US631834A - Combined pencil holder and sharpener. - Google Patents

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No. 63l,834. Patented Aug. 29, I899, J. R. VESTAL. COMBINED PENCIL HOLDER AND SHARPENER.

(Application filed Mar. 21, 1899.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES R. VESTAL, OF WALNUT GROVE, MISSOURI.

COMBINED PENCIL HOLDER AND SHARPENER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 631,834, dated August 29, 1899.

Application filed March 21, 1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs R. VESTAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Walnut Grove, in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Pencil Holder and Sharpener; 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.

My invention relates to combined pencil holders and sharpeners,and has for its objects the provision of an improved device of this character and particularly to provide novel means for gaging the cut made by the knife and protecting the knife itself when not in use and securing the pencil.

Having the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain improved features and novel combinations of parts, fully set forth in the accompanying description and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view showing the shield or guard swung aside; Fig. 2, a plan View taken opposite to Fig. 1, the guard being swung aside; Fig. 3, a side view with the guard closed; Fig. 4, a perspective, with the shield or guard swung aside, of a modified construction; Fig. 5, a detail View of the gage and knife of the form shown in Fig. 4; Figs. 6 and 7, top and bottom perspectives of a modified construction in which no shield is employed, and Figs. 8 and 9 views of another modification, in which the shield is omitted.

Reference being had to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the numeral 1 represents a metallic sleeve which is adapted to receive and hold the pencil. A strip of steel is secured by soldering, riveting,or otherwise to the side of the sleeve, where it is formed into a clip 2, which constitutes a means for attaching the device to the pocket of a garment when it is to be used as a pencil-holder simply. The other portion of the strip is extended beyond the end of the sleeve and bent into an inclined knife 3, having the beveled and inclined cutting edge 4,

the inclination of the knife and its edge being such that a proper taper will be put onto the pencil when being sharpened. The inclination of the knife and its resiliency cause it to Serial No. 709,975. (No model.)

bear sufiiciently hard on the pencil to insure the proper retention of the latter in the sleeve when it is located therein, so that the device may serve as a holder. I employ a gage to prevent the knife from digging too deep into the pencil during sharpening, and thus overcome a very serious defect heretofore incident to pencil-sharpeners of this class. This gage consists of a rectangular piece of metal 5, having its opposite longitudinal edges turned over to form lips 6 and 7.

The lip 7 and a portion of the gage is cut out at 8 to provide an opening through which the chips cut from the pencil can pass without obstruction. The lip 6 is flattened at 9 below the plane of the cutting edge of the knife, so that the latter can operate on the pencil, and also provides a shoulder or abutment 10 to limit the distance the gage can be forced on the knife when being placed thereon. This gage is held in position by friction and is removable, so that sharpening of the knife can be had when necessary.

The numeral 11 designates a shield or guard consisting of a single strip of metal doubled back on itself and having its ends pivoted to the knife on opposite sides thereof at 12. When the device is to be used as aholder, this shield or guard is swung over the knife and gage to protect and keep them from contact with the pencil.

In the modification shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the gage differs from that shown in the preceding views by having the cut-out portion 8 extend to the extreme end, and the guard is formed in a single straight piece having end and side flanges 13, which after the guard has been sprung in protecting position prevent its movement.

The modification shown in Figs. 6 and 7 has a knife a portion of whose cutting edge is inclined at 4: half-way across its width and is cut away longitudinally, forming the cutting edge. The gage is of the same construction as that shown in Figs. 4E and 5, whereby the narrow space let is defined through which the chips taken from the pencil pass.

In Figs. 8 and 9 thecutting edge 15 is at the end of the knife and extends straight across it without any inclination. The gage has the oppositely-disposed lips, as before, which terminate some distance inwardly from the end of the knife, and the end of the gage is cut out at 16, leaving suflicient space for the free passage of the shavings.

In all the forms except that shown in Figs. 8 and 9 the pencil is revolved in the holder or sleeve with its end against the knife to ac complish sharpening. In the form shown in the above-mentioned figures the pencil is reciprocated within the holder to sharpen it. The gages are of the greatest importance, as they prevent the knife from cutting too deep into the pencil and insure an even out of proper depth. When the knife becomes dull, the gage can be readily removed to permit sharpening.

The sleeve-retaining action of the knife and the clip make the device Well adapted for use as a holder for securing the pencil to the garment.

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

1. The combination with a pencil-holding sleeve, of a single strip of metal secured intermediate its ends to the sleeve and having one end bent into a clip adapted for securing the device to the garment, and its other end extended beyond the end of the sleeve and formed into a resilient knife and positioned to trim the pencil when it is moved in the holder and for retaining it in the sleeve when not being sharpened.

2. The combination with a pencil-holder and adapted to hold the pencil while being sharpened, of aknife connected thereto, and a gage for regulating the cut made by the knife.

3. The combination with a pencil-holder, of a knife connected, thereto and positioned to trim the pencil when it is moved in the holder, and a removable gage secured on the knife which is adapted to regulate the cut made, thereby.

l. The combination with a pencil-holder,

of a knife secured, thereto and positioned to trim the pencil when it is moved in the holder,

' and a gagesecured to the knife which has a posed adjacent the cutting edge of the knife.

6. The combination with a pencil-holder, of a knife secured, thereto and positioned to trim the pencil when it is moved in the holder, and a gage having lips which receive the edges of the knife, one of said lips beingpinched or flattened to form an abutment for a portion of the knife to prevent the'gage from being displaced beyond its proper position on the knife.

7. The combination with "a pencil-holder,

of a knife secured, thereto and positioned to trim the pencil when it is moved in the holder, and a movable guard adapted to be closed over the knife to house and protect it.

8. The combination with a pencil-holder, of a knifesecured thereto and positioned to trim the pencil when it is moved in the holder, and a guard pivotedto the knife and adapted to be swung over it to house and protect the same.

9. The combination with a pencil-holder, of a knife secured thereto, and a guard having two parts lying on opposite sides of the knife and pivoted thereto, and adapted to be swung over the knife to house and protect it.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AHES' R..VESTAL. Witnesses:

A. H. .IULEAN, W. M. DAVIS.

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