a
date calendar for one year and a rule measure divided say into inches and parts of
inches. The date calendar is by preference arranged as shewn namely by the
names of the months being in one vertical column a and there are seven other
vertical columns b, c, d, e, f, g, and marked at the top or at the bottom with the
days of the week and containing numbers corresponding with the dates these
numbers being arranged in horizontal lines round the pencil opposite the months as
shewn. is the rule measure in this case six inches long divided into inches and
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page_text: parts of an inch. Upon the pencil I may also impress or otherwise mark as at j the
dates of the bank holidays.
My invention is applicable to lead pencils pencil cases and penholders made of
metal as well as such as are made of wood or other suitable substance.
When applying my invention to penholders I make the penholder substantially
as above described and shewn with reference to a pencil but I commence far
enough from that end which is inserted in the metal part of the holder as to prevent
the said figures and other markings being hidden by the metal part.
The said calendar and rule measure and the bank-holidays are by preference
marked on the pencil penholder or pencil case by being impressed thereon or
transferred thereto or by being printed on a strip of paper or other suitable
substance which is coiled round the pencil or penholder and pasted or otherwise
fixed thereto.
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 :-
Lead pencils, penholders and pencil cases bearing on their surfaces a calendar
and a rule measure arranged and combined together in the manner and substantially
as hereinbefore set forth and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 1st day of October 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.