A manual device extends in an axial direction and includes a housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion. First and second heads are each axially movable between a use position and a stowed position. The first head is in the stowed position when the second head is in the use position, whereas the second head is in the stowed position when the first head is in the use position. The first head and the second head both are carried by a single carriage movable in the axial direction and arranged inside a barrel. A groove forming a cam track is formed by a first shoulder of the first housing portion and by a second shoulder of the barrel. A lug of the carriage cooperates with the groove.

A manual device extends in an axial direction and includes a housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion. First and second heads are each axially movable between a use position and a stowed position. The first head is in the stowed position when the second head is in the use position, whereas the second head is in the stowed position when the first head is in the use position. The first head and the second head both are carried by a single carriage movable in the axial direction and arranged inside a barrel. A groove forming a cam track is formed by a first shoulder of the first housing portion and by a second shoulder of the barrel. A lug of the carriage cooperates with the groove.

A new design for a marker holder and eraser has a front side and a back side, the back side having a recess. The front side has two openings for retaining markers. A metal plate and a magnet holder are disposed within the recess and an erasing material covers the recess. Projections extend from the magnet holder into openings on the front side to engage markers disposed in the openings, thereby holding the markers at any angle.

A new design for a marker holder and eraser has a front side and a back side, the back side having a recess. The front side has two openings for retaining markers. A metal plate and a magnet holder are disposed within the recess and an erasing material covers the recess. Projections extend from the magnet holder into openings on the front side to engage markers disposed in the openings, thereby holding the markers at any angle.

The application relates to a porous color linker comprising a tip portion configured to deposit indicia on a writing surface; a mixing portion configured to combine a plurality of inks; and a base portion having a first receiving portion configured to receive a tip of a first ink discharge device and a second receiving portion configured to receive a tip of a second ink discharge device.

The application relates to a porous color linker comprising a tip portion configured to deposit indicia on a writing surface; a mixing portion configured to combine a plurality of inks; and a base portion having a first receiving portion configured to receive a tip of a first ink discharge device and a second receiving portion configured to receive a tip of a second ink discharge device.

A pencil cutting tool 1 comprising a recess forming part 10 for boring a connecting recess 52 in an end face 51 of a pencil 50, wherein the recess forming part 10 comprises a main body 11 having a cylindrical insertion hole 12 for insertion of an end of the pencil 50 and a boring blade 40 disposed inside the insertion hole 12 so as to come into contact with the end face 41 of the pencil 50, the boring blade 40 has a semicircular cross section and a flat surface 40a extending along the axial line of the insertion hole 12, and the main body 11 has a discharge part 13 that is formed so as to face the flat surface 40a to discharge shavings from the insertion hole 12.

A pencil cutting tool 1 comprising a recess forming part 10 for boring a connecting recess 52 in an end face 51 of a pencil 50, wherein the recess forming part 10 comprises a main body 11 having a cylindrical insertion hole 12 for insertion of an end of the pencil 50 and a boring blade 40 disposed inside the insertion hole 12 so as to come into contact with the end face 41 of the pencil 50, the boring blade 40 has a semicircular cross section and a flat surface 40a extending along the axial line of the insertion hole 12, and the main body 11 has a discharge part 13 that is formed so as to face the flat surface 40a to discharge shavings from the insertion hole 12.

A handheld implement, configured for example as a writing-instrument, having a shaft that has at least two shaft parts which are releasably connectable together via a plug-in coupling, which have a coupling unit at each front end of the shaft parts. Each coupling unit has a slide that is held immovably in a guide hole open on a face side in the associated shaft part and protrudes beyond the guide hole with a slide portion, the free end of the slide portion is formed as a latching fork that has a latching opening between two fork arms, that the slide portion bears a latching protrusion on its inner side behind the latching fork in the sliding direction, the coupling unit has a guide sleeve that encloses the slide and is guided movably in the guide hole counter to the restoring force of a spring- or rubber-elastic restoring element, and when the front ends, having the coupling units, of two shaft parts are pressed together, the latching fork of one coupling unit is latchable on the latching protrusion of the other coupling unit with at least one of the guide sleeves being pushed back.

A handheld implement, configured for example as a writing-instrument, having a shaft that has at least two shaft parts which are releasably connectable together via a plug-in coupling, which have a coupling unit at each front end of the shaft parts. Each coupling unit has a slide that is held immovably in a guide hole open on a face side in the associated shaft part and protrudes beyond the guide hole with a slide portion, the free end of the slide portion is formed as a latching fork that has a latching opening between two fork arms, that the slide portion bears a latching protrusion on its inner side behind the latching fork in the sliding direction, the coupling unit has a guide sleeve that encloses the slide and is guided movably in the guide hole counter to the restoring force of a spring- or rubber-elastic restoring element, and when the front ends, having the coupling units, of two shaft parts are pressed together, the latching fork of one coupling unit is latchable on the latching protrusion of the other coupling unit with at least one of the guide sleeves being pushed back.