US745918A - Wire-holder. - Google Patents

Description

No. 745,918. PATENTED DEC.1, 1903. J. SHARP.

WIRE HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 17,1903.

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Patented December 1, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

JOHN SHARP, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

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SPECIFICATION" forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,918, dated December 1, 1903.

Application iled .Iuly 17,1903x Serial No. 166,007. (No model.) l

To @ZZ 'LU/"tom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SHARP, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Wire-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of an improved means for holding button-carrying wires or rods commonly used in connection with billiard and pool tables, and it seeks to provide means for the purpose stated of a simple and economical construction which will eiectively support the said wires, admit of the ends being readily separated to slip on the buttons or counters by which the slack in the Wire or rods can be quickly taken up.

My invention consists in certain details of construction and peculiar combination of parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully explained, and specifically pointed out in the appended claims, :reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a view illustrating my invention asvin use. Fig. 2 is a perspective view oi' the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinalsecticnal view of the center connection or button-stop. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the modified construction thereof. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the combined clamp and tension device.

Fig. 6 is a cross-section of the same on the' line 6 6 of Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is a detail crosssection on the line,7 7 of Fig. 3.

In the drawings like letters indicate like parts, and A A designate two wire sections, the meeting ends of which are joined by a combined counter-stop and clamp device B, which may be and preferably is constructed as shown in Fig. 3, which illustrates a cylindrical block having a central aperture l) to receive the adjacent ends a a of the wire strands A A', which are securely clamped in the block by the opposing clamp-screws G, whose ends c c/ are radially serrated to grip in the transverse notches LX of the wire ends to primarily bite the said ends.

If desired, the block B may have the ends of its aperture l) formed with right and left threads to engage the right and left threaded ends a a of the wires, and thereby provide for easily putting the buttons on the wires in the center of the room. and in the latter form of the center or stop block B the same is also provided with clamp-screws C O C O, asl

clearly shown in Fig. 4.

The outer end of one section A is projected into an apertured hub d of the ring or eye piece D, which engages the supporting hook or eye E, permanently secured to the wall or other fixed partei' the room, and the said hub d has a clamp-screw d for gripping the wire A to hold it from falling out of the hub under ordinary strain. The other wire, A', has its other end held within the aperture j', formed in the hub f of the eye or ring member F, which is also formed with a hub having a threaded aperture f2, disposed in a longitudinal plane of the hubf, adapted to receive the threaded end g of the tension device G, which is also provided with a cross-bar g for conveniently turning it in another direction, and the said tension device also includes a threaded shank g2 for engaging` the threaded hub h or eyepiece Il, fixedly held against the wall of the room at the side opposite theeye D.

The fiXedly-projected screw-Shanks g g2 are in the nature of right and left threaded members, and the hubs f2 and 7L have their apertures correspondingly threaded,whereby the turning of the tension device G in one direction will positively draw the wires A and A taut and when turned in an opposite direction loosens the said wires without affecting the end twist or torsional strength thereof.

Frein the foregoing description the general arrangement and operation and also the advantages of my invention are thought to be readily apparent. One of the advantages of myinvention is that the wires maybe readily turned taut without in the least twisting or buckling the said wires, and the wires may be quickly removed and adjusted in position for the removal of the counter. The construction is such that the appliance can be economically made, and the parts are so joined and made that the danger of breaking is reduced to the minimum.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wire-holding device of the character described, comprising in combination with means for securing one end or" the wire; a combined holder and tension device consisting of a member adapted to be iixedly IOO held and provided With a threaded hub, a second member having a socket to receive the free end of the Wire, a clamp mounted in the said end for engaging the Wire, said latter member having a threaded socket in the other end, and a turn-spindle Whose opposite end is formed With right and left threads for engaging the threaded hubs in the two members aforesaid, for the purposes specified.

2. A means for holding two Wire sections comprising a iiXedly-held clamp for gripping the outer end of one Wire section, a clamp for gripping the outer end of the other Wire section, a tiXedly-held eyepiece, a tension device connected With said eyepiece and the adjacent Wire-clamp, and a button-stop having sockets in the opposite ends to receive the meeting ends of the two Wire sections and provided with clamp devices for gripping the said adjacent Wire ends, as set forth.

3. In a Wire-holding means as described, in combination With the adjacent Wire ends, having transverse notches, of a combined Wire-clamp and button-stop having sockets in the ends for receiving the notched ends vessie of a pair of wire strands, and clamp-screws mounted in the ends of the said stopsbeing radially serrated to grip into the notches in the Wire ends.

4. The herein-described improved Wire- L holder comprising in combination with a pair of oppositely-disposed iXedly-held eye members, one of which has an apertured hub to receive the outer end of one Wire section and the clamp-screw mounted in the said hub, the other eye member having a threaded hub, a tension device connected to the last-named eye member consisting of a spindle having a turn-handle and right and left threads, one end of said spindle engaging the opposite apertured hub of the wire member, a clamp for engaging the outer end of the other Wire section and provided with a threaded aperture to receive the other end of the turn-spindle, and means for clamping and joining the adjacent ends of the wire section, as speciied.

JOHN SHARP. Witnesses:

A. T. LEWIS, MARK ONEILL.

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