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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ALFORD PERVIS WILLOUGHBY, OF OLNEY, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO
WILLIAM D. BOLDING, OF OLNEY, TEXAS.
BAG-MOUTH-SPREADING DEVICE.1,124,091.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Jan. 5,1915.
Application filed March 27, 1914. Serial No. 827,706.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, ALFORD PERVIs WIL-
LoUGHBY, a citizen of the United States,
residing at Olney, in the county of Young
6 and State of Texas, have invented a new
and useful Bag-Mouth-Spreading Device;
and I do hereby declare the following to be
a full, clear, and exact description of the
invention, such as will enable others skilled
10 in the art to which it appertains to make
and use the same.
This invention is a device for holding
open the mouths of bags at the time of fill-
ing them, its employment greatly facilitat-
15 ing the filling operation. It is adapted for
use with bags hung on a post or partition
and also bags carried by the shoulders or
waist. Cotton pickers and persons in simi-
lar fields of employment find it particularly
20 fitted for their needs.
Three useful forms of this device are
herewith described and illustrated, but the
invention is in no way confined to these
forms. The inventor claims the right to
25 make any changes or alterations that are
not foreign to what is claimed.
In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspec-
tive view of what at this time appears to
be the preferable form. Fig. 2 is a per-
30 spective showing the device in Fig. 1 dis-
tending the mouth of a bag. Fig. 3 is a
front view of another form than that of
Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a front view of still an-
other form. Fig. 5 shows the device of
35 Fig. 4 inserted in the mouth of a bag.
The device in the main consists of a domi-
nant frame and a similar auxiliary frame.
The two are connected so as to form a com-
mon unit, being so joined as to make the
40 whole adjustable for various sized bags.
While any desired material may be used in
the design, steel wire seems to be the most
suitable. Beginning with the dominant
frame, the eye 1 is first formed. The wire
45 10 then continues along straight to a point
where it is deflected upward and then bent
back on itself forming the eye 2. It is then
directed downward a suitable distance, bent
back on itself and twisted, forming the de-
5o pending projection 3 with the open space 4.
In a similar way the projections 5, 6 and 7
are formed with the pieces 8, 9 and 11 in-
tervening. After the formation of 7 the
wire is terminated in the eye 12 similar to
56 eye 1. The auxiliary frame is made in muchthe same way as the main or dominant
frame. It has an eye 18 like eye 2 but only
one depending projection 13. The pieces 14
and 15, after passing through the eyes 1
and 12, terminate in the eyes 16 and 17 60
which slide over 10 and 11 respectively. In
such a construction it is easily seen that by
pulling the frame end from end its length
is increased. Its length is reduced by re-
versing the operation. 65
The frame shown in Fig. 3 is substantially
the same as that in Fig. 1 with some slight
modifications as to shape which are readily
apparent. The same reference characters
will, therefore, be used for this figure as 70
were used to designate the parts of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 illustrates still another modifica-
tion which is a much simpler structure than
the others. It consists of a pair of U-shaped
members 19 and 20, each provided with 75
eyes 21 adapted to slide over the legs of
the other. The length of this form is either
increased or diminished in the same man-
ner as is the length of Figs. 1 and 3.
In Fig. 2 is shown the spreader of Fig. 1 80
inserted in the mouth of a bag 22. The
edge of the bag is pulled through the open-
ing formed by the pieces 10 and 14 on one
side and 8, 9, 11 and 15 on the other, and
sewed down by suitable thread. The in- 85
terror of the bag is secured to the projec-
tions 5, 6, 7, etc., by appropriate sewing or
tying. The mouth is thus held distended
and the eyes 2 and 18 serve for attachment
to nails or hooks on partitions or for con- 90
nection to an appropriate harness if the
bag is to be carried on the back.
In Fig. 5 there is shown a sack 23 with
the simpler form of spreader in use. In the
application of this latter form, the spreader 95
is inserted far enough into the mouth of the
bag to allow the edges of the bag to be
pulled over and sewed down in such a man-
ner as to completely conceal the spreader.
It will be noticed that none of the spread- 100
ers run completely around the mouth of the
bag. They are of a length less than the
peripheral length of the edge of the sack
and in an effort to regain their normal
form, draw taut all that part of the mouth 105
of the sack which is not connected to the
frame.
What is claimed is:-
1. In a spreader for the mouth of a sack,
a wire frame having a hooked projection 110
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