US971190A - Pencil-clip. - Google Patents

Description

W. B. GOODE.

PENCIL CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25,1909.

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WILLIAlVfB. GOODE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PENCIL-CLIP.

Application filed May 25, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLTAM B. Goonn, citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PencilClips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in pencil clips or retainers, and the invention has for its primary object a simple construction of device of this character which may be very cheaply and easily manufactured, and which will be etlicient in operation so that when applied to a pencil, it may securely hold the same in a "est pocket or the like.

lVith these and other objects in view as will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following de scription and accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective 'iew of my improved clip holder, showing the same applied to a pencil; ig. 2 is a similar view of the device detached; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of that form of the device which is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4: is a view illustrating one application of the device to a pocket.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

My improved pencil clip is constructed of a single piece of wire embodying two longitudinal bars 1 and 2 connected at their ends as shown to form two end cross bars 3 and 4, the device also embodying an intermediate cross bar In this form of the invention, the wire is bent to form the different parts as shown, one end of the wire constituting a portion of the longitudinal bar 2 and being looped around the angularly disposed intermediate cross bar as indicated at 6, the said cross bar being transversely curved as shown and looped at its Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 27, 15910.

Serial No. 498,211.

I extremity around the longitudinal bar 1 as indicated at T. In the preferred arrangement of parts in this embodiment of the invention, the end cross bars 3 and 1 are turned back slightly or offset as shown, and in the normal unflexed position of the parts the looped end 6 of the wire is offset from the plane of the other parts so as to yield in a backward direction, the loop (3 sliding on the inner cross bar 5 so as to accommodate the device to pencils of different diameters.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawing, it is believed that the operation of my improved pencil clip or retainer is obvious. in the practical application of the device, the pencil is slipped down ardly' through the offset cross bars 3 and t or back of the intermediate cross bar 5, the device being thereby securely held upon the pencil and the two longitudinal bars 1 and. 2, together with their lower cross bar t constituting a clip member which may extend downwardly along the outside of a vest pocket or the like so as to securely retain the pencil in the users pocket, the outwardly offset lower ends of the bars 1 and 2 facilitating the operation of the attaching of the device to the pocket.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

As a new article of manufacture, the herein described clip consisting of a single piece of wire bent to form longitudinal bars and connecting end bars, one end of the wire being bent transversely intermediate of the ends of the longitudinal bars and looped around one of them, the other extremity of the wire constitutin a portion of the other bar, and looped around the intermediate cross bar, the normal position of the loop of the last named extremity in the unflexed condition of the same being at a point between the ends of the transversely bent intermediate portion of wire, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I itil'lX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VILLIAM B. G-OODE.

Witnesses FRANK H. VhLsoN, EnNns'r J. KUn'rznMAN.

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