Felt tip pen cover with eraser

• US 5,871,294 A
• Filed: 04/23/1997
• Issued: 02/16/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chelsea Group, Ltd (Ameresco, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Chelsea Group, Ltd (Ameresco, Inc.)
• Inventors: Turner, Patricia
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MUIR, DAVID N
• Application Number:
  US08/844,937
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• Field of Search: 401/196, 401/202, 401/213, 401/124, 401/98, 401/52, 401/34
• US Class Current: 401/52
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 23/08 Protecting means, e.g. caps
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 29/02 with rubbers

Abstract

A felt tip pen cover with an attached eraser or a felt tip pen with an eraser on its bottom. The present invention places an eraser on or near the end of the cover that is inserted into the bottom of the pen or on the bottom of pen itself. For a tapered cover type of pen, the eraser is placed on the flat upper end. For a raised or dimple type of cover, the eraser is placed concentrically around the end away from the dimple like a girdle or belt or flat on the bottom of the pen body. On a type of pen that resembles a fountain pen, the eraser is placed on top cover on a flat area that may be slightly angled. The eraser can also be an annular ring on the base of the pen body. The addition of an eraser to a felt tip pen leads to the novel ability to erase and make corrections without having to search for a large eraser.

Claims

1. An improved felt tip marker pen with a writing end and a non-writing end of the type used to mark whiteboards in which a removable cap covers a pen tip when the pen is not being used and the removable cap is inserted into a bottommost aperture in a pen body when the pen is being used, wherein the improvement comprises:

a substantially flat annular eraser pad of pliable material attached to the non-writing end of said pen, whereby the said removable cap can be inserted through said annular eraser pad, said eraser pad being used to erase marks on a whiteboard.

2. The invention claimed in claim 1 wherein said annular eraser pad is felt.

3. The invention claimed in claim 1 wherein said annular eraser pad is glued to the non-writing end of said pen.

4. A felt tip marker pen used for marking whiteboards comprising:

a substantially cylindrical elongated pen body with a first and second end, said first end containing a writing tip for writing on a whiteboard;

said second end forming a base, said base having a substantially cylindrical aperture in which a pen cap is inserted when said pen is in use;

a substantially flat annular eraser pad attached to said base wherein said pen cap is inserted through said annular eraser pad, said annular eraser pad used to erase marks on said whiteboard.

5. The felt tip marker pen of claim 4 wherein said annular eraser pad is felt.

6. The felt tip marker pen of claim 4 wherein said annular eraser pad is glued to said elongated pen body.

7. A felt tip pen for marking whiteboards comprising:

a cylindrical body with a writing tip and a base;

means on said base for inserting a cap when said pen is in use;

an annular eraser pad means for erasing marks on whiteboards attached to said base, whereby said cap is inserted through said annular eraser pad.

8. The felt tip pen of claim 7 wherein said annular eraser pad is felt.

9. The felt tip pen of claim 7 wherein said annular eraser pad is glued to said base.