This invention relates to pencil sharpeners, particularly to manually operated pencil sharpeners.
In the prior art there have been known manually operated pencil sharpeners which are provided with a receptacle for receiving shaving scraps which result from the use of the sharpener. One such prior art pencil sharpener with a receptacle and dust-proof cover is described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,525,854 to Becker. The Becker pencil sharpener has a relatively short, large diameter cylindrical configuration, and it does not lend itself easily to placement within a shirt or jacket pocket in conjunction with pencils and pens.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a manually operated pencil sharpener which can be conveniently carried around in a breast pocket along with pens, pencils and other similarly shaped writing implements.
It is a further object of the inventon to provide such a pencil sharpener having interchangeable tools for sharpening different writing implements.