US2490654A - Combined head covering and writing accessory - Google Patents

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Dec. 6, 1949 F. SCHLESINGER COMBINED HEAD COVERING AND WRITING ACCESSORY Filed March 29, 1947 INVENTOR. FRANK SCHLES/NGER A T TORNF Y Patented Dec. 6, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

COMBINED HEA'D' COVERING- AND WRITING ACCES S'ORY 4 Claims.

This invention relates to improved means for supporting pencils and pencil Sharpeners, and particularly to provide butchers, grocery clerks, cab drivers, truck drivers, and other workers who must frequently use a pencil, with means always ready at hand for sharpening a dull pencil point.

One of the more particular objects of the invention is to provide means for securing a small pencil sharpener on the brim or visor of a head covering or cap, so that it will always be handy for immediate use, and cannot be dropped or easily lost, without losing the head covering or cap to which it is attached.

Another object of the invention is to provide a connection for the blade of the pencil sharpener, which also serves to support or anchor the stud by which the pencil sharpener is attached to a female button socket on the visor of the cap.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention comprises certain new and useful constructions and arrangements of parts, clearly described in the following specification, and fully illustrated in the drawings, in which;

Fig. l is a perspective view of a cap, showing the pencil sharpener in position on the visor of the cap.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view, broken away, showing the cap visor with the pencil removed.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a pencil.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view, taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, showing the blade holding screw and the male stud secured to it.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates a cap of the type which is commonly worn by butchers, grocery clerks, cab drivers, truck drivers and other types of workers who have frequent use of a writing pencil, and who must quickly sharpen a point that has been dulled or broken off. This cap includes the usual head covering or hood 6 and the brim or visor I. The head band 8 is provided with a fabric or leather loop 9 to receive a writing pencil P.

The visor I is provided with a male button stud I0, which is adapted to enter the female socket II, on the head covering or hood 6. To one side of this male button stud, the pencil sharpener I2 or other writing accessory is secured.

The pencil sharpener I2 is provided with a pencil-receiving conical hole I3, a cutting blade I 4, and a screw I5 for holding the blade in cutting relation to the hole I3. The screw I5 is threaded through the blade I4 into the body In of the pencil sharpener.

The inner end of the screw I5 engages a male button stud I6, formed of sheet metal die cupped or drawn, which is tightly secured to the end of the screw, and which is locked in the outer sheet metal male stud IT.

The male stud I1 is adapted to fit in the female button socket I8, which is rigidly secured to the visor I. In this way the screw I5 serves to secure the blade I4 on the body of the pencil sharpener, and at the same time secures the coupling male stud I! to the pencil sharpener.

The male stud I! not only couples the pencil sharpener to the cap visor, but permits the pencil sharpener to swivel on the cap visor, so that it may be used with the cap being placed in any position which is most suited to the wishes of the user.

In another modification of the invention, the pencil I9, shown in Fig. 3 is also provided with a metal or other collar or band 20, which is formed or provided with a male button stud 2 I, which is adapted to have coupling engagement with the female button socket 23, on the cap 5, shown in Fig. 2.

The pencil sharpener may also be coupled to the female button socket 23, and the pencil I9 may be coupled to the female button socket I8, shown in Fig. 2.

Although not shown in the drawing, the visor I, besides serving the above-mentioned purposes, helps support long pencils which would otherwise be apt to fall from the loop 9 or band 20.

It is understood that various changes in the detail construction of the parts, and their combination, may be made in carrying out the invention as defined in the appended claims.

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

1. The combination of a writing accessory and a head covering having a visor and a hood, means for fastening said hood to said visor, a female button element secured to said visor adjacent the hood fastening means, and a male button element secured to said writing accessory, said button elements being adapted detachably to secure said writing accessory on said head covering in such a position that, upon fastening of said hood to said visor, said writing accessory will be at least partially concealed.

2. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said writing accessory is a pencil sharpener having a body provided with a, conical pencilreceiving hole and a sharpener blade and further provided with a screw extending through said blade and through said body and projecting at one end therefrom, said male button element being secured to the projecting end of said screw.

3. The combination of a writing accessory and a head covering having a brim and a, hood, detachable means for fastening said hood to said brim, and means for detachably fastening the writing accessory to said brim adjacent to the hood fastening means in such position that, upon fastening Of said hood to said brim, said writing accessory will be at least partially concealed.

4. The combination of a writing accessory and a head covering, said head covering having a visor and a hood, and cooperating fastening means on the head covering and the writing accessory designed to clamp the accessory to the head covering in such a position as to at least partially conceal the accessory when the visor and hood are in overlapping relation.

FRANK SCHLESINGER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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