US502897A

US502897A - Can-holder

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Publication number: US502897A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-08-08
Anticipated expiration: 1910-08-08

Description

(No Model.)

A. L'. WHITTEMORE'.

' l 'GAN HOLDER.

No. 502,897. Patented Aug. 8, 1893.

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UNITED STATES )PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR-L. WHITTEMOEE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,897, dated August 8,1893.

Application filed February 17, 1893. Serial No. 462.697. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. WHITTE- MORE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Can-Holders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

People in cities and towns who receive milk delivered by milkmen in cans are much annoyed by the frequent loss of cans left at their doors, the cans being stolen before the usual rising hour of the servants.

I have devised a can-holder to prevent the can from being stolen, or even overturned by accident.

My improved holder consists of a bolt controlled by a lock, the key of which is always in the custody of the milkman, the inner end of the bolt having co-operating with it a slotcloser, or being made to abut against some movable part of the house, as a door or window, as will be described.

Figure l, shows my improved holder in use, it being represented as applied to a door casing, the door being shown as closed; Fig. 2, an enlarged section on the line no; Fig. 3, a section in the line 00'; Fig. 4, a section in the line x2; and Fig. 5, shows the `key detached. Fig. 6 is a detail of the key handle.

The holder herein shown is composed of a case or shell d, having a suitable back piece a provided preferably with an attaching prong a2, and with a hole for the reception of a screw 0,3 by which to properly secure the shell in place, the prong a2 also preferably serving as a means for securing one end of a suitable chain or other strong flexible connection b. The case is adapted to receive a bolt composed, as shown, of two plates c, c suitably united by a rivet o2, the inner faces of the plates being cut away to receive a dog d, acted on by a spring d to normally keep the outer end of the dog on the outside of the bolt in a notch cl2 of the back piece, the boltA at such time being retained in the casing with its inner end in cont-act with a suitable slotcloser, which may be a pin or projection m 5o extended through the back pieceyas shown not be taken away except by a person having a proper key, care being taken that each milkman has a key for his line of customers which differs in shape from the key of other milkmen on his route. AS herein shown, the two parts of the bolt -are bored to form a cylindrical space or chamber g in which are suitably located the wards f of any desired number, it being understood that the shapes of the blades of the' keys will be varied at pleasure, and that the notches f will be properly located to adapt them to the location of the wards under whatever arrangement, this being well known to lock-makers. The end of the chamber, as herein shown, has a socket 2 to receive the teat 3 at vthe inner end of the key blade, the latter, when turned in the chamber,-the notches and wards then necessarily coinciding,-causing one of the shoulders 5 of the key blade to act on the part 6 of the dog cl and .withdraw it from the opening d2, which done, the milkman may pull the bolt outwardly from the slot-closer, the key remaining in the bolt until lthe stop h meets the case, such partial withdrawal of the bolt enabling the ring b of the connection to be freed and' the empty can to be taken off by the milkman, he leaving a f ull can, and also leaving the bolt retracted.

In some neighborhoods, mischievous persons take the filled cans before the rising time of the servants, and it is desirable at times to prevent this.

In some places customers are willing to have the holder so located that the can cannot betaken oit by an unauthorized person without opening a door or window, or moving away from the end of the-back piece some movable part of the building.

In the drawings the case is representedas will leave the bolt pushed fully in, and the servant, when putting out the can at night,

the door being open, will put the ring b over the end of the bolt and close the door, thus i bolt, a case therefor, a slot-closer to c0-opsecurely locking the can in place.

The milkman on his arrival Will retract the bolt, take off the can, supplya filled can, 'put the ringin position, and push the bolt into it up substantially to the door, the dog d locking the bolt in place, so that the filled cani cannot be removed until the servant opensl the door, or it may be, raises the Window.

To prevent children or others from tampering with the holderl and `pulling it outof the case, I have provided a second notch lO, which, when the bolt has been retracted sufficiently to permit the removal of the ring, will engage said notch and prevent the further retraction `of the bolt even should the stop h be removed, but the inward movement of `the bolt `will not be restrained by such notch, because of the bevel at the end of the dog.

In all the different positions in which the holder has to be applied at different places, that is, on one or the other side of the door or Window frame, or in corners, dac., it becomes expedient, if not absolutely necessary, i to provide a novel key, that is, one in which j the handle portion may occupy dierent `positions with relation to the blade, so that the key may be operated with the greatest ease and rapidity. To do this, the outer end of the 1 blade has been provided with a circular or` sector -like head provided with "suitable l notches 12 which are adapted to be engaged' by a locking device `13, herein shown as a springpressed pin placed in a suitable notch The milkman on arriving at a house can` readily change the angle \of the blade with relation to the handle of -the key to thus `put the blade in position to readily enter thebolt and leave the hand of the milkman in the most advantageous position to turn the key readily no matter what the location lof the holder, `as in use the key Will be kept on `the finger continuously.

It will loe understood that this invention is notlimited to theexact shape shown for the case, or for the blade or its dog, or to the shape shown for the key, as all these parts may be changed in shape in various manner In this latter application ot' my device, the milkman Without the exercise ot' invention and yet be within the scope of this invention.

It will be obvious that a vertically moving Window sash will perform readily the functions described for the door in stopping the slot or space between the end of the casing and the end of the bolt.

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

1. A can-holder consisting essentially of a erate with the inner end of the bolt When protruded, and a connection under control of the bolt to retain a can, combined with a locking device concealed within the case for and to maintain the bolt protruded,a key to act upon said device to unlock the bolt, and a retaining device to connect the key and bolt While the bolt `is unlocked, movement of the key at such time moving the bolt longitudinally in the case, substantially as described.

2. A canholder consisting essentially of a bolt,a case in which it is movable, and a slotcloser, combined with a connection underthe control of the bolt to retain a can, the inner end of the bolt being `adapted to co-operate with the slot-closer to retain the Aconnection in its locked condition, and with a locking dog for the bolt and a key to release said dog to thus enable the bolt to be Withdrawn by the holder of the key, substantially as described.

3. A can-holder consisting essentially of a bolt having a key receiving opening, a retaining device therein, a locking dog for the bolt, a case in which said bolt moves, and a connection under the control of the bolt to retain the can, the inner `end of the bolt being adapted to abut against or terminate next a movable part of a building and beheld in 'such position by the dog, the movement of said part to open it exposing the inner end of the bolt for'the removal of the can from the said connection, combined with a key adapted to enter the opening `in the bolt to release the dog, the retaining device holding the key Vin place While the bolt isunlockedsubstantially as described.

et. `In a can-`holder, a case having tvvo notches, combined with a bolt provided with a key receiving opening, and a spring actuated dog adapted to be moved against the action of the spring by a key inserted in said opening, one of said notches being engaged by the dog when the bolt is in 4operative condition, the other notch engaging the dog when the bolt has been unlocked, to prevent the Withdrawal thereof from the case, substantially as described.

5. A can-holder, consisting of a case, a bolt adapted to slide therein and `provided With a spring-actuated dog, a lieXible` connection connected Withlsaid case and adapted `to co-op IOC IZO

erate with the end of thebolt, a key consistname to this specification in the presence of ing of a blade provided with, a pivoted head, two subscribing witnesses. and a locking device intermediate the handle and blade to enable the angle of the bladen ARTHUR L' WHITTEMORE' 5 be changed with relation to the handle, sub- Witnesses:

stantially as described. GEO. W. GREGORY, In testimony whereof I have signed my M. J. SHERIDAN.