US1667604A - Bracket - Google Patents

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INVENTOR lzi;

Pifdj ATTO R N EY April 24, 1928.

I R. B. PETERS BRACKET Filed April 12. 1927 2 Sheets-Shoot WITN Ss- April 24, 1928. 1,667,604

R. B. PETERS BRACKET 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed April 12, 1927 I M6: 24 15 21 -.0

. s'ists ofmeans for attaching 'g'uy wires for Patented Apr. 24, 1928.

v ROBERT B. mm, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

' BRACKET.

' Application filed April 12,

This invention relates to brackets primarily adapted to support standards and to alter the angular positions thereof.

Another object of the invention comprehends a socket member for the standard to permitrotation within the bracket.

A further object comprehends a handle member to rotate the" socket member and the standard.

More specifically stated the bracket is provided with locl'ring means for the handle member. s y p I An additional object of the invention conyards therethrough.

IVith'the above and other objects in view,

stea'dying the standard and-for guiding hal- I the invention further consists of the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully descr bed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

and pointed out in In the drawings: Q

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the mventhe appended claims.

.tion while in use.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof. Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on line 33 of Figure 1.

,Figures 4 and 5 are side elevations of the bracket per se.

Figure 6 is a longitudinal sectional view taken through the invention.

Figure 7 is a sectional view-taken on line 7-7 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a side elevation of the former figure. I

Figure 9 is a side elevation of a modified form of the invention, consisting of the rigid bracket construction. a

, Figure 10 is a top plan view of the modification.

Referring to the drawings in detail, wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a base plate secured and reposing upon a window sill orthe like. Said plate is provided with an upstanding disk member 11 having a serrated face 12 upon one side thereof. A bracket member 13 having a tapered bore ll is provided with a disk member 15 depending therefrom and having one side thereof serrated as indicated at 16 for locking engagement with the serrations 12 of thedisk member 11 and to rigidly hold the bracket member 13 at a desired inclination when a fastening element, such 1927. Serial 110. 183,129.

as indicated M17, is passed centrally and transversely of the disks.

A socket member 18 is provided with an elongated tapered extension 19 journaled Within the tapered bore 14 of the bracket member 13 substantially as Figure 6 of the drawings. An arm 20 carried by the socket member 18 is provided with spaced sleeve members 21 and'22, respectively. having thefbores therefor disillustrated in posed in direct alignment: with the socket opening inthe socket member. 18, the purpose of which will be readily i I apparent. The'mventionis primarily adapted for use in supporting flag poles or standards and to permit rotation of the pole or standard with the socket member within, the bracket member to unfurl the flag suspended from the standard when the same becomes tangled.

In carrying out the invention the standard 23 is passed and seated within the socket portion of the socket member 18. A fastening element 24 carried bythe sleeve member 22 isadap'ted for bighting engagement with the standard 23 to prevent independent rotary movement.

The sleeve 21, after-the manner'of the socket member 18. and bracket member'1 3 is provided with spaced ears 25*upon the upper sides thereof. w

'An' operating lever 26 pivotally mounted between the ears 21 has the remaining portion of its length normally reposing between the ears carried by the socket member and bracket member respectively. The ears upon the bracket member 13 are further provided with a latch finger 27 adapted to swing,

from one earto the other to 26'against displacement.

The lever 26 when raised to a vertical position will afford the necessary leverage to rotate the major portion of the support with the standard 23 to unfurl the emblem carried thereb thus obviating the employment of a stick or other instrument to whip the flag in an opposite direction from which .the same was furled upon the standard.

In F igures 9 and 10v of the drawings I have illustrated a modified form of the invention differentiating from the characteristics of the described and the bracket. I

The base plate 10 and the mounting of the bracket member 13 are manufactured in one piece to provide a unitary structure,

hold the lever illustrated, in the'manner of through the sleeves 21 and 22" preferred form as previously 1 eration of the device when untangling the idly secure the same upon a standard immediately in advance of the sleeve members 22. A. ring rotatably mounted within the guide channel provided upon the outer surface ofthe annular flange member 28 is in turn provided with apcrtured arms 31 upon diametrically opposite sides thereof and adapted for. connection with guy wires 32 connected with a suitable stationary structure to steady the pole. In the instance of flying a flag or emblem from the standard or pole the halyards for the flag or emblem would ordinarily intefere with the opflag or emblem. To overcome this diflieulty I provide cut-out portions 33 in the side walls of the guide channel of the annular flange member 28 which are adapted to receive the halyards therein. A ring 34 also standard may be rotated to rotatably mounted within the guide channel of the flange member 28 has the ends thereof spaced an appreciable distance to permit ingress and egress of the halyards within the cut-out portions 33 when the space tween the ends thereof registers with the cut-out portions 33. a

It will thus be noted that the pole or unfurl a flag or emblem but the guy wires 32 will remain standards or poles et member set due to the aforementioned connection between the annular flange member 28 and ring 30. The ring 84 will prevent dlsplacement of the halyards.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction, and the right is herein reserved to make-such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A bracket, supporting means-therefor, a socket member rotatably mounted Within the bracket, an arm carried by the socket, and a lever connected with the arm adapted to rotate the socket within the bracket and to lock the latter therein.

2. A device foruse upon poles comprising a bracket, supporting means for the bracket affording angular-adjustment thereto, a socket member rotatably mounted within the bracket, an arm carried bythe socket member, sleeve members mounted upon the arm having the bores thereof disposed in alignment with the opening within the sockto receive the poletherein, ears carried upon one of the sleeve members socket member and bracket, and an "operating lever pivotally mounted between a pair of the ears for rotating the socket member within the bracket and adapted for locking engagement between the remaining ears upon the socket and bracket members'respectively.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ROBERT B. PETERS,

against displacement

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