US124943A - Improvement in tobacco-hangers - Google Patents

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Improvement vin Tobacco Hangers.

Patented March 26,1812.

nfzesses @Het a M@ ALBAN G. FERRISS, OF NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT lN TOBACCO-HANGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,943, dated March 26,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBAN G. FERRISS, of New Milford, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Tobacco-Hanger; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the. letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes a part of this specification, and represents, in-

Figure 1, a side view; and in Fig. 2, a top view.

lThis invention relates to a device for han-ging green tobacco to be dried.

In curinggreen tobacco, several stalks are secured to a short bar, and this bar then placed upon parallel bars, the ends of the short bars resting upon the saidparallel bars. As these parallel bars are usually of considerableheight, thehanging of tobacco is a laborious operation, which, by this invention, is very much reduced; and it consists in a double hook, of the form hereinafter described, pivoted in the end of a staff rso as to always maintain a vertical posi tion, so that when a person using the hook drops it to take a -new bar of stalks it will pass below the bar 5 and as the staf is raised the hook will turn and maintain its vertical position,`so that the person raising the staff to the parallel bars may lay the bar of stalks thereon without necessarily being in immediate proximityr to the said bars.

A is the sta-if, slotted at the end to receive the arm B of the hook, which is pivoted therein, as at a. From this arm B, to the right and left, extend other arms, C C, curved forward, each terminating in a hook, D, the weight of the hooks being sufficient to retain them in proper position, as seen in Fig. l, and so that as the staff A is raised, as denoted in broken lines, the hooks will retain their same vertical position.

The person hanging the tobacco drops the staff, as seen in Fig. l, to receive the bar of stalks; then raises it and sets it upon the parallel bars without necessarily being in direct contact with the bars, the staff being of sufficient length to reach the highest bar.

The arms C C are curved forward in order not to interfere with or strike the leaves or stalks.

I claim as my inventionrEhe herein-described tobacco-hanger, consisting of the staffA and arm B pivoted thereto, the said arm carrying other arms C and the hooks D, constructed as herein specified.

ALBAN Gr. FERRISS.

W'itn esses J orrN S. TURRILL, E. A. THAYER.

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