US1321951A

US1321951A - Instrument-holder

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Publication number: US1321951A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1919-11-18
Anticipated expiration: 1936-11-18

Description

G. M. THOMAS.

INSTRUMENT HOLDER.

APPLICATION LED MAR. 4. 1919.

1,321,951. PatentedNov. 1511919.

GEORGE M. THOMAS, OF CLEVELND, OHIO.

IN STRUMEN T HOLDER.

1,321 951. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented N 18, 1919 Application fi1ed March 4, 1919. Seral No. 280,649.

To aZZ wwm 2'25 may concem:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. TIIOMAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cieveland, in thebounty of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefu1 Improvements in Instrument- Holders, of which the following is a spccification.

This invention relates to supports particularly adapted and intended for supporting a counting machine on the post of a telephone, although capable of use in any other relation where it is desired to support an instrument such as a counter or the like, in a convenient position for operation.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device applied to the telephone standard.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, 4: indicates the standard or post of a telephone transmitter. The de- Vice is made in two parts, indicated at 1 and 2 respectiveiy. Each of these parts has a curved jaw 3, adapted to embrace the post 4, the parts being fastcned together by a screw 5, extending through a connecting neck adjacent to the jaws. The rear part 2 is cup shaped, and the front part 1 is simiiar]y shaped to match therewith at its edges, and to form a holder for the counting instrument or similar device, indicated at 7. The front of part 1 has an opening 8 to expose the face of the instrument, and at the top 'the mect ing edges of the sections have recesses 9 which register to form an opening for the stem10 of the instrument. The hody of the holder is disposed at an angle so that the instrument may be conveniently read.

If used on a telephone, it Will be especiafly serviceabie for registcring the munber of phone caiis, the counting instrument heing operated at the time the phone is used. Tire holder can be cheaply made by pressing its parts from sheet metal, and quickiy applied to the phone or other support by means of the screw 5.

I claim:

1. An instrument holder comprising two sections faste1ied together, each section haV-' ing a jaW adapted to grip a support, and one section haVing an opening through which the face of the instrument may he seen.

2. An instrument holder comprising a pair of cupped sections secured together, each section having a jaw at one side therecf adapted to grip a support, and one section having an opening through which the face of the instrument may he secn.

8. An instrument holder comprising a pair of cupped sections Which 1neet at the rims thereof, to inciose an instrument, said sections being fastened t0gether and having jaws at one side t0 embrace a support, one of the sections having an opening through Which the face of the instrument may be.

seen. In testimony whereof, I aifi'x my s.-zignature 111 presence of tWo W1tnesSeS.

GEORGE M. incarne.

Witnesses JOHN A. Bommnmnrr, ROBERT L. BRUCK.