US789713A - Pencil-holder. - Google Patents

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No. 789,713. PATENTED MAY 16, 1905. A. BROWN.

PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. a, 1904.

lvitmaoow NITED STATES Patented May 16, 1905.

PATENT OEEicE.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,713, dated May 16, 1905.

Application filed February 8, 1904. Serial No. 192,555.

2'0 a, w/wm/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hardinsburg, in the county of Breckenridge and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pencil-holders, and particularly to that class wherein the pencil is held in such a manner as to protect the point thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a pencil-holder which may be easily and quickly attached to any convenient part of a garment and one which is adapted for holding pencils of diverse diameters and different lengths.

Another object of my invention is to provide a pencil-holder consisting of two sockets held together by an elastic band or coiled steel spring. One of the sockets is adapted to receive the head of a pencil and ,is provided with a pin by which it may be secured to a garment. The other is cone or conical shaped and is adapted to receive the point of the pencil and to act as a protector therefor.

\Vith these objects in view and such others as may hereinafter appear my invention consists in the particular construction of the various parts and in the novel manner of combination and arrangement of said parts, all of which will be more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of my improved holder complete, illustrating the same with a pencil held therein.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail View of the headsocket. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the point-socket. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the coiled steel wire which connects the sockets. Fig. 5 illustrates an elastic band which may also be used for connecting the sockets.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 represents a socket consisting of a tubular section made of a continuous coil of steel wire, the upper end of which is provided with a loop 2, smaller in diameter than the body or tubular section, and is turned, as shown, in order to provide a spring for the downwardly-projecting pin 4:. The lower end of the tubular section terminates in a downwardly-projecting arm 5, parallel with the pin 4. This arm is twined upon itself so as to form an eye 6 (the object of which will be hereinafter explained) and is provided upon its free end with a hook 7, adapted to engage the pin 4 after the holder has been secured or attached to a garment.

Hooked or otherwise secured in the eye 6 is one end of the coiled steel-wire spring 8, the other end of which is hooked in the eye 9 formed upon the cone or conical shaped socket 10, or, if desired, the steel-wire spring may be dispensed with and the sockets connected by an elastic band 11, which will perform the same function and will be found a convenient substitute. that when the head of a pencil is placed in the socket 1 and the point in the socket 10 the spring 8 or elastic band 11, having the tendency to draw the two sockets together, will clamp the pencil tightly in the holder and prevent any possibility of it becoming lost; also, that the socket 1O acts as a protector for the point.

Having thus described the various features of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A holder of the character described,comprising a pair of socket-pieces having means to engage the opposite ends of a pencil or the like, one of said socket-pieces being further provided with means for attaching it to a garment or the like, and a spring connecting the said socket-pieces and drawing them toward each other, to retain a pencil or the like between them, substantially as described.

2. A holder of the character described, comprising two sockets having means respectively to engage the opposite ends of a pencil or the like, a coil-spring connecting said sockets, and a pin for attaching one of said sockets to a garment or the like, substantially as described.

3. A pencil-holder comprising two elastically-connected sockets, one being of conical form to receive the pointed end of a pencil and the other being of cylindrical form to receive the opposite end of the pencil, said cylindrical socket having one of its ends provided with a stop to limit the movement of It will be readily seen the pencil therein, and means for attaching one of said sockets to a garment or the like, substantially as described.

42. A pencil-holder, comprising tWo sockets, one being formed of a single piece of Wire bent to form a conical-shaped coil With an eye at one end, and the other being formed of a single piece of Wire bent to form a cylindrical-shaped coil, a stop at one end of the latter, an attaching-pin, a hook to receive said pin and an eye, and an elastic connection between the eyes of said sockets for holding the latter upon the opposite ends of a pencil or the like, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth 1 aifix my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

AUGUSTUS BROWN.

Witnesses:

A. M. PULLIAM, J. H. LENNON.

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