US406178A - Mosquito-canopy - Google Patents

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I. E. PALMER. MOSQUITO GANOPY.

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I. E. PALMER. MOSQUITO CANOPY.

No. 406,178. Patented July 2, 1889.

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ISAAC E. PALMER, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

MOSQU ITO-CANOPY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,178, dated July 2, 1889.

Application filed November 6, 1888. $erial No. 290 136. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mosquito-Canopies, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe a mosquito-canopy embodying my improvement in detail, and then point out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the upper part of a canopy and a portion of the body part thereof embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a detail view, in vertical section, showing a portion of the top of the canopy anda portion of the body thereof and means whereby the body of the canopy may be detachably supported. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modification; and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of a canopy, taken on the plane of the line a: .20, Fig. 1, and showing a modified means for supporting the body portion of the canopy. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing a modified means for supporting a certain frame.

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

Referring first to the example of my improvement illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, A designates the top portion of the canopy, made of any suitable material, and provided about centrally with a supporting-hook a. In the example of my improvement shown the top portion is maintained in a distended position by means of a frame B, which frame is in the form of a hoop or is of hoop-like construction. This frame may be madeof a single strip of spring metal, and its ends maybe secured together in any suitable manner. I have shown said frame as secured to a piece of trimming b, which trimming is in turn secured to the edges of the top portion of the canopy. The frame is thus secured by passing through loops b upon the piece of trimming b. The piece of trimming b, may however, be omitted, and the frame secured directly to the top by means of sewing or otherwise, as shown more clearly in Fig. 5, in which a hem is made in the edge of the top portionA of the canopy and the hoop passed through such hem.

I desire to be able to readily attach and dctach the body portion of the canopy from the top portion. To this end I have shown convenient means consisting in suspendingfrom the top portion of the canopya hoop C, which may be in construction like the hoop 13. I11

this example the hoop C is somewhat below the hoop B when the canopy is erected, and is'suspendcd in a'loop 0, depending from the top portion and extending circumferentially about the same. This loop may be continuous and may be secured to the top portion by the same means by which the trimming b is secured thereto. The hoop C is passed through the loop 0, and its ends maybe secured together in any suitable manner. It will be observed that a space is left between the hoops B and C. The body portion D of the canopy is supported from the top portion, but is secured between the hoops B and C. In this example of my improvement I have shown the upper part of the body portion as shirred upon a cord (Z. The cord cl, having the body portion shirred upon it, is then passed circumferentially about the top portion between the hoops B and C, and the ends of the cord may then be drawn tightly and tied or otherwise secured together, so that the cord cannot be moved over the hoops. The body portion of the canopy is made, as usual, with an opening upon one side, and the portions of the can opy adjacent to said opening, which are near the top of the canopy, will preferably be caused to overlap. When the body portion is secured to the top, this maybe accomplished by first lapping the edges, as just stated, and then passing the end portions of the cord again about the top portion between the said hoops and then tying them at one side, as shown more clearly in Fig. 1.

In the example of my improvement shown in Fig. 4, instead of showing a cord upon which the body portion of the canopy is shirred, I

have shown a piece of tape, to which the upper part of the body portion, after having been properly gathered, is firmly secured-as, for instance, by stitching. The ends of this tape'are provided with hooks d, and each of the end portions of the tape rearwardly of the hooks is provided with a loop (1 Each of these hooks may be engaged with a loop upon the other end portion of the tape in order to secure the whole between the hoops B and C, and also in order to cause the edge portions of the body to overlap.

111 Fig. 3 I have shown that instead of employing a separate loop 0 in which the hoop C is retained, which loop is secured to the top portion A, I may employ a piece of trimming 1), upon which are formed two sets of loops 1), one above the other, in one of which sets of loops the hoop B may be arranged and in the other of which sets the hoop C may be arranged. In this example, also, I have shown that a fringe or similar ornamentation S may be secured to the outer edge of the top por tion,which will hang downwardly and conceal the hoop 0.

Of course, instead of using loops 1) upon the trimming, I might use one continuous loop or pocket through which the hoop or hoops would extend.

By my improvementl am enabled, when desired, to readily remove the body portion from the top in order to wash the body portion or for any other purpose, and to as readily again secure the same to the top portion.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a mosquito-canopy, the combination,

with a top portion, of a frame by which the same is distended, and a body portion depending from the top portion and detachably secured thereto, substantially as specified.

2. In a mosquito-canopy, the combination, wit-h a top portion, of a hook-like frame by which the same is distended, and abody portion depending from the top portion and dctachably secured thereto, substantially as specified.

3. In a mosquito-canopy, the combination, with a top portion, of a frame by which said top. portion is distended, a hoop supported from said top portion, and a detachable body portion supported between said top portion and the hoop, substantially as specified.

at. In a mosquito-canopy, the combination, with a top portion, of a hoop by which said top portion is distended, a second hoop supported from the top portion below the hoop first named, and a detachable body portion supported between said hoops, substantally as specified.

ISAAC E. PALMER.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN G. PALMER, JoI-IN C. LADID.

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