Pencil sharpener with replaceable blades

A hand-held pencil sharpener comprising a housing having both a top recess therein to define an enclosed slightly lowered seating surface and a tapered bore therein selectively to receive a pencil for sharpening, said bore tangentially intersecting the seating surface of the housing at its inner end relative to the housing to form an elongated narrow slot therein, a double-edged razor blade received on said seating surface, with one edge of said blade being positioned in said slot to form a pencil shaving edge and with the ends of said blade being contained in said recess, a cover positioned on top of said housing and coextensive therewith having a projection telescopically received in said recess with the bottom wall of such projection engaging and enclosing said blade, said cover having an elongated slot therein positioned to be in alignment with the elongated slot in the seating surface upon assembly, and means releasably to secure the cover, razor blade and housing together and to prevent relative movement therebetween, whereby the tapered bore guides a pencil inserted therein against the tangentially disposed shaving edge to permit said pencil upon rotation to be sharpened thereby, with the pencil shavings passing through said aligned slots in said housing and cover for removal therefrom.