US2621550A - Fulcrum type cap lifter - Google Patents

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Dec. 16, 1952 BACH 2,621,550

FULCRUM TYPE CAP LIFTER Filed Sept. 19, 1949 a w/Miw A rro'euev Patented Dec. 16, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FULCRUM TYPE CAP LIFTER Loyal M. Bach, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Application September 19, 1949, Serial No. 116,467

1 Claim.

This invention relates to key tags, such as are commonly used in hotels. Key tags of this character are commonly made from metal or fibre board, or the like. Furthermore, the size of the tag is often purposely large to serve conveniently as an identifying tag for the room key carried thereby, as well as to serve as a reminder to a guest to leave the key upon departure.

Guests often desire to open capped bottles while occupying the room, and it has been common to provide a permanently attached bottle opener in the room. It is one of the objects of this invention to obviate such openers by proper design of the tag that can thereby be used as a bottle opener.

It is another object of this invention to provide a convenient and inexpensive combination key tag and bottle opener.

This invention possesses many other advantages, and has other objects which may be made more clearly apparent from a consideration of a form in which it may be embodied. This form is shown in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. It will now be described in detail, for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention; but it is to be understood that such detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, since the scope of the invention is best defined by the appended clam.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a key tag embodying the invention and shown as attached to akey;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of a portion of the key tag;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the portion of the key tag illustrated in Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view, taken along a plane corresponding to line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

The key tag I is shown, in this instance, as made from heavy stock sheet fiber. A ring 2 serves to join a key 3 with the tag I in the usual manner.

A recess 4 is formed in one edge of the tag I. This recess is formed by an arcuate wall 5. At one end of the recess a lip 6 is formed. The outer edge I of the lip, as shown most clearly in Figs. 2 and 3, is formed by a line extending inwardly of the edge 8 of the key tag I. The inner edge of the lip is formed by a re-entrant wall portion 9 of the recess. This re-entrant wall extends along a flat curve to the edge 8 of the key tag I at a distance substantially beyond the lip 6. Thus, the edge of the recess 4 can be defined as hook-shaped, the point of the hook forming the lip 6. This lip 6 is adapted to engage beneath a cap of a bottle. The other parts of the recess formed by the large arc of curvature may rest on the upper surface of the bottle top, while force is applied to the key tag for liftin the cap from the bottle.

In order to reinforce the edge of the recess 4, use is made of metallic member l0 having spaced walls II and I2. This member is formed of thin sheet metal. The walls II and I2 are parallel and overlie opposite sides of the key tag I. The inner edges I3 and I4 of these parallel walls II and I2 conform with the configuration of the recess 4. Preferably, the walls II and I2 are formed of an integral sheet metal member having connecting straps I5 and I6 overlying that portion of the edge of the tag I which adjoins the recess 4. The member I0 is fastened to the tag I by the aid of one or more rivets I'I, thus affording reinforcement not only for the member I0, but also for the operating portion of the lip 6. Since the walls II and I2 are of uniform width, this reinforcement form-s a band-like area adjoining the recess 4.

The inventor claims:

In a device of the character described: a pair of flat parallel metallic strips having corresponding edges between ends of the strips respectively, said edges forming a continuous concavity with respect to said strips from one of the ends thereof and forming hook-shaped configurations, said edges having respectively sharp discontinuities before terminating at the other ends of said strip, said discontinuities forming pointed projections respectively directed inwardly of said hookshaped configuration; means integrally joining the respective ends of said strips leaving said discontinuities unconnected, said joining means uni- .formly spacing said edges in juxtaposition; an operating member between said strips, and having an edge conforming to the configuration of said edges of said strips and contacting said joining means; and means extending through said operating member and said strips respectively intermediate the ends of said strips for securing said operating member against movement with respect to said strips.

LOYAL M. BACH.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 706,911 Dunham Aug. 12, 1902 1,203,257 Pettingell Oct. 31, 1916 1,207,100 Vaughan Dec. 5, 1916 1,219,047 Schultz Mar. 13, 1917 1,883,216 Winters Oct. 18, 1932 1,931,715 Baldridge Oct. 24, 1933 2,455,496 Kaskouras Dec. 7, 1948 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 352,067 Great Britain Apr. 4, 1930

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