US256629A - Doepee - Google Patents

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no Model.)

O. W. BOMAN.

OOMBINED PENCIL-POINT PROTECTOR AND TWINE CUTTER.

Patented Apr. 18,1882

By Afforney N. Pains. mwmmn m. Waxhington, at;

Ur it:

OLAES W. BOMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH REGKEN- DORFER, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED PENCIL-POINT PROTECTOR AND TWINE-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,629, dated April 18, 1882.

Application filed January 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLAES W. BOMAN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Pencil-Point Protector and Twine-Cutter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed witha view to provide what :is usually known as a point-protector or pencil-point protector with an adjunct, by means of which twine and string can readily be cut. An article of this kind is a convenience generally, but is particularly adapted for use in shops and business estab lishments.

The accompanying drawings represent a point-protectorembodyingmyinvention. Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal central section of the same. Fig. Sis a section on line 3 3, Fig. 2.

A is the point-protectin g tube, which is usually made with alongitudinal slit fora portion of its length at the end in which the pencil is inserted, and is usually provided with an internally-projecting annular head, I), to limit the extent to which the pencil may be inserted. In the other end of the point-protecting tube is usually inserted a plug of erasive rubber, as shown in the drawings at c. I prolong the tube back of the point at which the bead b is formed sufficiently to permit the introduction into it of acutter without interfering with the pencil'point. The cutter referred to is shown at cl, consisting of a blade with aslauting cutting-edge, d. A convenient way of securing the blade in place is to solder it upright into a cup, 6, which is then inserted into the point protecting tube, and after being adjusted to the proper position is soldered, brazed, or otherwise fastened tight in place. At the point where the cutting-edge 61 comes thereis made in the tube a crescent-like slot, f, so formed and shaped, asindicated plainly in the drawings, that the twine to be out, when drawn down into the slot, will extend across the cutting-edge d, and will thereby be out. The inclination of the cutting-edge causes the twine to travel down the edge as it is pulled down into the slot, thus making a draw cut.

The device is simple, easily constructed, inexpensive, and entirely effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

' What I claim as of my invention is The point-protecting tube provided with an internal blade, d, and twine-admitting slot or openingf, substantially as hereinhefore shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of January, 1882.

OLAES WV. BOMAN.

Witnesses: I

O. S. BRAISTED, J on W. SWAINE.

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