US950387A - Stopper-retainer. - Google Patents

Description

A. E. GORDON.

STOPPER RETAINER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 15, 1000.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

752 272 u et).

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

ALBERT E. GORDON, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AJAX-GRIEB RUBBER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

STOPPER-RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

Application filed May 15, 1909. Serial No. 496,100.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. GORDON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Stopper-Retainer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a stopper retainer and more particularly to a retainer for the stopper of what is commonly known as a hot water bag.

The object is to provide a retainer which will permit the stopper to be readily screwed into and out of the nozzle of the bag and which will retain the stopper within convenient reach when out of use and at the same time be sutliciently rigid to make it easy to manipulate it and be capable of ready removal from the bag when for any purpose its presence is annoying, as for instance, in cleansing the bag and stopper.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure l is a view of the top of a bag showing the stopper and its retainer in the position which they occupy when the stopper is in position to close the bag, Fig. 2 is a central section through the same, Fig. 3 is a similar section showing the stopper and its retainer in the position which they occupy when the bag is open, Fig. 4 is an edge view of the retainer in detail, Fig. 5 is a face view of the same, and Fig. 6 is an end view of the same.

The body of the bag is denoted by 1, the nozzle with its internal screw-thread, by 2, the funnel extending from the nozzle by 3 and the handle for carrying or hanging the bag, by 4.

The stopper with its exterior screw-thread to fit the nozzle is denoted by 5 and is provided with a handle or finger piece 6, for screwing and unscrewing 1t. The finger piece 6 is here shown as formed of wire in the form of a loop, having a contracted or narrower neck portion in proximity to the stopper and widening out as it extends away from the stopper.

The stopper retainer is here shown as formed of a single piece of wire, bent intermediate of its ends to form a circular eye 7 for loosely embracing the neck of the finger piece 6, the diameter of the eye being less than the width of the wider portion of the finger piece beyond the neck, the two parts or branches of the retainer extending from the eye 7 where they normally rest in contact or nearly in contact, away from the eye, at an angle to the plane of the eye, gradually separating from each other and finally turning abruptly away from each other and curving around toward each other to form an elongated loop 8 for the reception of the bag handle 4. The ends of the wire as they approach each other to form the loop 8, rest normally in proximity to each other but may be sprung apart to pass the neck of the finger piece on the stopper into position within the eye 7 and to pass the bag handle into the loop 8, and the retainer may be detached from both the bag handle and stopper at pleasure by springing the branches of the retainer apart.

In use the retainer with stopper connected may be swung over from the position shown in Fig. 3, to that shown in Fig. 2, the loop 8 sliding freely along the bag handle, and the stopper may then be screwed into position, turning freely within the eye 7, and when it is desired to empty or fill the bag, the stopper may be unscrewed and thrown over into the position shown in Fig. 3, thereby moving the retainer entirely out of the way of the nozzle.

The rigid or stiff nature of the retainer renders it convenient to manipulate in swinging it with stopper attached into and out of operative position and when in position to allow the stopper to be screwed into the nozzle, the meeting ends of the branches of the stopper are housed or protected between the parts which form the loop of the bag handle 4. The retainer is furthermore, quite inexpensive, light and durable.

It is obvious that the retainer might assume forms slightly different from that shown and described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention; hence I do not wish to limit myself strictly to the structure shown, but

What I claim is:

1. A stopper retainer for a hot water bag consisting of an eye for loosely embracing a finger piece on a stopper, a loop for loosely embraclng a bag handle and a substantially i'igid or stiff portion connecting the eye and 2. A stopper retainer consisting of a Wire eye and loop permanently in their positions bent to form an 'eye at one end for loosely relative to the connection.

embracing the finger piece on a stopper and In testimony that I claim the foregoing to form a split loop at the opposite end to as my invention, have signed my name in 5 removably embrace a handle. presence of tWo Witnesses, this fourteenth 15 3. A stopper retainer comprising an eye at day of May 1909. one end, a loop at the opposite end and a ALBERT E. GORDON. rigid connection between the eye and loop fitnesses: disposed at an angle to one of the said parts F. GEORGE BARRY,

10 the eye and loop, and adapted to hold-the HENRY THIEME.

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