US769469A - Broom-holder. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

G. E. CRAFTS. BROOM HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 8. 1904.

NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 6, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. CRAFTS, OF BANGOR, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE B. FREELAND, OF BANGOR, MAINE.

BROOM-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,469, dated September 6, 1904.

Application filed April 8, 1904. Serial No. 202,172. (No model.)

T 0 all 'LUh/OTJI/ it may concern.-

Be it known that LGEoRoE E.Cnarrs,a citizen of the United States of America,and a resident of Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to broom-holding devices of the kind which comprises a swinging pawl arranged in relation to a rest for the side of the broom-handle and operative to permit the handle on an upward movement thereof to be entered between the broom-handle rest and the then-upwardly-yielding pawl, the weight of the broom carrying the therewithengaged pawl downwardly to bind the broomhandle between the end of the pawl and the adjacent broom-handle rest.

The object of the invention is to produce the components of the device of such novel construction that the parts having all the essential or desirable features and capabilities are reduced to a minimum with corresponding economy of manufacture and whereby there is an avoidance of derangement after protracted use.

The invention consists of parts formed and combined to constitute the broom-holder, substantially as hereinafter described in conjunction with the accompanyingdrawings and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device holding a broom-handle. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, A represents the back plate and main support of the device having at one end portion the forwardly curved broom-handle rest a and having its opposite end slitted for a short distance longitudinally and the tongue or portion of the metal represented at 7) between the slits forwardly bent at right angles to the plate or sheet-metal back A to constitute an abutment or stop to limit the swinging movement both upwardly and downwardly of the broom-handle-engaging pawl B. The back plate A is designed to be fastened to the wall or against the vertical face of any appropriate support by the screws (1 (Z.

The pawl B is constructed with a plate-like end portion f, pivoted to and arranged to swing on the. front face of the back plate A adjacent the aforementioned abutment b, 9 representing the pivot which is preferably constituted by a headed and upset rivet, and the edge portion of the plate-like part f is formed with a recess of considerably-greater extent than the width of the abutment b, so that a suitable degree of swinging movement may be imparted to the pawl before either of the shoulders 71 or if will contact against the abutment, and the pawl has a horizontallywidened web-like portion '1', which as to its width is arranged in a plane at right angles to the back plate and to the pivoted end portionf and which as to its length is extended to approach the broom-handle rest a, and its end edge, which is beveled, is formed with a shallow curved recess j to conform more or less to the cylindrical contour of the broom.

The back A, having integrally therewith the broom-handle rest (a and the abutmentlug b, may be advantageously made of sheet metal struck up, and the pawl, which constitutes the only other component of the device, with the exception of the uniting-rivet and the fastening-screws, may practically be a casting.

Normally the parts will occupy the relative positions shown in Fig. 2, the pawl being in its lowered position and to the limit as permitted by the shoulder if, engaging the lower edge of the abutment, and there can be no accidental or undue upward swinging movement, owing to the limitationby the shoulder h contacting against the upper edge of the abutment b, and the broom is engaged within the holder and supported vertically thereby by first thrusting the broom-handle upwardly between the rest a and the adjacent end of the upwardly-yielding pawl and then permitting the broom to gravitate, whereupon the downward swinging movement of the pawl engages and acquires a crowding bind against the broom-handle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A broom-holder, comprising in its construction a back plate having at one enda forwardly projecting portion, constituting a broom-handle rest and at its other end an integral forwardly-extending tongue constituting an abutment, and a pawl pivoted at one end to said back plate and provided at its pivoted end with two separated shoulders which lie on opposite sides of the tongue for limiting swinging movement of the pawl, the free end of the pawl being located adjacent the forwardly-projecting portion of the back plate. 7

2. A broom-holder, comprising in its construction a back plate formed of sheet metal having one end portion forwardly curved and constituting a broom-handle rest and its other end slitted on two lines, the metal between the said slits being bent outwardly to provide an abutment-tongue, and a pawl pivoted at one end to said back plate and provided at its pivoted end with a recess, the opposite ends of which constitute shoulders that lie on opposite sides of the said tongue to limit swinging movement of the pawl, the opposite end of the pawl terminating in a web-like portion having a shallow curved recess that lies opposite the forwardly-curved end of the back plate. I

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE E. CRAFTS.

WVitnesses:

A. V. LEAHY, WM. S. BELLOWS.

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