US837234A - Penholder. - Google Patents

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-PATENTBD N .OV- 27, 1906.

M. L. LITTLE. PBNHOLDER. APPLICATION FILED APB. 14, 1908.

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MILTON L. LITTLE, OF FOR-T BRANCH, INDIANA.

PENHOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 27, 1906.

Application iiled April 14,1906. Serial No. 311,735.

To tl/l, whom, t puny concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON L. LITTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Branch, in the county of Gibson, State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Penholders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to penholders of the kind or type that are constructed to eject the pen-point when necessary without soiling the fingers with the ink thereon.

It is the object of the invention to provide a pen-ejecting penhold'er that shall be exceedingly simple in and economic of construction and that shall be highly efficient in the performance of the functions that it is intended to have it perform.

My invention consists of a penholder of the kind mentioned that is in its entirety composed of but three parts--the pen-stock, the

; outside stationary sleeve, and the inside slidable sleeve, that performs the oflice of ejecting the pen and, with the stationary sleeve, holds the pen-point in place for service.

The invention will irst be described in de tail in view of the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specication, and then be pointed out with particularity in the subjoined claims.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention complete with a penpoint in position. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which the slidable sleeve is formed. i

The same figures of reference designate the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, 5 designates the penstock, formed from wood of a suitable kind and having any form that may be desired.

6 designates the fixed sleeve, having a longitudinal slot 7 formed through its upper side and having an annular indentation 8 formed around it at the base of the slot, which operates as a stop for the inner end of the pen-stock.

9 designates the inner slidable sleeve that cooperates with the outside sleeve in keeping or holding in serviceable position the penpoint 10 and which when moved forward in the stationary sleeve acts to eject the penpoint.

The slidable sleeve 9 is formed from a blank having the form shown in Fig. 3, Which consists of a plate 11 of rectangular shape, excepting that the forward end 12 is slightly rounded, and a narrow tongue 13, having a sharpened tip 14, projects from its rear end. A small transverse slot 15 is formed in the said plate 11 a little in advance of the base of the tongue 13, and a small projection 16 is punched out from the metal constituting the plate at a point approximately at its center. The plate 11 is bent or rolled into a round sleeve with the longitudinal edges thereof nearly meeting each other. The inner sleeve 9 thus formed is inserted in the stationary sleeve, with the narrow tongue 13 extended through the slot 7 of the stationary sleeve 6, when the said tongue is bent forward upon the plate and is finally turned up and around into a thumb-engaging loop or projection 17, with its pointed tip bent back and extended through the small slot 15.

When the penholder is in use, the inner sleeve 9 will be moved back until the base of the tongue forming the loop 17 is stopped by engaging the portion of the outside stationary sleeve at the end of the slot 7, and the pen-point has its shank inserted between the two sleeves at the forward end until the rear end of said shank is stopped by the projection 16 on the inner sleeve. In this position the penholder may be used the same as any of common construction. When it is desired to eject the pen-point, the user will simply engage the loop or projection wi th the thumbnail and push the inner sleeve 9 forward, when the pen will drop out.

What is claimed as the invention is A pen-ejecting penholder consisting of a pen-stock provided on 'its forward rend Wi'tha outside sleeve and its' tip vturned back and n stationary sleeve 'having a longitudinal slot extended through seid short transverse slot. formed therein, e slidable sleeve arranged in In testimony whereof I affix my signature the sttoner; sletre aflc havil a ptr-0eotion in presence vo two Witnesses.

exten ing 1n o e s o o e s a ionary sleeve and a short transverse slot in line with MILTON L' LITTLE the irst-rnentioned slot, a tongue forming an integral part of the inner sleeve `bent into :a loop also extending through the slot of the Witnesses:

HER-BERT SMITH, HENRY A. YEAGER.

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