An Improved Appliance for Grasping and Facilitating the Raising, Lowering, Suspending, Transporting, or Securing of any Object Naturally or Purposely Adapted for Use or to be used therewith.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Grasping and Facilitating the Raising,
Lowering, Suspending, Transporting, or Securing of any Object
Naturally or Purposely Adapted for Use or to be used therewith.
I, FREDERIC HUGHES of 20, Paget Road, West Dulwich, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of this invention is to provide a simple and effective appliance for
the purposes set forth in the title and although primarily intended for use with
bottles, jars, and other articles having a beaded or like mouth or rim, is nevertheless
applicable to any object or article with which it can be used. For example it may
be employed for raising or lowering barrels, casks, and packages generally for
carrying fish, fruit, flowers and provisions of all kinds. It is also applicable as a
tie for painters and other brushes, and as a means for suspending vases, bowls,
paint-pots, and the like. It also forms an expeditious method of securing bottle
or other stoppers, and may be used for suspending persons engaged in hazardous
employment. In carrying my invention into effect I proceed in or in about the
following manner. I take two pieces of metal or other suitable material (herein-
after called runners No. 1 and No. 2), in each of which are formed three holes the
centres of which are points in a triangle. The hole at the apex of the triangle is
intended to be uppermost when the appliance is in use. A length of chain, cord
or equivalent is then doubled in the middle of its length, and the free ends of it
passed through the two lower holes of runner No. 1. The two free ends are then
brought together and passed through the upper hole of runner No. 2 and then
fastened to a ring, handle or the like. Another similar length of chain, cord or
equivalent is taken and also doubled in the middle of its length, the two free ends
being passed through the lower holes of runner No. 2 and then brought together
and passed through the upper hole of runner No. 1, after which they are attached
to a handle or the like in a similar manner to what has already been described.
Instead of attaching each pair of free ends to a separate handle, ring or equivalent,
In either arrangement
a pair may be attached to each end of a single handle.
when completed there will be four strands, (or portions of chain or the like as the
case may be) between the runners, and two strands (or portions of chain) between
each runner and the handle, ring or equivalent. Provision may be made for
shortening when required the length between the handles and the runners.
In order that my invention may be the more clearly understood I make reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 shows a plan of the appliance when opened for placing round the object
with which it is to be used.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the runners and the cords passing through the holes
therein.
Fig. 3 is an end view of a runner.
Fig. 4 shows a side view of the appliance when used with a bottle having a
beaded nozzle.
Similar letters refer to similar parts when occurring in the various figures.
a is one of the cords or equivalents doubled at b where its two free ends pass
first through the holes c of the runner d and then through the upper hole e of the

page_text: runner f g is another cord or the like passed through the two runners in the
manner above described but from the opposite side. The ends of the doubled
cords a and 9 are either fastened to the rings hand as shown in dotted lines
(Fig. 1) or attached to the ends of a handle j. The ends of the cords a and g may
be drawn through holes at the opposite ends of the handle and knotted where
necessary to regulate the length. k is the beaded nozzle of the bottle or like 1.
In use the runners are drawn away from each other sufficiently to permit the
article which is to be grasped, to be inserted between the two innermost of the four
strands between the runners: then by drawing on the double ends outside the
runners the latter will be tightened up towards each other and cause the strands
or equivalents to embrace the articles, which may then be lifted and carried or
otherwise dealt with.
When used as a tie for painters and other brushes the bristles are placed in the
opening between the crossed strands a and 9 and then drawn up tight, the double
ends are then fastened around the haudle of the brush. When used for securing
bottle and other stoppers, the neck of the bottle is passed through the opening
between a and 9 and the double ends drawn up tight and then brought over the
top of the stopper and tied together.
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I do not confine myself to the precise configurations, relative proportions or
disposition of parts described in the above specification or exemplified in the
accompanying drawings, as any or all of them may be varied to suit requirements,
without departing from the spirit of iny invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An improved appliance for grasping and facilitating the raising, lowering,
suspending, transporting, and securing of objects, the said appliance consisting
essentially of two lengths of cord, chain or other suitable material, crossing each
other and passing through runners, the free ends of each length of material being
attached to rings, handles, or equivalents, the whole substantially as described in
the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
2. An improved appliance for grasping and facilitating the raising, lowering,
suspending, transporting and securing of objects, naturally or purposely adapted
for use or to be used therewith, the said appliance being constructed and operating
substantially as described in the above specification and exemplified in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of July 1896.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents.