US Patent 7125186 Writing instrument with enclosing structure

A writing instrument having a writing leg having a writing tip extending from an end of the writing leg; a gate leg; a joint between the writing leg and the gate leg, wherein the joint is proximate to the writing tip and is to be grasped between a forefinger and thumb, and a third leg attached at one end to the second leg and at another end to the writing leg at a location distal to the writing tip, wherein said writing, second and third legs define an aperture sufficiently large to receive five fingers of a hand grasping the second leg.