Abstract: A writing instrument having a sanitary moistener comprises an elongated body having a writing tip at one end and a supply of moistening liquid accessible at a location on the body of the instrument by a finger of an individual using the instrument, in order to moisten the finger to facilitate turning sheets of paper. The moistening liquid is supplied in a reservoir and delivered by a pump, or through a finger-operated valve. Alternatively, the moistening liquid is supplied in a liquid retaining porous medium having a part which can be exposed through an opening in the body of the instrument. In one embodiment, the liquid-retaining medium is accessible at the end of the instrument opposite to the writing tip. In two embodiments, the liquid-retaining moistener has conical passages receiving the ink cartridge and a side projection received in an open-ended slot in one of two parts constituting the body of the instrument.

Abstract: A combination bubble blower pen includes a pen body, an upper barrel connected to a top end of the pen body and holding a solution for producing bubbles, and a bubble-blowing device for insertion into the upper barrel to take the solution for blowing bubbles, the pen body having a penholder, a tapered front socket connected to the bottom end of the penholder, a writing element holder mounted in the penholder and fixedly connected to the front socket, and a writing element inserted into the writing element holder, the upper barrel having a receptacle extended from a bottom extension rod thereof and coupled to the top open head of the writing element holder, and a bellows tube connected between a bottom end of the body thereof and the top end of the penholder for enabling the upper barrel to be moved relative to the penholder to depress the top open end of the writing element holder in propelling the writing element out of the front socket for writing.

Abstract: A method of simultaneously applying two or more different nail polishes to a nail and a nail polish applicator system therefor. The applicator system is a multi-chambered container or bottle having in each chamber a reservoir of a different nail polish. The bottle is covered with a mating cap that has multiple brushes. The number of brushes equals the number of chambers in the container. The nail polish applicator system can be used to make linear or circular striped designs on nails.

Abstract: A marking and/or highlighting and eradicating instrument having a marking and/or highlighting ink dispenser and an ink eradicator dispenser, which are coaxially and opposingly located each to the other and a barrel for manual gripping. Liquid dispensed from the eradicator dispenser removes the marking and/or highlighting previously dispensed upon a permanently printed surface. The marking and/or highlighting dispenser and the eradicator dispenser may each have felt wicks or other applicators for applying the marking and/or highlighting liquid and the eradicating solution.

Abstract: A portable, multigolf cleaner is provided having an enclosure which includes several fluid reservoirs for containing separate cleaning fluids for cleaning different types of golf equipment. The enclosure has three openings through which cleaning utensils are inserted into the cleaning fluids. The cleaning utensils have integral threaded caps for sealing respective ones of the three openings. Two of the cleaning utensils have integral cleaning brushes which are immersed in the cleaning fluids stored in respective ones of the reservoirs. The cleaning brushes have cleaning brush bristles of various stiffness and coarseness, for cleaning the different types of golf equipment. A third cleaning utensil is a ball washing fixture which is used for retaining a ball for reciprocation within a third one of the fluid reservoirs.

Abstract: A writing instrument having a sanitary moistener comprises an elongated body having a writing tip at one end and a supply of moistening liquid accessible at a location on the body of the instrument by a finger of an individual using the instrument, in order to moisten the finger to facilitate turning sheets of paper. The moistening liquid is supplied in a reservoir and delivered by a pump, or through a finger-operated valve. Alternatively, the moistening liquid is supplied in a liquid retaining porous medium having a part which can be exposed through an opening in the body of the instrument. In one embodiment, the liquid-retaining medium is accessible at the end of the instrument opposite to the writing tip. In two embodiments, the liquid-retaining moistener has conical passages receiving the ink cartridge and a side projection received in an open-ended slot in one of two parts constituting the body of the instrument.

Abstract: A combined marker and glue stick device allows a bingo player to dab or mark a called number using one end of the device and to use the other end of the device to glue the bingo number card to a playing surface. This device facilitates greater speed in card setup and play, and correspondingly increases the chances of winning. The combination marker and glue stick which includes: a tubular body defining an ink compartment within a first end portion and a glue compartment within a second end portion; an ink blotter covering an opening defined in the ink compartment; a glue blotter covering an opening defined in the glue compartment; a removable cap covering the ink blotter; and a removable bottom cap covering the glue blotter.

