Pencil Patents: John Lee Love's Portable Pencil Sharpener

Before John Lee Love's pencil patent, pencils were sharpened with rotary sharpeners or by hand. The Love Sharpener changed that.

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Did You Know Two African American Inventors Were Granted Patents on This Day?

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Mechanical Pencil Sharpeners ~ 1900-1909 Pencil sharpener, Mechanical pencils, Pencil sharpeners

Essington N. Gilfillan is listed as an assignor on this 1910 patent of a pencil sharpening blade.

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Meet John Lee Love

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