US1146334A

US1146334A - Receptacle-suspender.

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Publication number: US1146334A
Application number: US83919114A
Authority: US
Inventors: Kurt Lehman; William B Johnson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-05-18
Filing date: 1914-05-18
Publication date: 1915-07-13
Anticipated expiration: 1932-07-13

Description

I LEHMAN & w. B. JOHNSON.

RECEPTACLE SUSPENDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYI8,1914,

1,, 146,334 Patented July 13, 1915.

WITNESSES IN VE/V TORS ATTORNEY KURT LEHMAN AND WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, OF SEATTLE, WZQSHINGTON- RECEPTACLE-SUSPENDER.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1915.

Application filed May 18, 1914; Serial No. 839,191.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, KURT LEHMAN and VILLTAM l3. JOHNSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Vashington, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Receptacle-Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in hand-hold devices that are adapted to be removably attached to the round upper portions of receptacles, as to the neck of a bottle, whereby such receptacles may be carried while suspended, and the object of our improvement is to provide a suspending device of this class which shall be strong, simple and comparatively inexpensive to make and which may be attached quickly and securely to the neck of a common milk bottle, thereby to suspend and carry such bottle, and be readily detached therefrom.

We accomplish this object by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a device embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a view of the same in side elevation as it appears when it is clasped about the top of a milk bottle; Fig. 3 is a view of the same in cross-section on broken line A, A of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the same as it appears when the handle is turned downwardly to be in the same plane with the other parts.

Referring to the drawings, throughout which like reference numerals indicate like parts, 5 is a circular band, of springy sheet metal formed to have two adjacent ends 6 and 7, one of which ends 6, is provided with a T shaped hole 8 and the other of which ends is provided with a Tshaped catch 9 that is adapted to pass through the larger portion of the hole 8 and then to have its shank 10 drawn backwardly into the narrowed portion of the hole 8 until shoulders 11 on the catch 9 engage with the outer surface of the end 6 adjacent the hole ,8 to form a lock to prevent the two ends 6 and 7 from being separated, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2.

A bail or hand-hold 12 having the shape of an inverted letter U and having its two ends pivotally secured by rivets 13 to oppositely disposed points on the circular band 5 is provided to serve as a handle with which the fingers of a person may engage to carry a bottle to which the device is attached, the

rivets 13 serving to produce suflicient frict1on to cause the hand-hold 12 to remain in any posltion in which it is placed until force 1s exerted to change such position, such hand-hold 12 being adapted to be folded or turned into the plane of the circular band 5, as more clearly illustrated in Fig. 4, whereby the device may be made to cocupy a small amount of vertical space when 1t 1s not in use.

The band 5 is constructed of spring metal and is adapted when it is not locked in a closed position, to remain with the ends shghtly spread as shown in Fig. 1, whereby such band 5 easily may be slipped downwardly over the top flan e of a milk bottle 14, and after such band has been placed about the neck of a bottle it may be locked 1n position by pressure of the fingers on the outslde surface of such band, the-catch 9 on the end 7 passing under the outwardly curved end 6 and throu h the enlarged portion of the hole Sand 1; e shank 10 of such catch 9 passing backwardly into the smaller portion of the hole 8 when pressure on the outside of the band 5 is released thus causing the shoulders 11 to engage with the end 6 to lock the ends 6 and 7 together.

When the band 5 is to be released from a bottle neck it is grasped by the fingers and a pressure 1s exerted on such band to: press the catch 9 backwardly and out of the enlarged portion of the Hole 8, the corners. 15

of such hole 8 being rounded to prevent the catch 9 from binding therein when such catch is released and the spring-like action of the band 5 spreading the ends of such band slightly apart as soon as the catch 9 is released and the pressure on the outside of the band is released. 1

What we claim is:

A bottle carrier comprising a band of resilient sheet metal, the ends of which are curved outward in opposite directions and adapted to lie in spaced relation when disconnected, one of said ends having a T- shaped slot with its widest portion extending transversely of the band and its narrower portion extending in a plane parallel to that of the edges of the band, the walls of the narrower portion bein continuously curved to prevent binding w ile the other end of the band is provided-with a T-shaped tongue slotted on its edges to provide op- 2 maeee positely-disposed shoulders adapted to enhaving its ends pivotally secured to the gage the outer surface of the slotted end of band.

the band by the outward spring of the re- In witness whereof, we hereunto subscribe silient ends of the band, whereby the outer our names this sixth day of May A. 1)., 1914.

5 curved end of the tongue is presented in po- KUPT I EHMAN sition to be readily forced circumferentially WVHJWLIAJM B OH to permit of its passage through the wider k portion of said slot by the resilient outward Witnesses:

pressure of the band ends to disengage said J. S. GAFFNEY, 10 ends, in combination with a sheet metal bail FRANK WARREN.