US443949A

US443949A - Cup-holder

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Publication number: US443949A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-12-30
Anticipated expiration: 1907-12-30

Description

J. SUTHERLAN-D. CUP HOLDER.

No. 443,949. Patented Dec. 30, 189 0.

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ATENT JAMES SU"IIERLAND, OF HONOLULU, HAVAII.

CUP-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,949, dated December 30, 1890.

Application filed May 24, 1890. Serial No.353,024. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, J AMES SUTHERLAND, of Honolulu, Hawaii, have invented a new and Improved Cup-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved holder, which is simple and durable in construction and especially designed to securely hold cups, glasses, &c., to the table on board of a ship in case the latter is rolling or pitching.

The invention consists of a ring adapted to receive acup, anda U shaped spring-clamp formed thereon at right angles and adapted to engage the rail of the table.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same as applied, the table being in section. Fig. 3 is a front View of the improvement, and Fig. 4 is a like view of the same with parts of the spring-clamp removed.

The improved cup-holder A is preferably made of one single piece of steel wire, which is formed into a ring B and a spring-clamp B, of which the former is adapted to receive the cup, glass, or other article, and the springclamp is adapted to pass over the rail of the table to firmly fasten the holder and the cup or glass supported in it onto the table, thus preventing movement of the cup across the table in case the ship is rolling or pitching. The ring B is composed of two circular layers C and D, formed of the middle part of the wire of which the holder is cut, one end of the upper layer 0 being formed into a downwardly-extending U-shaped arm E, terminating in one end of the other layer D, as is plainly shown in Fig. 4. The other ends of the layers D and 0 continue in upwardlyextending bars F and G, terminating in coilsprings H and 1, respectively, and from which extend downward the rods J and K, respectively, arranged about parallel with the bars F and G, previously mentioned. From the lower ends of the rods J and K extend outward arms L, united in the middle, so as to close the ends of the wire. The arms L form a convenient handle for pressing the springclamp B onto the rail of the table, or for loosening the same, so as to conveniently remove the holder when desired. The lower ends of the rods J and K extend about in line with the lower end of the arm E, and when the holder is applied, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the said arm E rests on the inside of the rail of the table, while the rods J and K press against the outside of the said rail, so as to conveniently hold the holder in place. It is understood that the springs H and I have the tendency to draw the rods J and K toward the arm E, so as to form a strong clamp for the ring B.

It will be seen that the cup, glass, or other receptacle can be conveniently inserted in the ring B or removed from the same when ever desired without removing the cup-holder A, applied to the table in the manner previously described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent, is-

1. A holder fordrinking-vessels, consisting in a horizontally-extending vessel-receiving ring having a vertically-extending downwardopening clamp on its rear side out of the path of the entering vessel, projecting below the ring at its lower open end and provided at its lower end with a handle, substantially as set forth.

2. A cup-holder made of a single piece of spring-wire and consisting of a' ring made of two layers, and a spring-clamp having an arm extending downward from the said rings, bars extending upward from the said rings, springs formed on the said bars, and downwardly-extending rods extending from the said springs, substantially as shown and described.

3. A cup-holder made of a single piece of spring-wire and consisting of a ring made of ends of the said rods, substantially as shown (we layers, and a spring-clamp having an arm and described.

extending downward from the said rings, I 1 T bars extending upward from the said rings, Lungs SUJ'HERLAL 5 springs formed on the said bars, downward- \Vitnesses:

ly-extending rods extending from the said J. M. MONSARRAT,

springs, and a handle formed on the lower P. SILVA.