US569553A

US569553A - Carlos eugene dunshee

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Publication number: US569553A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 1913-10-13

Description

(No Model.)

0. E. DUNSHEE. NEWSPAPER HOLDER.

No. 569,553. Patented Oct. 13, 1896.

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CARLOS EUGENE DUNSHEE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IVILLIAM C. STREABELL, OF SAME PLACE.

NEWSPAPER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,553, dated October 13, 1896.

Application filed May 26. 1896. Serial No. 593,198. (No model!) To all whom, it 7mm concern:

Be it known that I, CARLOS EUGENE DUN- sHEE, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cool; and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Newspaper-Holders, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of my improved newspaper-holder. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a front view showing my improved newspaper-holder folded up when not in use.

The almost universal custom of reading the newspaper at the breakfast-table is attended with much annoyance for want of a convenient and suitable holder.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel combination of mechanism whereby the newspaper can be held securely at any place on the table convenient to the reader.

To this end it consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and definitely pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents a small metal base.

B represents an uprightpost, of metal,which is securely fastened to the center of the base. This upright post is slightly bent away from a vertical line at a point about four inches from the base. This post is shaped to form a square shoulder B, on which one end of each of the metal strips C C rests at a point about four inches from the base.

About four inches of the post 13, from the base upward, is to be made of round metal. The remainder of it is to be made of halfround metal. The change from round to halfround forms the shoulder B, on which the inner ends of the strips 0 C rest. These strips are rounded at the lower corners to permit of rotation on the pivot which fastens them to the post B.

C C represent two narrow metal strips, 5

one end of each, resting on the shoulder E, before mentioned, is securely riveted to the post B.

C C represent two similar metal strips, one

end of each being securely riveted to the post to the strips D D by means of rivets at the other end, by raising the outer ends of the strips C C and C C the square frame will fold up into an upright column.

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

In a newspaper-holder the combination of a metal base, to the center of which is securely fastened an upright metal post, the said post being slightly bent away from a Vertical line at a point above the base, and shaped to form a square shoulder B on which one end of each of the metal strips C Crests, the metal strips C C and C C each being riveted at one end to the said post and at the other end to the upright metal strips D D, thereby forming a square frame, and the said strips D D being bent into hooks at the bottom, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

CARLOS EUGENE DUNSHEE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS N. CALLOVVAY, PRESTON CARPENTER.

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