US1365439A - Pencil-clip - Google Patents

Description

G. S. ADOLFSON.

PENCIL CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 3, 1920.

1,365,439. Patented Jan. 1L 1921.

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UNITED STA-TIES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE SEVERIN'ADOLFSON, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PENCIL-CLIP.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. ADoLrsoN, a citizen of the United States residing at Philadelphia, in the county of lhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Pencil-Clip, of which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide al pencil clip which may be fashioned cheaply out of a single piece of resilient material, the device being so constructed that it will have a secure hold on a pencil, there being no exposed ends likely to catch in a garment pocket.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

Vith the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes. in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings l Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on a pencil; Fig. 2 is an.elevation wherein the device is viewed at right angles to the showing of Fig. 1; F igz 3 1s a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 1s a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

The clip forming the subject matter oi this application is fashioned from a single strip of resilient material, preferably wire, fashioned into a coil 1 comprising convolutions 2 and into a U-shaped tongue 3, eX tended longitudinally of the coil and projecting beyond one end of the coil. The tongue 3 includes arms 4 and 5, the arm 4 having a li'ee end 6 engaged beneath one terminal convolution 7 of the coil 1, the said convolution 7 having a free end 8 engaged beneath the next adjoining convolution 9. 'The other arm 5 of the tongue 3 is joined, as indicated at 15 to the terminal convolution 10 and is extended, as indicated at 14, beneath the remaining convolutions. At the place of juncture between the arm 5 and the terminal convolution 10, there is formed a U-shaped lip 11, the same being inclined outwardly, as shown at 12.

A pencil, pen or the like, denoted by the Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 11, 1921.

3, 1920. Serial N0. 421,519.

numeral 20 may be thrust into the coil 1, the pencil or pen being held in the coil owing to the resiliency of the coil. Since the lip 11 is outwardly inclined, as shown at 12, the insertion of the pencil 2O into the coil 2 is facilitated.

For the sake of resiliency, the tongue 3 is outwardly bowed, as at 16, adjacent to the terminal convolution 7, the tongue being inwardly bowed, as at 17, to bear against the pencil 20, or to bear against the garment pocket when a portion of the pocket is inserted between the tongue and the pencil. The extremity of the tongue 3 is outwardly inclined, as at 18, to form a guiding throat 19, aiding in the insertion of the upper edge of the garment pocket between the tongue 3 and the pencil20.

It is to be observed that the free end 8 of the convolution 7 is disposed at right angles to the said convolution, and is located 90 degrees remote from the tongue 3. As a consequence, the free end 8 will be out of the way when the tongue 3 is engaged with the edge ofthe garment. Especial attention is directed to the fact that the end 6 is engaged beneath the convolution 7, the end 8 being engaged beneath the convolution 9. As a consequence, there are no loose, springing or swinging parts to catch on a arment pocket, when the pencil is thrust into the pocket, or when the pencil is removed from the pocket.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A clip of the class described, fashioned from a single strip of resilient material formed into acoil comprising convolutions and into a U-shaped tongue including arms, one arm of the tongue having a free end engaged beneath one terminal convolution, said convolution having a free end engaged beneath the next adjoining convolution, the other arm of the tongue being joined to the other terminal convolution and being extended beneath the remaining convolutions, there being an outwardly inclined U-shaped lip at the place of juncture between the last specified arm and said other terminal convolution.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, l have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE SEVERIN ADOLFSON.

Witnesses Roni'. V. MYERS, Sr., S. DoMiNiox Piccolo.

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