US1480018A - Tree stand - Google Patents

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Jan. s, 1924. 1,480,018

A. G. SIEBENLIST` TREE STAND Filed sept. 5o. 192.2

f Anthnng @.EIEU E111' 1513 Patented Jan. 8, 1924.

UNITED srrs y raam ANTHONY GEORGE SIEBENLIST, OF ALOIS, WISCONSIN.

TREE STAND.

Application led September 30, i922. Serial No. 591,539.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANTHONY GEORGE SIEBENLrs'r, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Alois, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tree Stands; and I do hereby-declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to stands Christmas trees and similar articles.

Objects of this invention are to provide a stand adapted to firmly and rigidly hold a Christmas tree in position, to provide a device which may be readily assembled by an unskilled operation, which may be readily separated into its component parts and stored in a small space, and which may be shipped in a knock-down condition, either with the parts grouped in separate units,

or with the parts shipped in bulk.

Further objects are to provide a Christmas tree holder having a small number of parts in which most of the parts are dupli- 26 Cates, and may be made from the same pattern at an extremely small expense.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of the tree holder in its assembled condition.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, it will be seen that the device comprises a cup l adapted to receive the butt or base of a tree. .This cup is provided with three downwardly extending lugs 2 provided with an intermediate web 3. Each of these lugs has a hole drilled through it and into the cup and threaded to receive the winged set screws 4, as illustrated in the drawings, such set screws being adapted to be forced into the base of the tree to firmly engage the tree and hold it rigidly with respect to the cup l. The lower portion of the cup is provided with a threaded aperture adapted to receive a correspondingly threaded screw 5, whose upper end may be pointed, as indicated at 6 and may enter the base of the tree if desired. This screw holds a three armed spider 7 in position, such spider being indicated in dotfor ted lines in Figurel and in section in the remaining figures.

A plurality of legs 8 are provided v,and have upturned or slightly enlarged rounded bearing outer portions, 9 adapted to rest upon the floor. l The inner ends of these legs are provided withupright portionslO which are slotted, as indicated at 11 in Figure 3, to receive the web portion 3 of the lugs-the outer portion 2 of such lugs overhanging a portion `of the uprights l0. The uprights, it will be seen from Figure 3, firmly engage opposite sides of the webs 3 and are locked beneath the overhanging portion 2 mentioned abo-ve. The lower portion of these uprights taper downwardly and join the legs 8, as may be readily seen from Figure 3.

In assembling the device, the legs 8 are y positioned by sliding the uprights 10 beneath lugs 2 into the position described above, and thereafter the spider 7 is slightly rotated so as to cause its arms to be positioned beneath the lower ends of the uprights, as shown in the drawings, particularly in Figures 2 and 3. In this manner the legs are firmly locked in posit-ion and may not inadvertently be dropped from the cup or socket when the device is lifted from the floor. inserted within the cup-shaped portion and the winged set screws 4' tightened to securely lock the butt of the tree in position.

Attention is particularly called to the fact that extremely simple patterns may be used in producing the parts and that a very small number of patterns may be employed. For instance, in the form shown, only two patterns are needed, one for the cup and one for the leg, as the legs are all duplicates. It is also to be noted that standard winged set screws may be employed and that the spider 7 may be readily formed from a stamping.

By the construction outlined, it is possible tomake these tree stands very cheaply, to ship them in collapsed condition, to readily assemble the parts, or separate the device into its component parts, such operations being easily performed by an unskilled operator. p

It is of course understood that the exact number of parts described may be varied and that other changes in the embodiment of the invention may be resorted to Without The base of the tree may bev departing from the spirit of the invention, such invention being limited only as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim e l. A tree holder comprising a cup adapted to receive the butt of a tree, a plurality of winged set screws threaded through such cup and adapted to engage the butt of the tree, a plurality of lugs extending outwardly and downwardly from the outer portion of ysaid cup and having a portion spaced from such cup, a pluralityof legs having upright portions adapted to be positioned between such lugs and said cup, and a spider revolubly mounted upon the lower portion of such cup and having varms adapted to be posi tioned beneath the bottom of said upright portionsrwhereby said legs are held in position.r

2. A tree holder comprising a cup adapted to receive a tree butt7 a plurality of downwardly extending vlugs spaced from said Cup andeonnected with 4said cup by means of webs, a plurality of legs having slotted uprights adapted to be received bcneath said `lugs and to receive said webs within the slots, and the spider revolubly secured to the lower portion of such cup and having outwardly projecting arms adapted to be positioned beneath the bottom of said uprights to hold such uprights ein locked position relatively to such lugs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee,

in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin.

ANrHoNv ,GEORGE siEBnNLisr.

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