US907687A

US907687A - Folding hammock-support.

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Publication number: US907687A
Application number: US38153607A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jacob H Emmert
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1907-06-22
Filing date: 1907-06-22
Publication date: 1908-12-22
Anticipated expiration: 1925-12-22

Description

J. H. EMMERT.

FOLDING HAMMOGK SUPPORT.

APPLICATION TILED mm: 29, 1907.

Patefited Dec. 2 2, 1908.

W/TNES ES I/ I/E VTORI on the upper ends of the JACOB H. EMMERT, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

FOLDING HAMMOCK-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 29, 1907.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Serial No. 381,536.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAooB H. EMMERT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Hammock- Supports, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings as constituting a part thereof.

My invention has for its object to obtain a folding hammock-Sn port, ineX ensively made of stock materia, adjustab e to suit the varying lengths of hammocks, and easily transportable.

I attain my object by the construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In such drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of my device, arranged as in practice to support a hammock; Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation; Fig. 3 is a sectional detail of the leg hinges; Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the hooks, shown in the preceding figures, from which the hammock is supported at its ends; Fig. 5 is a partial side elevation of a modified type of construction of my device; and Fig. 6 is a sectional detail'of the leg hinges used in such modified type.

The letters designate the parts described.

My device is made of piping and pipecou lings, commonly found in stock with dea ers of plumbers su plies. The legs a, b, a, b, consist of suitab e lengths of ipe, the lower ends of which are preferably dlosed by means of caps 0, so as to kee out dirt; and

fegs (the pipe lengths being threaded at both ends) are secured tee-couplings d, d. The two legs are jointedly arranged side by side, as shown, by means of an intermediate bushing 6, having an exterior thread, and a smooth inner bore or surface, in which are inserted the reduced ends f of the horizontal, telescoping rod f. The latter is conveniently constructed of two pieces of pipe, one (f of smaller diameter than and adapted to be slidably inserted in the bore of the other. A reduced end is obtained at the outer end of the pipe of larger diameter, by inserting a rod in said outer end thereof; the parts being threaded. The smaller pipe-section f is of a size to fit the eye of the bushing of the tee-con lings for the legs a, b. A collar 9 is provi ed on the smaller pipe-section f to limit the distance the same will enter the eye of the hingejoints of said legs a, b; and the shoulder f serves the same pur ose as the collar g. It will be noted that t e legs a, b, a, b, when spread apart and folded together again, pivot on the thread of the bushing, which construction I have adopted, so as to hold said tee-coupling-joints against lateral displacement. Intermediate of each pair of tee-cou lings d, d, I place on their connecting bus ing a ring h, provided with an eye h, and a hook i, the parts being arranged to allow the hook sufiicient freedom of motion to facilitate the attachment of the sup orting end of the hammock thereto. To imit the distance which the legs a, b, a, I), spread apart I provide adjustable means. A chain j, is fastened by a clamp 76 to one leg, and 1caught on a hook Z, secured on the opposite Nhen my device is to be arranged in condition for transportation, the telescoping rod f is removed, the smaller section thereof pushed into the larger, the legs a, b, a, 7) arranged side by side, and then the whole may be wrapped together with the hammock, in a parcel convenient for carrying about, or shipping. v

Another feature incidental to the described construction is, one section of my hammock supporter may be used as a tripod in camp, from which to support camping utensils, the parts, in that case, being so arranged as to rest on the ground, upon one end of the telescoping pipe f, and the legs of one section end of the device. The hook i, under such conditions, providing convenient means from which to suspend the cooking utensil.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I show a modified type of construction, and preferred by me. The general features of the joining of the legs are the same, but the two sections of connectin pipe f, f described in the first mentioned ype are replaced by two sections of pipe m, m, of the same diameter and connected at their inner ends by a sleeve n, brazed on one pipe end and into which the other pipe end is inserted, when the parts are assembled. The bore of both tee-coupling joints d d of the legs a b and a 6 is of the same diameter, and the outer ends of the pipe sections m, m are slidably inserted theren. To secure the inserted pipe ends against lateral movement in the eyes of said tee-cou lings, I make the rings 71,2 with a locking-hook 0, inserted in one of a series of holes 19, therefor made in the pipe ends. The rings k are also provided with hooks 41, above mentioned, on which to I lings of each pair of legs, a two-part separahang the hammock, or cooking utensil. The advantage of the last described type of construction is, the parts are somewhat easier made and are less affected by exposure to the weather.

Besides the uses of my device above set forth, the legs could be brought close together, so as to be suitable to suspend a childs swing from the connecting-rod; and furthermore the supporting-frame could be used as the frame of a canopy.

For cheaper constructions, wooden sticks could be used instead of pipe-lengths for legs, and likewise a wooden pole could be used instead of the pipe connecting-rod.

To prevent the inadvertent telescoping of the smaller pipe f into the larger pipe j, in the type of construction illustrated in Fig. 1, I fasten a pin g by means of collar and chain 1" and make the smaller pipe with holes 8, in which to insert said pin.

1 claim:

1. A hammock supporter comprising a pair of legs for each end, a tee-coupling on the upper end of each leg, bushings inserted in and jointedly connecting the tee-couplings of each pair of legs, a two-part separable connecting-rod the ends of which are slidably inserted in the eyes of said tee-couplings, means adapted to lock the slidable ends of the connecting-rod in place in said tee-coupling, and supporting hooks on the tee-couplin A hammock-supporter comprising a pair of legs for each end, a tee-coupling on the upper end of each leg, bushings inserted in and jointedly connecting the tee-coupble connecting-rod, the ends of which are slidably inserted in the eyes of said tee-couplings, a hook arranged tobe inserted in one of a series of perforations therefor provided in the ends of the connecting-rod, to lock the same in place in said tee-couplings, and supporting-hooks on the tee-couplings.

3. A hammock-supporter comprising a pair of legs for each end, a tee-coupling on the upper end of each leg, bushings inserted in and jointedly connecting the tee-couplings of each pair of legs, means limiting the lateral extension of the legs, a two-part separable connecting-rod, the ends of which are slidably inserted in the eyes of said tee-couplings, a hook arranged to be inserted in one of a series of perforations therefor provided in the ends of the connectingrod, to lock the same in place in said tee-couplings, and supporting-hooks on the tee-couplings.

4. 1n a hammock supporter, the combination of a pair of legs for each end, tee-couplings on the upper ends of each leg, bushings inserted in and jointedly connecting said teecouplings of each pair of legs, a connectingrod having perforations in its ends and adapted to be slidably inserted in said tee-couplings, collars inserted on the bushing intermediate of each pair of tee-couplings, pendent supporting-hooks on said collars, and hooks secured to said collars arranged to be inserted in perforations in the ends of the Witnesses:

RALPH R. DUNIWAY, OEcrL LONG.