US1340714A - Bag-holder - Google Patents

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J. L. AND G. E. HERRMAN.

BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION man NOV-15,1919.

340,7 1 4 Patented May 18, 1920.

/4 /5 I I l5 nwnrcz John Lflclrrman George E. Herrman JOHN HERB/MAN AND GEORGE E. HERRMAN, MICA, WASHINGTON.

BAG-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1920.

Application filed November 15, 1919. Serial No. 338,150.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN L. HERRMAN and GEORGE E. HERRMAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Mica, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention relates to an mproved bag holder or device for holding open the mouth of a bag while being filled, and preferably while the bag is suspended by the holder, the primary object of the nvention being the provision of such a device that is comparatively inexpensive of con struction and is simple in operation, durable, and may readily and with facility be placed in operative position to hold the bag open, and with equal convenience and despatch may be released from the bag when desired.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts for applying and releasing the bag holder, as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings we have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of our invention in which the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode we have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of our invention.

Figure 1 is a view in elevation showing the physical embodiment of our invention, with the parts in operative position for use.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged, detail view of a por tion of the holder, showing the outer or holding edge of the holder plate, in operative position as in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View showing one of the serrated or toothed holding plates hanging in released or inoperative position.

In the preferred form of the invention we utilize the device as a means for suspending the bag to be filled, as well as for performing the function of a device for holding the mouth of the bag open. Thus we employ a bail of resilient wire metal of proper gage and size so that the two legs 1 and 2 have a tendency to spread under the action of the coils 3, 3, at the top of the bail, and by means of the eye or ring l, a hook 5 is utilized to hang or suspend the holder so that the bag may be elevated and suspended with its mouth wide open for filling.

At the ends of the legs they are bent inwardly toward each other forming arms 6, 6, and the lower part of these arms have angular flattened end portions or extremities 7, 7 to which the holder plates 8, 8 are hinged at 9, the ends 7-7 being bent to encircle a hinged pin 14. This pin in addition is engaged by ears or loops 15 on the plates 8 to form the hinged joint 9 and a spring coiled around the pin has its bearing against one side of the plates 8, while the central loop portion bears against the outer face of the leg portion. The plates and their connections are complementary and duplex in their action, and of course are reversed for performing their functions at diametrically opposite points in the mouth of the bag to be held open. Thus the plates are hinged at 9 and have each an angular serrated edge 10 with points or teeth extending outwardly in an approximate horizontal plane when in operative position, and the plates in substantially vertical plane. The plates are preferably curved to conform generally to the desired rounded opening of the bag, and of sufiicient length to insure an opening of sufficient area to permit convenient filling of the bag. The tension of the resilient bail, it will readily be apparent, after the bail has been compressed for insertion in the mouth of the bag, will urge apart the two legs of the bail with the result that the serrated edges or teeth of the two holder plates will engage the inside walls of the bag near the upper edge thereof to hold the mouth open and to suspend the bag thereby for filling.

The holder plates are held in operative position by means of springs 11 coiled about the hinge joints 9 which springs are of sufficient strength to hold the plates in an upright position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

y means of the lever 12, which has its bent ends 13 passed through openings in the plate, excess movement of the plate under tension of the spring is prevented as the lever, as will be seen, engages the legs of the bail to prevent further movement. leasing the serrated plate it is only necessary to turn down the lever from position of Figs. 1 and 2, whereupon the teeth 10 are withdrawn from the material of the bag, and when both plates have been turned down as in Fig. 3 the bag is freed from'the holder. The looped form of the levers 12, fashioned from wire and made rigid with the plates, permits the levers to swing upwardly over the angle at the lower ends of the legs 1 and In re- 2 with their arms 6, and as the lever fits closely about the bail, it oifers little obstruction to the filling of the bag, but is guided and held in proper position close against the bail. When the lever is turned down to release the bag, it is turned down on the outside of the bag, and this action frees the holder from the bag, and then the upper edge of: the bag is freed from the holder by the same action, thus permitting Withdrawal of the parts.

What We claim is 1. A bag holder comprising a bail having a spring hinged holding plate at each end, said plates having teeth to engage a bag, and a lever secured to the plate for operating the same and also adapted to act as a stop for limiting the spring pressure of the holding plate, whereby the plates may be released from engagement with the bag.

2. The combination With a hail, of a holdlever fixed to each plate adapted to fit over the arms of the bail for limiting movement of the spring plates, and also adapted for disengaging the plate from the bag.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures.

JOHN L. HERRMAN. GEO. E. HERRMAN.

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