Universal quick docking-station for drymarker-pens
First Claim
1. A universal docking-station for drymarker-pens, facilitating a more convenient usage obviating usual manual cap-closure replacement procedure, said apparatus comprising:
- a receiver-barrel having a socket like receiver-cavity defining a variable sizing means by which to intimately accept two or more differently sized conventional commercially available drymarker-pen barrel nose portions without need for diametrical readjustment to fit a specific drymarker-pen grip portion diameter, hence enabling single handed operation obviating need for usual manual removal and replacement of a sealing-cap thereto; and
, including a fixed mounting means provided thereto.
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Abstract
This invention contemplates methods and supporting apparatus by which to facilitate more convenient utilization of conventional commercially available drymarker type pens commonly used by both children and adults, both at home, at school, and by people in various avenues of business, such as for hurried marking of ordered goods with pick-up identification, to making corporate-charts upon whiteboards. The primary notion being to obviate the pesky procedure of fussing with a conventional drymarker'"'"'s sealing-cap. Among the different generic-variant embodiments set forth, are three ways of implementing the manual gravity-maintained insertion of a capless conventional drymarker-pen into a docking receiver-unit to sealingly prevent ambient-air from diluting the drymarker'"'"'s internal-ink substance, which are: . . . a.) via adapting the pen'"'"'s actual original female-cap into a special captive-holder, thereby acting as an anchored receiver; . . . b.) via a conventional type of female/reciever-unit, however provided with integrally-molded hold-down; or, . . . c.) by providing a female/receiver-unit having a critically tapered receptacle sealingly accommodating a pen'"'"'s nose or the barrel-body. Additional iterations are set forth within these receiver-unit parameters, facilitating the actual fixing of the overall docking-station assembly to various surfaces by different attachment means, as well as exploring varying mounting positions.
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1. A universal docking-station for drymarker-pens, facilitating a more convenient usage obviating usual manual cap-closure replacement procedure, said apparatus comprising:
a receiver-barrel having a socket like receiver-cavity defining a variable sizing means by which to intimately accept two or more differently sized conventional commercially available drymarker-pen barrel nose portions without need for diametrical readjustment to fit a specific drymarker-pen grip portion diameter, hence enabling single handed operation obviating need for usual manual removal and replacement of a sealing-cap thereto; and
, including a fixed mounting means provided thereto.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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12. A universal docking-station for drymarker-pens, facilitating a more convenient usage obviating usual manual cap-closure replacement procedure, said apparatus comprising:
a receiver-barrel having a socket like receiver-cavity and holding means thereto capable of retaining the existing sealing-cap of a conventional commercially available drymarker-pen, thereby enabling the drymarker-pen to be intimately seated single handedly into its original sealing-cap while obviating need for repeated removal and replacement by its user; and
, including a fixed mounting means provided thereto.
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20. A method by which to provide a universal docking-station for drymarker-pens, facilitating a more convenient usage obviating usual manual cap-closure replacement procedure, said method comprising:
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providing a receiver-barrel having a socket like receiver-cavity capable of accepting the existing sealing-cap of a conventional commercially available drymarker-pen;
inserting the conventional sealing-cap member into the receiver-cavity, and securing the sealing-cap therein via a circumferential gripping action means or via a transverse staking device means;
thereby enabling said drymarker-pen to be intimately seated single handedly into its original sealing-cap while obviating need for repeated removal and replacement by its user in cooperation with a fixed mounting means provided thereto.
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