Device for holding writing instruments

A device for holding writing instruments, comprising

• an elongated supporting member having a predetermined direction of elongation;
• and a plurality of holding members arranged on said supporting member substantially side by side along the direction of elongation of said supporting member and each having at least one receptacle for receiving at least one writing instrument, each of said receptacles having an inner part which substantially receives a writing instrument and an outer outwardly open part for introducing the writing instrument into said inner part, said holding members being spaced from one another by a distance which is smaller than said outer part of each of said receptacles as considered in direction of elongation of said supporting member so that a writing instrument can be inserted into said receptacles but cannot be inserted into a space between said holding members, each of said holding members having two straight sides which extend from said supporting member perpendicularly to said supporting member and have free ends, two inclined surfaces extending from said free ends of said straight sides inwardly and toward one another and having inner ends, and a partially circular surface which has ends connected with said inner ends of said inclined surfaces, so that in a region where said ends of said partially circular surface are connected with said inner ends of said inclined surfaces thickened walls are formed in each of said holding members so as to form two inner shoulders;
• and
• means for retaining said supporting member on at least one of a part of user's body and a part of user's clothes.