US1473180A - Telephone cover - Google Patents

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Nov. 6 11923.

- M. R. FOSTER TELEPHONE covE'R Filed July 29 1921 Mil P05 277 I N VEN TOR.

ATTORNEY;

Patented Nov. t3, 1%23.

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MARY ROBERTS FOSTER, 015 WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

TELEPHONE COVER,

Application filed July 29,

To all whom 27; may concern:

Be it known that I, Mair-r Ronnnrs Fos- TER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Covers, of which the following isa specification.

This invention appertains to a certain novel form of telephone cover, andha-s for its principal object to provide a type of the same in the nature of a dress adapted to enclose and otherwise cover up practically all of the exposed parts of a telephone, :referably a telephone of the desk or portable type, and in a manner to render the same ornamentally attractive and vpleasing to the eye, but without detracting from the general utility of the telephone, or otherwise rendering the same inconvenient or annoying in use.

Another object of the invention to provide for a cover of the class mentioned, and one which may be readily and quickly applied to a telephone after the manner of a slip-on dress or cover, and secured, in position thereon for use until soiled or otherwise unfit for further use, when the same can be removed with equal facility forcleaning purposes or for the substitution of another therefor.

A further object of the invention ,is to providefor a cover or dress as character ized, and one which may be easily made up in any number of-designs or materials, either plain or with fanciful trimmings such as will meet with the varying ideas'a-nd-needs of the trade.

Another object of the invention is to pro-- vide for a telephone cover or dress of the character set forth, and one which is capable of being manufactured at anextremely low cost,'and made up either singly, or in small or large quantities, without seriously affect-- ing any marked variation in such cost, which cost, however, will 'mainly depend upon and'be determined by the quality of the materials used in the construction thereof.

With the foregoing and other objects .in view, the invention resides in the certain 1921. .Serial No. 488,319.

novel and useful construction and arrangement as will be hereinafter more fully de scr bed, set forth'in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying draw ing, in which zi- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a conventional form of desk or portable type of telephone, showing a preferred embodiment of the invention. as appliedthereto,

Figure '2 is a vertical section through the cover or dress, the same being taken .on the line 22 of Figure 1', i

Figure 3 is a side elevation,

Figure & is aside elevation of the .receiver portion of the cover or dress of the telephone, and,

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary Section through the telephone standard covering portion of the coveror dress andvshowing the manner of fastening the, adjacentedges thereof together. i

Referring to the drawing, the letter. a indicates the base ofa desk ,or portable form of telephone, .6 the standardflthereof, c the pivot connecting the upperend oft-he standard Z) for the attaching thereto of the transmitter (Z, c the mouthpiece of the transmitter (Z, and f the receiver hook and switching arm thereof, all of conventional form, construction and arrangement.

The present embodiment of the cover or dress for enclosing the telephone comprises a transmitter covering or upper section substantially of elbowcontour, a standard covering or intermediate section of cylindrical contour, a base covering or lower section or flaring contour, anda receiver covering section substantially bell shaped. The upper portion 10 Ofa fully flexible material or fabric, which is made with a sufiicient fullness to be readily fittedoverthe. transmitter (Z to fully enclose the same .andthe pivot connection 0 thereof, .an opening 11 being provided in the upper end of the portion 10 whereby to have inserted Itherethrough the mouthpiece e for its connection with the transmitter d, the mouthpiece beingremoved fromthe latter previous to the placing of the portion 10 in position. The-lower endof the po rtion l0 formed to provide an opening 12 to snugly fit around the extreme upper end of the "standard b and the edge of this opening 12 Tthe upper Opening 11, as at 1%, the latter may be rolled or otherwisefancifully plaited or gathered as at 13, as is also the edge of beingp'rovided with a circletiof braiding, edging'or the like 15, to add to the attractiveness'ofthe construction. Secured to the inner wall of the, lower- ;opening' 1210f the 'upper portion 10 is'an intermediate portion 16, which is arranged to encircle and enclose withinthe same the standard 6 of the telephone, and thisportion l6may be of a similar material or fabric as that of the upper portion 10, but is preferably made of a heavier material or fabric, such as plush or the like. Securedto the lower end of the intermediate portionlfi is a. lower portion orskirt 17 which is arranged to entirely cover the upper conical surface ofthebase a of the telephone, andithisportion of the cover or dress is gathered arms upper edge thereof'to admit of its proper connection with thG jlOWBI end of the inter mediate portion 16., and, at the same time, gives sufficient fullness to the body of the skirt and the lowerportion thereof to efiect the covering of the base a in an attractive of the cover or dress overthe upper end of the telephone, whenithe'se side edges will be fastened jtogether by means ofa series-of fasteningsjlt), such the so-called invisiblei snapfastenings andjthe like, the in-Y termediate portion 16 ofthecover. or dressfitting the standard ZJ'in snug manner, when fastened in position thereon, so as to afford an efiicient gripping surface, when the telephone is being used, -the receiver hook or switching "arm ,7 of-the telephone being allowed to project-from between the adjacent side edges at theupper end of the intermediate portion 16 substantially as.

