US270130A - ferdinand boeder - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

F. ROEDER. FRAME FOB.- PORTA BLE LOOKING'GLASSES.

No; 270,130. Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

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'FERDINAND ROEDER, OF FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY.

F RAME FOR PORTABLE LOOKING-GLASSES.

SPECIFICATION t orming part of Letters Patent No. 270,130, dated January 2, 1883.

Application filed February 13, 1882. (No model.) Patented in Germany August 9, 1880, No.13,892; in France February 11, 1881.

No. 141,100; in England June 11, 1881, No. 2,545, and in Austria August 27, 1881, No. 29,656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND ROEDER, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Frames for Portable Looking-Glasses and the like Articles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in frames for portable looking-glasses and the like articles; and it has for its object to render the same capable ofstanding or being suspended in any position.

The nature of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, and fully set forth in the following specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a mirror and a prop therefor, attached thereto according to my invention. Fig. 2 represents a view of the loop or wire prop, and the boxes wherein are the sockets or bearings for the ends of the loop or wire. Fig. 3 represents a partly-sectional back view of a mirror, also embodying my invention in a-slightly-modified form; and Fig. 4 represents a partly-sectional back View of a mirror embodying still another modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The essential feature of the invention consists 111 the loop or how A A,.of spring-wire,

Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, which at its two ends,

13 B, is ground or tapered to a conical shape.

These ends take into a box, 0, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, which terminates in conical recesses, sockets, or hearings; or they may take into a sleeve or tubular piece or box 0, Fig. 3, conically recessed at both ends to form "sockets or bearings. The resilience of the loop or how will keep its ends pressed tightlyinto the conical or tapered sockets or bearings,and thefriction such that a mirror provided with such loop or bow may be placed or set in any position and at any inclination whatsoever to the object on which itis to be placed or set, without the risk of its falling, the loop or wire forming a prop therefor; also, as any position can be givemto the loop or how, the-mirror may be suspended from any object, and when handling the same the loop or how may be used as a handle. The loop or how is constructed according to the shape of the glass or other like article, and it may be either quadrangular, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or it may be oval, as shown in Fig. 3, the cylindrical boxesO (shown in Fig. 2) being in this instance so contrived as to form one box, the ends of which form the bearings tor the conical or tapered ends of the loop or how A. In Fig. 4 the loop or how A is so contrived that its branches or legs A havea tendency to separate one from the other, while in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 they tend to approach each other.

Although I have described andilluzstrated the invention as applied to a hand glass or mirror, it may beapplied in like manner to frames of photographs, pictures, and other like articles.

Having now described the nature of my invention and in what manner the same maybe perlormed, I declare that I claim- 1 As an improvement in meansfor sustaining portable frames, the conical or tapered extremities ot' the spring bow or loop B B, bent at right angles in opposite directions to have acommon axis, in co-operation with the conical sockets (J O, substantially as set forth.

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

' FERDINAND ROEDER.

Witnesses:

FRAN HASSLACHER, AUGUST UNGER.

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