US1698085A - Hospital bag - Google Patents

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Jan. 8, 1929. 1,698,085 N. G. CROZIER I HOSP-ITAL BAG I Filed June 15, 192? MWHWIWI Inventor Attornexj www.-

Patented Jan. 8, 1929.

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Application ifiled June- 18, 1927. Serial .No. 198,497.

This invention relates to hospital bags and has for its object the provision of a new and improved device of this character which can be readily and quickly attached to a bed, table, or other support and as readily detached therefrom, and while so attached shall be held in a convenient fposition for the tidy and sanitary reception dressings,bandages, and other waste material. The use of paper bags for this purpose is not new but the usual mode of supporting the same has been to pin the same to the bed linen, or to employ some other makeshift and time consuming expedient The objects of my invention are the provision of a cheap, simple, practical arrangement for securing such bags to whatever kind of support may be handy; the pro- 'ision of a device which shall not onl be very inexpensive but shall alsopermit ags equipped therewith to be handled in the usual flat packages; while further objects and ad-' vantages of the invention will become apparent as the description proceeds.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this application I have shown certain physical forms in which my inventive idea is embodied. 'Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a part of a hospital bag having one of my improved bags attached thereto; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of such bag detached; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through the back of the bag showing one form of the attaching means; Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line H of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a face view of the supporting'de'vice illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive showing its shape prior to its attachment to the bag; Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate modified forms of attachments; