US392367A

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Publication number: US392367A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-11-06
Anticipated expiration: 1905-11-06

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S. W.VA SAXTON.

HOLDER POR BYBGLASSES. No. 392,367. Patented Nov. 6,188.8.

@Mireia SAMUEL V. SAXTON,

HO LDE R' FOR OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EYEG LASS ES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,367, dated November 6, 1888.

Application iilcd May 14, 188B.

Serial No. 273.789. (No mmlelJ To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that l, SAMUEL W. SAXTON, of New York, inthe count-y and State Vof New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Holders for Eyeglasses, of which the following'is aspecification.

I wil-l describe an eyeglass-holder embodying my improvement, and then point out th various` novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, lligurel l is a side view of an eyeglassholder embodying my improvement. In this ligure the device is represented as being inserted in the fabric of a garment. Fig. 2 is another side view of the holder. In this figurethe device is shown as completely attached to the fabric of a garment. Fig. 3 is a front View of the holder. Fig. 4 is a sectional view, the section being taken as indicated by the dotted line x x, Fig. 3. I

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a bar or base-piece.

B designates a hook secured at the lower end to the bar or base-piece A and extended upwardly. Near the free end this hook extends close to the bar or base'piece. The loop of a pair of eyeglasses may be slipped over the free end of thehook. It will then be prevented from being slipped off without considerable force being exerted, because of the extension of the free end portion of the hook close to the bar or base-piece. The hook B therefore constitutes a retaining device for an eyeglass.

The bar or base-piece may be made of any desired shape. In effect it is merely the shank of the hook, and is herein termed a bar or base-piece7 merely to distinguish it from the hook proper.

G designates a pin, shown as rigidly secured to the upper end of the bar or base-piece and extended rearwardly and downwardly therefrom. Its free end is bent slightly rearward as compared with its main portion.

D designates a pin which at one end extends into a cavity arranged longitudinally in the lower portion of the bar or base-piece. Be-

low the bar or base-piece this pin D is extended rearwardly and upwardly. At the free end it extends slightly rearwardly. The pin D is capable of a sliding movement lengthwise ofthe bar o1base-piece. A spring, E, arranged ,within the cavity ofthe bar or base-piece and between the bottom thereof and a head upon the end of the pin which lits within the cavity, u

normally maintains the pin in the position in vwhich it is shown in Fig. 2. The pin D can be drawn downwardly or the bar or base-piece upwardly, so that this pin and the bar or basepiece will occupy the relation illustrated in Fig. 1.

Thev pin D is so bent at the free end that when it occupies its normal position, as shown in'Fig. 2, its free end will extend rearwardly beyond the free end of the pin C. This relation between the free ends of the two pins is of importance.

The end of the pin D which is within the cavity of the bar or base-piece may be provided with a head of polygonal form, and the said cavity may be polygonal, so as to prevent the pin from rotating axially with respect to the bar or base-piece. The spring E may be a spiral spring coiled around the pin D between its head and the bottom of the cavity in the bar or basepiece. v

I have shown the bow of the hook as provided with an eye, I), to which a chain or cord attached to an eyeglass or pair of eyeglasses may be secured.

It will be seen that the hook B and the pins O D are approximately in line, or, in other words, approxiniatelyin the same plane.

The device which I have described is applied to the fabric of a garment by taking the device in the hand with the free end ot the hook uppermost and moving it upwardly with the point of the pin D inserted in the fabric of the garment. The device will be moved upwardly far enough to slide the bar or basepiece lengthwise of a portion of the pin D which is within the cavity in the bar or basepiece. When the bar or base-pieceis slid up far enough, the device is pressed backwardly, so that the free end or point of the pin O may be inserted in the fabric of the garment. Then the device is either let go or pressed downwardly, so as to cause the pin O to be inserted into the fabric of the garment up to the bent portion.` During this downward movement of the device the bar or base-piece will slide downwardly along the portion of the pin D IOO which is within it. The two pins will then securely fasten the device to the fabric of the garment.

It is advantageous to have that pin which is rigidly connected to the bar or base-piece located at the upper end of the latter, because the strains transmitted to the device will be downwardly and will not tend to disengage the device when they will be transmitted to thc pin which is rigidly secured to the bar or basepiece. As there will be little liability ofstrains in an upward direction being transmitted to the bar or base-piece,it is desirable to have the pin,which has a yielding connection with the har or hase-pieee, located at the lower end of the latter.

It is advantageous to extend the free end or point ofthe pin D rearward of the free end or pointofthepinC,becausethelatterwilluotthen interfere with the insertion of thepoiut of the pin D into the fabric of a garment. Moreover, the free end or point of the pin D, when extended rearwardly of the free end or point of the pin C, will not be apt to engage with the fabric of the garment when the device is moved upwardly to disengage the pin C from the garment. It will be readily understood that the disengagement of the device from the garment is effected by an upward movement suicient to disengage the pin C, and subsequently by a downward movement serving to disengage the pin D from the fabric ofthe gar ment.

XVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A.

l. In an eyeglass-holder, the combination, with a bar or base-piece, of a pin rigidly secured to the upper end of the bar or base-piece and extending rearwardly and downwardly, another pin having a sliding connection lengthwise of the bar or hasepieee and extending rearwardly and upwardly, a spring for moving the last-mentioned pin in one direction, and a retaining device upon the bar or basepiece, substantially as specified.

2. In an eyeglassholder, the combination of a bar or base-piece having at the fronta hook with its free end extended upwardly, a pin rigidly secured to the upper end ofthe bar or basepiece and extending rearwardly and downwardly, another pin extending within the bar or basepiece, and a spring within the bar or base-piece and surrounding the pin last named aud causing the movement 0f said piu in one direction, substantially as specified.

SAM. W. SAXTON.

Vitnesses:

FREDK. IIAYNns, Jos. XV. Ron.