US48420A - Improved bracket - Google Patents

Description

M. H. MATSINGER.

Bracket for Flag Staffs.

Patented June 2.l 1865.

No. 48,420. y Y

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y UMTED'STATS" PATENT OFFICE.

MAURICE H-. MATSINGER, oFfrrirnnDELrHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.;

i Specification forming partei-Letters Patent N0,. 181,420, dated June.'27;1865,-

'an Improved Bracket-,and Ldo hereby declare' the `followingto be a fullcl ear," and exact deiscription of the `sanie,.reference Vbeing' had to the accompanying.drawings, and tothe letters ',oftrcference marked thereon.

.Myfnventionf-consists in aplate -with certain sockets, constructed substantially as described hercinatteaand adapted for thereception ot' Aav i, flag-staff or rod, soth at the latter may be readily secured 'in its positionor detached, as required. u i 1 `In'=o rder to enable others to make my inven-4 tion, 1 will now proceed todescribethe mannerof carrying the saine into effect. p g i Onreference to the acco inpanyin g drawings, which lform a part of this specification, Figure et, and Fig. 2 a plan view. r j

Y i isa sectional elevation'ot' myimproved brackviews.

A' is aiiat .Stripor plate of metal, which is twisted at the point :v so that the face of one portion, a, of the plate 'shallbe at right angles to the face of the remaining portion, b.. The* portion a is curved, as shown inFig. 1,1and at the outer endv of this portion is a circular socket, c, theportion b b'ein g also provided with a sock' et,"c, the two sockets being so situated in re 'spect' to each other that'the end of astai'passed through the socket c will rest on the socket c." The bracket: is secured to a window-sill, .or

Similar letters referto similar-partsin both l l in any other desired position, bya plateior strip,

vB, which-extends across the portion b, the plate bein g fastened to the sill by screws e e, and the bracket being further'secnred by a screw, e',

'which passes throughan opening near the end rcfg-,he portion b. After the bracket is secured 'in\it s position a iiag'staft or rod maybe inserted in. the sockets c and c", where it will be firml y held. i

It will beapparent that a bracket of the above description iswwellradapted for the receptioiifof 'dag-staisor other rods which require to `be quicklyr 4'placedl Vin p/osit-ion or removed, that it can be cheaply manufactured', and may be readily secured 'in its position. y A A vbracket of this characteris especially 'I "adapted'for the reception of the staffs of flags which haveto behung from windows. asl the shutters canbealmost entirely closed and the sashesbe lowered without coming in contact :with thebracket or theelsta.' f .Y

I'vclaim as my invention and desire to secure by LettersPatent- `The plate A, with it-sv sockets c and c', the

Vwhole beingconstructed and adaptedvfor vthe reception-of 'a rodor stati', substantially as'describedi" l 4 In testimonyvwh'ereot have signed myname to thisspecification in the presence of two sub- "scribing witnesses. p l

' MAURICE H-..l\IATSINGER. Witnesses: l

CHARLES E. FOSTER, CHARLEs HowjsoN.

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