KNOCK TYPE PEN

• US 20190160852A1
• Filed: 12/28/2017
• Published: 05/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dong-A Pencil Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Dong-A Pencil Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hakjae
• Application Number:
  US15/857,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20190160852A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 24/04 operated by means sliding in longitudinally-slotted casings
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 24/08 operated by push-buttons
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 24/084 with saw-like or analogous cams
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 7/12 with retractable ball points mechanisms for retracting or locking ball points B43K24/00

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a knock type pen including a housing in which a lead storing ink is received, a knock element which is placed moveably up and down in the housing, and has a button section protruding from an open upper side of the housing in an upper end part and a toothed protrusion coupled to a lower end part, and a rotary cam which is disposed between the lead and the knock element and rotatably placed in the housing, and has a guide protrusion which comes into contact with the toothed protrusion.

Claims

1. A knock type pen comprising:

a housing in which a lead storing ink is received;

a knock element which is placed moveably up and down in the housing, and has a button section protruding from an open upper side of the housing in an upper end part and a toothed protrusion coupled to a lower end part; and

a rotary cam which is disposed between the lead and the knock element and rotatably placed in the housing, and has a guide protrusion which comes into contact with the toothed protrusion,

wherein a stopper protrusion is protrusively formed in a direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the knock element on an outer circumferential surface of the knock element,

wherein the housing has a guide hole formed therethrough along a lengthwise direction of the housing to guide the knock element with the stopper protrusion inserted into the guide hole when the knock element moves up,

wherein a stopper hole formed therethrough extending in parallel or at a downward slant in an outer circumferential direction of the housing from an upper end of the guide hole to limit an upward movement of the knock element with the stopper protrusion inserted into the stopper hole.

2. The knock type pen of claim 1, wherein the stopper protrusion is in cylindrical shape, the guide hole and the stopper hole are in elliptical shape to conform to the stopper protrusion, and a protruding end of the stopper protrusion is exposed to outside of the guide hole and the stopper hole.

3. The knock type pen of claim 1,

wherein the housing comprises an upper housing having the guide hole and the stopper hole to move the knock element up and down, and a lower housing in which the lead and the rotary cam are received,

wherein the upper housing and the lower housing are formed attachably and detachably.