Abstract: An ink eraser including an eraser housing defining a housing chamber and a nib opening; a first fibrous wick container positioned within the housing chamber; a first section of fibrous wicking material positioned within the fibrous wick container; a supply of erasing agent within the fibrous wick container, the erasing agent including a mixture of vinegar and an organic bleach; and a delivery nib having a wick contacting portion, a central portion and a delivery portion, the wick contacting portion being positioned within the fibrous wick container in contact with the first section of fibrous wicking, the central portion being disposed through the nib opening, the delivery portion extending exteriorly of the eraser housing. In a preferred embodiment the eraser housing further defines a fill opening and the ink eraser further includes a sealing cap. The sealing cap preferably defines a recharging port that is sealable by a reusable sealing device such as a screw in cap.

Abstract: An apparatus for facilitating the manufacture of various different configurations of marking instruments which utilizes a uniquely configured nib holder which includes a media transfer channel therethrough along with a nib mounting ring and securement prong or finger apparatus for facilitating the mounting and retaining of a marking nib therewithin. A conventional marker barrel being generally tubular with end openings is included which can be used for forming either single or double ended marking pens which share a common marking media reservoir or have different media used therewith. The nib mounting ring of the nib holder is designed to orient the nib centrally within the media transfer channel at the nib holder and the securement prongs are adapted to abut and grip the nib holder for retaining in position therethrough and preferably in abutment with respect to a conventional generally fibrous marking media reservoir.

Abstract: A wiper blade conditioning system including a hand-held member comprised of an exterior portion and a cylindrical shaped interior portion. The interior portion has a hollow interior adapted to hold cleaning fluid therein. The interior portion is adapted for spraying the cleaning fluid. A plurality of cleaning elements are disposed within the exterior portion of the handheld member. The cleaning elements are adapted for cleaning windshields and conditioning wiper blades.

Abstract: A self-contained toothbrush construction 10 including a handle unit 11, a brush unit 12, and a cap unit 13. The handle unit 11 comprises a hollow housing member 20 including concentric chambers 21, 22. The inner chamber 21 is dimensioned to receive a toothpaste cartridge 50 and the outer chamber 22 forms a reservoir for liquid such as water or mouthwash.

Abstract: A side knock type mechanical pencil including a cylindrical shell having a ferrule; a slide member disposed axially movably within the cylindrical shell; a chuck disposed in front of the slide member, with a chuck ring being loosely fitted on the chuck; a chuck spring for urging the chuck backward; and a side knock mechanism provided in the cylindrical shell, the said side knock mechanism comprising a side knock member provided in the cylindrical shell and the slide member, the slide member being movable axially against the backward bias of the chuck spring and having a slant portion for abutment with the side knock member when the side knock member is depressed radially.

Abstract: A selectively detachable combination cosmetic applicator device is provided. The cosmetic applicator device includes a nail polish applicator container that is releasably attached to a nail polish remover container. The device also incorporates an on-board chamber for storing absorbent materials or the like. The chamber is prohibited from contact with either the nail polish or the nail polish remover. The containers of the device can readily be refilled and can be used at the same time when they are detached.

Abstract: A device for storage and application of a makeup product includes a container and two applicators each including a rod provided at one end with an application element for the makeup product and attached at its other end to a gripping element in the form of a cap. The rod of a first applicator is hollow over at least a portion of its length and defines an axial hollow in which the application element and the rod of second applicator are accommodated. The wall of the rod of the first applicator comprises at least one slot permitting communication between its axial hollow and the internal volume of the container. The gripping element, in the form of a cap, of the second applicator is connected in a removable fashion with the gripping element, in the form of a cap, of the first applicator.

Abstract: A cosmetic device for both application and removal of mascara. The mascara applicator includes a centrally positioned elongated main body from one end of which a mascara brush dependently extends and a mascara reservoir releasibly securable to this same end of the main body to both protectively encase the brush and to carry a supply of mascara therewithin. A mascara remover as a removable and separately useable subassembly includes a mascara remover reservoir for holding a quantity of liquid mascara remover and an absorbent tip dependently extending from one end of the reservoir. That same reservoir end is releasibly securable to the other end of the main body.

Abstract: A writing implement with correction function including: a barrel; an adjusting member threadedly engaged with an upper end of the barrel; a head member snug-fitted with a lower end of the barrel; a plug snug-fitted with a lower end of the head member; a reservoir tube inserted into the barrel, having an upper end fixedly connected with the adjusting member, and kept in place between the adjusting member and the plug; and correction fluid filled into the barrel, whereby the implement can be used for writing as well as correcting what is wrong.

