US545385A - Flagstaff-holder - Google Patents

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J. & BfL. SIMPSON. FLAGSTAPP HOLDER.

No. 545,385. Patented Aug. 27, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErcEo JOSEPH SIMPSON AND BENJAMIN L. SIMPSON, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

FLAGSTAFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,385, dated August 27, 1895.

Application filed November 19, 1894. Serial No. 529,339. (No model.)

:To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH SIMPSON and BENJl-TMIN L. SIMPSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State ot' Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Flagstaff- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to lagstaftholders, and has for its particular obj ect to provide a cheap, quickly attachable and detachable holder, ot' neat and durable construction, and especially adapted for the decorative display of ilags from Windows or elsewhere upon the exterior of buildings or in halls and other apartments. An effective arrangement or grouping of iags attached to staffs is usually attended with great inconvenience,frequently requiring considerable time and labor, and it' nails are'used the statt will be often split and ruined, the means of support will be unsightly `and insecure, and the parts of the building to which the flags are attached `.vill be defaced. Various forms of i'lagstali-holders have been devised to obviate some of these difficulties, but they have been usually cumbersome and expensive, and often require a number of nails or screws to hold them in place, so that they are not quickly detachable and call for some skill and labor to put them properly in place.

It is one of the purposes of our invention to provide a .iiagstai-holder that can be at once detached Without the drawing of a nail, screw, or other fastening, so that there need be but little, if any, marring of the part or support to which the holder is secured. The holders may be constructed to receive and securely brace either a single dagstaft or a number, and will permit the flags to be taken in quickly upon approach of astorm or threatening Weather, either by" withdrawing the staffs from theholders or by readily detaching the holders together with the inserted ilagstais.

To these ends our invention consists in a tiagstad-holder having the features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure l is a perspective of one form of our improved ilagstaE-holder, designed for reception of a single flagstad.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective showing a holder designed for receiving two flagstais. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are plans of the base portion of the holder, showing dilerently formed or arranged slots for the fastenings. Fig. 7 is an elevation of a lagstafE-holder in which two radially-disposed main socket-arms are connected at suitable points by oppositely-curved bars adapted to serve as bearings for an additional or intermediate flagstatf.

The tlagstai-holder is cheaply and conveniently made of east metal and comprises a base portion l and an arm or socket 2, projecting from the said base at any required inclination and rigidly connected to and integral with the base. The holder may have only one statt-receiving socket-arm 2, as shown in Fig. l, or it may be provided with a plurality of such arms, as shown in Fig. 3. While the socket arm or arms may have a generally tubular form, it is preferable, forsake of lightness and economy of material, to cast them in open-Work, as shown. Each socket-arrn is so constructed that an inserted tlagstaff will have a wedging engagement with the socket when forced lirmly into place and Will be securely bracedtherein by the diagonally-op posed arrangement of the bearings 3, 4, and 5, with which each socketarm is provided. It the holder has a plurality of socket-arms 2,

Vthey are preferably given a radial arrangement and may closely converge at their inner ends, Where they spring from the base of the holder, and the inner ends of inserted iagstaffs may thus be made to have a wedging action on each other that will assist to hold them securely in place. It will be observed that the bearings 3 and t in the socket-arms have such relatively reverse curvatures and are diagonally opposed to the intermediate Vbearing 5 in such manner as will greatly assist a'tirin wedging action on aninserted flagstaff to hold itseonrelyin place. Where the dag-holder has a plurality of staff-receiving sockets, their inner ends are so closely approached, as shown in Figs. 3 and l7, that the inner ends of inserted dagstaffs Will bear against each other and be thereby still further v secured.

In the base l of the flagstatt-holder is a slot, as 6, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 1l, and 6, having an enlargement 7 at one end to facilitate engagement with a large-headed nail, tack, or screwT inserted into a window-sill or other suitable support for the agstaff-holder; or, as shown in Fig. 5, an elongated open-ended slot S may be provided, the said slot being throughout of a width corresponding to the diameter of the shank portion of the nail, tack, or screw, and one end of the said slot 8 being extended to the edge of the base l to permit its ready engagement with or removal from the fastening. The elongated and open-ended slot 8 is particularly adapted to permit engagement vwith two nails, screws, or like fastenings spaced a suitable distance apart, as may be necessary where several flags are supported in the holder and might tend to render it top heavy. By means of a holder having the elongated and open-ended slot S in its hase a group of ags may be securely supported Without any liability to topple over. The same purpose may be accomplished by providing an open-ended slot 9, Figs. 3 and Lt, in the rear edge of the nase in which the slot 6 is formed. The slot 6 Will then engage with one fastening and. the slot E) with another, and these fasteniugs, being located a suitable distance apart, will securely brace the Vtlagstaff-holder even when a number of iiags are supported in it.

Any fastening having a large head lO-such as a suitable nail, tack, or screw-may be ernployed as a means for attaching the flagst-affholder. By means of the slot or slots provided in the base of the holder it can be quickly attached to or detached from the fastening with ease and convenience. A building can thus be quickly and conveniently decorated Without involving much expense for the flagholders, and the iiags can be quickly taken down and preserved from injury in stormy weather and maybe as easily replaced. It Will be observed that the nail, screw, or fastening lO does not need to be drawn in order to detach the Hagstaff-holder, and may consequently be left permanently in the windowsili or other support.

In Fig. 7 We have shown a agstaff-holder of the same construction, as already described, except that the two main radially-disposed socket-arms 2 are connected at or near their upper ends by a bar l1, having a curvature that is preferably rearward, below which is a similar bar l2 having an opposite or forward curvature, and near the base of the radial socket-arms 2 is a connecting-Web 13, the said bars and web being adapted to serve, by reasonvof their diagonally-opposite arrangement, as bearings for an additional fiagstaff inserted intermediate the main radially-disposed socket-arms- Thus at but a triting additional cost for the casting and but little increase of Weight the flagstaff-holder is readily adapted to the support of three iiags.

We are aware that a iagstaff-holder has heretofore been provided with a series of radially-disposed sockets formed in a plate or frame having a pivotally-adjustable connection With an unslotted base portion adapted to be clamped to a Window-sill or like support. lVe are also aware that clothes-racks have been provided with adjustable arms inserted into a notched and grooved frame having keyhole-slots, through which the said rack is tc be suspended from screws or nails driven into a wall, and We are further aware that Whip-sockets for permanent attachment to the dashboards of vehicles have been constructed with diagonally-opposed bearings adapted to hold the handle portion of a whip with a Wedging action. These We do not claim, and our invention diers therefrom in that it consists of a flagstaff-holder having a slotted base portion for quick and ready attachment to and' detachment from apermanent fastening and having integral with said slotted base one or more socket-arms adapted to receive and securely brace one or more flagstaffs. y

`What we claim as our invention is- The herein described dag-staff holder composed of the base portion provided with a slot to detachably engage a permanent fastening and one or more socket arms integral With said base, projecting therefrom at an angle, and each constructed to receive and securely brace a flagstaff, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH SIMPSON.

BENJAMIN L. SIMPSON. Titnessesz E. C. BEACH, Isaac D. Ross.

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