US933389A - Pencil-holder. - Google Patents

Description

0. PLATNBR.

PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 00122, 1908.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

I y W ANDREW. a. EMMA 00.. vuuwmnoenmlm, wAsHmmon. a c,

Inventor CYRUS PLATNER, 0F TOPEKA, KANSAS.

PENCIL I-IOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, .1909.

Application filed October 22, 1908. Serial No. 458,937.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYRUS PLATNER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pencil holders comprising a tubular coil of spring wire with a retaining pin secured thereto by which the holder may be fastened to a garment.

The object of my invention is to improve generally upon pencil holders of this general nature; to provide a pencil holder of this nature which is ada ted to hold pencils of various sizes and orms and yet holding each pencil so lightly that the pencil may be inserted into or withdrawn from the holder without much effort and without straining or pulling so as to be liable to tear the garment or loosen the holder or otherwise render the device impracticable for a wide range of adaptability; and to provide the holder of the special form herein shown and described in whichboth the tubular coil and the retainer are formed by the same continuous wire.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, and in the description of the drawings, I have shown my invention in its preferred form, and have shown the best mode of applying the principles thereof; but it will be understood that changes in form, proportions, and materials, the transposition of parts, and the substitution of equivalent members, may be resorted to, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Figures 1 and 2 are, respectively, views taken from opposite ends, and Fig. 3 is a side view, of a pencil holder made in accordance with the principlesi of my invention. Fig. 4: is a view of the holder applied to a garment.

Similar reference numerals indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views.

1 represents a tubular coil of suitable spring wire, one end of which is bent slightly inwardly so as to extend across the crosssectional area of the tube as indicated at 2, and terminates in an eye 3, outside the coil. At the opposite end, the wire is extended beyond the tube so as to form a retainer consisting of legs 4, 4L and portion 5, which portion 5 is preferably straight or flat as shown. From this retainer the wire continues in another half-coil and terminates in a point 6 which extends along one of the legs 4.

To apply the pencil holder to a garment, insert the point 6 through the fabric and out again, taking up a distance approximately equal to the width of the retainer, and then twist the holder around so that the wire passes through the fabric until the fabric is inside the retainer 4, 5, 4:. The holder will then rest closely and fiat against the fabric of the garment. The holder may be removed from the garment by a reverse operation. The holder is preferably worn with the retainer end up, but it may be worn in any other manner, even being entirely concealed in a pocket.

I do not intend, in the best form of my invention, to have the coil as a whole embrace the pencil inserted therein; but rather that the pencil shall be embraced by the side of the coil and by the extension, or inwardlybent end 2. The reason for this is that where the pencil is embraced by the coil as a whole, unless the pencil be of an exactly corresponding size, it will be too hard to press the pencil into the holder or withdraw it therefrom, or, if too small, the holder will not keep it at all. And it is not practicable readily to adjust the coil to suit any size of pencil. I contemplate using a coil large enough to accommodate a very large pencil, and then by bending inwardly or outwardly the bent-in end 2, the holder may be readily accommodated to any size of pencil within a wide range; while very slight variations may be even compensated for by the natural springiness of the extension and the coil. By this means of adjustment, I am enabled to manufacture a most economical )encil holder, and he same time a verye cient and simpl dapted to a wide range of sizes and pencils.

2. In a pencil holder a continuous single Wire formed lnto a tube comprising a series of coils, one of the coils extended out beyond the tube at one side to form a loop for engaging the fabric, the Wire continuing from one side of the loop around the opposite side of the tube and thence outwardly along the other side of the loop and terminating in a point adjacent to the. loop, and one portion of the ire extending across the cross-sectional area of the tube, said loop and said cross extension being located at opposite ends of the tube,

3. In a pencil holder a continuous single 1 Wire formed intoa tube comprising a serles of coils, a coil at one end extending beyond the side of the tube and provided with a pointed end to engage the fabric, and the Wire at the other end extending across the cross-sectional areti at one side of the tube;

| l l l

Images