US179641A - Improvement in combined pencil cases and sharpeners - Google Patents

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A. G. BATCHELDER. v comsmnn PENCIL CASE AND SHAR'PENER. '.No.179,64.-1, Patented Ju1y11.1876.

N.'FE\'ERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ASAHEL Gr. BATUHELDER, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED PENCIL CASES AND SHARPENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,641, dated July 11, 1876 application filed May 13, 1876.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ASAHEL G. BATCHEL- DER, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Combined Pencil Sharpener and Case or Shield; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figures 1 and 2 are side Views, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of the article.

In the said drawings, A denotes a pencilsharpener, consisting of a head, to, having within it a conical socket, I), provided with a long slot or chip-discharging mouth, b, in one side of it, and with a knife, 0, disposed with the said mouth, as represented. From the said pencil-sh arpener a tubular handle or case, B, projects, asshown, and is slitted, as indicated at d. The pencil-sharpener also has extended from it, in manner as shown, a short tubular projection, f, the said projection being provided with a flange,'g, at its outer end, and a shoulder, h, at the base of the sharpener. 0n the said projection is slipped an eraser or tubular block, 0, of india-rubber, which by its inherent elasticity is to tightly fit the tube f, whose outermost diameter corresponds to that of the mouth of the conical socket b. The

case B not only serves as a handle for bolding the pencil-sharpener during the process of sharpening or pointing a pencil or crayon thereby, but it answers as a shield or cover for such point when the pencil is inserted point foremost into the case. Furthermore, the tubular projection fanswers not only as a means of sustaining the eraser,'bnt as a guide and support for a pencil while it may be in the process of being pointed by the sharpener.

I claim as my invention as follows:

1. The. pencil-sharpener A, provided with the shoulder h, and the flanged tube f, arranged with its mouth, as set forth.

' 2. The pencil-sharpener, provided with the tube f, shoulder h, and tubular eraser C, arranged with each other and the mouth of said sharpener, as represented.

3. The combination of the pencil-sharpener A with the eraser G and its supporter f, arranged at the pencil-receiving mouth of said sharpener, and with the pencil-case B, arranged to project beyond the other end of said sharpener, all being substantially as represented.

ASAHEL G. BATOHELDER. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

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