US1078501A - Towel-retainer. - Google Patents

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T. HEINS L E. R. GALLAND. TOWEL RETAINER. -APPLIOATION FILED `(IULYM, 1912.

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THEODORE HEINS ANI) EDWARD R. GALLAND, UF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TOWEL-RETAINER.

Y Specification of Letters Patent Patented Nov. 1 1, 1913.

Application filed July 24, 1912. SerlalNo. 711,348.

I To all Awhom t may concern:

Be it known that we, THEoDouE Heins and EDWARD R. GALLAND, citizens of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of SanFra-ncisco and State of California, have invented a new and use ful Towel-Retainer, of which the following is a specification in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to a towel retainer and its object is to provide means whereby a supply of fresh towels may be left in a restaurant, saloon2 or oiiice, while at the same time, an individual towel is provided for each person, but which towel cannot be removed from the retainer, thus preventing the loss of towels.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that it is common for oilice and restaurant supply laundries to furnish a given number of towels per week for the use of patrons. These towels are usually left in a cabinet loose and inevitably disappear in larger or smaller numbers, which disappearance is avoided by the use of the retainer herein disclosed.

In the drawings in which, the same nu meral of reference is applied to the same portion throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the retainer com- A plete, Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the retainer, Fig, 3 is a plan view of the retainer. Fig. 4 is a horizontal'sectional View of one of the brackets for holding the towel support, Fig. 5 is a view of the end of one of the towelsupports showing a groove therein for lockingsaid support in place, Fig. 6 is a front elevation of one of the brackets for holding the towel support with the rock retainer removed therefrom, and Fig. 7 is a sectional view on anl enlarged scale showing a portion of the towel supporting tube and showing the catch used to prevent the towels permitted "to allow the tube 4 to slip down far enough to be removed from the bracket 2.

The supporting brackets comprise a flatdislolike portion 6, from which disk a hol- -low boss 7 extends. The hollow boss has an -The plug 10 has a slot 14 therein for the insertion of a key to push the lock 9 back out of engagement with the rod or tube as the case may be. i

In order to retain the towels upon the upper portion of the tube 4, a spring catch 15 is used. This catch has a portion 1G extending through a small hole in thc tube 4, and

it has a small projection at 17 to bear against the bottom of the tube and thus give the necessary spring to the catch.

BothV the tube and the rod have the ends thereof, which are inserted in the brackets, beveled, as shown at 18 and each of them has a groove as shown at 19 for the lock to pass into to secure the tube and rod in place. order to strengthen the tube t, it has a rod inserted therein which terminates at the dotted line indicated at 20. It will be understood that any suitable form of lock may be used for securing the rod and tube in their proper places.

n use a considerable number of towels are placed upon the upper portion of the tube 4., each towel having a suitable gromet placed in one corner thereof for hanging the towels on the tube. When used the .first towel is pulled down over the latch and after being used is drop ed down on the rod 5 out of the Way, a

4.5 from falling olf the support."` The towel support may be turned from frfar enopghto prevent its removal therefrom,

while at the same time, enough movement is side to side, it being indicated in Fig. 3 as"L turned from the right of thesupporting bracket so that the supporboccupies as littleV space as possible.

Having thus described our invention what.

we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows: v

1.*A. towel retainer comprising a support,

brackets carried thereby, a towel supporti-ng rofl' having e horzontalportion uid e clown- Woielly extending poiou, means to look said rod to the brackets and to permit seid rod to be turned about an afxis parallel 'to the support and passing through alle bracketsi and mea-ns to loosely retain the towels upon the substantially horizontal portion of tlieiod, substantially as desolioecl.

2. lu e owel ieteiuer, a support, two brackets ear-fied thereby, a joined rod suppoitecl by seid brackets and movable about an axis und passing through both of seid oieokes means to lool; ille ends of the rocl M @oplos of 'this meu 3:12131 'be cbtaiue for m'e aegis each, hy ade-'essug the Gommissoner of eaents, Washington, E.

emessi io *lie bieekets, and a spring catch carried upon the upei' poition of the rod to loosely 15 ietain towels placed thereon, substantially es described.

ln testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands this 17 day of July A. D. 1912, in "alie presence of lie two subscribing Wt- 20 messes.

THEGDORE HEINS, A EDWARD R. GALLAND. ll'viaiesses C. P GRIFFIN, L. E. ANDERSON.

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