An Improved Pen, Pencil, and Crayon Holder and Protector Combined.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pen, Pencil, and Crayon Holder and Protector
Combined.
1, WILLIAM GEORGE ROBINSON PENLEY of 3 Richmond Villas, Eglantine Road,
Wandsworth in the County of Surrey, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a spiral tube made of tin, steel or other suitable material
the circlets of which are so arranged as to form a pen-holder at one end, and at the
other end to yield an elastic pressure sufficient to hold, without the excessive fixity of
a straight tube, any length of pencil or crayon, by which means the smallest piece of
crayon or pencil may be used, thereby preventing the loss and inconvenience occasioned
by the gradual cutting away and constant breakage of slate pencils and crayons as
well as the irregular and cramped position of the fingers required to hold and use
small pieces of crayon or pencil.

page_text: I WILLIAM GEORGE ROBINSON PENLEY of No. 3 Richmond Villas Eglantine Road,
Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Accountant, 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 consists of a Spiral tube, made of tin, steel or other suitable
material the circlets of which are so arranged as form a pen holder at one end, and
at the other end to yield an elastic pressure sufficient to hold without the excessivo
fixity of a straight tube, any length of pencil or crayon; by which means the
smallest piece of crayon or pencil may be used, thereby preventing the loss and
inconvenience occasioned by the gradual catting away and constant breaking of slate
pencils and crayons as well as the irregular and cramped position of the fingers required
to hold and use small pieces of crayon or pencil.
The way in which these circlets are arranged so as to afford the requisite firmness
and elasticity; the shape of the strip of whatever material may be used most suitable
to ensure such an arrangement and the direction in which the bending of the circlets
is commenced are fully given and shewn in the accompanying drawings and may be
thus described.
Fig. 1 is the exact shape and size of the strip of tin, steel or whatever material
may be employed, required to make a holder of the size and length of Figs. 2 and 3,
the dotted lines a. a. showing the increased size necessary to produce the more
elongated form of Fig. 4. The dotted lines b. b. shew the direction and manner in
which the bending of the circlets is commenced.
Fig. 2 is the complete holder shewing the circlets as best arranged to afford the
requisite firmness and elasticity.
Fig. 3 is the reverse side of Fig. 2 with pen and pencil points turned inside the
holder.
Fig. 4 is an elongated tube more especially adapted for pen holders and holding a
pencil of smaller size than for Fig. 2.
While preferring the shapes and sizes given in the drawings, I do not limit myself
to any particular shape, size or inaterial in the manufacture of these holders.

page_text: 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
The adaptation of a Spiral tube for holding pens, pencils, crayons, &c. the advantages
of which are as follows; viz.
1. The firmness with which the smallest piece of pencil, crayon, &c. is retained in
the holder, without the excessive fixity essential to a straight tube, or the use or
employment of any external agent.
2. The ease and freedom with which a pencil, crayon, &c. can be put in and removed
from the holder.
3. Its adaptability to different thicknesses of pencil, crayon, &c., and
4. A flexibility and lightness not possessed by ordinary pen and pencil holders.
Dated this 20th day of December 1888