MAGNETIC WRITING INSTRUMENT

• US 3,785,739 A
• Filed: 04/14/1972
• Issued: 01/15/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas W. Hodkin
• Original Assignee: Thomas W. Hodkin
• Inventors: Hodkin, Thomas W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Charles, Lawrence
• Application Number:
  US05/244,090
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 401/52,195 335/303 40/142A 281/45A
• US Class Current: 401/52
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 29/00 Combinations of writing implements with other articles
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 7/005 Pen barrels

Abstract

A magnetic writing instrument having an outer surface thereof magnetized, the rearward end of said instrument being magnetized, said instrument having a recess in its rearward section and extending to its rearward end in which a cylindrical portion of an automobile gear selector lever can be received.

Claims

1. A magnetic writing instrument comprising a forward section and a rearward section, writing means at the forward tip of said forward section which will leave writing on paper as said tip is moved across paper, magnetic means attached to said writing instrument adapting it to cling to a surface containing ferrous metal, and in which said rearward section is provided with a recess in a side wall thereof, said recess being elongated from its forward to its rearward end, the rearward end of said writing instrument having a notch in one side thereof which latter has edge means at the rearward end of said writing instrument, said recess having side walls which join said edge means of said notch, whereby said writing instrument can be rested on a cylindrical portion of an automobile gear selector lever with portions of the lever in said notch and in said recess, said recess and notch both being wider at their outer portions than at their inner portions so as to substantially receive said lever without distortion of said rearward section.

2. The combination of claim 1 in which said magnetic means has a portion at the rearward end of said writing instrument whereby said writing instrument can be suspended from its rearward end by magnetic engagement of the rearward end of said writing instrument with a ferrous surface thereabove.

3. The combination of claim 2 in which the rearward end of said instrument is substantially greater in cross-sectional size than a mid-portion of said instrument.

4. The combination of claim 1 in which at least a portion of said magnetic means is formed of a thermoplastic material having in it magnetic particles.

5. The combination of claim 4 in which the majority of the outer surface area of said writing instrument and, with the exception of said thermoplastic material portion thereof, being formed of an alloy of iron.

6. The combination of claim 1 in which the majority of the outer surface of said writing instrument is magnetic.

7. The combination of claim 1 in which the majority of the outer surface of said writing instrument is formed of a thermoplastic material having in it magnetic particles.

8. The writing instrument of claim 1 in which a metallic backing is disposed across the inner side of a substantial portion of said thermoplastic material for increasing its magnetic attraction.

9. The combination of claim 1 in which the rearward end of said instrument is substantially greater in cross-sectional size than a mid-portion of said instrument.

10. The combination of claim 1 in which said recess has right and left side walls, said side walls being planar and being inclinedly disposed with respect to each other at an obtuse angle.