shown in Figure 3.

' Supplemental to l telephone pro er, a cover portion 20 is provided for enclosing the receiver thereof,

. and the samejisof a formto snugly adapt itself to the configuration ofthe same, substantially' as is shown in Figures 1 and 4, the lower end of theportion 20 being-open so as to'not in any way interfere with the use the cover ordress'for the of the receiver, and the edge of this opening may be gathered or pla'ited as at 21 in a manher to retain this end of thefco'ver'in engagedposition. 7 The upper end of tliiscover 20 is I gathered as at 22 to restrict the opening therein for its snug engagement over the:

end of the receiver whichQis attached to the conductors leading from" the telephone to the same; The upper portions of the seam 23 connectingthe side edges of the material or fabric, from. which the supplemental cover ordress is made, are left normally unconnected one from the other, whereby to i admit of the latter being drawn intoenclosmg position over the IBCBIV815fil1d these por' tions are then secured together by meansrof an invisible fastening or fastenings 2 1, when;

the coverjor" dresswill be retained'in position untilit is desired to'remove'the same for cleaning or change. T0 add tothe attr'activeness of the-supplemental cover or dress, a tassel or other similar ornament 25 is attached-to and suspended from the up-' per end thereof bymeans of a cord or the like 26. I

From the foregoing, itwilln be readily apr parent that the invention provides for an extremely novel form of'fcover or dress for telephones and one that is'designed to meet a popular demand for the making of house or private telephones ornamental-as Well as useful, such as has heretofore been accomplished only by the enclosing of a telephone within fancifulcabinets or coverings not attached directly to or carried by the same, and

which have to be opened or otherwise entirely removed to allow for theuse thereof.

It is well understood that, while a pre ferred embodiment of the invention has been described and" illustrated herein in specifieterms and details of construction and arrangement, various changes in and modifications of the same may be resorted to without departing from-the spirit of the invention, or the scope of the claim appended hereto.

Having thus fully"described the iiq ven tion, what is claimed, is

A cover comprismg an anglefshaped hol Y low upper section having the free terminus of its horizontal le inturnedxto form a reduced lateral opening, the lower; terminus of the vertical leg of said section providing V a vertically dlsposed open1ng,a reinforcing element secured to the inturned portion of the horizontal legofsaid sectionand sur roundingsaid lateral opening, a vertically v disposed hollow cylindrical" intermediate.

section having its upper end extending into saidvertlcal opening andconnec-ted to said upper section, a flaring base section having its topformed' with a vertical opening into which extends the lower end of the intermedlate section, the said intermediate section being secured at its lower end to the basesection, said upper section having its vertical leg split for a portion of its length, said intermediate and said base sections being split throughout, means for detachably connecting the sides of the split portion of the upper section in overlapping position, means for detachably connecting the intermediate section overlapped at the split portion thereof, and means for detachably c0nnecting the base overlapped at the split por- 10 tion thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature hereto.

MARY ROBERTS FOSTER.

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