Abstract: A non-mingling multicoloring pen comprising a barrel, ink reserooirs, a combined tip comprising a nib guard tube, two or more elastic nibs with ink tight surfaces fixed separatedly from each other in the nib guard tube by means of a nib position fixing means with the front ends of all nibs sticking out of the front end of the said nib guard tube, and the rear ends of the nibs being inserted into the front ends of the said ink reservoirs, a movable nib holder with a conical bore being mounted axially movably on the front end of the nib guard tube, and sheathing the front ends of the nibs. When the ink pen is in use, the nib holder forces the nibs to close up with each other to give various single color or mixed color lines, when the ink pen is not in use, the nibs of the ink pen can be released loose to restore its original separated state, thereby the color mingling is prevented.

Abstract: A double-ended pen has a pair of elongated liquid-holding reservoirs each having a rear end, a front end having a liquid-applying tip, an intermediate portion between the ends and having at the rear end a predetermined relatively small outside diameter, and a snap-type retaining formation. An intermediate coupling sleeve has a pair of oppositely open seats each receiving a respective one of the rear ends and provided with formations for retaining the respective rear ends securely against axial displacement. The sleeve also has a pair of axially opposite ends having axially oppositely directed end surfaces each having a portion extending at an acute angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis. The sleeve ends are of a diameter greater than the outside diameter of the intermediate portions and projecting radially therepast when the respective rear ends are fitted in the seats.

Abstract: A marking pen is fabricated so that a twin-inserted head is inserted separately into different colored ink tubes, when the ink flows from the ink tubes to the head of the pen, the colors will mix naturally in the area adjacent to the middle of the bottom end on the head of the pen, so as to produce a gradually-layered color effect and create multi-color changes to the work produced without going through a color spray finishing process.

Abstract: A writing instrument comprises nonretractable nib 14 made of porous material and being in fluid communication with an ink reservoir of fluorescent transparent ink, the nib colloquially known as a "highlighter". A second nib 16 is retractable and is substantially rigid and is in fluid communication with a second ink reservoir of nontransparent ink, the second nib colloquially known as a "ball point pen". The retractable and nonretractable nibs extend from an angular face of an elongated body in which they are contained. The angular face permits the nonretractable and retractable nibs, which are in parallel relation, to extend in spaced relations so that the retractable nibs extends beyond the nonretractable nib whereby the nonretractable nib does not contact the writing surface when the retractable nib is used as writing instrument.

Abstract: A writing instrument comprises a combined marking pen and a fine line pen, especially useful for providing a highlighter and an underliner or a note writer. It comprises a single elongated body (23) with a felt marking pen tip (25A) and a ballpoint pen tip (27A), both projecting from the bottom end of the body. The ends of the tips are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the body and in a second direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. This enables a user to write with either tip by holding the pen at either of two angles to the vertical. The spacing in the second direction can be effected, even if the felt body and the ballpoint cartridge are adjoining, by providing a cutout (24) in the felt tip adjacent the ball point tip. The pen can include two ballpoint tips (57A, 57B), spaced from the marker's tip in the second direction, but aligned in the longitudinal direction. The body can include a dividing partition (64) to separate the ballpoint cartridge from the felt pen's reservoir.

Abstract: A cartridge-type fountain pen is formed at its rear end with a reserve compartment for receiving a reserve ink cartridge or a liquid applicator reservoir whose applicator is designed to project through an opening end of the rear end of the barrel. A second cap can be pressed on this rear end and has a rear cap member spring biased into engagement with the reservoir and whose position is visible through a window in an outer cap member of this second cap so that the user can ascertain whether or not the liquid applicator is in place within the reserve compartment.

Abstract: An improved nail polish bottle cover having a nail polish remover dispenser incorporated therein is provided and consists of a body member having an elongated neck with a chamber within for holding nail polish remover. A nail polish applicator is affixed to and extends away from center of the internally threaded base of the body member so that when it is threaded onto a threaded neck of a standard nail polish bottle the nail polish applicator will extend into the nail polish. A nail polish remover applicator extends from the nail polish remover and through the neck of the body member to be applied to finger nails for removing nail polish. A cap is hinged to top of the body member neck to protect and seal top of the nail polish remover applicator when the cap is closed.

Abstract: A writing utensil such as a fountain pen is provided with an erasing assembly having a sealing cap which closely covers the wick and is fitted onto the erasing tip in a form molding and friction holding manner; the open end of the cap is provided with an external thread, a similar external thread is formed at the erasing cartridge end of the erasing tip, the pen barrel and the end cap have corresponding internal threads and are threaded onto either the sealing cap or erasing cartridge.

