Patent ID: 6966117

Claim:
A carpenters pencil sharpener comprising: a body member having a front wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and a longitudinally extending X-axis; only a T-shaped opening is formed in said front wall; said body member has an interior pencil sharpening chamber defined by an interior top wall surface, an interior left wall surface, an interior right wall surface, an interior rear wall surface and an interior bottom wall surface; said interior pencil sharpening chamber being in communication with said T-shaped opening; a blade member having a substantially linear front end and a rearwardly extending cutting edge; said substantially linear front end being oriented substantially perpendicular to said X-axis; said blade member being rigidly supported in said body member with said cutting edge positioned in said pencil sharpening chamber; and said body member also having an interior pencil insertion/retraction chamber that is positioned between said interior pencil sharpening chamber and said T-shaped opening in said front wall of said body member whereby a carpenters pencil that has a rectangular cross section can be axially inserted into said T-shaped opening of said sharpener at four different 90 degree positions and axially retracted in order to sharpen the four different sides of said carpenters pencil.