Improvements in Telephone-Receiver Supports.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Telephone-Receiver Supports.
We, LUIS DUQUE, and FRANCIS MCCLELLAN COSGROVE, both of San Francisco, in
the County of San Francisco, and State of California, United States of America,
Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to a support for telephone receivers, and it has for its object
to provide a new and useful device of this character adapted to support the receiver
of a telephone apparatus in a natural position for a person of any height while
nsing the telephone, so that the hands will be perfectly free for writing, reading
and will at the same time relieve the hands from a tiring position in holding long
conversations.
With these and other objects in view which will readily appear as the nature of
the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction,
combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated and
claimed.
In the drawings:
:
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a telephone receiver support constructed in
accordance with this invention and shown arranged for use in connection with a
telephone.
Fig. 2 is a plan view partly in section of the support.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates the stationary fixturo
bracket essentially comprising a horizontal supporting arm 2 and an inclined brace
arm 3 attached at its upper end to the under side of the arm 2, near the outer end
of the latter, and the arins 2 and 3 comprising the bracket 1 are provided at their
inner ends with the attaching flanges of plates 4, adapted to be screwed or other-
wise suitably fastened to a wall at either side of the telephone apparatus 5 in con-
nection with which the support is used. It will of course be understood that the
fixture bracket 1 may be adapted to position the support in connection with desk
telephones, portable stands, and in fact in connection with all kinds of telephone
apparatus, but usually the invention is employed in connection with wall telephones
and is approximately positioned as illustrated in Fig. of the drawings..
In the position illustrated the bracket is properly arranged so as to dispose the
horizontal supporting arm 2 thereof on a line about three inches higher than the
line of the transmitter of the apparatus, and the outer extremity of the bracket
arm 2 has adjustably clamped thereto the pivot ear 6, at the inner end of the
sectional adjustable supporting rod 7, comprising the inner swinging tubular rod
section 8 and the outer longitudinally adjustable rod section 9 sliding or telescoping
within the rod section 8. The pivot ear 6 at the inner end of the tubular rod
section 8 receives a thumb clamping screw 10, the threaded pin 11 of which engages
in a threaded opening 12 formed in the outer end of the bracket arm 2, and provides
means for allowing an up and down adjustment for the supporting rod 7 while at
the same time providing for securing the rod fixed in its adjusted position. A set-
screw 13 is mounted in a threaded opening in the outer extremity of the tubular
rod section 8 and impinges on the rod section 9 to secure said latter section fixed

page_text: in its adjusted position, and said outer longitudinally adjustably rod section 9 is
provided with a threaded outer tip extremity 14 adapted to detachably engage in
either of the interiorly threaded sockets 15 projected from diametrically opposite
sides of the holder cage or basket 16 forming a rest or support for the receiver 17ª,
of the telephone apparatus 5.
The holder cage or basket 16 essentially comprises a pair of parallel frame wires
17 and a series of arched or semicircular cage wires or strips 18 completing a cage
or basket oblong in form and substantially semicircular in cross section so as to
properly hold therein the telephone receiver 17". The interiorly-threaded sockets
15 projected from diametrically opposite sides of the cage or basket are disposed
reversely to each other and at an angle to the transverse center of the cage or basket,
so that the cage or basket will be disposed somewhat obliquely to the disposition of
the supporting rod 7 to hold the telephone-receiver at the necessary inclination to
fit the natural inclination of the ear while a person is using the apparatus.
According as the support is arranged at either side of the telephone apparatus,
the outer rod section 9 is fitted in either of the sockets 15 to dispose the cage or
basket 16 in a proper position with respect to the person using the telephone.
Should it be desired to allow the telephone receiver to remain in the cage or basket
16 at all times a weight 18", may be used in connection with the support, said weight
being provided with a flanged head 19 adapted to engage with the ordinary hook
20 of the telephone apparatus so as to hold such hook in a proper depressed position
to complete the circuit connections when the apparatus is not in use.
Ordinarily the receiver holding cage or basket is adapted to be adjusted within a
few inches of the telephone transmitter which is generally the proper speaking
distance, but by reason of the vertical and longitudinal adjustment of the sectional
rod 7, the said cage or basket can be adjusted to suit a person of any height and
strength of voice.
Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be
resorted to without departing from the principal or sacrificing any of the advantages
of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
A telephone receiver support comprising an offstanding supporting rod having a
threaded outer tip extremity, and an oblong holding cage or basket provided at
diametrically opposite sides with fixedly positioned interiorly threaded sockets
disposed reversely to each other and at an angle to the transverse center of the cage
or basket, substantially as set forth.
100➤
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.