US1284718A - Clip for fountain-pens. - Google Patents

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H. LASKO.

CLIP FOR FOUNTAIN PENS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1918.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY LASKO, or NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLIP FOR EoUN'rAIN-rENs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY LAsKo, residing in Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clips for Fountain-Pens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a retaining clip for use in connection with afountain pen, and it has reference to the mounting and securing of the clip upon the part of the pen--usually the capto which it is aplied. p The invention consists in certain improved means for this purpose which will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and will then. be more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings Figure l is a view of a fountain pen and cap provided with a retaining clip embodyin my invention,

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal axial section of the pen longitudinally through the clip,

Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 2, and,

Fig. 4' is a detached view of the cap with the clip removed in order to expose the recess in which the boss that forms the head of the clip is fitted and held, and,

Fig. 5 is a view of the anchor plate detached.

A is the body of the fountain pen, B the cap, and C the clip.

In the exterior of the cap there is formed a recess 6 of irregular contour to receive the boss 0, which forms the head of the clip. The boss 0 is of contour corresponding to that of the recess, so as to fit snugly therein, and has a thickness corresponding substantially to the depth of the recess 1), so that when seated and held therein it will be substantially flush with the exterior surface of the cap B. In the present instance the body or central portion of the boss 0 is circular in form having on its periphery three radial projections c of circular form, and spaced at about 45 from one another. The recess in the cap has a main central portion 6 to receive the boss 0, and peripheral smaller recessed portions 1), positioned to receive the radial projections c on the clip boss 0. The head of the clip is curved transversely as inthereof, thus leaving the latter entirely freeto accommodate without impediment the pen and nozzle portions of the penholder which. it is designed to protect. In the anchor plate is formed a central internally screw threaded hole (2; and in the head 0 of the clip is a correspondingly located hole 0 which registers with the hole d in the anchor plate when the head 0 of the clip is fitted into the recess b-the hole 0 being of sufiicient size to permit the passage of the stem of the screw 8 by which the clip is bound in its place on the cap. The screw is of such length that when driven home, its inner end does not project through the wall of the cap into the bore thereof. Its head preferably is cross-nicked as shown for convenience sake as well as to present a more ornamental appearance.

By the term irregular contour as used in this specification is intended such a contour that when the boss or head of the cli is seated and held in its recess in the cap, it will be incapable of rotary movement therein on the screw 8 as an axis.

The anchor plate is of such form externally that when seated in the cap it is incapable of rotation therein. In the present instance it is formed, for this purpose, with a laterally projectin flange (1 on its inner end, rectangular in s ape, as shown in Fig. 5, which seats itself in a correspondingly shaped recess formed forits reception in the inner face of the wall of the cap, as indicated in the drawings.

Having described my improvement and the best way now known to me of carrying the same into practical effect, what I claim which the head of the clip snugly fits with v Q Lseems its exterior substantially flush with the exin the anchor plate and immovably securing terior surface of the cap; an anchor plate the clip in position, the length of the screw forming the bottom of the said recess conbeing such that when'driven home its inner 10 tained Within the compass of the wall of the end does not reject beyond the inner face 5 cap and immovably held. therein; and a of the Well 0 the cap.

binding screw passing through the head of In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature. the clip into a screw threaded socket or hole HENRY LASKO.

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