US1231023A - Penholder. - Google Patents

Description

H. W. HENRY.

PENHOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZ. 1914.

1,231,023.' Patented June 26, 191?.

HARRY W. HENRY, YONKERS, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1917.

Application filed May 2, 1914. Serial No. 835,786.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY W. HnNRY, a citizen of the United States, and a resldent of Yonkers, county of Westchester, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Penholders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pensholders, and is addressed to the manufacture of penholders which are light in weight and economical to manufacture. They may be used for advertising purposes, if deslred, and to this end, I so manufacture my penholders that the matter to be exhiblted thereon may be printed or otherwise placed upon the material of which they are manufactured before the pen-holders are formed. My invention also enables me to form penholders of varying sizes and varylng degrees of flexibility.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 shows my pen-holder;

Fig. 2 shows the preferred form of blank from which my pen-holder is formed;

Fig. 3 is a vertical side view of a portlon of Fig. 2;

Fig. A is the reverse side of the blank shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged View from the left end of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 6 is a modification of a portlon of the blank shown in Fig. 2.

In the drawings in which like letters represent like parts, A represents the blank from which the pen-holder is formed. This blank I preferably cut in the form of a trapezium or trapezoid, although, of course, it could be in the form of a parallelogram, or other suitable shape, if desired. This blank A is made of paper or other suitable material adapted to be rolled upon itself to form the holder. When paper or similar light and flexible material is used, flexibility of the holder is obtained in varying extent as may be desirable. This flexibility, when paper or similar material is used, may be regulated by the number of plies of such material used to form the pen-holder. Along one edge of the blank I prefer 'to provide an adhesive material B, so that when the blank is rolled to form the pen-holder, the

adhesive material B on the edge of the blank may be utilized to securely hold the rolls of the material in form.

In the manufacture of the holder from the blank, as shown in Fig. 2, the blank Would be rolled from the right to the left so that the edge of the blank having the adhesive material B on it would form the outer ply of the pen-holder, and the material B would come between the two last plies.

To hold the pen in fixed position in the pen-holder, I provide a strip of suitable material secured to the blank A, as for instance, the strip of material C, which, in Fig. 2, is a portion of the blank A folded upon itself, having been cut from the opening D; while in Fig. 6 the strip O is a separate piece of material fixed to the strip A by adhesive material or otherwise.

The object of this strip O is to supply a space between any two of the plies within which a pen may be easily inserted and also to form a seat or shoulder so that when the pen is placed in the pen-holder between adjacent plies, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, the end of the pen will rest against the seat O, and prevent it from being pushed into the pen-holder beyond the desired point, while the adjacent plies of the blank A in conjunction with the strip or-seat G will hold the pen in fixed position and prevent it from any movement independent of the penholder.

In Fig. 5, I have shown an enlarged end View of the pen-holder, showing the seat which substantially encircles the pen-holder between the plies of rolls of the blank A. Of course, if desired, the strip O could be made of such length and size that it would encircle the holder between each of the plies of the pen-holder. If desired, another blank of the same form, or some similar form, could be used in place of the strip C, by placing the additional blank upon the blank A, having the additional blank somewhat narrower than the blank A so as to have its edge provide the seat for the pen.

On the face of the blank, which is to form the outside of the pen-holder, if deone will readily understand that the blanks may be made ofany size depending upon the length of the pen-holder to be manufactured.

By my invention, the paper blanks may be formed without any waste of material whatever as it will be readily seen that a sheet of paper may be cut into parallelograms, and each parallelogram cut into two blanks of the preferred form of my invention, which I have shown. After the blanks have been formed they may be printed upon, and then rolled to form the holders as they are desired for use.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A pen holder formed of a material rolled upon itself, spacing means arranged between the plies of said material whereby a space is formed adapted to receive a pen point.

2. A pen holder formed of a material rolled upon itself, spacing means integral with said material and so arranged as to form a space between the plies of said material adapted to receive a pen point.

3. A pen holder formed of a material rolled upon itself, a portion of said material being folded, said folded portion lying between some of the plies to form a space adapted to receive a pen point.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Tnorn MILLS, Jr.,- GEO. M. HARRIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

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