US811393A - Decorating device. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

J. GRUBER. DECORATING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FIL ED NOV. 14, 1905.

WITNESSES:

JOSEPH GRUBER, OF NEWARK, NEl/V JERSEY.

DECORATING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed November 14:, 1905- $erial No. 287,221.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J osnrn: GRUBER, a 'citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Decorating Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to facilitate the work of decorating rooms, such as the rooms of churches, halls, private houses,

1 &o.; to provide a device that can be readily employed in festooning or otherwise arranging flowers, leaves, candles, &c. in such decorating operations; to provide an inexpensive holder suitable for the purpose, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be hereinafter referred to in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved decorating appliance or apparatus and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim. Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several fig ures, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved device, showing a short section or part thereof, it being understood that the structure may be indefinitely extended to suit various conditions. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken at line as, showing more clearly a forwardly-projecting arm of the device removably arranged in place. Fig. 3 is an elevation or plan of the parts shown in Fig. 1, said parts being folded together for purposes of transportation, &c. Fig. 4 is a section taken at line y, Fig. 1.

In said drawings, 5 5 5 indicate narrow strips of metal, preferably of sheet-tin, the opposite longitudinal edges of which are preferably folded or doubled to provide additional strength and to present to the hands in handling a rounded surface, tending to prevent the metal from cutting. Said strips of metal are riveted together at opposite ends and are adaptedfito turn pivotally on the rivets 6 to permit of the device being folded for facking and transportation and to enable sa1 conditions presented in the operation of decorating. Upon the said rivets 6, holding said sections 5 together, are also arranged transverse strips 7 and 8, the strips 7 being considerably longer than the strips 8, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4. The opposite ends of said transverse strips 7 and 8 are curled to form receptacles 9, in which the stems of flowers, leaves, candles, or other decorative articles may be inserted. Said transverse strips are adjustable on the rivets, so as to meet the various conditions arising in decorating, but are held at any desired position by the'frictional contact of the heads of the rivets 6. Thus the shorter and longer strips may sometimes lie parallel and together while in use, and under other conditions they may lie crossing one another, as convenience or taste maydictate. Upon the same pivotal rivets 6 are also secured clips 10. These said clips are also of sheet metal and are resilient, so as to bear with considerable pressure at their upper extremities against the arms 11, as shown in Fig. 2, the said clips 10 being slightly bent about midway of their length, so as to increase the pressure for the purpose of holding the projecting arms 11 separably in place.

The forwardly-proj ecting arms 1 1 consist of bent and twisted strips of metal, preferably tin, having a curved socket or receptacle 12 for the stemsof the flowers, leaves, candles, or the like at the projecting end, and at the opposite end having a downward bend or extension 13, Fig. 2, adapted to enter between the clip 10 and the vertical strip 5. The pressure of the clip holds the arm 11 in horizontal position, as indicated.

The various stripsfor sections of metal riveted together as described may be extended indefinitely, the number of parts being in creased to meet the varying conditions, and when the said strips or pieces are brought together in suflicient numbers the extended device can be coiled around columns or festooned from one side of a room to the 0 p0 site side or be suspended in straight ines from elevated parts, or be otherwise employed at will, either in straight, curved, or zigzag lines to suit a wide range of various conditions. k

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The combination with a series of pivotdevice to accommodate itself to various IIO outer extremities, and forwardly-projecting flower-holding arms separably attached to %he longitudinal strips, substantially as set orth.

4. The combination With the longitudinal strips pivotally secured together, of long and short transverse strips having receptacles for decorative articles at their opposite projecting extremities, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of November, 1905.

JOSEPH GRUBER. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, ETHELWYN PELL.

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