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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2006
Fritz Lüttgens, Erlangen, DE;
Fritz Lüttgens, Erlangen, DE;
Kum Limited, Trim, County Meath, IE;
Abstract
A pencil sharpener has at least two sharpener units, each with a sharpener body and a shaving blade. The sharpener bodies of adjacent sharpener units being connected integrally via film strips acting as a predetermined bending point and/or predetermined separating point. In a second variant, the pencil sharpener has a sharpener body and a shaving blade fastened thereon. The sharpener body has a guide sleeve with a bore defining a pencil-guiding channel for a pencil to be sharpened, and at least one flat supporting wing which projects approximately radially in cross section from the guide sleeve. In an end region of the supporting wing a functional element is provided for protecting or for working on the tip of the pencil.