Writing aid
OwnerHenry Morrisinventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to a spacing device for use with a ruler or other straightedge to aid handwriting of a neat and tidy appearance. The device comprises a resilient spacing member mounted on or in a writing implement and adapted to maintain under a first degree of manual pressure a predetermined distance between a writing point of the writing implement and an edge of a stationary ruler device positioned on a surface to be written upon, said spacing member being movable under a second, increased, degree of manual pressure to reduce the distance by a predetermined amount.
Claims7
A spacing device for use in conjunction with a ruler device as an aid to writing, comprising:
- a writing implement having a writing point, a first restraint, a second restraint, and a resilient spacing member joined to said writing implement and configured to abut said first restraint and maintain under a first degree of pressure a predetermined distance between said writing point of said writing implement and an edge of said ruler device, said spacing member being movable under a second, increased degree of pressure to abut said second restraint to reduce the distance between said ruler device and said writing device by a predetermined amount thereby permitting a writer to align the bottoms of normal letters of a line of script and also allow the drawing of the lower strokes of depending letters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.