An Improved Package Holder and Carrier.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1887
Specification Accepted, 11th Oct., 1887
An Improved Package Holder and Carrier.
I, SAMUEL SIDNEY BROMHEAD, of 97 Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent,
(communicated), 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 :-
The object of my invention is to develope a cheap, durable, and efficient holder and
carrier, and to so shape the pendant portion of the same, that it may be readily
applied to the cord of a bundle, and if so desired, by both pendants at once, and to
maintain a firm hold when in position.
My improvements consist in the construction of the carrier as a whole and
the special pocket shape of the pendant portion.
Other improvements consist in setting the pendants at right angles to the
grip of the holder or carrier, that they may be both hooked at once upon the
parcel-cord.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents a plan view, of my improved
holder or carrier. Fig. 2 represents a holder or carrier embodying my improvements,
with the grip portion in section. Fig. 3 shows an end view of Figs. 1, 2, and 4,
presenting the special pockets c c c formed in pendants. Fig. 4 shows a modification
in which the pendants are fastened to the grip by means of shanks driven or fastened
into the ends of the grip.
Similar letters of reference designate like parts in all the figures.
A represents the grip portion of the holder and carrier as made or formed of wood
or material of any kind according to choice or preference. The portion 6 of the wire
may be used as a grip without the covering of wood or material, as shown at A.
BB represent pendants, preferably made of metal wire, upon which the cord of the
bundle or parcel is hooked. These hooks B B may be joined by the metallic
portion 6, or may be fastened to the handle A by the shanks 6, driven into the same.
In either case to form the pendants the wire is bent downward from the handle, and
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page_text: being sharply bent at c c¹³ ³ forms hooked pockets within the pendants B B, leaving
an opening at a, through which the bundle or carrier cord is passed to effect
suspension. The handle is operated at all times in a direction radial with the
longitudinal center of the grip, and the pendants, to facilitate the hooking of the
cord, are set at right angles, or nearly so, to the center line of grip portion. By
such square shape as given to the pendant through the bends or pockets c c¹³ ³ it is
impossible for the bundle-cord to escape, as no matter in what direction the handle
may drop when not gripped there is a sharp bend or recess, c c³ ³ c³, into which the
cord slips and necessitates a forcible lifting of the cord to release it.
In all holders and carriers now made the hook is continued in a direct line with
the grip, and unless the bundle cord is very tight the hooks will slip from the
cord without any force being applied. The cord of the bundle has to be hooked at
one end, then twisted and hooked at the other end. By my improvements the cord
may be inserted at both pendants or hooks at once, and it will remain in place until
forcibly removed.
Having now described and fully ascertained what my invention is and how the
same is performed, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, I do
hereby declare that what I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, is―
1. The package holder and carrier as herein shown and described, consisting of a
central straight portion to form the grip, and a pair of hooks at opposite ends bent to
form pockets c c c², c³, said hooks being parallel to each other and set to a position at
right angles to the said central grip portion, as set forth.
2. A package holder and carrier constructed with the grip portion A, fitting over
or inclosing the wire portion b, the ends of said wire portion being bent to form
hooks having pockets c c c³, c³ said hooks being parallel to each other and set to a
position at right angles to the said central grip portion, as and for the purposes
specified.