US1152816A - Mail-bag holder. - Google Patents

Description

J. HUNEKE.

MAIL BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN- I3, 1913- 1 1 52,8 1 6 Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

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nivrirnn sra'rns Parana? orat on JOHN HUNEKE, on oi-iroaeo, ILLINoIs, nssrenon T0 cox MULTI-IVIAILER COMPANY,

or AUGUSTA, MAINE, A CORPORATION or MAINE.

MAIL-BAG HOLDER.

Application filed January 13, 1913'.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN HUNEKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailag Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for holding a number of mail bags, both in a compressed and in a distended position so that a number of bags may be supported by the holder in position to be extended while some of the bags are held in distended position.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide an improved, simple and strong device of the class described which occupies a minimum of space, which is readily accessible from all sides and which is effective and efiicient in operation.

For the attainment of these ends and the accon'iplishment of other new and useful objects, as will appear, the invention consists in the features of novelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of the several parts generally shown in the drawing and described in the specification, but more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of a holder constructed in accordance with the principles of my invention, showing also the position of a single mail bag in dotted outline. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device illustrated by Fig. 1, a portion of the top thereof being removed to disclose the bottom support. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the bottom support construction. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the mail bag holders.

In sorting mail, it is customary to have a plurality of mail bags arranged in proximity in distended position so that the separate parcels may be readily sorted and placed in the proper mail bag, and as it is customary to economize space which is employed for this purpose as much as possible, it is desirable that the mail bags in their distended position shall occupy the minimum of space. It is also desirable that the mail bags shall be so disposed that they may be readily opened and placed in distended position as soon as one of the bags becomes filled. The present inventionrelates to a device which accomplishes these results and in which the separate bags in their distended Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, H5 15.

Serial No. 741,662.

positions are readily accessible,and easily removable.

Referring. now more particularly to the drawing, and in the present exemplification of the invention, the holder comprises an upper support 6 and a lower support 7 which are suitablyconnected to each other and spaced apart by a hollow standard 8. Thesupports 6 and 7 may be formed integral with the standard or secured thereto in any desired or suitable manner, and their distance apart is substantially the height of a mail bag which it desired to use in con nection with the holder. 1 The entire device is rotatably mounted by means of a shaft 9 which preferably extends upwardly into the hollow standard 8, so that the entire holder is freely rotatable about the shaft in either direction. p

The upper support comprises a plurality of radially extending arms 10 at the outer ends of which, preferably on both sides thereof, are disposed hooks 11. Preferably,

the supports and the standard are constructed of metal so that the arms are channel shaped in formation, as shown by Fig. 1, and the periphery of the hub portion between the arms is turned down, as shown at 12 in Fig. 1, to provide means for attaching a plurality of rods 13 thereto which extend in the same direction and parallel with the sides ofthe arms 10 and adjacent the arms on both sides. These rods 13 may be secured to the support 6 in any desired or suitable manner, such for example, as that shown in detail by Fig. a, in which it will be seen that the rods are threaded at 14 and inserted through'an opening in the depending portion 12 of the support 6 with nuts 15 movable on the threaded portion on both sides of the depending portion 12 to hold the rod firmly in position. The rods are also provided with a turned up portion 16 at the other end thereof to prevent the member from slipping off at the end.

The bottom support 7 comprises a plurality of radially extending arms 17 of the same or a difierent number as the arms in the top support, and disposed between the adjacent arms are members 18 secured to the arms in any suitable manner, as for example, by rivets 19. These members 18 are preferably of thin sheet metal or any other suitable material. If desired, the base support may be formed as a solid piece, the

object being merely to provide a support for the bottoms of the mail bags.

Inuse and in operation as a support for mail bags, the hooks of the mail bags are disposed over the rods 13, and a number a number of mail bags in this position.

The outermost mail bag upon any pair of rods may be distended for use by hooking the mail bag over the hooks 11 at the outer ends of the arms and leaving the hooks by which the bag is supported still upon the rods. As soon as this bag becomes filled or as soon as it is desired to remove the bag it may readily be removed and the next'bag distended by hooking it over the hooks 11. It will be evident that a number of bags may thus be readily distended and removed from any pair of supporting rods.

The holder is made rotatable as'described in the present exemplification of the invention so that access may be had to all of the mail bags for their removal and extension, with the least possible exertion. It is obvious, however, that such a device may be made non-rotatable or, if desired, the arms may be spaced apart in a single row with the bag supporting rods between them.

What I claim is:

1. A mail bag holder comprising arms spaced apart, rods parallel therewith, and hooks at the ends of the arms, the rods and the hooks being adapted to hold and distend mail bags.

2. A mail bag holder comprising arms spaced apart, rods parallel therewith, and hooks at the ends of the arms, the rods being adapted to support the mail bags and the hooks being disposed to maintain the mail bags in distended position when supported by the rods.

3. A mail bag'holder comprising a suptending bottom support spaced from and corresponding with the top supportsubstan tially the distance of the heightof a mail ba a. A mail bag holder comprising a rotatable standard with two sets of radially disposed arms spaced apart about the height of a mail bag, members secured to the bottom arms forming a support for the bottoms of the mail bags, and means in connection with the upper arms and the standard for holding the bags in upright position with the mouths distended between the arms.

7. In a mail bag holder of the class described, the combination with a top support comprising a plurality of radially extending arms, of rods threaded upon one end and bent upwardly at the other end, means to secure said rods removably to said support, hooks disposed in the ends of said arms to distend a mail bag supported upon said rods,

a standard to which said support is secured, a second support secured to the standard and spaced from the first mentioned-support, and means to support the standard for free rotation in either direction.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 9th'da of January A. D. 1913;

7 JOHN HUNEKE.

Witnesses CHARLES L. KUEHNL, K. W. WONNELL.

p of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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