US368944A

US368944A - Napkin-holder

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Publication number: US368944A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-08-30
Anticipated expiration: 1904-08-30

Description

(No Model.)

' J. GRANT.

NAPKIN HOLDER.

No. 368,944. Patented Aug. 30, 1887.

1 UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE JOTT GRANT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

NAPKlN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,944, dated August 30, 1887.

Application filed November 29, 1886. Serial No. 220,221. (No model.)

To all whom it Wtay concern:

Be it known that I, J OTT GRANT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Napkin-Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a napkin-holder that may serve as a device for attaching the napkin. to the person of the user, as a spreader for the napkin, and as a holder for it when rolled up and not in use. This object I obtain by the mechanism shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view showing the holder with a napkin attached. Fig. 2shows, in perspective, aholder only; and Fig. 3 shows the napkin rolled up and held by the holder.

The hold-er itself is shown at Fig. 2 detached.

This holder consists of a curved piece of thin metallic plate, 0, curved as shown. This metallic plate may be engraved or otherwise or namented to suit the taste, and may have the name or monogram of the owner inscribed on it. One,end of the plate 0 is formed into a tube, 0, which clasps the loop A, formed in the wire A A. The wire A A A is bent as .shown at B, B, and B, Fig. 2, so as to form rolled up, as shown in Fig. 3. The plate 0 is bent so as to form a hook at 0 Fig. 2. This hook serves to attach the napkin to the neck of the user when in use, and to assist in bolding it together when rolled up, as shown in Fig. 3.

From the above it will be seen that my device consists of two distinct parts, although the two parts coact; but in this coaction two useful results are attained -that is, first, the device is used to spread out the napkin and to attach it to the person, as shown in Fig. 1; second, the device is used to firmly hold in a compact form the napkin when rolled up and not in use. To effect this double use I have made the hook part 0 broad and curved, as shown, so as to form more than half of the arc of a circle, and have hinged this part to the clasping spreader.

What I claim is In a napkin-holder, the combination of the curved plate 0, said plate to be curved at one end to form the hook and holder 0 and formed at the other end into aquill, O,with the clasping wire spreader A A A B B B forminga lower bar, B clasping-points at D D, and a loop at A whereby it is held to the quill O, 60 all substantially as described,and for the purposes set forth.

1 J OTT GRANT. Witnesses:

WILLIAM EDsoN, FRANK G. PARKER.