US655069A - Napkin-ring. - Google Patents

Description

No. 655,009. Patented my sry |900.

J. FRAME.

NAPKIN RING.

(Application med'nm. 25. woo.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED l STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB FRAME, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO MARIE L. FRAME, OF

' SAME PLACE.

.NAPKIN-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 655,Q69, dated July 31, 1900. Application filed Januari] 25, 19070.A Serial N-of21`77'7. (No model.)

from the collar of a person and as 'readily converted from a hook into a ring adapted to receive and hold the napkin in the usual manner.

It has for its general object to provide a napkin-ring of the kind stated embodying two pivotally-connected members and a latch adapted to hold said members against casual movement when adjusted to formeithera ring or a hook and also adapted to serve as a clasp for connecting a napkin to the napkin-ring when the members of the latter are adjusted to form a hook.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device With the pivotally-connected members adjusted to form a ring. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the pivotally-connected members adjusted to form a hook. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation, with parts in` section, illustrating the manner in which the latch serves as a clasp to connect a napkin to the hook. Fig. 4 is a detail section taken in the plane indicated by the broken line 4 4 of Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a detail section taken in the plane indicated by the'broken'line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detail section taken in the plane indicated by the broken line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A B are the members of my improved napkinring, whichY are preferably U-shaped and have their ends lapped and pivotally connected together by rivets a, as shown, or`

5o other suitable means. The member B, which has its ends arranged Within those of member A, is provided adjacent to one of its ends with two Vapertures b c, said apertures being disposed atopposite sides of one of the rivets or pintles a; as shown in' Figs. 1 and 2. The member A is provided adjacent to one of its ends with an aperture d, which is arranged to coincide with the aperture b when the members A B are adjusted to form a ring and with the aperture c when the members are adjusted to form a hook. Said member'A is also provided with two outwardly-extending ears e, which rest between ears f on a combined latch and clasp C and are designed to receive a pintle g on said latch and clasp, as best shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6.

The latch and clasp C is provided adjacent to one end with a teat or projection h and is subject to the action of a spring i, which is coiled about the pintle g and has an arm bearing against the ring member A and another arm bearing against the latch and clasp. The said spring tends to normally press the end of the latch and clasp bearing the teat t' toward the ring and enables said teat to en# ter the coincident apertures of the ring members, so as to secure them against casual movement and also enables said teat t0 bind a napkin against the outer ring member, and thereby connect the napkin to the ring.

When the napkinring is to be used in the ordinary manner, the members A B are ad; j usted to the position shown in Fig. l, the teat 71, entering the coincident apertures d b of said members, and thereby holding them against casual movement with respect to each other. i

When it is desired to use the ring as a lhook to connect the napkin to the collar of a person, the latch and clasp C is rocked to withdraw the teat h from the apertures d b and the members A B are adjusted to the po sitions shown in Figs. 2 and 8, after which the end of the napkin is interposed between the teat of the latch and clasp and the mem-V ber A, and the said teat is caused to enter the coincident apertures d c of the members and lock the same together.

It Will be appreciated from the foregoing that my improved device is readily convertible from a ring into a hook, and vice versa, and that when the device is adj usted to form a hook a napkin may be readily connected to and disconnected from the same. It will IOO `also be observed that the napkin-ring is sim"i ture d adjacent to one end, and the inner member havingian aperture b adapted to register with the 4aperture d whentheinner member rests within the outer member, and

impyvh-a-nd in presence v p messes. i f u other; the outer member also having an aper- M l the ainerturecjat the opposite ,sideof the y pivotal; connection with reference to aperture b, adaptedto register with thevv aperture d when the innerrmember is extended from the outerl member, and a spring-pressed latch 1 mountedon the outer Inemberand having a teat adapted to enter the coincident apertures ofthe members and thereby positively `lock them against casual movement with respectto each other, substantially as specified.

'"'T'n testimony whereof I have hereuntoset of two subscribing wit- 3o JACOB FRAME., 'v Witnesses:` ,i

AUG. l WOLHLRT,l GEORGE WELLS.

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