Abstract: A new Candle Sharpening System for shaping a new or a used candle into various selective shapes thereby extending the useful and aesthetically pleasing life of the candle. The inventive device includes a base having a passage, a conical member secured to the base and surrounding the passage at one end, a slot along the edge of the conical member, and an interchangeable blade of a selected shape secured to the conical member within the slot projecting into the interior portion of the conical member to engage the candle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cap sharpener for clutch-type pencil, in which a blind end divides a cylinder from the cap, and the blind end has a through-hole at the center portion interconnecting the cylinder. The cylinder has a blade mounted on the top inner portion slantly and engaging with a lead which extends through the through-hole of the blind end. Two opposite resilient trips are formed in the inner wall of the cap with two granular projections extending inwardly from the trips, respectively. When turning the cap and a pencil being capped with the cap in an opposite directions, the cap will hold the pencil shaft still for the blade in the cylinder to cut the lead accurately. Additionally, the cylinder can be separated from the cap, and holding the blade in a slanting angle in a hollow body, and connected to the blind end of the cap by means of female and male joining faces. The hollow space of the cylinder, furthermore, can be used for collecting the lead chip powder.

Abstract: A sharpener for a soft element pencil has a housing with a pencil hole. A rotor rotatably mounted in the housing has: (a) a base portion, (b) an annular portion spaced from said base portion, and (c) a blade supported at but not between the base and the annular portion. The sharpener has a motor mounted in the housing for revolving the rotor. The blade has a skewed cutting edge that revolves around a conical axis to follow and cut a conical surface. In use, a cosmetic pencil or artist's pencil can be inserted against the blade when the blade is revolved by the motor. The pencil can then be removed and applied facially. The cosmetic pencil can then be reinserted against the blade when the cosmetic pencil is dull. Thereafter the cosmetic pencil is reapplied facially.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lead-auto-sharpened propelling pencil and a process of making it. The propelling pencil comprises a pencil body and a pencil cap. The pencil cap consists of a sharpener, a screwing insert and a powder remover. The process of sharpening the lead is automatically provided while the pencil cap is twisted onto the pencil body. The lead powder from sharpening is gathered in the powder remover so that the environment can be protected. The manufacturing process of the invention is that the cap case is moulded by the means of a cap case jig with the screwing insert and the sharpener installed by the means of a tapered jig. The manufacturing process according to the invention has broad application and is very practical.

Abstract: A sharpener for lead pencils, colored pencils, cosmetic pencils and the like with an essentially cuboid shaped sharpener housing, in which the longitudinal lateral sides of the sharpener housing are provided with complementary protrusions or recesses that allow fitting together of two sharpeners.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pencil sharpener that incorporates a conductive sharpening blade element for sharpening the pencil wherein the blade element is positioned along an inner wall surface of a bore hole so as to contact an outer surface of the pencil. A conductive leaf spring opposingly positioned with the blade element contacts a nib of a pencil when the pencil is sharpened by the blade element, whereby the leaf spring forms an electrical contact with the blade element through the nib of the pencil. An integrated circuit sound device for producing an audible signal is operatively connected with the blade element and leaf spring so as to generate warning signals through an indicating lamp and a buzzer.

Abstract: A pencil and a shrapener for forming the pencil with a safety tip comprising a curved, circular surface. In cross-section, the curved surface appears as two intersecting circles. The tip is thus a curved, circular surface of revolution with a sufficient radius to the surface of revolution such that the pencil has a relatively blunt writing tip.

Abstract: A sharpener, specially for the pencils, is made of a shell and a metal blade. At the upper end of the shell there is a funnel or alternatively two funnels placed side by side. The metal blade is V-notched or U-notched with the opening upward and is placed in the middle of the single funnel or in-between of the two funnels alternatively. The pencil core can be sharpened on the edge (sharped or right-angled) of the notch.

Abstract: A conventional means for sharpening leads consists of a flat stick covered with abrasive paper strips that do not prevent lead residue from falling out onto desks, equipment, hands and drawings. Cone shaped lead sharpeners are known but when used for compass leads, they are most easily used if held substantially horizontally and of which circumstances the residue of the pencil lead dust and the like still spills out. The present device includes a fixed, inverted truncated sharpening cone held in a container by means of a retainer ring having a residue trapping collar formed under the ring and adjacent the upper end of the sharpening cone. This residue then falls downwardly into the open based cone into the base of the container when placed in the upright storage position.

Abstract: Sharpener press-button is disclosed comprising a tubular body having one open end and another end closed by a transverse wall. The transverse wall is formed on its outer surface with an extension cooperative with a propelling pencil for fixing thereto a button. The button has a blade element including a central portion provided with an opening, two lateral converging flanks extending from the central portion and the two ends of the flanks remote from the central portion extending parallel and together in the direction away from the central portion. The blade element is housed within the tubular body, with the ends inserted into a recess in the inner face of the transverse wall and the central portion adjacent the open end of the body, the lateral flanks being formed with cutouts extending in the axial direction of the button and tapered in the direction away from the central portion of the blade element, the button having at least one radial penetrating aperture.