US1210506A - Combined pencil sharpener and holder. - Google Patents

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E. V. MCDONALD- COMBINED PENCIL SHARPENER AND HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9,1916.

1 21 56 1 Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

' 3144x 41 op a device of the character named which can be utilized to sharpen a penal when d s- I so .To all; whom it may concern: v Be it known that l, EUGENE :J v av o cs llhllliinfi.

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GQMBINLD PENCIL SHABPENEE AND HOLDER,

'V. McDon- ALi), acitizen 01 the United States residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Pen:

cil Sharpeners and Holders; and I do hereby decla-re'the follovv ingto be a full, clear,

' and exact description of the invention, such 7 as Will enable others skilled in the art, to Which it appertains to make and use the same. 4

This iiivention relates toa combined pen- 011 sharpener and bolder.

-The object of the invention is to provide the pencil in the pocket when disposed another position on the pencil I W'ith theabove and other obyects in V ew .the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and coin-- binati-on of 'parts to be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing the invention in detailreference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein-like charactersof refer :ence denote corresponding in the sevof the device detached with the parts in the position they would occupy when used as a pencil sharpener. I i

Referring to thedrawings A indicates the blank from which the device is formed and this blank includes a body portion or strip 10 one end of which is reduced to form a tongue 1-1, while the other end thereoi is rovided with openings 12 and 13 Extendmg laterally from the body 10 is a V-shaped Specification of Letters Patent.

npplicetion filerliune 9,

Patented Jan, 2, 191?.

191e, No. 102,796.

-- extension 1%. This extension 14 is provided pocket and is curved suitably for that parpose at a point adjacent its inner end. In order to increase the flexibility of the arm 17 the latter is bent as at 3.9.

in forming thr deidce the body 10 is bent into the circular form shown in Fig. 4: and the tongue 11 engaged through the openings 12 and 13. By forcing thetonguethrough these openingsv the device can be readily fitted to the desired pencil. To sharpenI-the pencil the device is moved to the point end.v

and the extension 1% and arm livpressed together in the relation shown in Fig.4, the

apes: of the extension is being engaged against the shoulder 18: This movement of the extension ll and arm 17 will loosen the body 10 around the pencil and permit the latterto be rotated to etiect'the necessary sharpening.

To vutilize the device to hold the pencil in the pocket said device is movedto a point adjacent the end oi the pencil which. is sharpened and the extension. 14 and arm 17 having been previously released to their normal position the pencil is inserted in the pocket andthe flap of the latter engaged between the pencil and the arm 17.

What is claimed is 1. A combined pencil sharpener. and, holder comprising a band adapted to be releasably secured around a pencil alt-shaped lateral-extension on said band having a slot therein, a knife along" one edge of said slot,v an 'arm extending laterally from the band,

and a shoulder on said arm against which I the outer end of the extension is adapted to engage when the free ends of the extension and arm are pressed together. 2 in combined; pencil sharpener and extension on said band having a slot therein, a knife along one-edge of said slot, an In testimony whereof, I affix my signw arm extending laterally from'the band, and tum, infihe presence of two Witnesses;

a shoulder on said arm exfiending laterally EUGENE V. MCDONALD.

from the band, and a shoulder on said arm' against which the outer end of the extension Y Witnesses: I

15 adapted to engage when the free ends of GEORGE A. RAPP,

. 'the extension and arm are pressed together. RAY M. LORD,

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