| 摘要 |
This invention contemplates methods and supporting apparatus by which to facilitate more convenient utilization of conventional commercially available drymarker type pens commonly used by both children and adults, both at home, at school, and by people in various avenues of business, such as for hurried marking of ordered goods with pick-up identification, to making corporate-charts upon whiteboards. The primary notion being to obviate the pesky procedure of fussing with a conventional drymarker's sealing-cap. Among the different generic-variant embodiments set forth, are three ways of implementing the manual gravity-maintained insertion of a capless conventional drymarker-pen into a docking receiver-unit to sealingly prevent ambient-air from diluting the drymarker's internal-ink substance, which are: . . . a.) via adapting the pen's actual original female-cap into a special captive-holder, thereby acting as an anchored receiver; . . . b.) via a conventional type of female/reciever-unit, however provided with integrally-molded hold-down; or, . . . c.) by providing a female/receiver-unit having a critically tapered receptacle sealingly accommodating a pen's nose or the barrel-body. Additional iterations are set forth within these receiver-unit parameters, facilitating the actual fixing of the overall docking-station assembly to various surfaces by different attachment means, as well as exploring varying mounting positions.
|
