US743691A - Holder for bags, &c. - Google Patents

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No. 743 691. PATENTED NOV. 10, 1903.

looms. HOLDER. FOR BAGSLM. APPLICATION FILED JUN 'B 12 1902 N0 MODEL.

I f I f r I UNITED ST TEs v PATENT Patented November 10, 190

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HOLDER FOR BAGS, 81.0.

SEECIFICATION forming part of Letters IE'atent No. 743,691, dated November 10, 1903.

Application filed June 12, 1902. Serial No. 111,412. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRICK'CORDS, yeoman, a subject of the King E Great Britain,

residing at Bentinck, in the county of Grey and Province ofOntario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Holder for Bags and Similar Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in holders for bags and the like; and the object of my invention is to provide a simple,

cheaply-constructed, and easily-operated device whereby bags of different sizes may be hold while being filled, and, further, to make such device adjustable for holding bags of various lengths and also to be used conveniently by people of various heights; and it consists, essentially, of a pair of arms pivotally secured at their upper ends to a suitable stand or support and having their lower ends of such a shape as to conveniently engage the upper portion of a bag or similar receptacle, a suitable means being provided for spreading said arms, and means being also provided whereby the height of said arms may be varied according to the height of the person who is using the.device or the bag which is being held, the various parts being constructed and arranged in detail as hereinafter more particularly described.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, showing abag held thereby. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the device. Fig. 3 isasectional elevation of the same on the line X X,

Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the lever for spreading the arms.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the stand or support for the device, consisting of a suitable base a and upright portion a, which is suitably secured to the base and which may be given additional strength by suitable means, such as the curved braces a a secured at their central portions to the upright portion a and at their ends to the base a. A vertical guideway a is formed in the upper portion of the upright a, and in this guideway a block B is slidably held. The block B consists of the narrow central piece I) and the wide overlapping front and back pieces 19' 19 respectively, all secured together.

. C O are the arms, which are pivotally connected to the upper portion of the block B by suitable means, such as the bolts 0 0, having the connecting-yoke D, and the nuts 0 0 formed with forwardly-extending portions 0 c downwardly-extending portions 0 c and the portions 0 0 designed to lit in and support the upper portion of a bag or like receptacle.

E is a lever which is pivotally secured to theblock B by means of a bolt 6 and nut e. This lever is provided on its inner face with a projection 2 having cams e 6 formed on its ends, these cams being designed to engage the inner surfaces of the arms O O, so that when the lever E is brought into the transverse position, as shown in Fig. 1, the arms will be spread apart and will tightly hold a bag or like receptacle into which their lower ends have been inserted.

Any suitable means may be provided for raising or lowering the block B; but the means which I prefer to employ is as follows: F is a lever which is pivoted at one end to a bracket f, extending outwardly from. one side of the upright a. A link f is pivotally secured by a screw or other suitable pivot f to the block B, and at its other end the link f is pivotally secured to the lever F at a point intermediate of the length of the said lever. It will thus be seen that on raising or lowering the lever the block B will be raised or lowered, thus adjusting the height of the holder to suit the height of the bag'or the-person using the device. Iu orderto secure the block in position when adjusted, I prefer to employ a rack G, the projections or teeth of which are designed to retain the lever F in any of the positions to which it may be adjusted. This rack is formed, preferably, with a flange g,

which is bolted to the block g, secured to the upright portion of the stand or support.

In order to make the machine more easily moved from place to place, wheels H H may be attached to the base aby suitable means,

At their lower ends the arms 0 O are such as an axle h and bearings 71-, and when IOO ratus whereby bags and like receptacles of difierent heights may be held upright while being filled and which may also be adjusted very readily to suit bags of different widths and also to suit the height of the person who is using the device.

It will be understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the exact form and arrangement of the device as herein shown and described, as considerable variations might be made in the details of the device without departing from the spirit of my invention. For example, I might find it desirable, in order to make my device extremely cheap, to dispense with the mechanism for adjusting the height of the arms 0 O,and'in such a case the said arms would be pivoted to the upright portion of the stand instead'of to an adjustable block B, as shown.

It is to be noted that the lever E has its cam portions arranged between the arms C C, while the lever extends beyond the said arms in opposite directions and bears against the outer faces thereof to hold the latter against movement outward from the block B, and thus holding said arms in parallelism with the latter. This is important.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In a device for holding bags, at base, an 1 upright rising therefrom, and having guideway, a block having a portion movable in said posite sides of the upright, arms pivotally mounted at their upper ends on said block, and a lever pivotally mounted on the block between and below the pivot of the arms and having cam portions disposed between and to act against said arms and portions overlapping the arms and bearing against the outer faces thereof as and for the purpose specified.

Signed at the town of Walkerton this 31st day of May, 1902.

FRED. CORDS.

Witnesses:

THOMAS EooLEs ALTWOOD, HAROLD PERCIVAL STURT.

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