Abstract: A propelling or automatic writing implement having a lead which can be projected from the implement without pushing. An inner frame having a chuck assembly for permitting advance of the lead but preventing retraction of the lead and a lead protecting tube having a holder for holding the lead with a suitable frictional force are housed in a main body and slidable axially thereof. A mechanism is provided for retracting the frame and the tube by a reaction to which the lead is subjected when pressed against the writing surface with a force of considerable magnitude and for returning them when the lead is released from the force, while permitting the tube to move backward and forward relative to the frame in the course of the reciprocating movement. The lead can be projected by the relative movement of the tube and the frame.

Abstract: A mechanical pencil with automatic lead feed has a clamping mechanism for clamping a lead in such a manner that it holds the lead steadily against rearward movement but easily permits the lead to move forwardly. A lead tube is fixed at its rear end to the front end of a housing to guide and protect the lead. A sensor is slidably held in the front end of the housing and extends along the lead tube to sense the wear of the lead during writing. A lead advancing mechanism is actuated by the sensor and has a holder for frictionally holding the lead and an elastic member for urging the holder forwardly.

Abstract: A ball-point pen, which is retractable to about half its size when not in use, includes a substantially cylindrical housing having a retractable, plastic writing cartridge body therein. A plurality of push-button actuated, spring biased gripping elements engage the plastic body to retain the body in a retracted or extended position.

Abstract: This invention relates to a writing implement comprising an outer casing, a coil spring disposed within the casing, an inner tube inserted through the coil spring and having a plurality of presharpened pieces of pencil lead stored therewithin, and a capping member fitted over the open end of the inner tube. The lower (writing) portion of the inner tube is split into two clamping halves. The lower end of the coil spring is formed into a hook which slides along the slot formed between the clamping halves to allow the expelling and feeding of presharpened pieces of pencil lead into the space between said two clamping halves.

Abstract: A mechanical pencil in which the lead is advanced by squeezing a cylindrical depression member provided at the position of the writer's fingers during normal writing operations. The pencil includes a hollow body with front and rear axial sleeves. A chuck is disposed within the pencil body which has a resiliency which urges the chuck to open outwardly at the front end thereof. A slider including a lead holding member for lightly holding the lead is slidably positioned at the tip of the front axial sleeve. Means is provided for transmitting movement from the depression member, which is formed of a resilient material flush with the cylindrical surface of the pencil body, for transmitting movement from the depression member to the chuck. A lead casing means is disposed in the rear axial sleeve which in some embodiments has the dual function of transmitting movement from a push button provided at the rear of the pencil to the chuck for advancing the lead in a conventional manner.

Abstract: This invention relates to a writing implement comprising an outer casing, a coil spring disposed within the casing, an inner tube inserted through the coil spring and having a plurality of presharpened pieces of pencil lead stored therewithin, and a capping member fitted over the open end of the inner tube. The lower (writing) portion of the inner tube is split into two clamping halves. The lower end of the coil spring is formed into a hook which slides along the slot formed between the clamping halves to allow the expelling and feeding of presharpened pieces of pencil lead into the space between said two clamping halves.

Abstract: Mechanical pencil construction wherein the operational movements to advance the lead are accomplished by providing one or more elastically deformable ribs or spring biased cam members that extend outwardly through axial slots in the pencil body in the normal finger gripping area. The radially inward depression of such ribs or cam members by the writer's fingers is converted to axial motion within the pencil, to thereby effect the necessary lead gripping and advancing operations.

Abstract: A press-out type writing tool having a holder body and a mechanism disposed in the holder body for pressing out pencil lead. The mechanism includes a depressing tube, a chuck for clamping the lead and a lead clamp. The lead clamp is formed separately from the chuck and is adapted to come in and out of an end opening of the holder body, while clamping the lead. The lead clamp projects out of the lower opening of the holder body, when the tool is used for the writing purpose, and is adapted to make up the required projection length of the lead as the latter wears. When the tool is not used, the lead clamp is retracted to disappear into the holder body, along with the lead which is clamped by the lead clamp, so as to protect the lead against any external force which may incur the breakage of the lead. The upper end of the lead clamp in the retracted state is received by an enlarged hole formed in the lower end of the chuck, so as to make the chuck release the lead.

Abstract: A mechanical pencil includes a casing, a chuck for holding a lead, a lead passage connected with the chuck, a lead cartridge and a push button for advancing the lead. A cylindrical body is connected to the lead passage. The cylindrical body and the lead cartridge have guides so that the both may be snuggly and accurately engaged with each other in accordance with the diameter of leads which are used in the pencil.

Abstract: A mechanical pencil of the type in which a lead is gripped in a collet clamped about the lead by engagement between cooperating conical faces of a clamping ring and respective movable ends of two elongated collet members which form the collet and pass through the ring. The collet members are connected together at their other ends. The pencil is readily disassembled and assembled because the movable ends, when in the clamping position, are shaped to interfit with the bore of the ring, so as to permit passage of the collet through the ring in one angular position of the collet relative to the ring while preventing such passage except for limited axial movement in another angular position. Cooperating guide elements on the collet and ring hold the collet in the another angular position. A tubular closure member is releasably fastened to the barrel, and in the another position the collet can be axially displaced relative to the ring when the closure member is released.

Abstract: This invention relates to a writing implement comprising an outer casing, a coil spring disposed within the casing, an inner tube inserted through the coil spring and having a plurality of presharpened leads stored therewithin, and a capping member inserted over the open end of the inner tube. The front (writing) end of the inner tube is split into two clamping halves. The front end of the coil spring is formed into a hooked portion which slides along the slot formed between the clamping halves to allow the expelling and feeding of presharpened lead pieces into the clamping halves.

Abstract: A push type mechanical pencil having an inner cylinder made of a synthetic resin including a chuck portion and a spare leads containing tube portion communicating with the chuck portion. An integrally molded inner cylinder unit is provided which has a hollow cylindrical body constituting a part of the spare leads containing tube portion, a plurality of longitudinally extending tube forming members which when they are placed together constitute the remaining part of the spare leads containing tube portion, and a plurality of longitudinally separated chuck members which when they are put together constitute the chuck portion. The tube forming members are integrally connected with each other by means of at least a bendable connector portion, and one of the tube forming members is integral with the hollow cylindrical body. Each of the separate chuck members is integral a corresponding one of the tube forming members.

Abstract: A mechanical pencil of the collet action type is provided with a lead collet being formed from a pair of identically configured mating shells which are maintained in fixed relation with respect to one another by means of an annulus cooperating with a conical flared portion formed at one end thereof and by means of a cap at the opposite end, all parts of the pencil being maintained in assembled relation by a spring. The parts are assembled by sliding first one and then the other of the two collet shells through an annulus into mating relation with one another and thereafter fitting the end cap over the end of the mating shells.

Abstract: A push-button type automatic pencil includes an outer tubular member which is held in the hand of the user and lead rod holding means for holding the lead rod. A lead rod stepping means of a push button type is provided and the lead rod holding means is mounted within the outer member in such a way that the lead rod holding means is movable relative to the outer member, while still holding the lead rod, when the lead rod is pushed backward relative to the outer member. Accordingly, the breaking of the lead rod while writing is eliminated, and a soft writing feel is achieved.

Abstract: A mechanical pencil of the collet-action type is provided with a collet member formed of a pair of identically configured mating half shells guiding and clamping the lead. The half shells are maintained in fixed relation with respect to one another by means of an annulus cooperating with a conically flared portion formed at one end of the collet member, whose diameter is partially reduced corresponding to the inner diameter of the annulus, and by means of a cap at the opposite end of the collet member. The parts are assembled by first sliding one and then the other one of the two collet shells through the annulus into mating relation with one another and thereafter fitting the end cap over the end of the mating shells. All parts of the pencil are maintained in assembled relation by a compression spring.