New or Improved Device for Gripping, or Holding Crockery, Glass, and the like, while being Washed, applicable also to Holding the Dish Cloth employed in the Operation of Washing such Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 6th Nov., 1897
New or Improved Device for Gripping, or Holding Crockery, Glass,
and the like, while being Washed, applicable also to Holding the
Dish Cloth employed in the Operation of Washing such Articles.
I, JESSE CAWTHORN RHODES, of Brigtown, Cannock, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturer, 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 device for gripping or holding plates, dishes, glasses
and the like while such articles are being washed, the said device being applicable
to the purpose of holding the dish cloth employed in the washing process, and
the object of the said invention is to save contact of the user's fingers and hands
with the articles being washed and with the water and cloth employed in the
operation of washing.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the device for holding a plate or the
like, and
Fig. 2 a similar view of the form of device I prefer to employ for holding
a dish cloth.
Referring to the drawings, a b are two metal or other rods or strips of suitable
thickness, which rods or strips are given a conformation substantially of the
shape shewn by Fig. 1, the rod or strip a being bent or otherwise fashioned into
a small loop or ring a¹ at one end while the corresponding end of the other rod
or strip 6 is given an oblong loop 6', for convenience in holding and operating
the device. The said rods or strips may have lugs c fashioned at a suitable point
of their length through which passes a pivot connecting the two parts of the
device together. A flat spring dis interposed between the parts a and b for the
purpose of opening the jaws of the device when the pressure exerted for
the purpose of closing same is removed. The jaws of the device are provided upon
their opposing sides with pads of India-rubber, asbestos, or other suitable
yielding and non-conducting material or substance, to facilitate the gripping of
the plate or the like between such jaws and at the same time to prevent the heat
from such plate, or the like, or from the water, being conducted along the device
to the user's fingers.
The device shewn by Fig. 2 for holding a dish cloth may consist of a strip
of resilient metal bent round midway of its length to form two prongs f, g,
which are provided at their extremities with pads h similar to the pads e described
in the former example.
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. In a device for grinning or holding plates or the like while being weshed

page_text: the curved pivoted rods or strips a 6 having handles a¹ and b¹, in combination
with yielding non-conducting pads e, substantially as described and shewn in
Fig. 1 of the drawing.
2. In a device for gripping or holding a dish cloth while in use for washing
crockery or the like, the resilient prongs having pads at their ends formed of
resilient and non-conducting material, substantially as described and shewn in
Fig. 2 of the drawing.
un day or September 1897.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.