US992180A - Hose-supporter. - Google Patents

Description

S. PLORSHEIM.

HOSE SUPPORTEB.

APPLICATION FILED 001222. 1908.

Patented May 16, 1911) SIMON FLORSHEIM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOSE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. October 22, 1908.

Patented May 16, 1911.

Serial No. 459,080.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON Fnousnnnr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iose-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The hose supporter of this invention is intended to provide a neat, compact and easily operated hose supporter in which a very considerable surface is provided for the engagement of the hook, space being provided between the clamping members for the reception of the end of the fabric which may be therein folded or doubled up to a considerable extent.

Further objects will appear from a dctailed description of the invention, which consists in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure l is a front elevation of the preferred form of the hose supporter in clamped position; Fig. 2 a similar view, showing the same in partially unclamped position; Fig. 3 a longitudinal sectional View of the device as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 a similar view of the device shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 a front end view of the device in the position shown in Fig. 1.

The device, of the preferred form of construction, consists of two members 7 and S, the former of which may, for convenience, be termed the loop member, and the latter of which may be termed the stud member. The loop member is in the form of a flat plate provided, near its outer end, with a shoulder or offset 9 terminating in a tongue 10. The tongue is provided with a slot 11 which extends back through the shoulder 9, being enlarged at its rear end 12. The stud member, which cooperates with the loop member, comprises a body or plate 13, having its forward end turned back to form a hooked stud 14, which is connected with the body of the member by means of a neck 15 of reduced diameter. The hooked stud has clamped therein a transversely extending bar of rubber 16, or similar material, the ends of which project beyond the metal of the stud and are adapted to engage the upper surface of the loop member. The loop member, as shown, is of greater length than the stud member, and terminates in its rear end, in a sleeve 17, which is hinged on a cross bar 18 which forms part of the frame 19, which frame is of open formation and further comprises an outer cross bar 20, side bars 21, and a loop 22, the latter being adapted for connection with the usual elastic tape. The rear end of the stud section is likewise provided with a sleeve 23, which is hinged to the outer cross bar 20, the pivotal points being a considerable distance from one another.

In using, the device above described, when the open frame is moved from its parallel relation with the two sections of the device, it will draw back the stud section out of the position shown in Fig. 3, and into the position shown in Fig. 41-. This also carries back the head of the stud through the enlarged end 12 of the slot 11, thereby permitting the stud to be bodily disengaged from the loop section. When in this position the fabric can be applied to the stud, and the latter thereafter projected through the enlarged end of the slot which is formed in the offset of shoulder. 'lhercafter, when the parts are turned back to normal position, the stud will be projected forward toard the contracted end of the slot, carrying with it the fabric, which is clamped by the rubber piece or bar and held against the face of the slotted section.

The device is one which enables a stud of considerable width to be employed, thereby distributing the strain and tension ovcr'a considerable amount of fabric rather than concentrating it at a single point, which is undesirable for obvious reasons.

The arrangement of the clamping and stud members is such that when the parts are in clamping position they cannot become disengaged save only by the manipulation of the wire. The tendency of the parts is to maintain a parallel relation with one another so that they can be disengaged only by moving the frame to such position that the parts will be disengaged.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a hose supporter, the combination of a frame comprising upper, intermediate and lower cross rails, a looped clamping member loosely mounted upon the intermediate cross rail, a headed clamping member loosely mounted upon the lower cross rail, the free end of the headed clamping member being bent to form a hollow head extending at substantially right angles outwardly from the body portion, a section of resilient substanceheld Within said head, the metal at headed clamping member from passing the juncture of the body portion and head therethrough, the fabric being clamped be being reduced to a size smaller than the tween the lower edge of the resilient subbody portion or head, said looped clamping stance, and the upper face of the metal 5 member being formed of a piece of sheet lying adjacent to the reduced portion of the 15 metal and having its ends ofiset toward the slot, substantially as described. inner face of the supporter, and being pro- SIMON FLORSHEIM. vided With a slot having one portion en- Witnesses: larged, said enlarged portion being of a WALKER BANNING,

10 size'to prevent the body portion of the PmRsoN W. BANNING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

/ Washington, D. C.

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