US1491994A - Holder for brushes and combs - Google Patents

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April 29 1924. 7 1,491,994

J. B. MCDERMOTT HOLDER FOR BRUSHES AND COMBS Original Filed Nov. 6, 1920 Patented Apr. 29, 1924.

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Application filed November '6, 1920, Serial No. 422,222; Renewed March 13, 1924'.

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.Be it known that I, J AMES B.- MoDnnuorr, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Peoria, county of Peoria, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for ,Brushes and Combs, of which the following is a specification.

My. invention relates to an elastic device for holding securely articles such as their brushes,- tooth brushes and" combs,.yet alsuchholder.

A. preferred and satisfactory embodiment of my invention-is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of the device, with a hair-brush, twoto'othbrushes, and three combs held" therein Figs. 2, 3, 4: and 5 are sections on an enlarged scale, taken respectively on the correspondinglynumbered lines of Fig. 1, the brush being omitted from Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a section similar to Fig. 5 but showing the brush in a different position.

The holder comprises a board or carrier 10 which is nailed or otherwise secured to the wall or other suitable support. At the lower portion of this carrier I have shown a tooth-brush holder made of a wire 11, the body of which is horizontal, its ends being secured to the carrier 10 by nails or other fasteners 12 passing through eyes formed by bending the xtremities of the wire. Between said attached ends the wire 11 is formed into one or more elastic helical coils 13, between adjacent convolutions of which the handle 14: of a tooth-brush 15 may be inserted as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The axis of said coils 13 is horizontal, and their adjacent convolutions yield readily to allow the brush handle to be inserted or withdrawn, yet will grip it with suflicient firmness to guard against accidental knocking off or falling off.

Adjacent to one of the side edges of the carrier 10 is located a brush and comb holder cooperating with the tooth-brush holder described above. This brush and comb holder is mainly vertical, and is preferably made of a wire 16 which is thicker or stiffer than the wire 11, the upper end of said wire 16 being secured to the carrier 10 by means of. a nail or other fastener 17 passed through an eye formed at said end of the wire. The upper portion of the wire 16 is formed into a helical coil 18 having a vertical axis, and the lower portion of'said wire is held inpositionbetween the carrier. 10 (against which it lies) and a sharp securing or holding bend '19 in the horizontal wire 11 (see Fig. 4 the body portions of both wires 11 and 16 lying against the surface of the carrier 10. The

coil 18, betweenadjacent turns, is adapted to holdelastically combs 20, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, insubstantially the same man- 'ner that thecoils 13 hold the tooth brushes $15., 2 lowing them to. be removed readily from I wardly and inwardly, as at 23, then doubled as at 25!, then bent back and outward as at 25, then inward and rearward, as at 26, then looped under and over the wire portion 22, as at 27, and then formed into slanting portions 28, 29 and a doubled forward end 30 substantially symmetrical to the wire portions 26, 25 and 24 respectively. The brush 21 is fastened in this holder by first inserting it with one edge of the brush handle toward the carrier 10, as shown in Fig. 6, and then turning the brush about a vertical axis about 90, in one direction or the other, to bring the handle to the position shown in Fig. 5, in which the edges of the handle will fit into the rounded seats at the junction of the wire portions 25, 26 and 28, 29 respectively, the doubled portions 24, 30 being sprung apart slightly by the pressure of said handle, and the inward pressure of the two opposing holder members clamping or maintaining the brush 21 in position socurely. V

The wire 16 is preferably made thicker or stiffer than the wire 11 in View of the greater size and weight of the articles to be coil adapted to hold a tooth-brush or the like, the body of said wire being in contact with said carrier, and being formed with a bend projecting from the carrier, and a substantially vertical wire the body of which lies against the surface of said carrier and 3 passes between saidbend of the other wire and the carrier, the upper end ofsai'd vertical wire being fastened to thecarrier, and the :upper portion of said wire being formed with a coil adapted to hold a comb or the like, while the portion of said vertical wire below the horizontal wire is formed with an elastic clamp open forwardly and adapted to hold the handle of a hair-brush; or the like, the axes of said coils being parallel to the general direction of the respective wires.

2. A device of the character described comprising a carrier having a fiat portion, a brush holder secured thereto comprising a wire bent to form a forwardly projecting L shaped leg, said wire doubled back to form a second L shaped leg conforming to and in contacting relation with the first mentioned leg,--said wire beingtwisted arounditself at I the inner end oftheflegs adjacent the carrier, and then bent forwardly to form a.

third L shaped leg, in opposed relation to the 'first mentioned legs whereby a widened throat presenting opposed recesses intermediate the ends of the legs is formed and said throat terminating in a constricted opening, said opposed recesses adapted to securely hold a flat handled brush with the flats or then bent outwardly and rearwardly, then inwardly and rearwardly, then looped around said outwardlyand forwardly bent portion, then bent outwardly and forwardly to the .o'therside, then inwardly iand xforwardly, and finally doubled to correspond to the first-nameddoubled portion, to form an elastic clamp open at its :forwa-rd portion.

'In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature. I

- JAMES B. MoDERMO-TT.

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