US1053663A - Pen or pencil holder. - Google Patents

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A. T. SNELL.

PEN 0R PENCIL HOLDER. APPLIOATION FILED D110. 11, 1911.

1,053,663. Patented Feb. 18, 1 913.

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and arrangement of parts which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

a rear elevation of the holder or clasp showa modified form of the device adapted for ARTHUR T. SNELL, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

PEN OR PENCIL HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 11, 1911, Serial No. 665,166.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ann-inn T. SNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pasadena, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen or Pencil Holders, of which the following is a This invention relates to a holder or clasp specially devised for removable application to clothing and particularly to pockets for retaining. pencils, fountain-pens and the like in fixed position, and in modified form ada ted also to support a-candle.

T lie primary object of the invention is to provide a holder or clasp formed of resilient wire having essentially an expanding frame with a double spring action to positively grip and hold lead pencils and fountain-pens of various sizes, either small or large in diameter, as well as other devices, and further to firmly rip the entire portion of apoeket. engaged thereby that may vary in thickness in part, without interfering with or modifying its gripping action on a pencilor pen disposed therein, especially when inserting a pencil or pen thereinto or withdrawing the latter therefrom.

The invention consists in the construction In said drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a vest showing the improved holder or clasp for pencils and fountain-pens applied to the pocket thereof. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective viewof the holder or clasp shown by Fig. 1. Fig. 3 1s a transverse section through the pocket shown by Fig. 1 illustrating the holder or clasp applied thereto. Fig. 4 is a slde ele vation of the holder or clasp showing a position of a fountain-pen therein. Fig. 5 is ing a portion. of a pencil or pen therein in dotted lines. Fig. 6 1s a perspective view of other uses.

The improved holder or clasp in all its forms is constructed from a single piece of resilient wire stock of suitable gage by bending t-hesame by any suitable means into the forms which will be presently explained.

In the form of holder or clasp shown by stituting a clam Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the free extremities 5 are drawn together and secured in parallel relation and formed with upper laterally expanded and inwardly directed bends 6; these bends, as seen best in Fig. 3, are backward or inward toward the legs 8 soon to be described. From these bends the wire members continue and are formed with rearwardly and outwardly disposed bends 7 from which legs 8 convergingly descend to a point adjacent the lower terminals of the extremities 5, the latter and said legs confor engagement with a portion of a pee tet or any other garment edge. The extremities 5 and legs 8 are so disposed that one of said legs 8 and one of the extremities 5 are in :a plane divergent from the plane in which the other members 5 and 8 are disposed, as seen best in Fig. 2, and over the extremities 5, any form of badge, emblem, ornament or advertising-device 9 may be attached. From the lower terminals of the legs 8 the wire members are bent outwardly in the form of reverse arcuate connecting bends 10 which are arranged in the same plane and extended rearwardly to the lower converged terminals of the upwardly projecting arms '11 continuous with each other at their upper terminals through themedium of a rearwarclly bent loop 12 which stands above the plane of the bends 7. The arms 11 are uniformly inclined forwardly and individually diverged toward the loop 12 to form wit the legs 8 a pencil or pen-holder clasp havceive and effectively hold or tightly clasp pencils, fountain-pens or other analogous devices of varying diameters. By the formation just explained the pencil or pen clasping portion of the device is converged at its upper open or mouth extremity, and the said extremity is located above and directly over the lower yielding passage 13 formed by and between the bends 10. A front or pocket clamp is formed between the extremities 5 and thele s 8, and the rear or pencil or pen clamp is fin-med by the legs 8, arms 11 and loops 10 and 12.

The legs 8 and arms 11 and their connecting loops 10 and 12 are disposed inside the pocket when the device is applied. and the said legs 8 being connected'solely totheupper terminals of the extremities 5 by the bends 7 and 6, and to the lower terminals of the Patented Feb. 18,1913.

ing such dimensions as to be adapted to reint where the material is usually thicker. By

inclining the legs 8 and arms 11 as shown 15 and disposing the loop 12 above the plane 'of the bends 7 and correspondingly projecting'said arms 11 upwardly, a pen or pencil may be inserted in the device while held vertically and while pressing the. lower end an of the pencil or pen bz-ickwardly against the loop '12, and by this operation the arms 11 are caused to open backwardly away from the legs 8 at the topof the device and as the pencil or pen is pushed downwardly the loops 10 are forced outwardly in opposite lateral directions and-this movementis im parted to the lowerextremities of the said legs and arms witha. double expanding easy spring action which results in a positive retention or clamping action relatively to the pencil or pen. The. pencil or pen may however be readily withdrawn from the device. when-desired, and during such withdrawing operation the pocket clamp comprising the extremities 5 and legs ti is not modified in its applied relation to the pocket. v Fig. 6 'shows'the device arranged to serve as a holder for tree ornament or as a candle holder, for. which latter use one of the wire 40 extremities is continued upwardly and laterally bent, as at- 23, and then merges into spring coil bends 24- at the upper tcriniinils of legs 25, which downwardly incline toward the extremities 20 and spike 21 and have lower laterally deflected loops 2 at angles thereto. From the loops 26 arms 27 extend upwardly and are COIUIQIJlGfl by an outwardly deflected loop to present a clamping hanger for the reception of different ornamental devices. or for other purposes.

The device simple in its structure and advantageously serviceable in performing its several functions.

menses lVhat is claimed is 2- 1. A clamp composed of a single piece of 5: resilient wire comprising extremities secured together at their ends, legs continuing from said extremities in converging relation to each other, and arms hating loops in a horizontal plane connected to the legs and inclining in an. upward direction toward the legs and connected at their upper extremi ties by an angularly deflected cross loop, said extremities forming with said legs a front clamp, said extremities being provided be. yond their point of connection with the legs with inwardly deflected bends.

2. A clasp formed of a single piece of resilient wire comprising a front clamp and a rear clamp the rea clamp having its rear members inclining in an upward direction toward said front clamp said mei'nbers being laterally converged toward and connected to the lower portion of the front clamp by horizontal loops. g

3. A clasp formed of a single piece of resilient wire comprising a front clamp with a bottom inlet and connarising outer and inner members and a rear clamp including rear members extending above the front clamp and terminating in a rearwardly deflected loop joining the rear members of said rear clamp, said rear clamp having a top inlet and a lower eXp-ansiblc opening, the front clamp having its outer members provided with bends directed toward its inner memhers.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a clasp formedof a single, piece of resilient wire comprising a front clamp the front and 99, rear mei'ubers of each. side of which are in a plane divergent fron'i the plane of the members of the ether side. and arms joined to the lower ends of the inner members of the front clamp by horizontal loops, and a rearwardly deleetcd loop oining the upper ends of said arms, said arms with the rear members ofthe front clamp forming a rear clamp.

ln tcstinionv whereof l. hereunto atlix my 10( signature in presence of two witnesses.

. ARTHUR T. SNELL.

Witnesses N. CURTIS LAa-raioxn, A. .G. Pon'rs.

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