US756543A - Sanitary attachment for telephones. - Google Patents

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iatentea April 5, 19o4.

.. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH L. THOMPSON, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

.SANITARY ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,543, dated April 5, 1904.

Application tiled December 26, 1903. Serial No. 86,67. (No modell) I To all whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, HUGH L. THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and A useful Improvement in Sanitary Attachments for Telephones, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. p

The object of this invention is to provide in a portable convenient form for telephone users a sanitary covering for a telephonemouthpiece, so as to protect the user against the insanitary conditions that may exist in the mouthpiece by reason of its use by'persons having communicable disease.

The invention consists of a shield of antiseptic, germicidal,disinfecting,or other tissue,

'such as thin paper, adapted to be temporarily applied to a telephone-mouthpiece, .the said shields for convenience, portability, and protection being arranged in book form and capable of ready detachment and preparation for use on the mouthpiece, .as the telephone user may require.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating in the several figures of which similarly designated, Figure 1 the invention, like parts' are is a perspective view showing the invention 'embodied 1n book form and `with the cover raised. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one'of the sheets detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thc mouthpiece of a telephone in conventional form having the shield attached. Figs. 4. and 5 are views similar to Fig. 2, showing modifications. A

A sheet 1, of paper or other material or tissue suiliciently thin or membranous not to interfere with the telephonie transmission of speech, is provided with oblique or diagonal lines 2 across two or more of its corners, so

' that the angles or corners may be bent over or back'upon the sheet, substantially as indicated in Fig. 3, to form hooks 3, by which this sheet may be attached to a telephone-mouthpiece 4 in a temporary way in order to interpose a shield between the speaker and the Fig. 4a single transverse line of indentations, perforations, or scoring 7 may be made across the bottom and the whole edge of the bottom folded back.

as indicatedin Fig. 1, with two or more sheets to a page 'and separated` by a line of perforations or indentations or other lines of Weak'- ness 8, so that the sheets may be readily detached from one another and also.separated by a line of weakness 9 next the binding' edge or back, so that the sheets may be detached one by one from the book. The binding 10 may be of any approved character. A quantity of such sheets in book form may be readily carried on the person, sothat each user of the telephone may ,be vsupplied with these shields in portable and convenient form.

antiseptic, germicidal, or disinfecting nature,

or they may be impregnated with any suitable antiseptic or germicid or disinfectant.

What I claim is* 1. A .sanitary attachment for telephones, comprising a sheet provided with 'bending lines to permit the sheet to be bent to form hooks by which it may be attached directly to the telephone-mouthpiece. u i

2. Alsanitary attachment for telephones,

comprising a sheet having diagonal lines of hooks at both top and bottom, or, as shown in I prefer to arrange the sheets in book form, l

The substance Vof the sheets may be of an Y `individual Weakness across its corners to permit the corners to be bent into hooks for attaching the sheet temporarily directly to the telephonemouthpiece.

3. A sheet of antiseptic, germicidal, or disinmouthpiece, and thereby avoid direct contact fecting material for attachment to the mouthpiece of a telephone, provided With-integral of Weakness foi' forming integral hooks to sushooks for hooking it temporarilyon the telephone-mouthpiece.

pend it over the telephone-mouthpiece.

In'testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 4. Sanitary attachments forY telephones, hand this 23d day of December. A. D. 1903.

5| comprising a pile of separable sheets bound in book form, each sheet provided with lines of Weakness to permit of its detachment from the book, and also provided With diagonal lines HUGH L. THOMPSON. Witnesses: V-

' C. WALTER CHILDS,u

CAROLINE S. CHURCH.

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