US400520A - Arm-support fortelephones - Google Patents

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(No Modem E l A' 0.R.'TUTTLE. ARMSUPPORT FOR TELEPHONES.

No. 400,520. Patented Apr. 2, 1080.

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* .UNITED STATES CLARENCE E. TTTLE,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ARM-SUPPORT FOR TELEPHONES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,520, dated April 2, 1889.

Application filed Febrnary 4, 1889. Serial No. 298,595. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE R. TUTTLE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of' Chicago, in the county o'f- Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Arm-Supports for Telephones, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimprovement in arm-supports as attached to the jarbox of a telephone; Fig. 2, a View of the back side of the support remove'd from the box. Fig. 3 is an end View of the box and a cross-section of the support on line oo, Fig. 1; Fig. 4c,

' a cross-section of Fig. 1 on line z.

The purpose of this invention is to provide substantial and convenient means for resting.

the arm which supports'the receiver of a'telephone. To accomplish this in the most convenient and simple manner, I make the armsupport concave on top and with a suitable smooth surface to support the arm at the elbow, or just back of it, and a bar cast solid with the concave portion and extended across the top of the jar-box,v and provided at theA lower portion at each end with'a hook which engages the projecting lid to said box and 4holds the arm-support properly in place. The

arm-support and its attaching-bar consist, substantially,l of two ribs united to form an angle, with the hooks formed of the same Width as the top rib, that they, may have suitable bearing on the lidof said box, and the face of the arm-support is recessed, that letl ters, gures, or an ornament maybe set there= in. By means of said rib portions on the attaching-bar a space is formed between them and the wall H, supporting the jar-box, for holding a pencil or the edge of the'telephonedirectory.

A represents the jar-box of a telephone, and B its lid.

C L represents lthe attaching-bar, which is provided at its ends with hooks I J, for engaging the projecting ends of the lid B and holding the bar securely to the box. The hooks are made of the same Width, substantially, as the top D of the arm-support D E,

that said support may be held vertical.

, The jar-boxes areuniformly made of one pattern, so, with one-sized distance G G between the bar and hooks, can be made to engage any lid B with little or no fitting of the Wood. n

It will be seen that the vertical rib E of the arm-support and the rib L of the attaching-bar are continuous,L except at the hooks, which have a projection equal or more to the Width of the horizontal rib C. By this means cast-iron can be employed in the lmanufacture of the device, and consequently pro= duce a very cheap support and one Well adapted for use, and the face of it may be or= namented in any style desired, and the support D, being a segment in form, prevents the arm from having a lateral movement, and as a result the receiver canbe held very steadily to the ear.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. An armsupport for telephones, consiste ing of the segment portion D E, terminating in an attaching-bar, and a hook at each end of the same for engaging the lid of the jar= box, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The segment-support D E, and attach-A ing-bar formed in cross-'section of a horizon=l tal and vertical rib, andA the bar provided with hooks at its under end portions, and the hooks projecting inward from the vertical rib, substantially as specified.

CLARENCE R. TUTTLE.

Witnesses:

G. L. CHAPIN, l ANNA D. JOHNSON.

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