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' J. MOGLINGI-IY.

Egg-Holder.

No 225,530. Patented Mar. 16, I880.

N.PETERS, FHOTD-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. B

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOHN MGGLINOHY, OF BOSTON, MASS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH OF HIS RIGHT TO CHARLES ALBERT SHAW, OF SAME PLACE.

EGG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 225,530, dated March 16, 1880.

Application filed January 30, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN MGGLINGHY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Egg-Holders,of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make-and use the same, refer ence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an isoinetrical perspective view, showing the holder in use. Fig. 2 is a view of the piston and Figs 3, 4, and 5, views showing alternate forms of construction.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to that class of eggholders which are designed for table use or for holding the egg while it is being eaten; and it consists in a novel construction andarrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a more efi'ective device of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

In the drawings, A represents the base or foot of the holder; B, the body or pillar; (JO, the arms or supports, and D the top or ring.

The top consists of an annulus or ring. arranged horizontally and secured firmly to the arms, as shown, the upper side of the ring being preferably countersunk or cup-shaped, as seen at z. A hole is drilled or formed in the pillar B, and fitted to work vertically therein is a piston, E, having a socket or cupshaped cap, Gr. The body of the piston is hollow, and provided with a coiled spring, H, as shown in Fig. 2. The lower end of this spring rests on the bottom of the hole in the pillar, and acts expansively to force the piston upward.

The holder takes the place of the ordinary cup, and in use the egg may be inserted by placing the small end in the cap G and pressing down the piston until the large end can be passed under the top D, when, by releasing the egg, it will be forced upwardly by the spring E into the position shown in Fig. 1,

where the shell may be broken above the ring and the contents eaten; or the piston may be forced down and the large end of the egg inserted first, if preferred.

The ring D serves not only to hold the egg in a proper position, but enables the shell to be broken evenly or on a defined line corresponding with the point of contact between the shell and ring. The ring also prevents the contents or liquid portion of the egg from running down the outer side of the shell.

I sometimes connect the ring to the arms by means of a hinge, b, in such a manner that it may be turned back to insert the egg, as shown in Fig. 3, the ring being fastened down by the catch a; after the egg is inserted, in which case I also use the spring-piston, as seen in Fig. 2.

I also sometimes make the holder with a rigid cup to receive the small end of the egg and place springs in the arms, as shown in Fig. 4, the upper portions, 0 O, of the arms being hollow and sliding down over the lower, the ends of the springs being in such cases attached to both the upper and lower sections of the arms by the pins a, a, and acting contractively to draw the ring D down onto the egg.

Another form in. which I construct the holder is shown in Fig. 5, the arms G 0 being made in two pieces or sections, the upper sections, d d, entering and working vertically in the lower, and being provided with the buttons or flanges zzattheirlower ends. Screwed to the upper ends of the lower sections are nuts m m, having central openings, through which the upper sections pass freely; and

around the lower portions of the upper sections there are coiled springs, which abut against the flanges z z and theunder sides of the nuts, the expansive action of the springs drawing down the ring D onto the egg. The form shown in Fig. 1 I however prefer to the others, as being less complicated and costly.

Having thus explained my improvement, what I claim is-- v 1. The improved egg-holder described, the same consisting of the body B, having the base A, arms 0 O, and ring D, the body being provided with the spring-piston E, all com.

bined and arranged to operate substantially 4. In an egg-holder substantially such as as specified. described, the ring D, provided with the down- 2. In an egg-holder substantially such as Wardly-projecting sections cl d, having the described, the ring D, provided with the holflanges z z, in combination with a spring ar- '5 low downwardly-projecting arms 0 G,in comranged to draw said ring down onto the egg, 15

bination with a spring arranged to draw said substantially as and for the purpose specified. ring downonto the egg, substantially as shown. JOHN MGGLINGHY.

3. In an egg-holder, the piston E, provided Witnesses: with the spring H and socket G, substantially 0. A. SHAW, 10 as set forth. WM. H. DIEHL.

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