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(Application filed Mar. 19, 1898.) (No Model.)

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO. PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

United States Patent Office.

GEORGE 0. SHAKESPEARE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOLDER FOR MEDICINE-CUPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,210, dated January 24,1899.

Application filed March 19,1898. Serial No. 674,525. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, George 0. Shakespeare, residing at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new 5 and useful Improvements in Holders for Medicine-Cups, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to holders for rnediio cine-cups.

The object of the invention is to produce a wire holder for medicine-cups to be attached to a pillow and to which a medicine-cup may be quickly applied and held in place_; and 15 also to provide a cover to the medicine-cup when needed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the wire holder of my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the holder and medicine^;cup; and Fig. zb 3 a plan of the holder. Fig. 4 is a broken section of a pillow, showing the cup-holder and cup applied thereto and a cover which may be applied. Fig. 5 is a plan of the cupcover of Fig. 4.

The letter a indicates a pillow with a hole therein, in which hole &amp; the cup-holder c may be applied and held by stitches or otherwise; but the cup-holder to be described may be applied to other pillows or in other positions jo than in a hole.

The cup-holder proper may be made of a single piece of wire and is bent to form a central loop cl d of nearly oval or annular form, a projecting end piece e for attachment to the 35 pillow and for holding the clasp k. The end piece e is about the central portion of the wire, which is bent back on itself, as indicated in the figures. The projecting piece or bill e may have a loop or notch e' to retain the ring 40 or clasp k. The wires forming the sides of loop d approach each other at the reverse side from bill e and are there formed into one or more coils f to give a spring action to the wires, and then passing downward the wires 45 again turn forward, as at cj, in a plane substantially parallel with the plane of wires of loop cl, but preferably close, to each other. The front ends of the wire are normally substantially parallel with the bill e, so that the 50 ring, loop, or catch k may swing over said ends. The ends maybe soldered or otherwise secured together, as in Fig. 1. The spring action of the wire will retain the medicinecup ; but a clasp in addition is preferable.

The holder may be attached to a pillow in 55 any suitable manner. When stitched by its upper bar within a hole in the pillow, the lower bar may be secured by the clasp, as shown, or by releasing the clasp the lower bar may spring out for insertion of the inedi- 60 cine-cup. The cup A is preferably a flat or shallow cup, as indicated; but other forms may be employed, the form of the clasp being made to correspond.

When the wire holder described is applied 65 to a pillow having a hole therein, it is sometimes advisable to have a cover for said cup, which cover may be closed to largely stop the evaporation of the medicine in the cup A. For this purpose a sheet-metal, celluloid, rub- 70 her, or other diaphragm m is placed across the opening in the pillow. This diaphragm is stitched or otherwise secured to the pillow or to the cup-holder. The diaphragm m has holes n therein, and these can be covered by 75 a perforated rotary-moving cap 0,having holes corresponding with those in the diaphragm and held on by rivet p. Such a diaphragm and cover have been used for similar purposes, but not, so far as I am aware, in con- 80 nection with a spring or wire holder in which the medicine-cup may be held independently of the cover. The cover may be turned so as to open or close the holes72 in the diaphragm, thus preventing or regulating the escape of 85 the vapor evolved from the medicine in cup A.