Stylus for wax writing, gold scrolling and the like

Claim 1

A stylus for wax writing on eggs, fabric and paper, and for gold and other color scrolling on ceramics and the like comprising a scribing head consisting of a cylindrical cup-shaped reservoir including a conical lower portion terminating in a hollow central depending scribing point, a shaft for holding the stylus in scribing position during use having a diagoNal aperture therein beginning centrally of the lower end of said shaft and breaking through the bottom of the stylus shaft providing an elongate tapered groove therein, a wire securing means fixing said scribing head in angular spaced relationship to the lower end of said shaft, the outer periphery of the lower portion of said cup-shaped reservoir being grooved to accommodate the lower loop of said wire securing means, the outer periphery of said shaft being grooved therearound transversely of said elongate tapered groove therein to accommodate the upper loop of said wire securing means, the said wire securing means having a lower loop disposed around said reservoir in said groove therein and doubled and twisted beginning at said lower loop and extending substantially through said diagonal bore in the lower end of said shaft with a single strand of wire extending therefrom into and around the said anchorage groove in said shaft with the free end portion of said single strand of wire forming said upper loop and being hooked at its extreme end to said shaft at said elongate tapered groove therein, the said twisted portion of said wire securing means being of a length sufficient to hold said cup-shaped reservoir in spaced relationship from the lower end of said shaft with the said scribing point disposed diagonally below the lower end of said shaft.