US1652221A - Jar holder - Google Patents

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Dec. 13, 1927. 1,652,221

F. J. TROUT JAR HOLDER Filed April 4. 1925 Ferree J: Trout tionary head tightly grip a Patented Dec. 13, 1927.

FERBEE J. TROUT, OF POMEROY, PENNSYLVANIA. W

JAR HOLDER.

. Application filed April 4,1925. SerialNo. 20,802.

This invention relates to a jar holder and an object of the invention is to provide an adjustable device for holding glass, fruit jars, or analogous structures, while they are being sterilized, filled with hot food-stuffs,

or the like, so as to prevent the user from burning the hands or being cut by the glass, should the jars break.

Another object of the invention is to provide a jar holder which includes a reversible jar engaging head having arcuate surfaces of different radii so as to permit the head to be adjusted to engage either pint or quart sized jars, and also to provide a relatively stationary head to which a pair of levers are connected, the levers being in turn connected to the adjustable head by link structures, so as to permit the adjustable head to be moved towards the relatively adjustable stationary head upon movement of the levers for tightly gripping the jar.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the following detail description, and in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1-is a plan view of the improved jar holder showing the adjustable head in one position in solid lines and in another position in dotted lines.

Figure 2is an edge elevation of the improved jar holder.

Figure 3's a detail view of the jar holder.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, a jar holder comprises a relatively sta- 1 which is in the form of a substantially rectangular block having an arcuate face 2 lined with a soft non-abrasive, as well as gripping lining 3. The lining 3 is preferably made of rubber, so that itwill smooth surface such as a The relatively stationary head 1 is provided with two cut-out portions or divergent slots 9 into which the angled ends 4: of L-shaped levers 5 and 6 extend. The L-shaped levers 5 and 6 are pivotally connected to the head 1, as clearly shown in Figure 1 of the drawings. The L-shaped levers 5 and 6 have lateral arms 7 which are pivoted in the slots 9 of the head 1 and project beyond the ends of the head 1 and have links 8 pivotally connected thereto, which links are in turn pivotally connected by means of wood screws to the ends of the adjustable or movable gripping head'10. The adjustable head 10 has its opposite sides concavely cut and one side is out upon radii glass fruit ar.

which are shorter in length than the opposite slde so as to provide a relatively small and large concave surface for engagement respectively, with pint and quart fruit jars. The concave surfaces 2 of the adjustable head 10 are lined with sheets of soft nonabrasive material, such as rubber, or the like 8 which will grip the surface of the jars for holding the jars firmly, while being sterilized, moved while hot, or filled with hot edibles.

To release a jar, the handles or levers 5 are moved into their normal position, as shown in Figure 1 of the drawings, which moves the adjustable head 10 away from the relatively stationary head 1, and permits releasing of the holder with the jar; while when it is desired to grip a jar, the holder is placed with the heads 1 and 10 upon opposite sides of the jar, and the handles of the L- shaped levers 5 and 6 are forced towards each other, which brings the heads into firm gripping engagement with the jar.

It is, of course, to be understood, that the invention may be constructed in various other manners and the parts associated in different relations, and therefore, I do not desire to be limited in any manner, except as set forth in the claims hereunto appended.

What I claim is 1. A device of the kind set forth, comprising a stationary jar engaging head provided with slots in its ends, an adjustably movable head having opposite jar engaging sides, said movable head being provided with concaved surfaces in the jar engaging sides, one of said concaved surfaces being of a greater radii than the concaved surface in the opposite side of said movable head, a pair of parallel links having their corresponding ends pivoted to the ends of said movable head, a pair of substantially L- shaped operating levers operatively mounted in said slots and having lateral arms pivoted to the other corresponding ends of said links for. actuating said movable head upon compressing the free extended ends of said operating levers.

2. A device of the kind set forth, comprising a stationary gripping head having a concaved surface formed in one side thereof, a movable gripping head having concaved surfaces formed on opposite sides thereof, one of said concaved surfaces of said movable head being of a greater radii than the opposite surface in said movable head, said stationary head having a pair of divergent slots, a pair of substantially L- shaped operating levers having lateral arms operatively mounted in said divergent slot-s,

a pair of links operatively connecting the lateral arms and the ends of the movable gripplng head, for actuating said movable head in operative relation to the stationary head, and resilient liners attached to the coneaved surfaces in the sides of said sta- 10 tionary and movable heads.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

FERREE J. TROUT.

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