US2870740A - Crayon holders - Google Patents

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Jan. 27, 1959 T. B. H. VO GT CRAYON HOLDERS Filed Dec. 7, 1955 INVENTOR. THEODOREBM. VOGT ATTORNEY United States Patent CRAYON HOLDERS Theodore B. H. Vogt, Fair Lawn, N. J.

Application December 7, 1955, Serial No. 551,668

1 Claim. (Cl. 120-1) This invention relates to holders for crayons, and more particularly to holders for the relatively heavy hexagonal crayons generally used by carpenters, machinists and other workers.

The main object of the invention is the provision of a holder for crayons of the kind mentioned, provided with certain new and useful improvements whereby the holder removably retains two separate crayons, preferably of different colors, in alignment in the holder, each of which may be separately removed for replacement without disturbing the other. As a practical step in carrying out the invention, the two crayons are preferably made of shorter length than is common, and they may be termed stub crayons.

The above broad as well as additional and more specific objects will be clarified in the following description wherein reference numerals refer to like-numbered parts in the accompanying drawing. It is to be noted that the drawing is intended solely for the purpose of illustration and that it is therefore neither desired not intended to limit the invention necessarily to any or all of the exact details of description or construction except insofar as they may be deemed essential to the invention.

Referring briefly to the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a crayon holder embodying the features of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view of the holder per se, showing how each end or end portion of the holder is transversely yieldable with respect to the other.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing a slightly modified construction.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view illustrating the manner of inserting or removing a crayon from one end thereof.

Fig. 6 is a perspeective view illustrating the use of the crayons contained in the holder.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 10 indicates the hollow equilateral-polygonal (in the illustration, hexagonal) holder or housing embodying the features of the present invention. Assuming, for the sake of simplicity, that of the six sides shown, constituting the hexagonal holder, the side 12 is at the bottom and the side 11 at the top, the latter is slitted longitudinally intermediate its width, to provide the slit 13. Additionally, a transverse slit 14 is provided, intermediate the length of the holder, through all of the sides of the hexagon except the bottom side 12. However, as a "ice modified construction, not shown, the transverse slit may extend only through the top side 11 and the two sides adjacent thereto, so that in addition to the unslitted bottom 12 the two sides adjacent to the side 12 also remain unslitted.

Two stub crayons of complementary hexagonal shape are shown at 15 and 16. Since the two halves 11a and 11b, which owing to the inherent resiliency of the material of which the holder is formed, are normally positioned in a common plane to form the top side 11, are yieldable, it is readily apparent that a crayon 15 or 16 may be easily inserted into either end of the holder and resiliently held therein.

It sometimes happens, as a result of mass manufacture of the crayons, that two crayons may not have exactly the same cross-sectional dimensions, so that one, in being inserted into the holder, causes a greater outward flexing of the halves 11a and 11b. It is for this purpose that the slit 14 is provided, actually dividing the holder into two separate sections each of which serves separately as a holder for one crayon. Thus the two crayons will always be firmly held within the holder.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 4, the two outer ends 17 of the halves 11a and 1112 are rounded outward- 1y, that is, the corners bordering on the slit 13 are turned up and rounded, thus facilitating insertion of a crayon.

Thus a practical crayon holder has been provided, which enhances the utility of crayons of the type mentioned for those who use them.

I claim:

In combination a holder comprising an elongated hol= low body of resilient material and of polygonal cross section, one of the sides of said body having a longi-- tudinal slit therein and said body having additionally one traverse slit therein intermediate its length extending through all of its sides except one, the latter being disposed in a plane and extending integrally over the entire length of said holder opposite said one of the sides having a longitudinal slit, said one integral side defining an angle relative to its adjacent sides, and permitting a resilient bending of said adjacent sides along the joining longi tudinal line between said integral side and said adjacent sides, with a crayon received at each end of said holder and of a polygonal cross-section complementary to and slightly larger than the polygonal cross-section of said holder, in order to retain said crayons resiliently in said holder.

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