Pen shaking device
OwnerDonald A. Salleinventor
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Abstract
A desk top shaker for unclogging a pen having ink which clogs the pen point, including a housing having an opening, a casing supported on a shaft in the housing and receiving the pen through the opening to removably hold the pen, a motor in the housing for vibrating the shaft and hence, the pen, and a switch on the housing to turn on the motor. The casing is removable from the housing and is closed on the bottom to catch ink which is ejected when the motor is turned on to unclog the pen. An adaptor is connectable to the top of the casing to receive and hold pens of different sizes.
Claims16
Apparatus for vibrating a member, comprising:
- a) a housing;
- b) a casing having means for removably holding said member;
- c) a shaft, positioned within said housing, having at one end a collar holding said casing, said casing having means for removably connecting said casing within said collar from outside said housing;
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- d) a vibratory motor, connected to the other end of said shaft, for vibrating said shaft in a predetermined plane.
A desk top shaker for unclogging a pen having ink which clogs the point of the pen, comprising:
- a. a housing mountable on said desk and having a first opening at a top surface thereof;
- b. a hollow casing, having a second opening at the top thereof in line with said first opening and being closed at the bottom thereof, for removably receiving said pen;
- c. a shaft, within said housing, having a collar at one end removably holding said casing, said casing having means for removably connecting said casing to said collar from outside said housing;
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- d. means, including a vibratory electric motor inside said housing and connected to the other end of said shaft, for vibrating said shaft in a vertical plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.