US740229A - Article-attacher. - Google Patents

Description

No. 740,229. PATENTED $313129, 1903.

E. B. CARPENTER.

ARTICLE ATTAGHER.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 3. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES E atented September 29, 1903.

PATENT Fries.

EDlVARD BEALS CARPENTER, OF PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.

ARTICLE-ATTACH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,229, dated September 29, 1903.

Application died March 3,1903. eel-a1 110.145.918. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, EDWARD BEALS CARPEN- I 'well known, great inconvenience is caused and many valuable articles are lost through the carelessness or forgetfulness of the own ers thereof, especially when shopping or purchasing articles in large and crowded stores.

It is therefore the object of my invention to provide a means whereby various articles, such as those enumerated, maybe connected with the person of the wearer, thereby obviating the possibility of losing the same.

I have also in view as an object providing a holder or retainer which may be used for the purpose of fastening the ribs of an umbrella together when the latter is not in use and may be employed for suspending packages or parcels from the umbrella-handle ghen the umbrella is being used on a rainy A further objectof my invention is to provide a device which may be economically manufactured, one which will be found extremely convenient, and which may be sold at a comparatively small cost.

To the accomplishment of the above-recited ends, the invention consists in'the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, asis described in this specification, delineated in the accompanying drawings, and set forth in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved retainer, showing the manner of securing the same to an umbrella or cane and suspending the latter from a convenient point. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing my retainer used as a means for clasping the ribs of an umbrella when the latter is closed. Fig. 3 is a View showing the manner of suspending parcels from an n mbrella or the like when the latter is in use; Fig. 4 is a view showing my improved holder employed as a hat-retainer, and Fig. 5 isa sectional view taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

Referring now'to the accompanying drawings in detail, the letter A designates the main body portion of my retainer, which is formed of any suitable, preferably flexible, material, such as leather, metal, or the like.

As will be observed, this member A is ap- V proximately circular or annular in contour and is of uniform thickness at its periphery or outer edge portion, such flexible body portion also having end portions B C, tapering and separated, so that the entire member has the appearance of a split ring. The inner edge of the ring is preferably beveled or inclined, as at D, the body portion of the holder being widest at its center and gradually tapering to the converging points B O. The formations of the bevel on the inner edge permits the device to fit snugly and tightly over the ends of umbrella-ribs and also to frictionally engage and clamp articles having rounded or uneven surfaces, such as hat-brims and the like.

Formed within the body portion of the ring is an aperture, as at E, adapted to have passed therethrough a suspending-cord F, the lower end G of which cord may be faste'ned to the person of the wearer or an umbrella, cane, or the like. It will of course be understood that my invention may be put to numerous and various uses, some of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In Fig. 1 I have shown a cane or umbrella suspended by the device from a ring or hook 1, while in Fig. 2 I have shown the device employed as a means for holding closed the'ribs of an umbrella. If desired, especially on rainy days, the device may be used for supporting packages beneath the umbrella, therefore leaving the one hand free and unencumbered. This application of the invention is shown in Fig. 3, wherein a package, as at 2, is suspended from the retaining ring-like member.

When it is desired to support any article from a counter-ledge, rod, rail, or the like, it is only necessary to spread the edges or points slightly apart in opposite lateral directions and then engage the ring with the counter or rail, as is shown in Fig. 4. The points or ends tending to return to their normal positions will frictionally grasp or clamp the support, thereby suspending the article Without any danger of the latter slipping or falling.

While I have herein shown one particular form of ring, it will of course be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details of construction, and it will further be evident that the retainer or holder may be formed of any suitable material and applied to various uses.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An article of the class described, comprising a flexible split-ring-like member of uniform thickness at its outer edge or periphery, the interior edge portion of the member being beveled, the sides of such member at the interior edge gradually tapering until points are formed at the split portions of the ring, substantially as set forth.

2. Anarticle of the class described, comprising a split annular member formed of flexible material, the ring at its periphery be ing of uniform thickness, said annular member having a portion of the interior edge thereof beveled, and a suspending-cord passing through an aperture in said member, substantially as set forth.

In. testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD BEALS CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

EDITH REDD CARPENTER, ISABEL Q. REDD.

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