US1330262A - Bracket - Google Patents

Description

J. w. HALLAM.

BRACKET. APPLICATION FILED MAYI5. I919.

Patented Feb. 10,1920.

JOHN W, HALLAM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed May 15, 1919. Serial No. 297,239.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. HALLAM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates generally to brackets but more particularly to a bracket adapted to be connected to the coin-receiving box of a telephone.

In the use of telephone apparatus where there is a coin box in connection with the receiver and transmitter and a stand upon which the transmitter and receiver are mounted, much inconvenience is experienced by reasonbf'the fact that there is no place to put the telephone stand unless one provides a special table or places the stand upon the floor.

The coin-receiving box itself is not suflicient to have the stand placed upon the top of it with any degree of safety and the rules of most telephone companies prevent a permanent attachment of any form of device to its property such as a bracket to the coinreceiving box.

The principal object of my invention,

therefore, is to devise a bracket which may be readily attached to the coin-receiving box without in any Way changing or molesting the property of the telephone company or the removal of any parts of the property of the telephone company to enable the stand to be attached. In order to accomplish this end I have utilized certain structure characteristics of the coin-receiving box in combination with my improved bracket whereby the bracket may be detachably secured to the coin-receiving box.

On the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved stand,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved stand attached to a coin-receiving box, and

Fig. 3 is a front view of Fig. 2. Referring more particularly to the draw- 1n ch racter and is ,secured to the back-board 2, which back-board in turn is secured to a Wall or any other suitable part of the building generally by means of screws. The back-boards commonly used have a vertical groove 3 on their rear face in which groove the insulated electrical wires are adapted to be housed. The coin-receiving box and the coin-receiving box 1 is of the usual back-board are the common form or equipment and the property of the telephone company installing the same. The bracket comprises a base 4 having two legs 5 and 6 which are adapted to span the back-board and be in contact with the vertical edgesthereof so as to prevent sidewise tilting of the \bracket relative to the back-board and an intermediate leg 7 which is adapted to enter the upper end of groove 3 and thus prevent the bracket from'tilting forwardly as this intermediate leg is confined in the groove 3 by the three sides of the groove and the wall or other portion of the building to which the back-board is attached thus forminga pocket into which the intermediate leg projects, which construction securely holds the-bracket in 'place.

A stud 8 may be placed on the under side of the bracket base which is adapted to rest upon the upper surface of the coin box and thus give additional support to the bracket.

, Braces 9 and 10 may be used for further supporting the bracket and a rail 11 is preferably employed to revent the telephone stand from sllding o thebracket;

It will be seen from the foregoing description that I have devised a structure which may be securely attached to the coin box and back board of telephone equipment without in any way injuring the parts to which it is attached or interfering with the operation of the telephone equipment or injuring such equipment.

I do not wish it to be understood that I am limited in any way to a bracket made in the form as herein shown as such bracket may be made of Wood, metal, or any other substantial material, and I therefore claim:

1. The combination with a supporting member embracing aboard fixed to a wall or the like, of a bracket comprising means en- 2. The combination with a supporting member embracing a board fixed to a Wall or the like, of a bracket adapted to rest upon the top of said supporting member, means on said bracket disposed on opposite sides of said supporting member for preventing movement of said bracket in one direction relative to said supportingv member, and a tongue on said bracket adapted to be inserted between said board and wall for preventing movement of said bracket in another direction relative to said supporting member.

3. The combination with a supporting member having a vertical groove therein, of

a bracket having three legs thereon, two of said legs being adapted to be disposed on opposite sides of the supporting member-and an intermediate leg adapted to enter the groove in said supporting member, whereby said bracket'is .held in fixed relation relative to said -'supporting member.

4. The combmation with a supporting member, of a bracket having three legs thereon,two of said legs being adapted to be disposed on the opposite sides of said supporting member and an intermediate leg a adapted to enter a groove formed in said supportmg member. I

5. The combination with a supporting member of a bracket having three legs thereon, two of said legs being adaptedto be the uppersurface of said supporting mem- 1 her my name this 13th day of May, A. D., 1919.

JOHN W. HALLAM.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe 30

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