US1603641A

US1603641A - Vase holder

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Publication number: US1603641A
Application number: US83656A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alice M Richards
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-01-25
Filing date: 1926-01-25
Publication date: 1926-10-19
Anticipated expiration: 1943-10-19

Description

Oct. 19 1926.

- A. M. RICHARDS VASE HOLDER Filed Jan. 1926 Patented Get, 19, 1926 near. rates ALICE M. RICHARDS, OF OSHKO$H, WISCONSIN.

VASE HOLDER.

Application filed January 25, 1926.

My invention relates to vase holders of the collapsible frame type, such as shown in my prior Patent 1,559,005, for supporting in a stable manner collapsible paper vases such as shown in my prior Patent 1,490,026, my present purpose being to provide a wall vase holder, that is, one that is adapted to be hung against a wall or similar support and which may be folded to operative and inoperative positions, in the former'position affording a firm and staunch support for a vase positioned therein, and inthe latter position being inconspicuous and out of the way.

Itis also my purpose to provide a wall vase holder that is neat and attractive in appearance, strong, durable, cheap and easy to produce and thoroughly reliable and efficient in use.

Vl ith the foregoing-and other purposes in view, my invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated 1n the accompanying drawings and defined in the appended claims.

of reference denotes corresponding parts in the different views Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a wall vase holder constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the same in a folded or collapsed condition;

Fig. 2, a side elevation showing my vase holder in an operative or set up condition with a Vase positioned therein; and

Fig. 3, a top plan view of my vase holder in its set up condition.

As shown in the drawings my improved vase holder preferably is formed from flat metallic strips and consists essentially of only three main parts, namely, a frame 10 and upper and

lower ring elements

12 and 14, respectively, which latter are pivoted to said frame for swinging movement between inoperative or collapsed and operative or set up positions as shown, respectively, in Figures 1 and 2.

Frame 10 is formed from a single strip of material bent upon itself substantially midway between its ends to provide an eye 16 by means of which said frame maybe suspended from a nail or the like projecting from a wall or similar support, and from said eye the two side arms, 18, 20, respec tively, of said frame are extended down- Serial No. 83,656.

wardly in side to side abutting relation for a considerable distance and then diverged outwardly as at 22, 24, respectively, after which they are converged as at 26, 28, respectively, and their

lower end portions

30, 32 brought relatively close togetherin spaced parallelism with the extreme free end portion 34 of one of said arms, arm 18 in this instance, bent to extend laterally across the space between

saidportions

30, 32 and to frame 10, a pin or rivet 38 being passed through alined openings in said arms 18, 20 and in the free ends of

portions

34, 36 to pivotally connect ring element 12 to frame 10 for swinging movement between the positions shownin Figs. 1 and 2. In the inoperative position of ring 12 shown in Fig. 1, In the drawings, wherein like characters.

that is, when said ring is swung to a vertical position 111 the plane of frame 10,

portions

34, 36 frictionally' engage arms 18, 2O andthus serve to hold said ring in such position, while on the other hand, when ring 12 is swung to a horizontal or operative position as shown in Fig. 2, the lower edges of

portions

34, 36 contact with the diverging portions 22, 24, respectively, of frame 10 whereby said ring is held in its latter position.

Lower ring 14 also is formed from a single strip of material and has its

free end portions

40, 42 extended in side to side abutting relation and received between the

portions

30, 32, of frame 10, a pin or rivet 44 serving to pivotally connect said

portions

40, 42 with said

portions

30, 32 whereby ring 14 may be swung between its inoperative and operative positions shown, respectively, in Figures 1 and 2, in the former position lying in the plane of frame 10 between the

portions

26 and 28 thereof, and being so held by reason of the frictional engagement of

portions

40, 42 with

portions

30, 32, and in the latter position extending horizontally from frame 10 and being held in such position by reason of the lower edges of

portions

30, 32 contactl ing with the horizontal portion 34 of frame Portions 4O, 12 of ring Hare of such length that when both rings 12 and 14: are swung to horizontal positions the center of ring 14, which latter preferably is of more or less elliptical shape thereby to better hold a collapsible vase in set up condition, is in vertical alinement with the center of ring 12, so that a vase, illustratedat 46 by dotted lines in F ig. 2, will be supported in upright position when placed as shown within said rings, and will be firmly supported by said holder as is obvious. When the holder is notriu use the

rings

12, 1 1 are swung to their out of the way positions shown in Fig. 1. 1.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, it isbelieved that the construction, operation and advantages of my improved vase holder will be fully understood. 1 desire to point out, however, that various changes and desirable additions may be made in and to the same within the spirit and scope of myinvention as defined inthe appended claims.

I claim:

1. A vase holder comprising a frame including a portion having an eye at the u per end thereof whereby the holder may be suspended from a support projecting from a wall, portions of said frame being extended laterally from said first mentioned portion for engagement with a wall to pre vent the frame from rotating upon a support by which it is suspended, and a vase receiving' ring includinga pair of arms embracing the first mentioned portion of said frame and pivoted to the latter to permit the ring to be swung between a position at an angle to said frame and a position in the memb parallelism to positions in alinement in the plane ofsaid frame, one of said ring memhers being pivoted to said frame between the parallel portions thereof adj acent to said cross member whereby the latter serves as a stop to limit swinging movement of said ring member.

3. A vase holder comprising a frame including a pair of side arms extending for a .portion of their length in parallelism, the parallel portion of one of said arms terminating in a right-angular extension, and a pair of vase receiving ring members pivoted to said frame for swinging movement between positions in spaced parallelism .andpositions in alinement in the plane of said frame, one of said ring members being pivoted to said frame adjacent to said right angularly extending terminal portion thereof whereby the latter serves as a stop to limit swinging movement of said ring In testimony whereof I hereunto ailix my signature.

" ALICE M. RICHARDS.