US2503108A - Pothook - Google Patents

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9 1950 D. E.- GLANDVILLE 2,503,108

- POTHOOK Filed Dec. 16, 1946 I nveutar Daniel E. Glandville Patented Apr. 4, 1950 are UNIT-ED 'S'TAFIiES PATENT OFFICE Daniel E. Glandville, Reno, Nev., assignor, by direct and mesne assignments, to Ladder Hook Company, a corporation Application December 16, 1946, Serial No. 716,662

1 Claim. (Cl. 248-211) 1 This invention relates generally to holders for paint pots and the like, and more particularly to a reversible hook securable to a rung of a ladder for the temporary and adjustable support of a paint pot or water bucket for the convenience 5 second hook 20, similar to the hook l6, and having of painters, fruit pickers and window Washers. a shank portion 22 integrally secured to shank An object of this invention is to provide such portion I8 as by welding, is disposed in the same a hook or holder in a form adapted for the supplane but at an angle of 180 with the hook l6, port of such a pot or bucket on the outer side of the holder being thereby adapted for reversal, either of the stiles of a ladder. 10 that is positioning on the other end of the rung Another object of this invention is to provide M, as will be hereinafter more full described. such a holder so designed as to retain the bail A mid portion 24, integral with the shank poror bucket inclined inwardly toward the said stiles tion [8 and disposed normally thereto, is prefof the ladder with a view to making said bucket erably of a length slightly greater than the width more convenient or accessible. of the front face of a stile of a ladder, this mid Still another object of this invention is to proportion 24 being adapted to span and rest upon vide a holder with a spring hook for the ball the said front face of the stile, as best illustrated of a bucket, to forestall any likelihood of the said in Figure 1. bucket from becoming inadvertently detached The outward end of the mid portion 24 is downfrom the hook. Wardly curved and integral with the depending And a last object to be specifically mentioned portion 26 which with the upstanding integral is to provide such a holder in a form which is inportion 28 comprises a hook for a bail 30 of a expensive and practicable to manufacture, being bucket represented at 32. This lower hook poradapted for construction of round stock, extion is preferably tempered or otherwise made tremely convenient for the use of ither right slightly resilient so that the upper end of the uphand or left hand painters and others, and which standing portion 28 is yieldably held close to the is generally adapted to provide for efiicient and depending portion 26, to provide for a simple durable service. latching of the bail 30 within this hook. A lip 34 With these and other objects in View as will may be provided on the upper end of this porappear hereinafter, this invention resides in cer- 30 tion to facilitate the entrance of said bail 30. tain novel features of construction, combination With the foregoing description of the mechanand arrangement of parts and portions as will be ical details of this holder in view, th method of hereinafter described in detail and particularly operation will be obvious to those skilled in the set forth in the appended claim, reference being art to which this invention appertains. One adhad to the accompanying drawings which form 35 vantage which will now be clear, and in addia material part of this application, and in which: tion to the object and advantages recited above,

Figure l is a fragmentary front elevational view is the facility with which the holder, with or withof a ladder with a paint pot secured on the outer out a paint bucket secured thereto, can be maslde of one of the stiles thereof by means of this nipulated and changed from side to side of the improved holder; 40 ladder, the double hooks on the upper end of the Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the strucdevice providing convenient handle means not ture shown in Figure 1, the figure being techprovided in other devices of this general charnically a vertical sectional view taken on the line acter. 2-2 in Figure l, and the rungs of the ladder Obviously this device can be manufactured from are shown in section; and other material than that specified above, and fiat Figure 3 is a perspective view of the holder. stock of considerable thickness may be substi- Similar characters of reference designate simtuted for the round stock represented in the ilar or identical parts and portions throughout drawing. the specification and throughout the several views Though there has been shown a particular of the drawing. embodiment of this invention, this application Referring now to the drawing in detail, it will be noted that the ladder having stiles l0 and I2 and a plurality of similar rungs I4, secured therebetween according to conventional practice, is

,shown with this invention secured operatively 2 thereon. At the upper end of the device, a simple hook I6, formed with a relatively long depending shank portion I8, is proportioned and otherwise adapted to engage a rung M of a ladder. A

is not limited to this particular embodiment, but it is desired to include in the scope of this invention the construction, combination and arrangement of parts and portions substantially as set forth in the appended claim.

asaawe r Having thus described this i'i'ifientiofi, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

A holder of the class described comprising two upper oppositely disposed hooks adapted for 5 selective engagement on a rung of a ladder, a midportion disposed substantially normally to the common plane of said hooks and adapted to be supported on the forward face of a stile of said ladder, and a lower depending hool; to receive the 10 bail of a pail.

DANIEL E. GLANDVILLE.

Number Name Date 7 982,604 Herring Jan. 24, 1911 1,880,319 Iasillo Oct. 4, 1932 1,927,315 Kamp Sept. 19, 1933

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