Pencil sharpener
AssigneeHasbro Development Corporation
InventorJohn D. Birdsall
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Abstract
A pencil sharpener having a base on which a sharpening assembly, including sharpening rollers, is mounted, a housing defined by a hollow figure formed of a flexible, deformable material and simulating the head of an animal enveloping the sharpening assembly, and a member being mounted for rotating movement with the sharpening assembly interiorly of the hollow figure and being engageable with the interior surfaces of the hollow figure, so that upon rotation of the sharpening assembly, the member distorts the simulated animal head to produce the effect that the simulated animal head is chewing the pencil during the pencil sharpening operation.
Claims10
A pencil sharpener, comprising a base to which a mounting bracket is joined, a sharpening assembly mounted for rotation on said mounting bracket and including a handle to which sharpener rollers are operatively interconnected and a pencil guide that is secured to said rollers for guiding a pencil to be sharpened therebetween, a hollow figure formed of a flexible, deformable material and being secured to said sharpening assembly in surrounding relation with respect to said rollers, said figure having an opening formed therein that is aligned with said pencil guide for receiving a pencil to be sharpened therein, and means mounted for rotating movement with said sharpening assembly and interiorly of said hollow figure and being engageable with interior surfaces of said hollow figure, wherein rotation of said sharpening assembly and said means mounted for rotating movement with said sharpening assembly during a pencil sharpening operation causes said means mounted for rotating movement with said sharpening assembly to distort the flexible figure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.