Pencil case

A pencil case or pencil case, pencil case, pencil case, pen box, Federpennal is a folding wallet, often with a laterally mounted zipper, made ​​of fabric, plastic or leather.

In the spring folder located Provision for markers, crayons, pencils, pens, ruler, sharpener and eraser. Often a small bag -like box is also available.

One of the forerunners of the pencil case is the pen gun.

Variants

In the upscale variant there is also a compartment in which a protractor can be stored.

Widely used are also cases in which the pens are kept unsorted. These are colloquially called " slacker " or " pencil case ".

Name

The name pencil case is because you stored therein the nibs and later the pen. In Grimm's dictionary is also of Federfutteral and spring sleeve ( theca pennaria ), as a " vessel to keep the feathers write " the speech.

In Switzerland, only the term in use case - Pencil case there is the common name for a (simple ) wooden pen box with hinged cover ( with hinges ), which is no longer common but since the 1980s.

In Franconia and Swabia in Bavaria the name is mostly used pencil case.