Abstract: A hand-held cleaning implement. An ergonomically shaped, hand-held body allows attachment of a brush and sponge. The body is provided with a first and a second digitally operated valve button that allows water, provided by an external source, to flow through the brush or the sponge, at the user's option.

Abstract: A dishwashing apparatus has a grip with a water supply receptacle and a liquid detergent receptacle, and a working head with a plurality of portions circumferentially arranged about its axis and with a water outlet formed in one portion and a liquid detergent outlet formed in another portion.

Abstract: A writing instrument has an ink applicator at one end and a hollow cylindrical reservoir at the opposed end containing a correction fluid. A first cap member is removably received on the instrument to cover the ink applicator when not in use and a second cap member is removably received on the opposed end of the instrument to enclose the reservoir. A fluid applicator brush is secured in the second cap and has a depending portion which is removably received within the reservoir in a stored position when the second cap is in place.

Abstract: A mascara applicator has a container formed with two cells and two brushes that have bristles configured as oppositely oriented cones.

Abstract: A modular writing instrument cap system is disclosed, in which each individual cap comprises an elongated tubular portion having an open end and a closed end. Near the closed end the cap is internally provided with a seal member adapted to seal with a writing instrument holding quick-drying ink. Near the open end, the tubular portion is internally provided with a catch for removably securing the cap on a writing instrument. Externally on the closed end, the cap is provided with a transversely-oriented open ended tubular barrel. The barrel is configured to receive an internally threaded sleeve, terminator rings and screws which thread towards one another through the rings into the opposite ends of the sleeve in order to hold the assembly together and secure a bail to it. The ends of the barrel and corresponding ends of the terminator rings are cooperatively notched to accommodate the legs of the bail.

Abstract: Colored ink comprising a developer having a phenolic hydroxyl group, an electron-donating colorless dye which develops a color by the action of the developer, and a solvent which does not inhibit a color developing reaction. Handwriting written in this colored ink can be erased by using an eraser comprising a desensitizing compound which makes the colored electron-donating dye colorless.

Abstract: A prepackaged dispensing system for a two part permanent adhesive including an adhesive portion and an activator portion. The adhesive portion is housed in the main hollow body of a syringe-like member between an initially closed discharge means end and a sealing piston initially spaced axially form said discharge means end. A removably capped elongated dispensing container, adapted to contain and dispense the activator portion, is telescopically positioned within the hollow body and engages the piston. The combined total axial length of the piston and dispensing container when aligned exceeds the internal length of the hollow main body whereby axial pressure on said container will move said piston and insures substantially total discharge of said adhesive by movement of said piston to the discharge end of said hollow body.

Abstract: A felt pen comprises a bar shaped main body defined with linear line and taper line, and transparent caps for writing tips at the both ends of the main body. Each of the caps stands with the main body thereon and may be mounted on the other cap.

Abstract: A writing instrument with a nib that is easily removed and replaced with a spare unit stored inside the pen holder. A capillary and ink core guide is provided to supply ink from storage to a ball or other writing means.

Abstract: A multi-element writing instrument is disclosed wherein the rotation of a selection portion located at one end of the instrument successively selects, advances and retracts individual writing elements. The writing point of each selected writing element is axially advanced through the exit opening without contact with the interior of the body of the instrument. In the writing position the axis of the selected element is aligned with the axis of the instrument. The novel construction permits the use of elements that employ different types of nibs, for example porous writing points, either alone or in combination with ball point-tipped elements.

Abstract: A method for making and the composition for an initially erasable ink for a ball point writing instrument which ink is characterized by its initial erasability by ordinary pencil erasers when applied by a ball point writing instrument to an absorbent paper-like writing surface and which thereafter develops permanence.

Abstract: A ballpoint writing instrument containing a supply of ink capable of producing an intense colored line when deposited on a writing paper surface that is capable of erasure within several hours after deposit by the use of a conventional pencil eraser without causing damage to the writing paper surface but which thereafter sets up to produce a permanent non-erasable line. The ink includes an elastomeric polymer such as Cis-1.4 Polyisoprene dissolved in an essentially non-volatile hydrocarbon solvent or plasticizer such as a light mineral oil and a colorant such as pigment particles evenly dispersed in the plasticized elastomeric polymer solution. The elastomeric polymer prevents the pigment colorant from penetrating into the writing paper surface. The preferred ink formulations also avoid or limit the use of volatile solvents which are detrimental to smooth writing characteristics for a ballpoint pen.

