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Publication number: US415342A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-11-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-11-19

Description

(No Model.)

G. P. 0. HOLMES.

RAGKET HOLDER AND PRESS.

No. 415,342. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. C. HOLMES, OF LLANGOLLEN, COUNTY OF DENBIGII, ENGLAND.

RACKET HOLDER AND PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,342, dated November 19, 1889.

Application fi September 28, 1888. Serial No. 286,662. (No model.) Patented in England August 4, 1888, No. 11,297.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE PERCIVAL GHISHOLM HOLMES, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Llangollen, in the county of Denbigh, England, have in vented a certain new or Improved Combined Racket Holder and Press, (for which I have previously obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain, dated August 4,1888,No.11,297,) of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a new or improved combined press and racket-holder, and has for its object to provide an apparatus of simple form for efficiently preventing the warping of rackets, and also for holding a certain number of them contiguously in one or several rows or invertedly, in the manner hereinafter described.

In carrying my invention into practice I take an ordinary racket holder or stand and I form two holes at each end of the upper shelf or rack thereof, through which holes I pass one extremity of two poles or uprights until such extremity comes to rest upon the the rackets can be placed in two superposed rows in an inverted position the handles of the rackets rest against the central beam in the intervals between the above-mentioned short rectangular cross -bars, so that each racket can be withdrawn without interfering with any of the others, while at the same time rackets of different thicknesses can be pressed by the same cross-bar.

I may construct my combined press and racket-holder of wood, or of a combination of wood and iron, or of any other suitable material.

In ordcr that my invention may be more fully understood, I have illustrated the same in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of my improved apparatus. Fig, 2 is a central section of a portion of a holder of aslightly-modified form; and Fig. 3 shows another arrangement of my improved racket-holder and press, in which the rackets are placed in an inverted position in two superposed rows. Fig. 4 is a sectional view further illustrating the arrangement shown in Fig.

S is a stand consisting of a base-plate 19,

carrying two poles or uprights U U, having pointed ends, over which is placed, by means of perforations p p, the upper shelf 8. Above this upper shelf is fixed to the poles or uprights U U in any suitable manner the press P, composed of two or more central beams 1), against one or both sides of which are pressed, byseparate cross-bars c c c, secured by the thumbscrews t t t, the rackets R R, which are thus arranged in single or double rows. The handles of the rackets R R R pass through perforations h 7L, formed in the upper shelf 8, which is mounted uponuprights u u u, secured to the base-plate 1). According to this arrangement the poles or uprights U U U and press P can be lifted clear away from the stand S and planted in the ground where a game may be carried on and the implements may be required.

In Figs. 3 and l is shown a modified arrangement of my improved combined racket holder and press. C O are two cross-bars, to which are fixed four central bars B B B B, provided with grooves g g g g g g, Fig.4,t'or the handles of the rackets R R R and R R R, respectively, and kept in position by the oblique tie-bars D D. Upon the two upper bars B B are placed, in the manner clearly shown in Fig. 3, the rackets R R R, which are pressed by the six bars f f f f, secured to the said bars by the thumb-screws t t, and which have their handles directed downwardly and resting in the grooves g g g. Upon the two lower bars 13' B are likewise placed, but in an inverted position, the three rackets R R R, the handles of which rest in the grooves g g g, the handles of the mid dle and right-hand rackets R R being placed,

as clearly shown, between two of the rackets R R, while the handle of the third racket R v plate p, upper shelf 3, and racket+press P, de

tachable from the stand and provided with uprights adapted to be inserted into the ground, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A racket holder and press consisting of the combination, with a frame having clamps for securing and pressing the rackets, and

having uprights adapted to be set in the ground, as described, of a second frame constituting a holder and support for said uprights, substantially as set forth.

I G. P. G. HOLMES.

' WVitnesses:

A. J. ELI,

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