US1192594A - Collapsible fabric-holder. - Google Patents

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W. W. WOODRUFF. COLLAPSIBLE FABRIC HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED OCT. e. 1915.

Patented July 25, 1916.

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WILLIAM W. WOODRUFF, OF ARDMORE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 BROWN & BAILEY COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

COLLAPSIBLE FABRIC-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. Wooonurr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ardmore, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Collapsible Fabric- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improved means of simple, convenient and inexpensive character for use in supporting and protecting silk and other light or fragile fabrics, and it comprises, in its preferred form, a paper board blank of such character that it can be stamped to form permitting the ends to be turned back and engaged to the body to provide a form having rounded ends or end loops on which fabrics can be folded and retained so that creasing and crumpling are avoided.

The blanks are adapted to be stacked flat so that they can be shipped and used conveniently.

The construction is characterized not only by its simplicity and economy of production, but also by the facility with which it can be handled, erected and utilized as a support for fabric folded thereon, retained thereby and protected in handling or shipthe device being peculiarly adapted for receiving and holding the quantities of material usually sold at retail and heretofore delivered unfolded, with resultant excessively long packages, or in forms permitting objectionable creasing and crumpling of the material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a blank made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the erected device; Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section taken through the erected construction shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4: represents an end view of a package of goods having the retaining form disposed therein.

The device, in the form thereof illustrated in the drawings, comprises a blank sheet of material having the flat median or body portion 1 containing the symmetrically disposed transverse slots 2, and ends 3 provided with the oppositely extending tongues l adapted to enter the slots, the end tongues or bear- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ings 5 adapted to bear on the body on either side ofthe respective slots, and the intermediate sections 6 provided with the transverse scores or creases 7. The form is erected by bending the ends 3 back and entering the tongues a in the slots 2, so that the tongues 5 bear upon the body 1, the creases 7 facilitating the symmetrical bending of the sections 6 and the formation of the end loops 8 of the erected form.

The device being erected from theform shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 2 having a flat body with looped ends, silk or other fragile fabric 9 may, after being folded longitudinally, be folded transversely thereon so that it can be conveniently handled and shipped without injury, the loops preventing sharp bends and consequent creasing of the material.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, a blank having a body provided with slots, ends provided with tongues adapted to enter said slots, and sections intermediate of said slots and tongues, said sections being adapted for bending.

2. In a device of the character described, a paper board blank having a flat intermediate section with engaging means at limits thereof and ends adapted to be bent to the form of loops, said ends having engaging means adapted to interlock with said engaging means first named and hold said ends in their looped relation, said blank being adapted for providing a collapsible fabric holder having a plain intermediate body with loops at the extremities thereof.

3. In a device of the character described, a sheet having ends respectively provided with tongues and bearings, said sheet containing slots adapted for receiving said tongues.

4. In a device of the character described, a body provided with transverse slots, ends provided with tongues adapted to enter said slots and bearings adapted to engage said body and bent sections disposed between the respective slots and tongues.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name this 29th day of September, 1915.

. WILLIAM W. WOODRUFF.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 01. Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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