US1432486A - Bag holder - Google Patents

Description

J. L. MORRIS.v

BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION man nml, 1921.

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Patented l?, iQ/22h JOLLY L. ivionnis, or energien, Panneau/"finie, Assienon 'ro THE Mon-nrs auroivmrio serian conrnnr, or Gitarren, rnnnsrnviinra, e conronA'rIo-n or sou'rn DAKOTA.

BAG HOLDER.

Application filed December l, 1921.. Serial -No. 519,146.

To all w /mm 'it may concer/1t.'

Be it known-that l, JOLLY L lllomuaa citizen ot the. United States, residing at Grafton, in the county o't Allegheny and State ot Pennsylvania, have invented 'certain new and useful l-iuprovements in kBag Holders, of which the following is a specificationy reference being had therein to the accom panying drawings. I

This invention relates to bag holders and has for an object to vprovide a bag holder especially, though not exclusively adapted for for use in conjunction with automaticl scales and presenting new and improved teatures or reliability and convenience.

A further object of the invention is to provide, inv combination with a platform having upstanding spaced struts, a sleeve properly proportioned to till a part oi the open end of a bag, with a spring offset adapted to engage within the bag and maintain the margin` ot' the bag uncer tension about the sleeve.

A further object of the invention is to provide a sleeve of conventional hour-glass shape, the. lower converging fiange of whichv is adapted to engage Within the open mouth of a. bag and provide for introduction of iilling material therethrough with a subst-antially .radial yielding offset adapted to also engage within the open mouth of the bag and maintain the bag in tensional engagement with the flange of the sleeve, as noted. lVith these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel part-s, elements, units, combinations, constructions and functions, as disclosed in the drawings, together with mechanical equivalents thereof, as will be hereinafter more l'ully described and claimed.

ln the drawings:

Figure `l is a view in eleva-tuin ot the dcvice shown upon a conventional scale platform, and

Figure 2 is a top plan view ot the device, both of said views showing in dotted lines a bag in illing engagement therewith.

Like characters ofreference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

While the present invention is particularly intended and adapted for use in conjunction with scales and more especially with, automatic cut-oit scales, it is obvious that such scales are only an adjunct to the present `invention and that any s ructure which would comprise a platform 10 or its equivalent with struts 11 upstandi'ng therefrom in spaced relation will serve the purpose for the functioning of the present bag holder and. that .the scale base 12 and `trame-work 13 are only shown to complete the assembly elliect.` l

`Upon the struts 'l1 a sleeve is mounted coinprising an rupper tapered section 14C having ears lthereon with. set screws 16 for adjusting the vertical position oit the sleeve relative to the strutsll. Beneath the section 14 and registering' therewith is a section 17 reversely tapered, as shown in the drawings, narrower than the section 14, althoughthe relative widths orthe sections are not essential to the present invention.

The sec-tion `16 is provided with tubular members 18 in which are slidably mounted the ends 19 of a preferably U-shaped rod having substantially parallel sections. proportioned andpositioned to slide freely in said tubular members and with springs 20 tending to move the U-shaped member outwardly away from the sleeve.

At the end of the lll-shaped member opposite the extremities 19 the sections are bent downwardly, as at 21., providing a prei-erably and approximately vertical section and then outwardly at 22 to .form an inclined section, the inclination being similar to the taper of the section 17 of the sleeve and corresponding thereto in height so that a bag indicated in dotted lines at 23, when the mout-h orI upper edge is engaged over the section 17, may also be engaged by the section 22, which, by reason oi the spring 20, will tend to hold the bag .iu open position with a portionot the same embracing thev sleeve through which material may be introduced in any approved manner, as from the chute 24.

ln operation, the mouth ot a hag will be held manually open and lifted under the sleeve and the upper edge placed about the section 17, being drawn manually in the direction of the section 22, which will be pushed inwardly against the tension of the spring until the bag can be lifted over the inclined portion 22, whereupon, by the release of the member the spring 20 will force the section 22 to sup-port that side of the bag holding the bag, as will be noted more particularly from Figure 2, open about the sleeve and exteriding` substantially in artriangle to and about tbe inclined portion 22. To release the bag, of Course, the member 22 is a ain pushed inwardly aga-inst the tension o; thespring, wlier'eupon tlie bag will thatthe same filling" device may be employed by a' slight adjustment to fill bags off various styles, shapes,` sizes and dimensions.

WhatA l Claim is: y,

l. The Combination with a platform and spaced struts of a sleeve l'iaving ears einbraef ing the struts, means `to maintain the sleeve at vertically secured, adjusted positions 'upon the struts, and an arm offset from the sleeve yielding radially .relative thereto and provided at, its outer extremity witli means eoaeting with the sleeve for supporting abag in open position about'tbe sleeve and tbe eX- tremity of suoli yielding member'.

k2. A bag holder comprising 'a sleeve' oom- A posed of upper and lower sections, each tapered outwardly reversely to the other, meansto support the sleeve in a substantially horizontal plane, a spring controlled arm extending radially outwardlylromthe sleeve and yieldingradially relative thereto', and an inelined portion carried by the outer extremity 'of the spring arm corresponding with thetaper of the lower section of the sleeve both as to taper and vertical position.v `In testimony wherof I hereunto afX my vsignature in presence of two witnesses. JOLLY L. MORRIS.

Witnesses: f l ERNEST PAYNE,

WILLIAM H. BUSCH.

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