US827187A - Key-ring. - Google Patents

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H. SMITH.

KEY RING.

7 APPLICATION FILED SEPT; 14, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

HENRY SMITH, OF RALEIGH, iioRTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR To WILDES,:OF RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA;

KEY-RING.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31,. 1906.

Application filed September 14,1905. Serial No. 278.459.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HENRY SMITH, a citiin the county of Wake and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Key-Ring, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to key-rings. Theobject of the invention is in a novel and practical manner to keep a s ecial key, such as a night-key, segregate from the other keys on the bunch and to ermit its removal without disturbing the ot ers or to permit the removal from the ring or assemling therewith of keys without disturbing the special key. With the above and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a key-ring, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a view in erspectlve of a key-ring constructed in accor ance with the present invention, exhibiting the manner in which the kegs are combined with the differ 1 ent loops or ey-engaging members. is a view in plan of the key-ring.

The key-ring shown in Fig. 2 is exhibited Fig. 2

as a proximately pear-shaped when viewed in p an, and while this will generally be its preferred contour it is to be understood that it may be of other shapes without departing from the spirit of the invention. The ring, erably one that is non-oxidi'zable and resilient, embodies a main keyengagingloop 1 and a supplemental key-engaging loop 2, the two loops being spaced or separated by a web 3, formed by removing the metal to form the two loops. On one side of the ring are two incisions 4 and 5, which are preferably disposed on compound curves and separate the side of the ring on which they are located into three tongues 6, 7, and 8. The terminals of the tongues 6 and 8 are disposed is continue on one side of the loop 1, and the terminal of the tongue 8 is projected into the said loop and forms a portion of its wall, while'the terminal of the tongue 7 is projected into the loop 2 and forms also a portion of its wall. The incision 5 enters the loop 1 on a curve,

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but the incision 4 terminates some distance within the perimeter of the loop 1 and-thence in a straight line, approximately at-right angles to the length of the ring, forming thereby a shoulder 9, which will serve to prevent the terminal of the tongue 6 from presenting a projection or point which would catch upon the clothing, and thus render the use of the ring objectionable.

To assemble a night or other key with the loop 2, the tongue 6 is flexed laterally and inserted through the head of the key, and'to position the keys within the loop 1 the tongue -7 is flexed laterally for this purpose.

. It will be seen by the arran ement exhib* ited that the key within the loop 2 willbe positively held segregated from those within the loop 1 and that it may be removed or replaced witho'u'tinterfering with the keys in the loop 1, while at the same time the keys in the loop 1 may be removed or replaced without disturbing the key in the loop 2.

By having the s ecial key segregated in the manner described opening of a door when the keyis a night-key will be facilitated, as the owner of the key will be guided en tirely'by the sense of touch in determining which key he should'use, thereby overcoming an objection inherent in key-rings generally lll US6- Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A key-ring comprising a main and a sup lemental loop, and provided on one side wit three tongues, two of which terminate on the same side of the main loop and the remaining one of which terminates with the supplemental loop.

2. A key-ring embodying a main and a supplemental loop, one side of the ring being divided by incisions into three ton ues, one of the incisions being extended om the main loop into the supplemental loop, and

my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two w1tnesses.

HENRY SMITH.

Witnesses: F. P. HAYWOOD. D. I. FORT.

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