A pen holder for engaging a spiral coil of a notebook includes a planar body sized to be inserted into the spiral coil of the notebook having first and second straight edges, a series of slotted perforations defined along the first straight edge and configured to mesh with the spiral coil of the notebook, and a plurality of horizontal slots arranged in a column parallel with the series of slotted perforations and configured to engage a clip of a writing instrument.

A fluorescent blackboard comprises a housing, a circuit hoard fixed on the housing by screws, a display screen fixed by the circuit board, and a panel attached and fixed on the housing by the adhesive tape. The fluorescence blackboard is configured with a fixed device that limits and fixes the panel. The present disclosure uses that the fluorescent blackboard 1 configured with the fixed device that limits and fixes the panel, which makes the panel be firmly limited and fixed on the housing, which avoids the panel from coming lose. When the panel is squeezed, the fixed device can protect the panel, which avoids damage to the panel.

A writing instrument with a decorative element is provided including a housing having a first portion and a second portion, wherein at least one of the first and second housing portions has a recess positioned at a terminal edge thereof, and an decorative insert having a body and at least one decorative portion positioned on the body, the decorative portion having a shape that substantially corresponds to the shape of the recess such that only the decorative portion is visible when the first and second housing portions are connected together.

A device is provided for supporting writing instruments on vertical surfaces such as boards or flip charts. The device has a ring where the writing instrument is inserted and means of adhesion the vertical surface.

A writing instrument with no moving parts comprising of a rigid primary barrel (2) abutting a deformable elastomeric finger grip element (6) both with a communicating longitudinal through bore (4) (20) devoid of any ink cartridge or refill. The through bore of the primary barrel (4) is formed to accept a common disposable stick pen or common pencil (16). The through bore (20) of the elastomeric finger grip element (6) is formed to be slightly narrower in diameter than the outside diameter of a disposable stick pen (16) or pencil and thus captures an inserted stick pen by way of friction. The elastomeric grip is the sole means for retaining a stick pen or pencil used as a refill within the writing instrument barrel. The primary barrel has formed to it an integral, parallel, secondary barrel (12) that retains a ball chain (14) or cable to be secured to an object or a work station to discourage theft.

A stylus includes a cylindrical shaped housing and a shell. The shell is rotatably connected to the housing. A cross-sectional area of the housing has a first dimension along a first axis and a second dimension along a second axis, the first axis perpendicular to the second axis. The first dimension is smaller than the second dimension. A cross-sectional area including both the shell and the housing has a third dimension along the first axis that is substantially the same as the first dimension while the shell is in a first position and substantially the same as the second dimension while the shell is in a second position.

The present invention provides tablets with interconnection features and a system of multiple tablet assemblies removably interconnected to one another. The tablets may be removably mounted to a vertical surface or positioned on a horizontal surface. Features of the present invention allow a user to remove or move one tablet from the system without disrupting or moving the other tablets.

An apparatus for connecting a writing implement to a glassboard, whiteboard or the like is provided. The apparatus has a housing adapted to be connected to a writing implement. The housing has a side surface with an opening formed therein and a recess extending from the opening into the housing. A magnet is disposed in the recess and has a first pole at the opening. The magnet provides a magnetic field in a direction away from the side surface of the housing. The apparatus enables a side periphery of a writing implement coupled with the apparatus to magnetically couple with the glassboard, whiteboard or the like in a predetermined orientation regardless of the initial orientation of approach of the writing implement even in the presence of a similarly magnetically self-supporting writing implement or object.

An extension for pencils with wearing leads, formed from a thin-walled hollow profile. The inner cross section is adapted to the shape of a pencil. One or more slots of appropriate length in the longitudinal direction at an end of the extension where the tapered end of the pencil is located and a slight linear reduction in the cross section approximately over the length of one or more slots. Longitudinal raised sections in the form of triangular, square, and/or semi-circular prisms, directed inwardly. The height of the raised sections may increase in the direction of insertion of the pencil and dig into the pencil slightly when the pencil is inserted. The height of the raised sections is reduced linearly to zero at the end of the extension where the pencil is inserted. Inwardly bent or protruding retaining springs arranged on the inner surface of the extension.

A standing clip for supporting an object in an upright position includes a flexible grip having an upper lever arm, a lower lever arm, and first and second support legs. The first support leg extends from the upper lever arm at a second end of the flexible grip, and the second support leg extends from the lower lever arm at the second end of the flexible grip. The first and second support legs include complimentary clamping surfaces configured for clamping the object therebetween, and are spaced apart from each other by a gap. The flexible grip is depressible from a first state in which the gap is a first size to a second state in which the gap is a second size. The first and second support legs are oriented substantially vertically in the second state to clamp and suspend the object above a desired surface.