US553800A - Half to adam h - Google Patents

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A. P. WOODARD.

' we HOLDER. .No. 553,800. Patented Jan. 28, 1896.

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ALBERT P. IVOODARD, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF HALF TO ADAM H. FOX, OF SAME PLACE.

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JUG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,800, dated January 28, 1896. Application filed April 26, 1895. Serial No. 547,235. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. WooDARD, of Little Rock, county of Pulaski, State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jugs and Jug-Hold ers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce improvements in jugs or the like, by which they may be easily lifted and transported from place to place, and in holders for the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of my jug. Fig. II is a view taken at right angles thereto. Fig. III is a perspective View of the preferred form of collar.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, 1 indicates, by Way of example, a jug of any usual and ordinary design, size, shape and material. It is provided with an expanded annular part 2,which may be called a head. The head defines below it and between it and the jug proper a constricted neck 3. Around this I provide a collar 4,'having opposite lugs or eyelets 5 and 6. The collar is preferably divided and made of a piece of spring-metal wire bent in the middle and twisted to form the eyelet 5. The eyelet 6 is formed by bending the ends of the wire which forms the collar into contiguous upwardly-curved hooks 7. The end of the wire which carries the inner hook or one next to the jug is provided with a bend or projection 8, which, lapping over the other end of the wire, affords a latch for fastening the ends of the collar together or separating them, as required. In framing claims for my invention I have designated the foregoing element by the term latching mechanism, which I define as mechanism for unlatching the collar, as distinguished from separating the ends by bending the wire. By this means provision is made for fitting the collars to different-sized articles and shipping them in bundles for use when needed.

9 indicates a bail, preferably made of re silient material and having hooked ends 10, which, being secured in the eyelets 5 and 0, are, by the resiliency of the bail, held in place. The hooks 10 at the same time afiord convenient means of fixing or removing the bail, when required, and also simple means for locking the hooks '7.

VVha-t I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a jugholder collar adapted to be clamped around a jug or the like and having its ends provided with correlative contiguous hooks adapted to be locked by a bail, substantially as specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a jugholder collar adapted to be clamped around a jug or the like and having its ends provided with parallel hooks adapted to receive a bailhook and provided at a point removed from the hooks with bail-securing mechanism, sub-' stantially as specified.

3. In a jug-holder, the combination with a collar provided with correlative terminal hooks, and latching mechanism, of a bail provided with a hook adapted 'to be passed through the correlative hooks of the collar, substantially as specified.

4. In a jug-holder, the combination with a collar bent to form an intermediate eyelet, terminal correlative hooks and a latch, of a bail provided with hooks adapted, respectively, to engage the eyelet and the correlative hooks of the collar, substantially as specified.

5. The combination with a jug or the like, of a collar bent to form an eyelet, terminal correlative hooks and a latch projection, and

a bail provided with hooked ends secured to the eyelet and correlative hooks of the collar, substantially as specified.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

ALBERT P. WOODARD.

itnesses:

SOLOMON O. HINCKLEY,

DAVID WM. TAYLOR.

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