Improvements in or relating to the Holding or Securing of Bed Clothes, Carriage Rugs, Towels, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Holding or Securing of Bed
Clothes, Carriage Rugs, Towels, and the like.
I, GEORGE HOWARD HOLLIDGE, Gentleman, of 3222 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma,
State of Washington, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The primary object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive
device by the use of which bed clothing will he effectually held in place.
The holder proper consists of two arms or members which are pivoted together
and are provided at their lower ends with gripping jaws or cups. In the preferred
form of the device one of the arms is carried beyond the other and is formed into
an open loop or ring which is adapted to receive and retain the end of an elastic
band, strap, or spring the free end of which carries a screw eye or similar device
adapted to be secured in the bedstead and thereby hold the device in its proper
operative position. The shorter arm is formed into a cross bar at its end which
has a hook at its extremity adapted to engage the longer arm and thereby hold the
gripping jaws together. The ring or loop has an opening to facilitate the removal
and insertion of the elastic band or strap.
Instead of forming the shorter arm with the cross-bar and hook the longer arm
may be provided with an eye carrying a leop adapted to swing over and hold the
end of the shorter arm. In a modified form of the device the open loop is retained
but is provided with a notch or offset to receive and retain the screw-eye or other
fastening device.
The device will be found advantageous in holding robes in sleighs and carriages
and can be readily adapted for use as a towel holder for bars, offices and other
public places. Such adaptation is effected by dispensing with the elastic band and
attaching the arms directly to the screw-eye.
When the device is applied to iron bedsteads the elastic band or spring is held
by a ring which is engaged over the slat-holding stud.
Dated this 15th day of November 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to the Holding or Securing of Bed
Clothes, Carriage Rugs, Towels, and the like.
I, GEORGE HOWARD HOLLIDGE, of 3222 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington,
United States of America, Gentleman, 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 primary object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive

page_text: device by the use of which bed clothing will be effectually held in place. This
object is accomplished by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings
and the invention consists in certain novel features of the same as will be herein-
after fully pointed out.
In the said drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the device applied for use on a wooden
bedstead;
Figure 2 is a similar view showing the manner of applying the device to an iron
"bedstead ;
Figures 3 and 4 are edge and side views, respectively, of a slightly modified
form of the device;
Figure 5 is a side view of another modification;
Figure 6 is a side view of the complete device, and
Figure 7 is a detail view.
The holder proper consists of two arms or members, E E, which are pivoted
together and are provided at their lower ends with gripping jaws or cups, I I, as
shown. In the preferred form of the device, one of the arms is carried beyond the
other and is formed into an open loop or ring, C, which is adapted to receive and
retain the end of an elastic band, strap or spring, B, the free end of which carries
a screw eye, A, or similar device adapted to be secured in the bedstead and thereby
hold the device in its proper position. The shorter arm E is formed into a cross-
bar at its end which has a hook D at its extremity adapted to engage the longer
arm and thereby hold the gripping jaws together, as clearly shown. The ring or
loop C has an opening at J to facilitate the removal and insertion of the elastic
band or strap.
Instead of forming the shorter arm with the crossbar and hook D, the longer
arm may be provided with an eye, K, carrying a loop, L, adapted to swing over
and hold the end of the shorter arm as clearly shown in Figure 5.
When the device is to be used on an iron bedstead, it becomes necessary to use a
bracket 2 having a depending arm 3 which is hooked under the angle iron forming
the side of the bedstead, and a horizontal slotted arm 4 engaged over the slat-
holding stud 5. The flexible strap of the holder is attached to a ring or eye 6
secured to the bracket at the angle of the same.
In practice, the screw eyes or other fastening devices, A, are secured in the
bedstead. The edge of the bed clothing is then inserted between the gripping
jaws and the arms, EE, fastened so that the jaws obtain a firm grip on the clothing.
The bed clothing will thus be held in place notwithstanding the restless movements
of the children or invalids and, at the same time, the elastic bands or straps will
permit the clothing to yield freely to such movements without displacement. The
device will for the same reasons be found very advantageous in holding robes in
sleighs and carriages.
The device can be readily adapted for use as a towel holder for bars, offices and
other public places. Such adaptation is effected by dispensing with the elastic
band and attaching the arms directly to the screw eye. In the form shown in
Figures 3 and 4, the open loop is retained but is provided with a notch or offset G
to receive and retain the screw eye or other fastening device.
The device is obviously cheap and simple in its construction and efficient
in its operation. Detailed mention of its advantages is therefore deemed
unnecessary.
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 :
The combination of a pair of pivoted arms provided with gripping jaws at their
lower ends one of said arms being extended nest the unner end of the opposing

page_text: arm and twisted into an open ring or loop, means for locking the arms together,
an endless elastic band passed into the open ring or loop through the opening-
therein, and a fastening device carried by said endless band.
The 10th dow of A nonet 1805
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.