US674139A - Pillow attachment for hammocks. - Google Patents

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No. 674,|39. Patensd May I47 |901. l. E. PALMER.

PILLOW ATTACHMENT FOR HAMMOGKS.

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PILLOW ATTACHMENT FOR HAVIMOCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,139, dated May 14, 1901. Application inea February 16,1901. semi No. 47,536. or@ man.;

T0 all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have'invented new and useful Pillow Attachments for Hammocks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pillow attachments for hammocks in which the spreader is utilized as a pillow-support for holding the pillow removably in position to be used when turned down on the hammock-body or when turned back upon the opposite sides of the spreader and resting upon the suspension-cords.

A practical embodiment of myinvention is represented in the accompanying drawings,`

in which- Figure lis a top plan view of the pillow and spreader at the head end of a hammock, showing the position of the hammock-body and suspension-cords in proximity thereto and showing the pillow in its position resting on the hammock-body. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same. Fig. 3 is a top plan view showing the pillow thrown over onto the opposite side of the spreader, resting on the suspensioncords. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 5 is a fragment of a pillow, showing modified means for attaching it to the spreader. Fig. 6 represents another`fragment of a pillow, showing still another means of attaching it to the spreader; and Fig. 7 is laneu-l larged top plan View of a cleat and the pillowsupporting cord in engagement therewith, as indicated in Figs. l to 4, inclusive.

The hammock-body is denoted by (t, the suspension-cords by b, and the spreader by c. The spreader here shown is provided with knobs or balls at its oppositeends5 but for the purposes of my present invention a spreader of any well-known or approved form may be employed, so that it be suitable for the at.

tachment thereto of fastening-cleats or elongated buttons for retaining the pillow. In the present instance the fastening-cleats or elongated buttons are formed of thin metal,having a perforated body portion d,with the wings e f extending in opposite directions from the body portion and sufficiently raised from the base of the body portion to permit the fasteningcord to pass underneath them. The cleat isl conveniently secured to the body of the spreader c by means of a screw g, the shank of which passes through the perforated body d of the cleat and into the body of the spreader.

In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, the pillow (denoted by h) is provided along one edge with a suspension -cord which passes th rough spaces made by crowding the threads of the pillow apart, as clearly shown in Fig. 7, and is given a turn around the cleat, as clearly shown in Fig. 7, thence passing again within the pillow and along the edge thereof to a point opposite a succeeding cleat, and so on until it has-been looped around the several cleats on the spread er, the ends of the cord being fastened at the opposite edges of the hammock in any well-known or approved manner-such, for example, as by sewing them to the pillow.

When it is desired to remove the pillow from the spreader, the cord t may be stretched sufficiently to permit one of its loops to be disengaged from the cleat, and it will then readily yield, so that each succeeding loop may be removed after the manner of unbuttoning a garment. The pillow may be readjusted to its position by again slipping the loops over the several cleats. t

When the pillow is adjusted to the spreader, it may be used either in the position shown in Figs. l and 2 or in the position shownin Figs. 3 and 4, as there will be no tendency of the loops of the fastening-cord to become disengaged from the cleats when the pillow is rocked over into its position resting on the suspension-cords.

When rocked back into the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the pillow will serve to give the head of the occupant as well as the body a new position, which may be restful and convenient, particularly for purposes of reading.

In the form shown in Fig. 5 the cord i is omitted and buttonholesy are formed in an extended edgekof the pillow, the buttonholes having their longitudinal axes in a position transverse to the length of the pillow, so that after having been engaged with the cleats there will be no tendency to unbutton when. the pillow is thrown back into the position shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 6 the `pillow is provided with tabs IOO Z,havingbuttonholes therein,as distinguished from extending the pillow itself to form a thin edge.

It is obvious that slight changes might he resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts without departing from the spirit an d scope of my invention. Hence I do not wish to limit myself strictly to the struetnre herein set forth; but

l. A pillow attach ment for hammocks oomprising a spreader having fastening devices at intervals thereon and a pillow provided with means for rem ovahly engaging the said fasteningdeviees on the spreader whereby the pillow may be thrown into operative position upon either of two opposite sides of the spreader, substantially as set forth.

2. In comhination,aspreader provided with a series of cleats thereon and a hammock-pillow provided with series of loops for removably engaging` the cleats on the spreader to permit the ham moek-pillow to be thrown into operative position upon each of two opposite sides of the spreader, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, a hammock-spreader provided with cleats at intervals thereon and a pillow having a oord extended along one edge within the pillow and passing through the edge of the pillow at intervals in the form of loops to engage the said cleats, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two Witnesses, this 14th day of Feb* rnary, 1901.

ISAAC E. PALMER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. M. SAUER, PAUL S. CARRIER.

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