US479914A

US479914A - Cloth-holder

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Publication number: US479914A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-08-02
Anticipated expiration: 1909-08-02

Description

(No Model.)

G. MGG. MORRIS. CLOTH HOLDER, No. 479,914. Patented Aug, 2, 1892.

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GEORGE MCG. MORRIS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CLOTH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,914, dated August 2, 1892.

Application filed December 26,1891. Serial No. 416,149. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

l 3e it known that I, GEORGE MoG. MORRIS, a c1t1zen of the United States, residing at Oincinnati, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cloth-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cloth-holders for towels or similar articles, its object being to produce a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device for the purpose of holding a clothsuch as a towel, wash-rag, napkin, garment, or other article of this nature either as a temporary or permanent support upon a wall, counter, or otherwise.

The ordinary appliances for holding handtowels, for example, are in certain respects lnconvenient and inefficient. For instance, thesimple nail or hook in the wall or a bar pro ecting from a towel-rack requires that the towel shall be hung over the same engaged therewith in some way, as by a loop. In any case the holding is insecure and frequently damaging to the article, which is liable to tear. Moreover, the holding is liable to be displaced by the wind or by careless handling, besides being unsightly. Jaw clamping devices are also troublesome to manipulate, and their springs wear out and become lost, &c. Besides they are liable to tear the article by their sharp, jagged, or dentate holding-surfaces.

This improvement furnishes a means of holding the towel or article at once simple, secure, stronger, (in respect to the holding-surface upon the towel itself,) easily applied, and applicable to a wide range of usefulness.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a side elevation complete; Fig. 3, a detail view showing the button engaging a towel and suspending it upon a wire loop, and Fig. 4a modification showing the engaging-loop formed as part of the retaining-plate.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates a wall plate or bracket adapted to be secured to a wall, counter, or other surface by screws or nails 3, passing through suitable apertures in the plate. In the first-shown embodiment of the invention two projections a a are carried upon the plate and pierced laterally for the engagement of a U-shaped wire loop 10, whose ends are turned outward and inserted through apertures of the projections outwardly. The wire loop w hangs downwardly from its pivotal support in parallel lines, uniting below, and at a mid-point is bent outward at each side in circular form, as shown at d. A button or stud b of the general form shown is suspended by a chain or cord 0 from the plate and completes the device. To engage a towel, a portion of the material is spread across the loop to at the enlargement d and the stud I) pressed against it partially through the enlargement of the loop, carrying part of the fabric through the loop. The button is then moved downward into the narrow portion of the loop, engaging its front and rear heads between the parallel sides of the loop with the fabric interposed. The position of the button in relation to the wire is indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, and in the latter figure theengaged fabric is shown. The frictional holding of the fabric thus engaged is very strong and cannot be displaced, except by moving the button back again to the enlargement (Z, when it readily comes out and releases the material. It will be seen that a comparatively large surface of the material is engaged, so that the holding strain is widely distributed.

The device also forms a very efiicient clothes-holder. For heavy clothes a small piece of cloth sewed in place of the ordinary tape-loop furnishes a convenient means of engagement.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the plate A is cast or stamped with a forwardly-projecting pocket having a vertical slot at the front closed below and open above, which forms a substitute for the wire loop. first described. The function being obviously the same as already described requires no further detail.

I claim as myinvention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In acloth-holder, the combination of aplate or bracket provided with screw-holes for attachment to a wall, counter, or other permanent support and with lugs projecting from its face, a wire loop having a lower bight with parallel sides opening into an enlargement and having its free ends turned oppositely outward, engaging pivotally in the lugs and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set retained by the outward spring of the Wire, a my hand in the presence of two subscribing 1o grooved button adapted to enter the enlarge witnesses.

ment of the 100 and ass downward into the 1 lower bight and engage the parallel sides by GEORGE MORRIS means of its groove, and a flexible cord or \Vitnesses:

chain connecting the button with the support- L. M. IIOSEA,

ing-braoket, substantially as set forth. 1 E. IIOSEA.