Abstract: A handheld spinner includes a housing, a holder, a ball bearing, and a stationery item. The stationery item is disposed on the housing and includes a pencil, a pen, a marker, a highlighter, a crayon, a brush, a stylus, a stamper, an eraser, and/or chalk. The ball bearing is disposed in the holder and the holder is disposed in the housing. In one embodiment, the handheld spinner includes a cap disposed on the holder and the ball bearing. In one embodiment, the handheld spinner includes a holder, a ball bearing, and a stationery item. In one embodiment, the stationery item is a plurality of stationery items spaced apart by discrete angles. A user rotates the handheld spinner about the rotational axis of the ball bearing, which spins the stationery item or items. The handheld spinner is useful as a fidget toy and houses multiple stationery items on a single device.

Abstract: A writing instrument includes a hollow elongated body with a tip disposed proximate a bottom end portion of the body, a removable cartridge for containing elongated writing material, and an advancing mechanism for incrementally advancing the writing material into and outwardly beyond an opening in the tip. The cartridge can be inserted into and removed from an opening in the writing instrument body. The cartridge does not move with respect to the body when the writing material is advanced by the advancing mechanism. The cartridge includes a cartridge body with a writing material outlet hole, and can include a lid with a lid hole and a bumper portion. The lid can be configured to slide between a closed position, covering the outlet hole, and an open position, not covering the outlet hole. In the open position, writing material may exit through the outlet hole and advanced toward the tip by the advancing mechanism.

Abstract: A writing instrument having a retractable ball point pen with a metallic coil or spring barrel which permits the instrument to bend, a cushion or textured grip, inner and upper sleeves to provide a housing for the ends of the ink refill cartridge, a click mechanism to extend and retract the ball point and a clip and method of producing the instrument.

Abstract: A unique writing instrument. The writing instrument comprises a barrel, which has an initial first layer of an adhesive onto which solid beads are adhered, said beads forming a textured grip facilitating a user in holding the article.

Abstract: An ink pen refill consists of a single writing point connected to an elongated barrel in which gel ink is stored in distinctly colored layers. At the proximal end of the barrel, just behind the most proximal color band of ink, a quantity of grease is inserted in the barrel to seal the ink within the barrel. In manufacturing the ink pen refill, after installing the elongated barrel on the proximal end of the writing point, a quantity of gel ink of a first particular color is inserted within the barrel just proximal of the writing point using a filling pipe. When the desired quantity of ink has been so inserted, the elongated barrel with the writing point is placed in a centrifuge and is centrifuged to remove any air bubbles contained within the ink. Next, the next color of gel ink is dispensed into the barrel just proximal of the first layer of ink. The entire refill is again centrifuged to remove any bubbles from the newest layer of ink.

Abstract: An illuminating ball-point pen includes an elongated tubular holder, a hollow protective member fitted on an upper end of the elongated tubular holder, a battery mounting arranged inside the protective seat, batteries fitted inside the battery mounting and electrically connected in series, a seat mounted in a top of the battery mounting, a metal stopper mounted under the battery mounting and having a bottom provided with a flange, a spring enclosing the battery mounting and the metal stopper and having an upper end bearing against the battery mounting and a lower end bearing against the flange of the metal stopper, a light bulb disposed on the seat and having a leg extending downwardly through the seat to contact an electrode of the batteries and another leg extending downwardly between the battery mounting and the spring, a transparent hood engageable with an upper end of the hollow protective member, and a reservoir tube fitted inside the elongated tubular holder and having an upper end bearing against a bo