US759878A - Article-attacher. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAY 17, 1904.

J. L. GREEN. ARTICLE ATTAGHER. APPLIOATIoN FILED me. 24, 190s.

N0 MODEL.

Patented Mayl'?, 1904.

PATENT EEicE.

JOHN-L. GREEN, OF JUNCTION CITY, ARKANSAS.

ARTICLE-ATTACH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,878, dated May 1'7, 1904. Application filed August 24, 1903. Serial No. 170,587. (No model.)

70 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Junction City, in the county of Unionand State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Article-Attachers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention appertains to means for c0- operation with spectacle-cases, memorandabooks, and kindred articles to prevent their loss when carried in the pocket and also to provide convenient means for receiving pens, pencils, and the like.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

W'hile the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modiiication, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying' drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the invention, showing it applied to a spectacle-case and fitted to a pocket and having a pen and pencil in position. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section on the line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the base-plate. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the clip. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the plate provided with the pen and pencil holders. Fig. 6 is a vertical eentral section of the clip on a larger scale.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The base-plate 1 is adapted to be secured to the article in any customary way and is provided with spurs 2, which are pressed through the material and clenched, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2. Ears 3 project outward from the plate 1 near its upper end and are transversely apertured t0 receive the journals of the clamp 4, which is pivoted at its upper end to the upper portion of the base-plate 1. A spring-tongue 5 is cut from the plate 1 and is provided near its upper end with a stop, which is adapted to limit the opening or outward movement of the clamp 4, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The ears 3, as well as the spring-tongue 5, are integral parts of the base-plate and are formed by the cuts substantially as indicated.

The clamp 4 is provided at its upper end with offstanding journals 7, which are mounted in the ears 3, and at its lower end with inwardly-extending spurs 8 for engagement with the material 9 of the pocket to prevent casual displacement of the clip or the article to which the clip is secured. A tongue 10 extends upward and rearward ofthe clamp 4 and receives the outward pressure of the spring-tongue 5, whereby the lower or free end of the clamp is held pressed inward' against the plate 1. The tongue 10 is an integral part of the clamp and is cut therefrom and pressed rearward and upward and projects above the axis of the clamp, so as to receive the outward stress of the spring, whereby the lower 0r free end of the clamp is pressed inward.

Arms 11 project laterally from the clip and terminate in holders 12, which are adapted to receive a pen. pencil, or like article, substantially as indicated in Fig. 1. The `parts 11 and 12 are independent of said plate and parts of the plate 13, which is secured between the article and the base-plate 1. To prevent slipping of the plate 13, it is formed with a notch 14 to receive the lowermost spur 2 of the plate 1. Any equivalent means may be provided between the plates" 1 and 13 to el'leet the same result. i

As shown, the clipper device is aliixcd to a spectacle-case 15, and the arms 11 are curved, so as to embrace the edge portions of said case and bring the holders 12 opposite to the central line of said edges. The spurs 2are passed through openings formed in the front portion of the case, and their inner ends are clenched. Vhen the clip or device is designed for memoranda-books, cardfcases, and flat articles, the arms 11 will be straight, so as to iit close against the side of the article to which the clip may be attached. When the article is placed in the pocket, the front portion of the latter is gripped between the plate 1 and clamp 4, and the spurs or teeth 8 entering the material prevent accidental displacement of ICO the article no matter' what position the person may assume.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new isf- In combination. a clip comprising a plate provided with spurs projected from the upper portion thereof and having portions pressed therefrom forming ears, a spring-tongue integral with the said plate and disposed approximately between the ears aforesaid and having a portion pressed therefrom to form a stop, a clamp .journaled to the ears and having an upwardly and rearwardly extending tongue for cooperation with the spring-tongue, said clamp being limited in its upward movement by the stop carried by the spring-tongue,

a second plate having holders extended laterally therefrom and adapted to be disposed in rear of the clip-plate to be held in place thereby, a spur projected from the lower portion of the clip-plate, the lowerpedge of the secondary plate being notched to receive the spur projected from the lower portion of the clipplate whereby said secondary plate is prevented from displacement.

1n testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN L. GREEN. [Ls] Witnesses:

J. H. WoRLY, J AY Simmons.

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