Improvements in or relating to Holders or Protectors for Pencils, Pens, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1894-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Holders or Protectors for Pencils,
Pens, and the like.
I, ARTHUR HARRISON, of The Victoria Works, Knifesmith Gate, Chesterfield,
in the County of Derby, Boot and Shoe 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 relates to improvements in protectors or receivers for pencils,
pens, and the like, and in the means of attaching or connecting say a lead pencil
and its point protector together, as well as to means for attaching the receiver or
holder to the user's garment or wearing apparel.
Hitherto a great deal of annoyance has been caused especially in the case of
lead pencils, either by misplacing them, or else when they have been placed in the
pocket and afterwards required for use it has frequently been found that the
points were broken. Various devices have been employed to remedy these defects,
but in nearly every case the sheath or protector have either been made in separate
pieces, or else to form part of the pencil or pen and therefore liable to be misplaced
or lost.
Now the object of this invention is to provide a receiver, receptacle, or holder
(all of which are hereafter termed a protector) for the lead pencil or pen (both of
which are hereafter included in the term pencil) whilst being made separate from
the pencil yet the two parts pencil and protector are connected together by a cord,
wire or chain, and the protector is.arranged so that it may be hocked, pinned or
otherwise attached or secured, such as for example by sewing, tying, strapping,
rivetting or lacing it to any desired portion of the user's garment or wearing
apparel.
In the drawings I have shown several ways in which the invention may be
carried into practice, but I distinctly wish it to be understood that these illustra-
tions are to be taken merely as examples of some of the various methods which
may be employed but they are not exhaustive and 1.do not limit myself to them
as it will readily be seen that other equivalent devices may be employed without
departing from the invention.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of combined pencil, protector, and method of securing it
to the user's wearing apparel by means of a safety pin.
Fig. 2 a plan of pencil; and protector shown at Fig. 1 with the pencil and
protector drawn apart.
Figs. 3 and 4 are sections of the protector with an arrangement for screwing a
piece of india-rubber into its end.
Figs. 44 and 48 are respectively a part elevation and a part plan of protector
with attaching pin stamped or formed out of its periphery.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are respectively sectional elevations and end elevations of
protector with means for hooking it to the user's garment or wearing apparel.
Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively a sectional elevation and an end elevation of
protector provided with a spring hook for attaching it to the user's garment or
wearing apparel.
Fig. 11 is a sectional elevation of a method for attaching the protector to the
user by means of a belt.
Figs. 12, 13, and 14 are end elevations respectively of means for say, sewing,
tying, or strapping the protector to the person of the user or to his wearing
annarel
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page_text: Fig. 15 is an elevation of combined pencil and pen protector with means for
securing the protector to the user's garment.
Like parts in all the views are marked with the same letters of reference.
A is the pencil, which is of the usual construction and provided with a point a
for writing or marking purposes, and a ring and cap a¹ say at its end as shown, or
with a hole in place of such ring and cap, provided say at a suitable distance from
its end by which it may be attached to the protector B to be hereafter described
by a flexible or other wire, C, or by a silk, cotton, elastic or other cord, or chain
or it or their equivalents connected at one end to the hole or ring a¹ in or on the
pencil, and at the other end to a ring or rings F formed on or out of or attached
to the protector B. A suitable form of cord or chain for this purpose may be
similar to that which is usually employed for eye glasses, folders, or pince-nez.
The protector B may be made of any suitable material such as for instance of
metal such as thin sheet tin, brass, zinc, steel (tempered or untempered), iron, or
of Brittania metal, gold, silver, copper and the like, or of xylonite, celluloid,
papier-machê, wood pulp, or the like, which, may be rolled, stamped, moulded, or
otherwise formed into shape, either plain, decorated, or embossed, and it is made
in the form of a sheath; a slot b being provided to give it a slight spring for
gripping purposes.
The sheath part of the protector B is very similar both in shape and appearance
to the detachable point protector now used with lead pencil and it may or may
not be provided with a piece of india-rubber D which when employed may be fixed
into the end of the protector in the usual manner as at Fig. 1 and a cap D' shown
in dotted lines at Fig. 2 may also if required be provided and arranged to screw
or pass or fit on to the main part of the protector B. But I prefer to mount the
piece of india-rubber D in a separate cap or holder D and arrange the said cap to
screw onto the protector as shown at Fig. 3, or into the protector as shown
at Figs. 4 and 11, in which latter case the protector B forms a sheath for the
india-rubber.
For attaching and securing the protector B to the person of the user, or a portion
of his or her wearing apparel, say for example to the inside or outside of a coat,
waist coat, blouse, or other garment, or waist or other belt, or wristlet or the like,
or within a pocket, so as to prevent the protector being misplaced or lost I provide
on or I arm its periphery say with an attaching pin E or hook or hooks, loops, or
a pin and hook or hooks, or it or their equivalents by which it may be pinned,
tied, strapped, sewn, rivetted or otherwise secured or attached to the person of the
user, or to any desired part of his or her wearing apparel.
In the drawings at Figs. 1, 3, and 4 I have shown an ordinary safety pin E
soldered, brazed, or otherwise fixed longitudinally to the barrel portion of the
periphery of the protector B, for attaching it to the user's garment. The loop F
of the pin forms the ring to which one end of the. cord C is fastened. Or the
pin E may be formed as shown at Figs. 44 and 4 by simply stamping or cutting
it out of the periphery of the protector.
