US1575789A - Support - Google Patents

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March 9 1926.

F. M. PHELPS SUPPORT Filed April 20 1925 Patented Mar. 9, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. PHELPS, F USK, WASHINGTdN.

surrom'.

Application filed April 20, 1925. Serial No. 24,439.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. PHELPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Usk, in Pond Oreille County and 'State of \Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an improved support of the vacuum cup type for supporting in vertical position ornamental articles, cards, letters, photographs and other similar devices. The invention is particularly adapted for use in connection with glass panels of windows or with the glass panels of Windshields of automobiles. In the latter instance the device is designed to support ornamental figures and other insignia and the vacuum cup employed for securing the support to the glass of the windshield is also utilized as a means for assisting in clamping or fastening the supported article in rigid position.

The invention. consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts in connection with the vacuum cup as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention where in the parts are combined and arranged in accordance with the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Flgure 1 is a View showing in elevation a portion of a windshield of an automobile with the support ofmy invention attached thereto.

Figure 2 is an enlarged view in sideelevation showing a portion of the support in section.

'Figure 3 is an enlarged detail perspective View of the support, showing the lower portion of an ornamental card carried thereby.

Figure 4 is anenlarged view through the neck of the support showing the latter. in section and the spring holding clip for the ornamental card or article.

In order that the general arrangement of parts and the utility of the device may be -understood I have indicated as 1 a glass panel of an automobile windshield, but it will be obvious that the device is adapted for use with other smooth surfaces and similar materials used for other purposes.

In carrying out my invention I employ a wedge shaped neck vacuum cup 2 preferably of rubber in the form of a hollow circular disk with its edges adapted to contact with the smooth'surface of the glass and be retained thereon by suction as indicated in Figure 2.

The cup is fashioned with an integral, 3 and an integral head 4 preferably of circular shape and provided with an inner tapered face 5. Thus it will be seen that in addition to the wedge shaped neck 3 of the cup, a second wedge arrangement is provided between the head and the body of the cup. The inner tapered face 5' of the head is arranged so that the minimum thickness of the head is located at the upper end of the wedge shaped neck, which upper end is also the minimum thickness of the wedge shaped neck. And the maximum thickness of the wedge shaped neck is provided at the end of the neck adjacent the maximum thickness of the head.

In connection with the vacuum-support I employ a spring clip made of suitable resilient metal and fashioned with a pair of retaining arms 6 and 7 and an integral bend 8. In the lower end of the spring clip is fashioned a tapered or wedge shaped slot that extends through the lower ends of both arms of the clip and through the bend 8, said slot being indicated as a whole by the numeral 9. This transversely extending slot of the clip is complementary to the shape of the wedge shaped neck of the cup and is adapted to slip over said neck with the walls of the slot in close frictional engagement therewith as indicated in Figure 4. The two resilient arms of the clip it will be apparent are forced down between the inner, wedge face, of the head and the body of the cup, thus securing the spring clip on the support by means of two wedge actions exerted in planes at right angles. The slotted connection between' the clip and the neck hold the clip against lateral movement. and the wedge action between the head and body on the clip hold the clip from wobbling toward the front or rear. In this manner the clip is detachably held on the support.

One of the arms of the clip is provided with a stud pin 10 proj acting from its inner face toward the adjoining face of the other arm, and both arms of the clip, at their upper ends are curled or turned outwardly to form top guide edges for a card or article as 12. This article may be of pasteboard and is shoved down between the two guide lips 11 in position so that the stud pin may penetrate it as indicated in Figure 2. Then when the clip with its retained card 'is slipped into position between the head and body of the cup, the card is clasped between the resilient arms of the clip and held in position by the stud and the arms of the clip. Or the article supported may be of sheet metal with a perforation therein for the stud 10, or other approved or desired forms or materials may be used for the ornamental article.

It will be apparent that the card or other article may be rigidly supported and retained in upright position and its displacement prevented, and that theclip, although detachably carried by the support, is rigidly retained thereon against displacement.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a vacuum cup having a neck wedge shaped in cross, section,

having a neck wedge shaped in cross sec-' tion and a head having an inner tapered I face, of a spring clip having slotted arms to engage over said neck, one of said arms adapted to frictionally engage said tapered face and the other arm adapted to frictionally engage the body of the cup.

3. The combination with a rubber vacuum cup having an integral, extending neck wedge shaped in cross section and an integral circular head having an inner tapered face, of a spring clip having slotted arms to engage said neck, a retaining stud on one of said arms, and said arms adapted to engage said body and head with a wedge action. 1

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

FRANK M. PHELPS.

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