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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 1979
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1978
Otto Katz, Schwabach, DE;
A. W. Faber-Castell, Stein bei Nurnberg, DE;
Abstract
A mechanical pencil with a lead feed, automatically produced by pressure during use of the pencil, comprises a tubular lead magazine closed at an outer end by a removable actuating button and being movably guided in a tubular housing, clamping elements in the housing actuatable by pressure on the actuating button and a lead guide tube projecting from a conical end of the housing and being movable against the pressure of a spring into the latter and carrying at the inner end thereof an entrainment element exerting friction on the lead passing therethrough, in which the clamping elements are movable by means of the actuating button against the force of a second weaker spring and guided by rolling elements along a conical guide face of a clamping cone, which in turn is axially movable between two end positions in the housing.