US1207971A - Holder for individual towels. - Google Patents

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E. M. MIKKELSEN. HOLDER FOR INDIVIDUAL TOWELS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.. 19. l9l3.

LQUKQYL Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

g y 4 0? W will EDWARD M. MIKKELSEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOLDER FOR INDIVIDUAL TOWELS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

Application filed March 19, 1913. Serial No. 755,410.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD M. MIKKEL- SEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Holders for Individual Towels, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to produce a simple and novel arrangement for holding a number of individual towels and keeping the clean towels separated from the soiled towels.

Considered in one of its aspects, my invention may be said to have for its object to produce a simple and novel attachment for ordinary towel cabinets which will permit such cabinets to be used successfully to hold a comparatively large number of individual towels, keeping the clean towels separated from the soiled towels.

Further objects of my invention will appear from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a common type of towel cabinet having my attachment applied thereto, the door of the cabinet being open; Fig. 2 is a view on an enlarged scale of the upper end of the towelsupporting rod in the cabinet and the connection between it and the flexible towel guide; Fig. 3 is a cross section through the bottom of the cabinet at the lower end of the towel-supporting rod; and Fig. l is a horizontal section taken just above the bottom of the cabinet at the right hand side of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, 1 represents a towel cabinet of any usual or preferred construction having a door, 2.

In accordance with one feature of my invention I provide a suitable basket, 3, for soiled towels and arrange it so that it may be hung beneath the cabinet. I prefer to make the basket of simple strips which may be shipped unassembled and be assembled by the purchaser, although this is not essential. The basket may conveniently be supported from the cabinet by providing it with suitable wire hangers or bails, 4, which may be slipped over projecting pins or screws, 5, on the sides of the cabinet and near the lower ends thereof; the basket being preferably of about the same width as the cabinet so that the bails or hangers assume vertical positions and carry the vertical lines of the sides of the cabinet down through the basket.

Within the cabinet, at one side, and approximately halfway between the front and the back, I arrange a vertical rod, 6. The rod may conveniently be supported as illustrated in Fig. 3, having a shoulder, 7 near its lower end and having the extreme end screw threaded; the screw threaded portion of the rod extending through the bottom wall 8 of the cabinet and having thereon a suitable thumb nut, 9. The upper end of the rod is bent forwardly along a gradual curve as indicated at 10 and to the extreme end thereof is attached a long chain or other flexible member, 11; the connection between the rod and the flexible member being conveniently made by means of a snap hook, 12. On the other end of the flexible member is a stop, 13, which may conveniently be in the form of a washer.

The individual towels are made small enough to lie flat in the cabinet, piled one on top of the other as indicated at 14:. Each towel has near one end a suitable eyelet, 15, large enough to slip along the rod 6 and over the upper end thereof.

In using my device, a series of towels is threaded upon the rod 6 until a pile the desired height is reached, and the flexible member is attached to the upper end of the rod. The flexible member is long enough to extend down into the basket. When it is desired to use a towel, the uppermost'towel in the cabinet is lifted up and slid along the rod, the curved upper end of the rod guiding it forwardly and allowing it to slide freely upon the flexible member. The flexible member permits the towel to be freely used as the towel is not held in any fixed position. When the user is through with the towel he simply drops it and it falls down into the basket. The washer on the lower end of the flexible member prevents the towels from slipping ofl'. When the towel collector calls he can either detach the rod and take it together with the flexible member away with the towels strung upon the flexible member, or he may unfasten the flexible member from the rod and attach the snap hook to the washer 13 so as to convert the flexible member into a closed loop on which the towels are held and by which they may be carried to the laundry without danger of becoming scattered and some of them lost. Or, if desired, the soiled towels may simply be removed and carried away in loose bulk, both the rod and the flexible member being left in place to receive a new supply of towels. If desired, the free end of the flexible member may be fastened as illustrated in Fig. 3, the thumb nut 9 being I '7 removed from the lower end of the rod 6 and the washer 13 being slipped upon the rod before the nut is replaced.

The rod holds one end of the clean towels in the cabinet againstdisplacement in the forward direction so as to interfere with the closing of the door, but the towels are freeto enough to engage with the front edge of a pile of towels in-the' cabinet and high enough to extend to the top of the highest pile of towels which it may be desired to rotatably fixed in said bore, a retaining 40 member flexibly .secured at one end to the assemblmg member, and means for detachably securing the free end of the retaining memberto the socket end of the assembling member.

2. In a towel holder or the like, the combination with a supporting member provided with a bore, a rod arranged upon said member and projecting at its base through said bore, a flexible retaining member secured at one end'to the outer end of the rod, and means for detachably securing the other end of the retaining member to the inner end of the rod.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD M. MIKKELSEN. Witnesses:

WM. F. FREUDENREIGH, RUTH E. ZETTERVALL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

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