USRE3863E - Improvement in pencils - Google Patents

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To all whom it may concern:

A nuera sans @anni @Mire s. JOSEPH RECKENDRFEIL OF NEW YORK, N. Y.'

Letters .Patent No. 36,854, dated November 4, 1862; reissue No. 3,863, dated March 1,1-870.

IMPROVEMENT IN' PENCILS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH RnoKnNDoRFnR, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and improved Pencil; and I hereby declare thefollowing is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure 1 is a side view of `a pencil made in accord# ance with my invention;

Figure 2, a longitudinal section;

Figure 3, a cross-section ou the line S S; and

Figure 4, a. cross-section on the liuc Z Z.

My invention is intended to provide a means whereby articles of greater size or diameter than thel lead may be securely held in the 'head of a pencil of otherwise ordinary or suitable construction, without making the body of the pencil cumbrous or inconvenient. Io this end, A

My invention consists- First-,cfa pencil composed of a woodensheath and lead core, having one end of the sheath enlarged and recessed, to constitute a receptacle for an eraser or other similar article, as hereinafter stated.

Second, of a pencil, the wooden case of which grad-` ually tapersfrom its enlarged and recessed head toward its opposite end for the whole or a' portion-of its length,` as hereinafter set forth.

The receptacle for the, eraser or other article is for'ned in the head` without too much weakening the wood, owing to the form of the sheath, while for the same'reason the end of the pencil which contains the ordinary lead is not cumbrous nor clumsy, but can be readily held between the finge rs, just as an ordinary pencil is.

In the drawings- A is the wood casing of the pencil, made in two parts, and glued together in the ordinary manner, but made larger at one end than at the other, as represented. c

This casing is grooved out with a small groove, for the reception of the black-lead or plumbago B, as usual, but for only a portion of its length. The re-` mainder, at the larger end, has a much larger groove or recess, in which the India rnbber'G, or other similar article to be therein held, is placed, as represented.

Pencils of equal size throughout have been heretofore made with a slip of rubber fitted in in place of the lead at one end, but such pencils have not become of any considerable practical importance, in consequence of the smallness of the rubber, and it has been held impracticahle to make the rubber much larger,

.without too much weakening the woodor making the -fer to saw the material into tapering slips, lying alternately with the ends in opposite directions, and afterward reduce these pieces to the required form, thus K conomizing material as far as possible.

I make the exterior of my improved pencilv of a round, square, hexagonal, octagonal, oval, or other section, as may be desired, and finish it in any style,

-but always make the head of a larger diameterl than the opposite end.

The lead and rubber may also be of any desired secu tion, and may be also tapered, if preferred, but the rubber should always be the larger, and I prefenthe uniform section of each, as represented.

Any other erasive material may be substituted for the rubber C without effecting the characterl ot' my invention, or a crayon or lead of a different color or quality may be substituted therefor, if desired. Grayons and' the softer qualities of lead require a larger section than that given to the part B, and the eularged head of the pencil will receive them equally as Well as the rubber. v

What I claim as new, and desire .to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A pencil composed of a wooden sheath'rand lead core, having one end of the sheath enlarged and recessed, to constitute a receptacle for an eraser or other similar article, as shown and set forth.

2. A pencil, the wooden case of 'which gradually tapers from Lts enlarged and recessed head towardits opposite end, for the whole o1` a portionof its length, substantially as 'shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto aixed my handthis 24th day of December, 1869, before two subscribing witnesses.

JOS. .REGKENDORFER Witnesses: y

A. M. Banken, Guo. M.. KING.

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