US1150068A - Writing instrument. - Google Patents

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H. G. SCHROEDER. WRITING INSTRUMENT. APPLICATION FILED AUG.I5. 191a.

Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

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To'all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN G. Sermon- DER, a citizen of the United States, resid- Specification of Letters .Patent.

Pategited Aug. 17, 1915,

Application filed August 15, 1913. Serial No. 784,938.

threaded engagement with the interior of the member 12, the other end of the pen carrying rod 14 having a suitable nib 17 of and which includes a screw thread 16ina part thereof and arranged to slide within ing in Lincoln, in the county ofLancaster the type usually employed in connection 60 and State of Nebraska, have invented new with fountain pens, suitably attached thereand useful Improvements in Writing Inon. Now it will be apparent that by rostruments, of which the following is a specitating the pencil member 15, the same will fication. a a be advanced or retreated relatively'to the i The invention relates to stationery, and member 12 and thus the rod 1 1 and nib 17 5 10 more particularly to writing instruments of will be advanced or retreated in the reserthe fountain pen type, and has for an object voir 11 formedby the casing 10. to provide a Writing instrument for use in A, tubular actuating member 18 has one the manner of a lead pencil or a fountain end thereof constituting an interior seat 19 pen. adapted to be engaged by a perforated 7o 5 The invention embodies, among other feahexagonal head formed on the pencil tures, the provision of a unitary member member 15 and whereby the pencil member including a fountain pen and a pencil memwill be locked relatively to the actuating ber, the pencil member being normally armember 18 when the same is rotated, one ranged within the pen casing or memberso end of the said actuating member vbeing 20 that the device can be used as a pencil or adapted to encircle the projecting collar 13 fountain pen. of the sleeve-like member 12, and the said In the further disclosure of the invention actuating member 18 furthermore being reference is to be had to the accompanying preferably made of the same material as the drawings, constituting a part of this specicasing 10 so as to present a neat and effective so 5 fication, in which similar characters of refappearance. Now when the actuating memerence denote corresponding parts in all the ber is rotated upon the casing 10 it will imviews, and in which; part rotation to the pencil member 15, thus Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal secthrough the medium of the screw thread16 tional view of my device, showing thepen within the member 12 advancing or retreat- 30 in position for writing; Fig. 2 is a similar ing the nib 17 relatively to the reservoir 11 view showing the pencil in position for writ so that the nib can be moved into or out of ing; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary enlarged vertiwriting position as will be readily undercal longitudinal'sectional view of the pencil stbod by referring to the views, it being member, showing the-manner of advancing further apparent that when the nib is in 35 or retreating the lead; Fig. 4 is a vertical' writingposition and is moved out of writtransverse sectional view taken on the line ing position the pencil member 15 will be 41in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is aperspective view of advanced relatively to the casing 10 in order the lead actuating member; Fig. 6 is a fragthat the nib 17 can be moved entirely within.- mentary vertical transvers e sectional view the reservoir 11 formed by the casing 10. 4o taken on the line 6-6 in 11 g; 1. A cap 21 is adapted for threaded engage- Referring more particularly to the views, ment with an end of the casing 10 in order I provide a casing 10 constituting a re'serto close the reservoir 11 when the nib 17 lies voir 11 adapted to hold ink or some other therein and the actuating member 18 insimilar writing fluid and having a sleevecludes a reduced neck 22 also adapted to re 45 like member 12 threaded on one end thereof, ceive and support the cap 21 when it is dewith the tubular portion ofthe member 12 exsiredto use the nib 17. It will thus be seen; tending within the casing 10, a suitable col= that the cap 21 performs two" functions in lar 13 being arrangedon the member 12 and that when'it encircles one end of the casing v adapted to b t i t one d. f the a '10 it closes the reservoir 11, whereas when 50 ing 10 to limit the screwing up action of the cap ismounted on the neck 22 it incloses the member relatively the'casing and also the pencil member 15 and" permits of ad-fprovided for a purpose at will be hereinvancing the nib 17 from within the reservoir" after more fully disclosed. 11 to writing position. i i p A pen carrying rod 14 has threaded con- An interiorly threaded collar 23 is secured 55 nection with one, end of a pencil member '15 within the pencil member 15 and constitutes the collar is a longitudinally slotted memclamping band 29, is rotated upon the actuating member 18 the'lead will be advanced or retreated relatively to the collar '23 secured in the pencil member 15 and forming a part thereof.

From the foregoing description it w1l1 be .ap arent that the sleeve-like member '12 not on y forms a closure for one end of the reservoir ll but acts as a medium for insuring the proper operation-of the pen carrying rod 14:or the encil member 15 so that the de- "vice 'descri ed can beused either as a founmin pen or pencil, the operatlon of the penfcil or fountain pen portions of the device "being accomplished through the medium of the pencilmember and which connects the 7 two portions, as-mentioned heretofore, the

- of the pencarrying rod 14, a plurality of j-diametncal pins '30 project from the rod and "-Eareada ted to -abut against one end of the "sleeve h e member 12, the movement of the said pencil, member being: actuated by the actuating member, 18 swiveled on the casing 10.

In order to limit the retreating movement pen carrying rod inthe oppositedirection being limited by an end of the pencil member 15 abutting against an enlarged portion of the sleeve-like member 12.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim In a writing instrument, a casing, a member threaded in one end of the casing, a pencil member movably threaded in the first mentioned member, a tubular actuatingmember encircling the casing and engaging the pencil member to turn the same when the actuating member-is rotated on .the casing, a collar on the first mentionedg iil'ember and adapted to abut against the casing to hold said collar being encircled by said actuating member, a tip swiveled on one end of'the actuating member, and a lead carrying-.- member slidable in the pencil member and-- the first mentioned member in said casing,

extendingthrough and associated with-said'ilrotated in one direction, said pencil member tip whereby, when said actuating,memberii.

will be advanced in said first mentioned member and when said actuatingm'ember is rotated -in the other direction. said pencil? member will be retreatedin said first mentioned member.

Intestim on ,Whereof I afiix my'signature I in presence 0 two witnesses.

HERMAN e. SCHROEDER.

Witnesses: I

WILLIAM Bon'rronnn,

HARRY WARTON.

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