US33894A

US33894A - Charles w

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Publication number: US33894A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1861-12-10
Anticipated expiration: 1878-12-10

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

CHARLES IV. LORD, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

PEN AND PENCIL CASE.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,894, dated December 10, 1861.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. LORD, of No. 65 Bedford street, in` the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pocket Pen-Holder and Pencil- Case; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure I represents myinvention by a front view. Fig. 2 represents the same by a vertical section taken at the line a: .fr of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a case for pen-holders, pencils, and similar articles of such dimensions that it may be carried in any pocket of a garment without inconvenience to the wearer and without liability of injury to the points of the pens or pencils; and it consists in arranging in the bottom of each of the several compartments of the case a conical metallic thimble, which encompasses the' pen or pencil and prevents the point of the same from being injured by being crowded too lfar into the case and against the bottom of the same or otherwise.

To enable others to fully understand my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the case, which is designed to be madeV of morocco, cloth, or of any other suitable material. rlwo pieces of the material being cut the proper size to form the case are irst bound on their edges with any suitable material and then sewed together on three sides, leaving one side or end open to allow the pen-holder or pencil to be inserted into the case. If preferred, the binding of the edges of the pieces and the sewing together of the same may be done at one operation, in which case a single piece of tape is placed over the adjoining edges and sewed through and through. The stitching represented by ct a in Fig. 1 divides the case longitudinally into three separate compartments of a size just large enough to admit a pencil or pen-holder to be inserted into them. A metallic conical thimble b is placed in the bottom of each of these compartments and secured in position by stitching the two parts of the case close up to its conical sides, as shown clearly in Fig. l. The sides of the case embrace the pen-holders and pencils placed therein and prevent them from casually dropping out should the case become inverted. The case incloses about one-half of a common lead-pencil, the point resting in the opening in the thimble,which passes entirely thro ugh it.

If desired, the sides of the case may have worked or stamped upon them any ornamental design. I propose, however, generally to make them plain, as shown in the drawings, but of different-colored materials to suit different tast-es.

The within-described invention is particularly designed for persons who are required to use a pencil or pen a great deal, and who for that purpose carry them about loosely in their pockets, frequently breaking the points of the pencils, tearing out the pockets of the garments with them, and otherwise being coustantly annoyed by them. 1

The cases are light, quite durable, occupying but little room in any pocket of a garment, and can be manufactured and sold at a small cost.

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

As a new article of manufacture, a penholder and pencil-case having metallic conical thimbles b arranged in the bottom of each of its several compartments, when constructed, combined, and operating in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

CHAS. W. LORD.

Witnesses:

JAMES U. GRIDLEY, J. W. CooMBs.`