US788413A

US788413A - Penholder.

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Publication number: US788413A
Application number: US22763704A
Authority: US
Inventors: Lina Matthews
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-10-08
Filing date: 1904-10-08
Publication date: 1905-04-25
Anticipated expiration: 1922-04-25

Description

PATENTED APR; 25, 1905.

L. MATTHEWS: PBNHOLDERQ APPLICATION FILED OCT. 8. 1904.

inventor L/NA MATT/1E W5 389 Q a f I I mtomeg witnesses No.788,e13.

NITED STATES Patented April 25, 1905.

LINA MATTHEWS, OF ROSEWOOD, TEXAS.

PENHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Le e s Pa e N 788,413, dated April 25, 1905.

' Application filed October 8, 1904:. Serial No. 227,637-

To til whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LINA MATTHEWS, a citizen of the United States of America,- residing at Rosewood, in the county of Upshur and State of Texas, have invented a certain new and useful Penholder, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to penholders of the type embodying means for facilitating the extraction of a pen-point without the necessity of handling the same, thereby preventing the soiling of the fingers.

Tothis end the invention contemplates a simple and practical form of penholder attachment for penholders which-comprises simple and effectual means for releasing and ejecting a pen-point without handling the same while at the same time providing for firmly holding the pen-point in place and also for maintain inga firm seating of the spring member in such way as to prevent displacing the latter and also to assist in maintaining the pen-bearing section upon the handle stem or stock.

With these and other objects in view, the

nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as herein fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

The essential feature of the invention residing in the construction for carrying out the object above indicated is susceptible to some structural change Without departing from the scope of the invention; but the preferred embodiment of the latter is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a penholder embodying a spring-holding attachment for the pen-point, said attachment being constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional View of the pen-bearing section of the penholder. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of the detaining-spring and the pen-holding plate carried thereby.

Like reference-rurmerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In carrying out the present invention no change is involved in the conventional character of the penholder, which essentially consists of the usual handle stem or stock 1 and the tubular pen-bearing section 2, carried thereby. The lower open end of the tube or sleeve constituting the pen-bearing section 2 is designed to receive the heel of the pen-point 3, while the opposite end of said pen-bearing section fits over the reduced supporting-neck 4, formed at one end of the stem or stock 1. The said reduced supporting-neck 4 is flattened at one side, as indicated at 5, to receive in the interval between the same and the inner wall of the pen-bearing section 2 the inner end of a compoundly-bowed retainingspring 6. This retaining-spring is preferably of a flattened form and is arranged longitudinally within the pen-bearing section. The outer end portion of the spring carries a concavo-convex widened pen -holding plate 7, conforming in curvature to the lower end portion of the tube or section 2, accommodating between the same and said tube or section the pen-point 3, as plainly shown in Fig. 2 in the drawings.

The pen-holding plate 7 may be an integral part of the spring 6 or separately fastened thereto, so as to be rigid with the same, and at a distance above the loweror outer end of the plate 7 the same has rigidly secured. thereto the shank of a release-button 8, which projects through an opening 9 in the tube or section 2 and is exposed above the upper side of the latter for convenient manipulation by the thumb or finger of the hand.

The bowing of the spring 6 between the release-button 8 and the neck 4 of the stem 1 provides for firmly seating the inner end of the spring over the flattened side 5 of the handle-stem, thereby firmly positioning the spring and maintaining the plate 7 accurately in position for holding the pen-point. At the same time a spring pressure is exerted between and against the pen-bearing section and the fiattened side 5 of the handle-stem, thus serving to materially assist in retaining the pen-bearing section firmly upon the handle-stem.

When it is desired to release and eject the pen, it is simply necessary to press inwardly of which fits with a spring-pressure between the seat and the pen-bearing section so as to frictionally connect said parts, and the other end of which clasps the pen, both ends of the spring being disposed at the same side of the pen-bearing section.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

LINA MATTHEWS Witnesses:

T. S. MGNAIR, W. W. GRIDER.