Or if desired the pin E may be hinged or jointed say like the pin of a brooch
to the periphery of the protector, and the free pointed end of the pin arranged
to pass, under a hook or catch also fixed to the periphery of the barrel of the
protector. Or if desired the pin may be arranged to be loose and to pass through
fixed catches and held in position by springs or their equivalents.
At Figs. 5 to 8 a hook Ę is shown fixed- either by soldering, brazing, or the
like as at Figs. 5 and 6-to the barrel portion of the protector, as a means of
attachment to say the user's garment; or as at Figs. 7 and 8 the hook E may be
employed as a means of attachment and formed by cutting two slits in the upper
portion of the periphery of the protector, and bending the part or narrow strip,
between the two slits, over to form the hook e. Or a spring hook E, as shown at
Figs. 9 and 10, may be employed for the same purpose and formed-when it is
desired not to solder, braze, or otherwise fix such a hook-by bending over the
portion of the periphery that is usually removed when forming the slit b and

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tilizing it for forming the spring portion e¹ of the hook and bending over the portion
of the upper part of the periphery of the protector to form the catch e.
spring hook E is arranged to engage with an eye or loop fixed on or to the user's
garment.
It will be readily seen that the arrangement of protector armed with a hook as
shown at Figs. 5 and 7 may be readily placed within say a waistcoat or other
pocket, or a loop so that its book E may pass over the top of the pocket or
loop. Also at Figs. 5 to 10 I have shown one or more loops F fixed to the
periphery of the barrel of the protector opposite to or separate from the attaching
device E.
When it is desired to fix the protector say to a belt, such as a waist belt usually
worn by ladies, then I provide on or fix to the barrel portion of the protector
one or more loops E such as shown at Figs. 11 and 14 through which the belt G
is passed or threaded as shown at Fig. 14. In this case the ring F may be
attached either to the loop as shown, or to any other part of the periphery of the
protector.
But when it is desired to fix or attach the protector to say a wristlet, which is
frequently made of leather, or to a belt, or to a garment say by such means as
sewing, lacing, tying, rivetting, or by staples or the like then a convenient method
is either to arm the barrel portion of the protector with one or more loops E say as
at Fig. 12, or with one or more projecting flanges E say as at Fig. 13 through which
the stitches of thread or wire, or the laces, rivets, staples, or the like are made
to pass.
I would further have it understood that although a single protector is shown in
the drawings yet in practice if desired two or more protectors may be formed or
united together, say for example by soldering, brazing, or the like and attached say
by the means herein described to the user or user's garment or other portion of wearing
apparel or to a bracelet or to a clip or clips for embracing say for example the user's
wrist so that say a pencil, and pen or an agate style may be secured in a position
easy of access when required for use. Also that the protector is equally adapted to
pens and their holders as for pencils.
At Fig. 15 I have shown a combined arrangement of pencil and pen holder in
which two protectors are employed one only of which is provided with the means
for securing it to the user's garment, and two cords are employed.
In this view A is the lead pencil, B the protector armed on one portion of its
periphery with a safety pin E or other equivalent device for securing the protector
to the user's wearing apparel; and on an opposite or nearly so portion of the
protector's periphery is provided say a hook E' for receiving the ring a fixed or
otherwise attached to the pen holder A'. The pen holder A¹ is provided with an
unarmed protector B' of ordinary construction. Cis the cord, chain, or its equivalent
which is employed for connecting the pencil A and protector B together. C' is a
second cord, chain or its equivalent which is employed for connecting the
penholder A' to the protector B. A ring or loop F being provided on the
periphery of the protector B to which one of the ends of the cord C¹ is attached.
The protector B may (or may not) be armed with a piece of india-rubber D
attached or secured thereto as previously described. It will be readily understood
that in this arrangement the penholder A' is shown hooked onto and suspended
from the protector B. When preferred the attaching device E, hook E¹ and ring
or loop F may be provided on the protector B instead of on protector Bas
previously described in this case the pencil would be the suspended article.
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. In a pencil or pen protector such as described the combination of a protector
armed with means such as a pin, hook, or its equivalent, for attaching it to a portion
of the user's wearing apparel or garment and with or without a piece of india-

page_text: rubber in combination with a pencil or pen attached to the said armed protector
by a cord or chain substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a pencil or pen protector such as described the combination with the
protector, of a pin, hook, or equivalent means such as E for attaching it to the
person of user or user's garment substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
3. In a pencil or pen protector such as described the combination with the
protector B armed with means such as E for attaching the protector to the user's
garment or wearing apparel, of a ring F to which one end of an attaching
cord or chain C is secured for connecting the pencil or pen to the protector
substantially as herein described and illustrated with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
4. In a pencil and pen protector such as herein described, the combination of a
pencil and penholder each provided with point protectors such as B B', and
connected together by cords or equivalent means such as C C¹, one of the said
point protectors being armed with means such as E for attaching it to the user's
garment or wearing apparel, and with a hook such as E' and ring or loop such as F¹
by which a pen holder or a pencil may be suspended from and connected to the said
armed point protector substantially as herein described and illustrated with reference
to Fig. 15 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Twentieth day of October 1894.
ARTHUR HARRISON,
By W. Fairburu-Hart,
Agent.