Abstract: A retractable ballpoint pen has a body and a point secured to a flexible tubular ink reservoir. The ink reservoir is secured to a rotatable element within the body, movement of which element causes the pen to be retracted and projected and during that movement the reservoir follows a generally circular path.
Abstract: A writing element is detachably, or non-detachably, connected to an elongate holder which can be bent by hand into any desired shape to remain in that shape. The holder consists of a core made of a flexible metal such as lead and is covered with a flexible covering such as a covering of a plastics material.