ink eraser

All my friends would be busy with their ink erasers trying to scrub me out of their address books.

Rudford felt around the floor for a nonexistent ink eraser.

An ink eraser is an instrument used to remove ink from a writing surface.

Blades may be used to scrape, moving the blade sideways across a surface, as in an ink eraser, rather than along or through a surface.

In another instance, stemming from a bar fight in 1885, a man stabbed another with an ink eraser.

Other models, such as the Smart Board interactive display, include a black pencil tool which incorporates a digital ink eraser.

In places an ink eraser had been carefully used, and while there were no misspellings, the letters were large and childishly made, drawn rather than written.

Chemical ink erasers break down royal blue ink by disrupting the geometry of the dye molecules in ink so that light is no longer filtered.

Metal ink erasers were generally used before chemically imbibed ink erasers were introduced and when most writing was done in ink and not in pencil (or by computer).

The chemical ink eraser was invented by the German manufacturer Pelikan in the 1930s, and was introduced as a novelty in Germany in 1972 under the name Tintenkiller (Ink killer).

In one instance in 1909, a 15-year-old boy working in an insurance office in New York City died when, while evading women stenographers trying to give him a kiss on his birthday, he fell and his ink eraser, supplied to office employees, stabbed his chest.

There are two types: a traditional metal ink eraser, in which the ink is literally scraped off the surface, and the chemically imbued ink eradicator, in which a vinyl eraser is imbued with a substance that chemically reacts with the ink to hide it.