US1444720A - Fly swatter - Google Patents

Description

Feb. 6, 1923. 1,444,720.

I I C- D. YOUNGER.

FLY SWATTER.

FILED AUG. 3!, 1922.

WITNESSES INVENTOR I CHARLEsQYm/NaER A TTOR/VE Y8 Patented. Feb. 6, 1 923.

CHARLES DILLARD YOUNGER, 0F EDGELEY, NORTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOB; OF ONE- HALF TO'BERT R. VOGT, OF EDGELEY, NORTH DAKQTA.

FLY SWATTER.

, Application filed August 3 1, 1922. Serial No. 585,572.

7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. YoUNonR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Edgeley, in the county of La Moure and State of North Dakota have invented a new and Improved Fly Swatter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descripriously bent as shown, to form a handle 4 tion.

The present invention aims to provide an improved fly swatter of the familiantype' including a handle and a more or less flexible striker sheet.

An improved object of the invention is to provide simple and inexpensive means for detachably but securely mounting the sheet on the handle to permit the substitution of a new strikersheet each time an old one is out worn while retaining the handle and other parts.

Another object is to incorporate in the structure, inexpensive but dependable elements to give a handle of light weight and preferably make advantageous the formation of the handle from a single length of wire suitably bent; and an anchoring means for the striker sheet which may be depended on to keep the sheet normally extended in prolongation of the handle and prevent it from slipping angularly about its line of anchor and preferablyan anchoring means so designed that it includes but a single stamped part, shaped and located positively to hold the sheet anchored as desired and yet permit instantaneous detachment from and attachment to the remainder of the device.

These and other objects of the invention will be moreclearly understood from the following descriptionof one of the many possible embodiments of the invention, said description to be taken in connection with the accompanying drawing showing a construction at present preferred and which may constitute one example of the manner in which the invention may be carried out.

In this drawing Figure 1 isa front elevation of the swatter partly in section.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is also a sectional view but taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

In the present instance, a striker sheet 3 is illustratively disclosed as comprising a single piece of sheet material, as rubber.

Preferably, asingle length of wire is vacarrying at its upper end a pair of leg members 5 arranged end to end and adapted to be embraced by the folded over lower marginal portion 6 of the sheet 3; the natural resiliency of the arm portions 7 of the handle tending to urge said leg members toward end to end contact.

Associated with the parts so far described and constituting the only additional member of the complete combination, is a channel member or spring clip 8 of substantially U-shaped cross section for overlying the leg members 5 to embrace the lowermarginal portion 6 of sheet 3, as well as the main partof the sheet where the latter lies opposite the portion 6 and to compress the two plies of sheet material thus disposed just beyond the leg members 5.

In order that the clip 8 may be keyed on the leg members 5 thereby to prevent a piv-v otal' movement of the sheet 3 on said leg members, the clip is notched at its bottom at opposite ends. Such notches straddle the arm portions 7 and so key the clip in a manner which will be more clearly understood from Figure 1, showing the parts in assembled condition. I

In order to restrain the clip against downward disengagement'from its frictional and compressing co-action with sheet 3 where folded over the leg members 5, the upper ends of arm portions 7 are notched at 9 to interlock with thetnotches at the bottom of clip 8.

It will, of course, be understood fromthe above description, that to discard a striker sheet 3 it is merely necessary to separate the arm portions 7 suliiciently to permit the clip 8 to be pulled in a downward direction past the notches 9 and far enough to release its grip on the folded over portions of the then moving the clip 8 upward with the latters terminal notches engaging the arm portions 7 of the handle until the clip is squeezed over the bent over parts of the new sheet and the terminal notches of the clip of sheet metal and of such a shape that it may advantageously be stamped with a minimum of waste.

I would state in conclusion, that while the illustrated example constitutes -a practical embodiment of the invention, I do not limit myself strictly thereto, since, manifestly, the

- same can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. In a fly swatter, the combination of a handle carrying at its upper end a plurality of rod-like elements bent to form a pair of transverse legs arranged end to end and spaced above the main body of the handle, a striker sheet having a terminal flexible portion folded over said legs, and a spring clip substantially U-shaped in cross section overlying said legs .and compressing the main and folded over portions of the sheet between the sides of the clip beyond said le a In a fly swatter, the combination of a single length of Wire bent to form a handle carrying at its upper end a pair of transverse legs arranged end to-end and spaced above the main body of the handle, a striker sheet having a terminal flexible portion folded over said legs, and a spring clip substantially U-shaped in cross section overlying said legs and compressing the main and folded over portions of the sheet between the sides of the clip beyond said legs, and

means for restraining the striker sheet and the clip from rotating on said legs carried partially by the clip and-partially by the handle.

3. In a fly swatter, the combination of a single length of wire bent to form a handle carrying at its upper end a pair of transverse legs arranged endto end and spaced above the main body of the handle, and

resiliently set to a predetermined adjacency,

a striker sheet looped at its lower end around said legs to form two plies of a sheet above said legs, and a channel clip straddled over said two plies to compress the same in the vicinity of said legs, the bottom wall of the clip beingnotched at opposite ends to embrace portions of the wire of the handle to restrain the clip against turning on the legs.

4. In a fly swatter, the combination of a handle carrying at-its upper end a transverse rod-like support, a striker sheet having a terminal flexible portion folded over said support, means for holding the main portion of the sheet normally extended in prolongation of the handle including a channel member overlying said support and frictionally embracing the main and folded over parts of the sheet, and means partially carried by the channel member and partially carried by the handle for restraining the channel member against disengagement from the other arts len thwise of the sheet.

CHARLE DILLKRD YOUNGER.

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