US1096484A - Holding device for telephone-receivers. - Google Patents

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K. H. ATHERTON & M. N. RODGERS.

HOLDING DEVIGE FOR TELEPHONE RECEIVERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1913.

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HOLDING nEvwE FOR TELEPHONE RECEIVERS.

APPLICATION TILED MAY 24, 1913.

Patented May 12, 1914.

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KATE H. ATHERTON, OF CARSON CITY, NEVADA, AND MAE N. RODGERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOLDING DEVICE FOR TELEPHONE-RECEIVERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1914:.

Application filed May 24, 1913. Serial No. 769,665.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, KATE H. ATHnR'roN and Man N. Rooenns, citizens of the United States, and residing, respectively, at Carson City, county of Ormsby, and State of Nevada, and the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holding Devices for Telephone-Receivers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in holding devices for telephone receivers and the object of the invention is to provide a simple device which may be connected to any telephone stand for holding the receiver in such a manner that. when the receiver is pulled forward into a convenient position for listening a switch lever of the telephone stand will be operated for closing the circuits in the usual way.

WVith the above object in view our invention consists in the features of invent-ion details of construction and combination of parts which will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings,-Figure l is a view of a telephone set provided with our receiver holding attachment the parts being shown in their position when the instrument is in circuit and ready for use; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the receiver holding attachment swung around into idle or nonoperating position the instrument in this position being out of circuit. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of another modification of our in vention.

Referring to the drawings A is a clamping device arranged to engage the stand for the purpose of supporting the attachment in the example now to be described where the attachment is to the ordinary portable stand. This clamping device conveniently consists of a split band or open ring provided with cars a through which passes a screw a provided with a nut whereby the band may be clamped to the stand. This clamping device has an arm a to which is secured an upward extending post B. Upon this post is mounted a tube C provided with an inclined or spiral slot 0. To the post B is attached a radially arranged pin 6 which projects through the slot 0. To the tube C is attached a receiver holding arm C extending at a suitable angle to said tube C and provided at its outer end with a clamping device 1) arranged to clamp and hold the tele phone receiver. At an intermediate point on the tube C is loosely mounted a jaw device 1G pressing against a collar 0 secured to the tube C above said jaw. This jaw device is provided with open jaws arranged to engage the ordinary fork of the receiver holding end of the switch lever F of the telephone set, a thumb screw 0 being provided whereby the jaw device may be clamped to said switch lever. The slope of the slot 0 is such that the weight of the telephone receiver will tend to cause the tube C to slide down the post I3 and thereby rotate the tube C on said post. In the extreme downward position of the tube C the receiver indicated at G is swung to one side in'the position indicated in Fig. 2 and also the jaw device E is moved downward by the downward thrust of fixed collar 6, thereby carrying the switch lever downwardly to its lowest position against the action of the usual controlling spring or equivalent means tending to maintain the lever in its upper or closed circuit position, whereby the subscribers instruments are cut out of the circuit. \Vhen it is desired to bring the instrument into operation it is only necessary to catch the receiver and move it to a convenient position for listening, where by the tube C is rotated and owing to the inclined slot 0 and pin Z) the said tube C is simultaneously elevated, thus allowing the outer end of the switch lever F to move upwardly and cut the instruments into the circuit. As soon as the telephone receiver is released it tends to swing back to its inoperative position thus rotatin the tube C and cutting out the subscribers instruments.

The device illustrated in Figs. 3 and t is constructed upon the same general principle as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 but is intended for use with the ordinary wall set. In this case the clamping device instead of having an open ring or band is provided with an open jaw arranged to clamp to any suitable part of the wall set and the arm C instead of being attached to the top end of the tube C passes through a slot in the same and is held. by a screw indicated at 0 Furthermore, this arm is conveniently jointed and provided with a clamping nut c where by the said jointed arm may be adjusted so as to hold the telephone receiver at a convenient position. The operation of this modification is similar to that of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

It will be noted that the device is simple and may be manufactured at a low price while at the same time, since it does not embody the use of any springs, it is reliable in operation and not easily disarranged.

Having thus fully described our invention what we claim as new is as follows:

1. The combination with a telephone set having a transmitter, receiver and switch lever of a post, means for holding said post in fixed relation to the transmitter support, a tube mounted on said post and provided with an inclined slot, a pin secured to the postand extending through said slot, a receiver holding arm attached to the tube, extending at an angle thereto and arranged to hold the receiver, means carried by the tube and arranged to clamp the end of the switch lever and mechanism carried by the tube for moving said means vertically but non-rotatably.

2. The combination with a transmitter, means for supporting the same, a receiver and a switch lever, of a clamping device arranged to be secured to the transmitter support, a vertical post carried by said clamp- KATE H. ATHERTON. WVitnesses:

J. E. MONAHAN, M. D. FAIRCHILD. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand this 22nd day of March 1913.

MAE N. RODGERS. Witnesses MonRnDLs M. Coon, MINNIE A. OLSEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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