US883009A - Crayon-holder. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAR 24, 1908.

' M. M. GEE.

CRAYON HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1908.

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. having exact parallelism.

- of crayon holder, as shown in Fig. 5, I employ MARY MATILDA GEE, OF ORANGE, NEWJERSEY.

CRAYON-HOLDER.

Application filed January 4,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908. 1908. Serial No. 409,256.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY MATILDA GEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Crayon-Holder, of which the followmg is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in crayon holders or multiple rulers, for drawing upon a blackboard or other surface a series 0 parallel lines at a single stroke. A device of this character is of particular value to music instructors for drawing the staff, and also to teachers and others generally who are required at times to draw a number of lines The object of the invention generally stated is to provide a crayon holder composed of two oppositely-disposed members of sheet metal connected together, each member having formed therein one-half of a series of crayon sockets.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.-

Figure 1 illustrates in perspective one embodiment of my inventlon as employed in drawing upon a blackboard; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the crayon holder shown in Fig. 1 partly broken away at an intermediate polnt to better show the construction; Fig. 3 IS a cross-section of the same on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of another and a more preferable form of my invention; and. Fi 5 is a oross-section of the same substantia ly on the line 55 of Fig. 4.

A crayon holder constructed in accordance with my invention as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, comprises two oppositely-disposed members 10, 10, of sheet metal or other suitable sheet material, each member having one-half of each of a series of crayon sockets formed therein for receiving and fitting crayons 11. The members 10, as best observed in Fig. 3,

and are fastened by rivets or such other devices 12 intermediate each crayon socket, the free ends of the strip being brought together at one end of the holder and bent to form a lock seam 13.

In the construction of my preferred form two oppositely-disposed members 10 10 corresponding to the members 10 of that type of the invention just described, said members 1 being preferably constructed of sheet material, each having one-half of each of a series of conical crayon sockets receiving and fitting the crayons 11. The members 10 have overlapping ears near each end, through which passes a pin 14, pivotally connecting them together. The pin 14 has a spring 15 spirally wrapped thereabout, the free ends of which press directly on the members 10 above the pivotal connection and thereby operate to bind the shanks of the crayons in the sockets. Each member 10 consists of a leaf or flap, outwardly and upwardly inclining from the center of the holder, each flap carrying a series of depending socket elements 16, which register with the respective socket elements of the opposite member, and form in connection therewith the complete conical crayon sockets. It is apparent from this construction that when the flaps are pressed inwardly to the dotted position illustrated in Fig. 5, the sockets are expanded, which permits of the insertion of new crayons, the crayons being securely gripped under the action of the spring when the leaves are again released.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A crayon holder comprising two oppositely-disposed members of sheet material, each having substantially one-half of each of a series of crayon sockets formed therein, and means connecting said members together.

2. A crayon holder comprising two members, each having substantially one-half of each of a series of crayon sockets, and means pivotally connecting said members together, whereby the sockets may be expanded and contracted.

3. A crayon holder comprising two opposed members hinged together, each having substantially one-half of each of a series of crayon sockets formed therein, and a spring pressing on said members to normally close the sockets and clamp the crayons therein.

4. A crayon holder comprising two sheet metal members hinged together, each consisting of a leaf having a series of depending elements registering with and forming in connection with the like elements of the opposite leaf, a series of crayon sockets.

5. A crayon holder comprising two opposed sheet metal members comprising a series of depending elements forming in connection with the like elements of the opposite member when brought together, conical name to this specification in the presence of crayon sockets, means plvotally connecting two subscrlbmg wltnesses.

the two members to ether, and a sprin car ried on the pivot, 115m the free ends there- MARY MATILDA 5 of pressing on said leaves and forcing the de- Witnesses:

pending elements of said members together. T. F. QUIMBY,

In testimony whereof I have signed my FRANK WILSON.

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