US1299832A - Cover-holder. - Google Patents

Description

A. J. HOLDSWORTH.

COVER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I0. 1917.

1 ,299,882., Patented Apr. 8,1919.

ARTHUR J. HoLn'swoRTH, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, AssIsNoR or ONE-HALF To CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER, or nETRoInivucHIGAn.

COVER-HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, ARTHUR J. 'Honns- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, re siding at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigamhave invented a certain new and useful Improvement, in Cover-Holders, and declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyin drawings, which form a art of this speci -cation.

This invention re ates to cover holders for jars and the like, and its object is a simple and inexpensive device adapted for attachment to the neck of a jar and formed in a manner to receive and hold the cover without liability of accidental displacement and consequent breakage. The principal object of the invention is a device of the character stated formed of spring metal or wire adapted to be secured to a jar by springing the same about the neck of the jar and having a portion so shaped that the cover may be raised from the jar and inserted in the part provided therefor ofa shape to securely hold the same from displacement. These and other objects and the several novel features of the invention in its preferred form are hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a jar provided with a cover holder embodying my inven-' tion.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the holder.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a holder showing an alternate form of construction.

Fig. 4; is a similar view of another type of construction.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the form shown in Fig. 4.

The device is preferably formed of a single piece of spring wire or metal having a portion substantially in the form of a circle as indicated at 1 to engage about the neck of the jar and a portion as indicated at 2 to receive the cover after the manner shown in Fig. 1. The portion 2 is arcuate in form and tween the ends thereof to allow the cover to be inserted therein to a depth sufiicient to retain the cover in place after the manner illustrated in Fig. 1, and to assist in the retaining of the cover the wire in the cover Specification of Letters Patent.

sufficient force of suflicient length be holding part and near the ends thereof bent inwardly'from the re'ntrant portions 3 near opposite ends. These engageabout the depending edge 4 of the cover as will be understood from Fig. '1, and assist in preventing displacement of the cover particularly when lying at a slight angle to the vertical, as is shown in Fig. 1, in which position the edge 4 extends beneath the reentrant parts 3 which engage the inner surface of the cover when held therein. In use the cover on the opening of the jar is simply inserted in the holder portion 2 as shown in Fig. 1 and is thus in position to be readily handled for placing over the jar and breakage occurring through placing the covers on shelves or counters as is usual is avoided.

Preferably the portion 1 of the device is sitioned opposite the cover holder portion.

as will be understood from Fig. 2, and that the portion 5 of the cylindrical part extends about the lower part of the circle and is con nected with the upper side of the cover holder portion, and that the portion 6 extends about the upper part of the portion and connects with the lower part of the holder portion. Thus parts of the circular portion of the holder, as at 9, overlap strengthening the device at the point of support of the cover, and by reason of the shape tends to naturally clamp the cylindrical portion about the neck of the jar with to support the weight of the usual covers. With jars of small size it will be readily understood that wire of comparatively small gage may be utilized which is increased as the size of the jar and weight Patented Apr. 8, 1919.

Application filed May 10,1917. Serial No. 167,831."

circular of the cover is increased. With the usual 'entoT the United "States is 1. A cover holder for jars consisting of a single piece of wire bent to form a slot likejpart, :the inner side of the slot being iormed by -.crossing the ire and vbeing bent -on the Jinner sideof said slot like portion to form parts extending inward toward the portion forming the outer side of the. slot, the wires beingiformed forward of the point of crossing ina-shape to engage the neck of -flnpies of this upatentrmay vbe obtained for five cents each, vby addressing the a jar and having the terminal end portions shaped to provide a support for an :article.

'2. Acover holder for jars consisting of a single piece of spring Wire bent intermediate "its ends to form an arcuate slot, the inner side of the slot being formed with two reentrant parts to engage about :the edge of a circular cover When inserted in the slot,

cation.

ARTHUR .J. HOLDSWQRTH.

Commissioner of Patents,

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