US1349274A

US1349274A - Broom-holder

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Publication number: US1349274A
Application number: US384996A
Authority: US
Inventors: Gustafson Charles
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-05-28
Filing date: 1920-05-28
Publication date: 1920-08-10
Anticipated expiration: 1937-08-10

Description

C. GUSTAFSON.

BROOM HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, I920.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

z Q g rare ' CHARLES GUSTAFSON, OF INSTANTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed May 28, 1920. Serial No. 384,996.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHArLns GUsrAnsoN, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Instanter, in the county of Elk and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in broom holders. The chief object is to provide a device of this class that is of very simple construction, cheap to manufacture and that canbe engaged with or disengaged from the broom handle instantly. l/Vhile the prime object is to provide a device for holding broom handles it will serve for holding the handles of mops, brushes, etc.,

quite as well. With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a view of my improved broom holder in front elevation, illustrating its application. I

Fig. 2 is a plan View of Fig. 1 with the broom handle removed.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the device.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My holder is formed of a single piece of material, preferably metal, comprising the strips 1, 2 which lie parallel with each other, spaced apart throughout their length and connected by the bulged end portion 3. The free ends of the strips are formed with the alined perforations to receive the screw 5 by means of which the device is to be secured to a wall or other supporting surface. The strip 1 is formed with the lateral arms 6, 7 in alinement with each other and disposed at an oblique angle to said strip, said arms being bent in the direction of the strip 2 but extending considerably beyond that strip and terminating in the oppositely disposed pointed ends 8. The strip 2 is formed with the single tooth 9 in the common plane of the arms 6, 7 and bent outwardly or toward said arm ends.

The ordinary broom handles are substantially of uniform diameter and I prefer to make the distance between the points 8 substantially equal to the broom handle diameter, the distance from a line connecting said points to the strip 2 being substantially one half that diameter. It is to be understood that my holder will grasp and retain handles of different diameters. When the holder is suspended by the screw 5 the handle 10 is manually inserted between the points 8 when it will be engaged also by the tooth 9 and so supported. The weight of the broom will position the holder in substantially the position illustrated in Fig. 1. Handles varying in size from the ordinary broom handle will be held in practically the same manner. hen a broom handle is to be inserted in the holder the holder is manually raised upon the screw as a pivot until the points 8 lie in a horizontal plane, the handle is then inserted between the points 8 which, when the holder is released, will automatically grip the handle as the holder is moved by gravity upon its pivotal support 5, regardless of the size of the handle.

To remove the handle from the holder the latter is raised upon its pivot until the points 8 release the handle.

What is claimed is 2- 1. In a broom holder, strips spaced apart, arms integral with one of said strips and curved in the direction of the second strip, said arms having pointed ends, and a tooth formed upon one of said strips.

2. In a broom holder, connected parallel strips yieldinglyrspaced away from each other, oppositely disposed arms formed integral with one of said strips, said arms being curved in the direction of the second strip but extending outwardly beyond the same and terminating inpoints, and a tooth formed upon said second strip.

3. In a broom holder formed of a single piece of material, parallel strips yieldingly spaced apart, arms formed upon opposite sides of one of said strips at an oblique.

angle thereto, said arms being curved in the direction of the second strip but eX- tending outwardly beyond the same and ter-.

minating in alined pointed ends, and a tooth formed upon the second strip in the common plane of said arms.

4. In a broom holder formed of a single piece of material, parallel strips yieldingly spaced apart, arms formed upon opposite sides of one of said strips at an oblique angle thereto, said arms being curved toward the second strip but extending outwardly beyond the same and terminating in alined pointed ends, and a tooth formed laterally of the second strip in the common my oWn I have hereto aflixed my signature plane of said arms, the distance between in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

the pointed ends of said arms being snb- CHAS" GUSTAFSON stantially twice the dlstance between the said second strip and a line connecting said Vitnesses:

pointed arm ends. RALEIGH S. SWEET,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as WILLIAM N. SWEET.