US2017248A

US2017248A - Towel book support

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Publication number: US2017248A
Application number: US706061A
Authority: US
Inventors: August I Hondeville
Original assignee: SERV A TOWEL Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: SERV A TOWEL Manufacturing Co; SERV-A-TOWEL MANUFACTURING Co
Priority date: 1934-01-10
Filing date: 1934-01-10
Publication date: 1935-10-15
Anticipated expiration: 1952-10-15

Description

Get, 15, 1935. A, HQNDEVILLE 2,017,248

TOWEL BOOK SUPPORT Filed Jan. 10, 1954 INVENTOR A; I. Hozzclevfle BY %NEY Patented Oct. 15, 1935 UNITED STAT f PAENT OFFIQE rower. Boon SUPPORT Application January 10, 1934, Serial No. 706,061

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in towel supports. It is particularly directed to a support for towels which are bound together in book form, as shown in my Patent No. 1,973,984, dated Sep- 5 tember 18, 1934.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a towel support which while of general application is particularly adapted for domestic use in kitchens, lavatories and like places.

10 A further object of the invention is to produce such a support for such use which will be very inexpensive in first cost and of a simple nature so that it may be readily installed in kitchens, lavatories and like places and used effectively to 15 detachably support a book of towels of the character noted. In order to make it practical for domestic use it is obvious that it must be made inexpensively, simply and not require a great deal of space when installed.

2 These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawing similar characters of reference 25 indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the support as it would appear when attached to the wall and showing suspended thereon a fragmentary part of a book of towels.

30 Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing how the support might be included in the combination of a medicine cabinet or like structure.

35 Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawing, A designates the support which comprises base securing flanges I adapted to be secured to the wall by screws or other suitable means. Outwardly from these base 40 flanges I extend a pair of arms 2 supporting the towel rod 3. On the upper face-of the rod 3 are the towel hooks. Each hook comprises a stem A turnably mounted through the rod 3 preferably in vertical position. On the outer end of the 45 stem 4 is a finger 5 extending at right angles to the stem and substantially parallel with the rod 3.

The support is adapted to receive and detachably hold the book of towels B. This towel book comprises a plurality of individual rectangular 50 towels which are compressed tightly together along one edge, as at C, and securely fastened completely alongsaid edge so as to form a. rigid stiff back to the towel book which is not readily distortable in any direction. This back C is pro- 55 vided with spaced orifices D adapted to permit the towel book 13 to be hooked over the towel hooks and be held in position on the rod 3. When the device is in use and a towel book B is to be inserted thereon the hooks are turned so that the fingersd extend toward the wall and sub- 5 stantially parallel with the arms 2. The towel book 3 is then manipulated so that the fingers 5 are projected through the orifices D and then the book is pulled forward until the stems 4 are received through the orifices D, leaving the fingers 5 free. These fingers 5 are then turned at right angles so as to lie longitudinally above the rod 3 and over the stiff backing C of the towel book. The towel book is thus detachably secured in position on the rod 3. The stiii back C 15 prevents any tendency to slumping or distortion of the individual towels but they are all held in position hanging downwardly substantially at right angles to the rod 3, as shown in Figures 1 and 2.

When the user desires to make use of the towels the uppermost one is picked up and used and then being soiled is turned back over the fingers 5 so as to hang down back of the rod 3 and out of the way of the next succeeding clean towel. This operation is continued until all the towels of the book have been used when the entire book is again thrown forward. The fingers 5 are then turned again to parallel the arms 2 and the soiled towel book is removed and a clean book inserted in its place.

It will be obvious that the towel book with the rigid back is an essential element to the successful handling of the towels in the manner described since this rigid back permits a ready insertion and removal of the book over the fingers 5 and also holds all the individual towels of the book in the suspended relation as they are successively used from the book.

It will be quite apparent that the device presents a very simple and inexpensive structure for supporting the towel book and one which can be very easily and quickly manipulated for the insertion or removal of the books while at the same time maintaining the books in rigid position during use.

In Figure 3, instead of the rod having the arms 2 and supporting flanges I, it may be supported directly in hangers 6 which depend from a medicine cabinet or other desired structure 1. The method of inserting, removing and using the towel in this modified form would be identical with that described in the other views.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A support for a fabricated book of towels having a relatively stiff back formed with spaced orifices, comprising, a rod, supporting means for the rod, a plurality of upstanding and turnable pins spaced apart on the rod over which the orifices in the back of the towel book are adapted to be threaded, and fingers formed on the upper ends of the pins and extending substantially at right angles to said pins and adapted when turned in parallelism with the rod to maintain the relatively stiff back of the book of towels in a relatively rigid position along the rod, the said relatively stiff back of the book of towels forming 10 with the rod a unit over which the individual towels may be thrown as used.

AUGUST I. HONDEVILLE.