US975114A - Flag-holder. - Google Patents

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G. W. BLANK.

FLAG HOLDER.

APPLIOATION II'LED JULY 26, 1910.

Patented Nov 8,1910.

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FLAG-HOLDER.

Application filed July 26, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BLANK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at VVilkinsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F lag-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a flag holder and has for its object to provide means in a manner as hereinafter set forth and supported by a flag pole, staff or stick for retaining a flag in an extended position whereby the stars and stripes, mottoes, coat of arms or society and club insignias can be easily observed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a flag holder in a manner as hereinafter set forth for preventing a flag from wrapping around a pole, staff or stick and reducing to a minimum the tearing of the flag by the wind.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a fiag holding device which is comparatively simple in its construction and arrangement, strong, durable, efficient in its use, readily set up in operative posltion w th respect to a fiag staff, and comparatively 1nexpensive to manufacture.

l/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter more specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein is shown the preferred embodiments of the invention, but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications can be resorted to which come within the scope of the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawings wherein like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 1s a front elevation of a fiagholder in accordance with this invention showing the adaptation thereof in connection with a flag staff or pole. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a portion of the holder illustrating a modified means for coupling the flag to a holder. Fig. & is a sectional detail of the holder illustrating an anchoring pin. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view of a portion of the holder. Fig. 6 is an elevation broken away of a modification, and, Fig. 7 is a side elevation of another modification.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1910.

Serial No. 573,865.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 denotes a cap provided with a pair'of laterally-extending lugs 2 which are arranged parallel. The cap 1 is adapted to fit upon the upper end of a flag staff or stick 3 and is retained thereon by a pin t which projects through the top of the cap 1 and extends into the top of the staff 3. The pin 4 is so set up with respect to the cap 1 as to allow the cap to revolve upon the upper end of the staff.v To prevent rotation of the cap 1 upon the staff 3 an anchoring pin 5 is provided, said pin being disposed eccentrically to the pin 4 and extending through the top of the cap 1 and engaging in the upper end of the staff 3.

Soldered or otherwise secured between the lugs 2 as at 6 is the upper end of a vertically-disposed member 7 arranged when in operative position parallel with the staff 3 and having its lower end provided with a right-angularly disposed eye 8 through which the staff 3 extends when the holder is mounted in operative position.

Disposed at right angles with respect to the stafi' 3 is an arm 10 having its inner end 6 extending between the lugs 2 and adjustably as well as detachably connected to the said lugs through the medium of a set screw 9. The arm 10 as well as the member 7 is provided with a series of openings, said openings being indicated by the reference character 9 and opposing a series of eyelets 13 carried by the inner and the upper edge of the flag 12. Extending through the openings 9 and the eyelets 13 are coupling devices 11 in the form of split oval-shaped links. The openings in the arms 10 and member 7 combined with the eyelets 13 and links 11 constitute means whereby the fiag is maintained in an extended position so that it can be readily observed and the members 7 in connection with the arm 10 and the links 11 for coupling the fiag to the'said arm and member will prevent the fiag from wrapping around the stafi'. As the cap 1 can revolve upon the staff and as the eye 8 is of such diameter as not to engage the stafi 3, it is evident that the holder and the flag can revolve around the stafi.

In Fig. 3 a lace 20 is employed for coupling the flag to the member 7 and arm 10 in lieu of employing the links 11.

In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the reference character 1 denotes a cap which is rotatably-mounted upon the top of the stafl 3 and is provided with a pair of screwthreaded sockets 11*, one disposed at right angles with respect to the other for the reception of screw-threaded extensions 1O carried by the arms 7 and 10. By the construction shown, the arm 10 as well as the arm 7 is detachably-connected with the cap 1*.

In the modification shown in Fig. 7, the arm 10 is coupled with the cap 1 through the medium of a toothed disk 4* formed integral with the inner end of the arm 10 and engaging a toothed disk 4 carried by a lug 4 when projecting from the cap 1". The disks 4? and 4 are detachably-connected together by a bolt 5 provided with a thumb nut 6.

What I claim is:

1. A device for the purpose set forth comprising a cap, adapted to be connected to a flag stafi? a vertically disposed member connected w1th said cap, an arm connected with the cap and disposed at right angles with respect to said member, and means for connecting a flag to the inner and outer ends of the arms of the member and to points intermediate. the ends of the arms of the member.

2. A device for the purpose set forth comprising a cap adapted to be mounted for rotation upon a flag stafi", a member connected with and depending from the cap and provided with an eye adapted to surround the stafi', an arm connected with the cap and extending at right angles with respect to the member, and means for coupling the inner end of a flag to said member and the top edge of the flag to said arm whereby the flag is prevented from wrapping around the start.

3. A flag holder comprising a cap adapted to be mounted for rotation upon a flag staff, a pair of rigid members disposed at right angles with respect to each other and connected with said cap, each of said members apertured throughout its length, in combination with a flag provided at its inner edge and its top edge with a plurality of eyelets, and means extending through the apertures of said member and the eyelets of the flag for coupling the latter to the prevent the flag wrapping around the 'stafl,

one of said members provided with an eyelet through which is adapted to extend a stafi.

5. A flag holder comprising a cap adapted to be mounted for rotation upon a flag staff,

a pair of rigid members disposed at right angles with respect to each other and connected with said cap, each of said members apertured throughout its length, in combination with a flag provided at its inner edge and its top edge with a plurality of eyelets, and coupling devices in the form of split links extending through the apertures of said members and said eyelets for coupling the flag to the members whereby the flag is prevented from wrapping around the staff.

6. A flag holder comprising a cap adapted to be mounted for rotation upon a flag stafi, a pair of rigid members disposed at'right angles with respect to each other and connected with said cap, each of said members apertured throughout its length, in combination with a flag provided at its inner edge and at its top edge with a plurality of eyelets, and coupling devices in the form of split links extending through the a ertures of said members and said eyelets or coupling the fiag to the members whereby the flag is prevented from wrapping around the staff, and one of said members provided with means at one end whereby it is connected to the stafi.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. BLANK. Witnesses:

K. H. BUTLER, EVA A. MILNE.

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