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A self defense weapon formed as a memo pad and which is easily held by a person's fingers, therefore making it possible to provide protection from a mugger and also to quickly and easily write a record or a message without failure of missing or forgetting significant information under a stressful situation.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7310881 | Pencil shaving device An article for shaving pencils having a body member with a bore in the body member for receiving a pencil. The bore has at least one aperture or opening. The body member further includes a cutting, or shaving, device, so that upon a manual insertion of a pencil into... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7225547 | Pencil sharpener A compact sharpener (1) for a pencil (S), the sharpener being cost-effective to realize and being particularly suitable for sharpening a cosmetic pencil in particular, comprises a sharpener body (2) and a shaving blade (3) fastened thereon. The ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7036231 | Sharpener for an oval pencil A sharpener includes a sharpener body, a guide collar and a shaving blade. The guide collar has an oval bore defining a pencil-guiding channel and is mounted on the sharpener body such that it can be rotated essentially about the axis of the pencil-guiding channel. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6966117 | Carpenters pencil sharpener A carpenters pencil sharpener having a body member having a T-shaped opening in its front wall. The body member has an interior pencil sharpening chamber having respective left and right upper support platforms and respective left and right lower support platforms. ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6948251 | Pivoting sharpening device for pencil with non-circular cross section A sharpening device for a carpenter's pencil. A housing has a pivotable guide with a cruciform passage to receive the pencil in either of two positions. A pair of oppositely directed blades are mounted on opposed walls within the housing. The pencil is pivoted while... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944960 | Crayon sharpener The present invention relates to a crayon sharpener, which comprises a cavity to which a crayon is to be inserted, a stopper with a plane at one end, a blade which is fixed at an angle corresponding to the cavity and the stopper, and a connecting shaft which has a h... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6732437 | Soft lead sharpener with pivotable profile knife A sharpener for pencils with a soft lead with a sharpener housing has a conical sharpener channel, a sharpening knife which is fastened at the fastener housing and which is set tangentially to the sharpener channel. A shape-cutting knife, which can be swiveled into ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6574875 | Pencil sharpener and method The present invention is for an improved pencil sharpener that is slidingly disposed about a pencil. The pencil sharpener comprises a cutting surface, a first arm pivotally mounted or connected with respect to a second arm, and a pencil receiving variable... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6397480 | Mechanism for sharpening a writing instrument A pencil sharpener (10) is disclosed as including a body (12) with a hole (22) for receiving an end of a pencil, a cutting blade (24) secured to the body (12) for sharpening the pencil, and a stopper (30) movable relative to the body (12) to vary the leng... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6279238 | Carpenter's pencil sharpener A carpenter's pencil sharpener for sharpening carpenter's pencils is disclosed. The pencil sharpener comprises a housing having both a vertically oriented oval shaped bore and a horizontally oriented oval shaped bore extending therethrough. The oval shape... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6092293 | Pencil sharpener There is described herein a sharpener for a carpenter's pencil having a centering collar mounted to an enclosure for relative rotation to generate the sharpening effect. Within the base enclosure there is a symmetrical pencil point contour surface and a b... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5647138 | Cap sharpener for clutch-type pencil The present invention provides a cap sharpener for clutch-type pencil, in which a blind end divides a cylinder from the cap, and the blind end has a through-hole at the center portion interconnecting the cylinder. The cylinder has a blade mounted on the t... | 07/15/1997 |
| 4755074 | Pencil sharpener The disclosure is directed to a pencil sharpener device in which the sharpening element is slidably mounted within a support member for movement between a retracted position when not in use to a protracted position for use in sharpening the pencil. When i... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4255828 | Battery terminal post cleaning tool A tool for cleaning the terminal posts of a storage battery, the posts being of different diameters. A socket body having an inside diameter large enough to engage over the battery post has a cut-away window in the circumferential wall thereof. The socket... | 03/17/1981 |
