US510721A - Paper-holder - Google Patents

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W. P. STIBBS. PAPER HOLDER.

(No Model.)

INVENTOH Patented, Dec. 12, 1893.

ATTORNEYS.

SSE S UNITED STATES PATiNT OFFICE.

VILLIAM P. STIBBS, OF BELLEVILLE, NEV JERSEY.

PAPER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 510,721, dated December 12, 1893.

Application filed January 26, 1893. Serial No. 459,865. (No modehl To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. STIBBs, of Belleville, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descripion.

My invention relates to an improvement in vpaper holders, and has for its object to provide a device adapted for attachment to a door frame, a door, the side of a house, the walls of a building, or any convenient support, the device being especially adapted to receive and hold newspapers, books, magazines and small parcels.

Another object of the invention is to provide a paper and parcel holder which, when it is opened, will sound an alarm, the alarm being electrically produced, and whereby the alarm will be of short duration and will be stopped after the keeper arm of the device has been opened sufficiently to admit the parcel, the alarm being produced at the first outward movement of the said keeper arm.

Itis another feature of theinvention to provide a means whereby when electrically operated door bells are employed, the same battery utilized in the circuit of the bell may be used in the circuit in which this device is located.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofthe several parts, aswillbe hereinafter fullyset forth and pointed out in the claims.

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

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device, illustrating it as applied to a support in which the push button of an electrically-operated door bell is located. Fig. 2 is a section taken vertically through the device and practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the support to which the device is attached, the support being partially broken away; and Fig. 4 is adetail view of the spring utilized in making and breaking the circuit.

The device proper may be said to consist primarily of a body frame A and a keeper arm B. The body frame is adapted to be attached permanently to a support C of any description by means of screws, nails or their equivalents; and the keeper arm at its lower end has a hinge connection with the body A, the hinge being controlled by a spring 10, which spring acts in a manner to normally keep the upper end of the keeper arm in engagement with the body, or the keeper arm has a tendency to such an engagement. The body and the arm may be of any desired con struction, and maybe made of any approved material. Usually, however, metal is employed. The keeper arm is generally provided with an attached knob 1l,located at its upper end, to facilitate its withdrawal from the body.

Two contact points 12 and 13, are attached at opposite sides ofthe body, as shown in Fig. 3, the arms extending inward one above the other, and normally they are spaced some distance apart, as illustrated in said Fig. 3. The inner ends of these arms are insulated in any approved manner, and are in connection with binding posts 14, and from each of the binding posts a wire 15 is projected, which wire is in battery connection with an alarm bell, the circuit being run in any Inanner desired. Preferably, however, the wires 15, are made to connect with the wires 1G in battery connection with the alarm bell 17, utilized and connected with the push button located at the door of the dwelling.

A spring tongue 18, preferably made in the shape of a fiat strip is held to slide vertically in suitable bearings located at the back of the body; and the lower end of this tongue is bent inward, as shown in Fig. 2, and is held to slide upon a rod 19, secured to the lower contact point 13, preferably near the inner end of the latter. The rod 19, is encircled by a spring 20, which spring has bearing upon the foot of the spring plate or tongue 1S, and likewise upon the under surface of the contact plate 13, so that when the spring plate 1S, is forced upward a contact is made between the two plates 12 and 13, and the circuit in which they are located is thereby closed and an alarm will be rung. The spring plate or tongue 18, is elevated through the medium of a trip arm 21, which is attached to the rear face of the keeper arm near the hinged connection of the latter with the body, as shown- ICC in Fig. 2; this arm is beveled at its outer end upon the top, and at said outer end it is of less thickness than at any other point in its length.

The tongue or plate 18, is provided with a slot 22, longitudinally produced therein and wider at one portion than at the other, whereby a shoulder 23, is formed. When the keeper arm is close up against the body the trip arm 21, passes through the slot 22 in the spring' tongue or plate 18, and the upper edge of the trip arm engages with .the shoulder 23 of the spring plate.

In operation, the moment that the keeper arm is carried away from the body, the trip arm by lengagementwith the shoulder 23 ot the spring plate 18 elevates that plate and causes :an electrical contact to be `made b'etween theplates 12and 13, vand an y'alarm is sounded. When, however, the keeper arm has been opened to suchfan extent as toadmit ot' a parcel ora paper of ordinary size being placed therein, the trip arm will have been elevated to such a distance that .its reduced portion will be presented tothe shoulder portion of the spring plate, and the shoulder of the latter will be released and the spring 19, will restore thesprin g plate to its normal position, which action will carry one ot the contact plates out of engagement with theother,.break ing the circuit and causing the alarm tocease. It will thus be observed thatwhen the device is rst operated an alarmwill be sounded which will notify persons'within the dwelling thatl some one .is manipulating the device; ybut after the paper or parcelhas been `placed therein the alarm -is discontinued and the occupants of the dwellingare not annoyed by the constant ringingof the bell.

The device is exceedingly usefulin preventing papers and smallparcels from being blown away, and it also provides a support therefor which will keepvsuch articles from Vbecoming soiled.

Having thus described vmy invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a paper and parcel holder, the combination with a body and a spring controlled keeper located in front thereof and adapted to clamp papers and the like between it and the said body, of a 'trip arm carried by the said keeper, a sliding plate adapted to be operated by the same, an electric circuit a part of which is arranged near the body, an alarm device included in the circuit, and means for making and breaking .the-.said circuit by the movement of the said sliding plate, as and for the 'purpose set forth.

2. In a paper and parcel holder, the combination with a body and a spring controlled keeper pivoted at its lower end tothe lfront side of said body, 'of a triparm carried bythe said keeper, a vertically sliding plate adapted to be operated bythe same, lan Aelectric circuit a part of which is arranged near the body, an

electric bell included in the circuit, and means for makingfand breaking the said circuit by the movement of the said sliding plate,.as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a paper and'parcel holder,'the combination, with abody and contact points projected therefrom one below the other, and a springvcontrolled keeper arm pivoted to thebody, of

a plate held to slide upon the body, a rod or bar projected Vfrom kone of the contact points, aplate having sliding movement upon the rod or bar, a spring `bearing against'the plateand against the contactrpoint attachedto the rod and encircling the rod, and a trip arm carried bythe `keeperarin and operating to raise and to lower the plate, whereby the contact points are carried vinto and out of engagement when thekeep'er arm is opened, as and for the purposespecitied.

' WILLIAM P. STIBBS.

Witnesses:

5J. FRED. ACKER;

C. SEDGWICK.

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