US1370172A

US1370172A - Pencil-holder

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Publication number: US1370172A
Application number: US334466A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank J Vierling; Fred R Bartholomew; Milo H Smith
Original assignee: STERLING SPECIALTIES Manufacturing COMPA
Current assignee: STERLING SPECIALTIES MANUFACTURING Co; STERLING SPECIALTIES Manufacturing COMPA
Priority date: 1919-10-30
Filing date: 1919-10-30
Publication date: 1921-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 1938-03-01

Description

F. 1. VIERLING, F. n. BART'HOLO'MEW AND M.-H. SMITH.

PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-30, 1919.

1,370,172... Patented Mal-4,1921,

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BARTI-IOLOMEW, AND MILO H. SMITH, or

\ APOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNORS TO STERLING SPECIALTIES MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A. CORPORATION OIE MINNESOTA.

' PENCIL-HOLDER. I

Specification of Letters Patent; Pat t M -,1, 1921.

Application filed October 30, 1919. Serial No. 334,466.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK J. VIERLING, FRED R. BARTHOLOMEW, and MILO H. SMITH, citizens of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pencil- Holders, and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the lnvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Our invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly efficient pencil holder, and, to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claim. I

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings: s Figure 1 is a face view of the improved pencil holder;

Fig. 2 is a view of the back of the same; Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 2, but on an enlarged scale and. showing the pencil holder attached to a garment pocket and holding a pencil;

Fig. 4 is a view principally in section taken on the line 44 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale.

The improved pencil holder includes a coiled spring 6, attached to a flat body member 7 by cutting and pressing therefrom, loops 8, through which the ends of said spring are inserted and then bent on them selves, as best shown in Fig. 5. It is highly important to note that the coiled spring 6 1s transversely secured to' the body member 7 in an oblique position so as to hold a pencil X in an upright position in respect to said body member, as shown in Fig. 3.

The inventiomas shown in the drawing, is designed to hold pencils, fountain pens, or both, in a garment pocket Z and to detachably secure the body member 7 therein, the same is provided with cooperating outer and inner clasp members 9 and 10, respectively. The outer clasp member 9, as shown, is in the form of a disk havingits upper edge portion attached by a neck 11 to with the same.

the upper end of the body member 7. The.

inner clasp member 10 is cut from the body member 7, projects toward the neck 11 and is pressed outward toward the clasp member 9, as best shown in Fig. 5. On the lower edge of the clasp member 9 is a finger piece 12 by which the said member may be moved, by bending the neck 11, toward and from the clasp member 10 to clamp the outer member of the pocket Z between the Same therefrom. The neck 11 also limits the downward movement ofthe bodym emher 7 into the pocket Z.

As shown, the body member 7, clasp members?) and 10, are all formed from a. single piece of sheet metal preferably of a relatively soft nature so as to permit the bending of the neck 11 during-the movement ofthe clasp member 9 toward and from the clasp member 10. [A longitudinally extended rib 13 is pressed from the body memcooperating' clasp clasp members or to release the ber 7 and clasp member 10, at the junction. I

of the two, so as to glve the said clasp member' the required rigidity.

In applying the pencil X to the holder, the same is inserted endwise and transversely through the spring 6 with its outer face in direct contact with the body fmember 7 and with one of the convolutions of said spring extending substantially 45 degrees across the inner face of the pencil, and

point contact with opposite sides of the pencil to hold the same against swinging movement on the body member 7 and in contact By anchoring 1 the spring 6 only at its ends to the body 7 member 7, said spring will not only yield in respect to its length when a pencil is inserted trans versely therethrough, but will also yield in respect to the faceof the body member 7.

In place of the clasp"910, the body member 7 may be provided with means for securing the same to a desk or other support.

I which convolution, together with the ad l g j acent convolutions of the spring, have four- It is, of course, understoodv that the .body' member 7 may take variousdifierent forms,

and that the face of" the clasp member 9 may be used for advertising purposes:

What we claim is e A pencil holder includinga body member, and a coiled spring extending transversely and obliquely across the body member :with V its ends anchored thereto, the inner portions of the convolutions of the s rlng belng substantially parallel to the si es of said body, said spring being arranged to hold a pencil in an upright posltlon when-said pencil is inserted endwise between certain of the convolutions of the spring and between the spring and the body member.