Abstract: An improved writing instrument having multiple writing elements, i.e., a mechanical lead pencil element and at least one other writing element, which are selectively movable into operating position by rotation of a cam and wherein lead can be moved from the pencil element by axial movement of the housing element. The instrument comprises a sleeve-type cam having a transformed end face cam surface, the contour of which preferably comprises downwardly sloping edges having a generally elliptical shape which guide a pair of cam followers respectively associated with the writing elements. According to the invention, the cam has an upper, substantially vertical portion which allows the lead of the mechanical pencil to be pushed out from the supporting element by urging the cam axially downwardly whereby the cam follower associated with the other writing element can slide adjacent to the vertically extended cam portion, the cam being fixed to a housing element which can rotate and axially move with the cam element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ball point ink pen, its ink and its eradicator. The ink is carried at one end of the pen and the eradicator portion is carried at the other. If an error is made, the pen can be reversed and the eradicator used to neutralize the ink. The ink also neutralizes the eradicator so that when one rewrites with the same ink, any remaining eradicator on the paper is neutralized and the original ink acts as fresh ink.

Abstract: A composite writing instrument, in which a mechanical pencil unit of the type from which lead is ejected and a ball point pen unit are mutually diametrically opposed and held together within a lower tubular casing. A cap is provided accommodating a mechanism for engaging these units to shift them alternately in the axial direction when the cap is rotated around the axis, whereby the units are alternately advanced through a mouth of the writing tip of the lower tubular casing to a writing position or retracted therethrough to a storage position within said lower tubular casing. The mechanical pencil unit is so constructed that the cap is shiftable within certain limits in the axial direction relative to the lower tubular casing when the mechanical pencil unit is in the writing position, whereby the lead of the pencil unit is fed, whereas the cap is nonshiftably locked relative to the lower tubular casing when the ball point pen unit is in the writing position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ball point ink pen, its ink and its eradicator. The ink is carried at one end of the pen and the eradicator portion is carried at the other. If an error is made, the pen can be reversed and the eradicator used to neutralize the ink. The ink also neutralizes the eradicator so that when one rewrites with the same ink, any remaining eradicator on the paper is neutralized and the original ink acts as fresh ink.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ball point ink pen, its ink and its eradicator. The ink is carried at one end of the pen and the eradicator portion is carried at the other. If an error is made, the pen can be reversed and the eradicator used to neutralize the ink. The ink also neutralizes the eradicator so that when one rewrites with the same ink, any remaining eradicator on the paper is neutralized and the original ink acts as fresh ink.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ball point ink pen, its ink and its eradicator. The ink is carried at one end of the pen and the eradicator portion is carried at the other. If an error is made, the pen can be reversed and the eradicator used to neutralize the ink. The ink also neutralizes the eradicator so that when one rewrites with the same ink, any remaining eradicator on the paper is neutralized and the original ink acts as fresh ink.

Abstract: A writing unit locking mechanism in a writing implement having a mechanical pencil unit and a ball point pen unit both housed in a single holder cylinder. The locking mechanism has a writing unit selection member having a shift member shiftable under gravitational force to select one or the other writing unit and operated manually to actuate a chuck in the pencil unit and a catch shoulder provided on a unit cylinder of the pencil unit and adapted to engage directly with the holder cylinder or with an engagement member resiliently supported on the holder cylinder thereby to lock the pencil unit in its writing position. The pencil unit is released from its locked state simultaneously with the release of the selection member.

Abstract: A shoe polish applicator having a reusable handle-equipped body and a single-use polish-impregnated applicator pad. The pad is normally sealed in a protective wrapper which may be opened to expose the porous surface of the impregnated pad after that pad has been attached to a supporting head portion of the applicator body. Following use of the device, the pad may be ejected from the head portion into any suitable waste receptacle. The steps of attaching the pad to the head portion of the applicator body, the opening of the wrapper, the applying of polish, and the ejecting of the used pad from the applicator body may all be accomplished without touching the polish-releasing surface of the pad with the hands and without applying polish to any surfaces not intended to be so treated. The applicator as disclosed also includes, as part of the handle portion thereof, a hollow cartridge equipped with an applicator tip and containing a suitable liquid for dressing the edges of the soles and heels of shoes.

Abstract: A marker system that employs an erasing unit that can couple and uncouple readily from its marker to facilitate the use of specific chemical reagents to "erase" their associated indicator dye inks without the use of non-discriminating bleaches. This erasing unit or anti-marker marker can be mounted in the marker cap, alternately in the marker barrel or used as a separate erasing unit.