US703820A - Chatelaine-hook. - Google Patents

Description

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L. B. PRAHAR.

CHATELAINE HOOK.

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CHATELAlNE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. voasaddatea Juiy 1, 1902.

Application filed November 29,1901.-l Serial No. 84,015. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, LOUIS B. PRAHAR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Chatelaine-Hook, of which-the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a ehatelaine-hook-or bag-holder'with a locking-tongue which williautomatically adjust and lock itsef to the support upon which it is placed, and, further,to provide a simple ef fective means for releasing the tongue from the support Whenever desired.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct the device that it will be composed of but few parts not liable to be disarranged and which may be quickly and conveniently brought into locking engagement with abelt or like support, remaining in such engage-I ment until the releasing means is purposely manipulated. y

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set 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 characters of reference indicate corresponding` parts in all the gures.,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device, its cover or ornamental frontplate being removed. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation applied. Fig. 3 is a similar view through the device is shown in locking engagement. Fig.

the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5is a front elevation of another form of the device, and Fig.

centrally through the form of the device shown in Fig. 5.

The body of the device consists of a back member 10, a front member 11, which is usually provided with an ornamental cover 12, and an upper connecting member 13. The body is preferably constructed of metal and in one piece, and a hook 111 is located at the lower portion of the front member 11 to receive the chain or supporting-strap of a chatelaine-bag or the like.

A tongue 15, located between the front and rear member of the body, is pivotally mounted upon the front member and extends normally upward at an inclination to an engagement with the inner face ofthe rear member, as shown in Fig. 2. Usually the pivotal connection of the tongue with the body is effected by causing pins to extend from the ends of the tongue into bearings 16, attached to or forming an integral portion of the front plate 11. The tongue 15 is also provided about centrally between its pivot-points with spurs 17, which spurs are at an angle to the main body of the tongue, as shown in Fig. 3, and extend through an opening 18 in the front plate 11, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. v

As stated, the tongue l5 normally engages with the inner face of the rear member 10, and when the body is passed down over a belt A, for example, as is illustrated in Fig. 3,the tongue 15 is lifted upward and is carried forward, engaging with the front face or surface of the belt. When such an engagement occurs, the body cannot be carried upward or released from the belt until the tongue 15 has been carried well to the front, since any attemptto raise the body of the device from the belt will tend to cause the tongue 15 to more closely engage with the belt, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3.

The preferred form of releasing device for the tongue 15 consists of a bar 19, which bar is held to slide in suitable guides 20, attached to or forming a portion of the inner face of the front member 11. A head 21 is shown formed at the top of the actuating-bar in the form of thedevice illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and a spring 22 is coiled around the actuating-bar, having bearing against the head 21 and the adjacent guide 2O for the said actuating-bar. The actuating-bar 19 is provided at a suitable point between its ends with recesses in opposite sides, through'which recesses the spurs 17 of the tongue 15 extend, as is best shown in Fig. l. -The spring 22 tends to normally force the actuating-bar 19 upward, and consequently draws the lugs 17 of the tongue 15 in the same direction, causing the rear edge of the said tongue to enmember 10, the actuating-bar 19 must be forced downward, so as to carry the lugs 17 in the same direction, and consequently force the body of the tongue 15 to move toward the Afront of the body. This downward movement of the actuating-bar 19 may be accomplished by a lever 23 of the elbow type, pivoted at the connecting-bar 13, one member of which lever extends above the connecting bar or member 13 of the body, while the other member of the lever extends below the connecting-bar 13 of the body to an engagement with the head 2l of the actuating-bar 19. Thus by carrying the outer member of the release-lever 23 in a forward direction the tongue 15 will be carried away from the object with which it may be engaged.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have illustrated a slight deviation from the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. The difference consists in that the actuating-bar 19 is carried up through the connecting member orplate 13 of the body and is free to move in a slot therein. At the upper or outer end of the actuating-bar when lengthened, as described, a button 24 is secured, and a spring 25 is coiled around the outer portion of the actuating-bar, having bearing against the said button 24 and upon the connecting member or bar 13 of the body of the device.

By pressing down on the button 24 it is evi- -dent that theactuating-bar 19 will be carried downward and the tongue 15 carried toward the front portion of the device onout of locking engagement with the article with which it may have engaged.

In operation it is simply necessary to pass the body of the device downward over the top of a belt .A or a like object, causing the members 10 and 11 to be located one at the rear and the other at the front of the belt, and as the body is thus carried downward the belt will be brought between the tongue l5 and rear member lO, as shown in Fig. 3, and will be held in such engagement through the medium of the spring 22 in the form of the device shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the spring 25 in the form of the device illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. It will be observed that if an attempt is made to force the body of the device up from the belt such action will tend to cause the tongue 15 to more tightly engage with the object passed between it and the rearmember of the body. In fact, the device cannot be removed from the belt A until the actuating-bar of the releasing device has been forced downward to carry the tongue forward.

I desire it to be understood that I do not confine myself to a spiral spring or to the location of the spring, as, for example, a spring may be attached to a portion of the body and brought in direct contact with the tongue, pressing the same downward. It will also be understood that the connection between the actuating-bar 19 and the tongue 15 may be changed, it being simply desirable that the said bar shall by its movement impart movement to the tongue.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a chatelaine-hook,a body-section having opposing members, a tongue pivotally mounted on one member of the body, having an upward inclination and being normally in clamping engagement at its free end with the opposing body member, an actuating-bar mounted to slide on one of. the members, a working connection between the actuatingbar and tongue at a point removed from the clamping edge of the tongue, whereby the i tongue through its connection with the actuating-bar is carried to and from the member of the body of the hook with which it is adapted for clamping engagement, as specilied.

2. In a chatelaine-hook, a bod y-section having opposing members, a clamping-tongue pivoted to one memberof the body, which tongue extends in an upward direction normally to an engagement with the opposing member of the body of the hook, the said tongue having an extension from its pivoted portion, a spring-controlled actuating-bar mounted to slide upon one body member of the hook, being operatively connected with the said extension from the tongue to raise and lower the tongue, and means for operating the actuating-bar from the exterior of the body, as-described.

3. In a chatelaine-hook, the combination with a body-section comprising a front,a rear and an upper connecting member, a tongue pivotally attached to the front member,which tongue extends in an upward direction, normally bridging the space between the front and rear members of the body to an engagement with the rear member, the said tongue being provided at its pivot portion with lugs which extend through an opening in the front member of the body-section, of a spring-controlled bar mounted to slide upon the front member of the body-section, the said bar being provided with surfaces for engagement with the lugs of the tongue, and means substantially as described, for operating the said bar from the exterior of the body-section, as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS B. PRAHAR.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, JNO. M. RITTER.

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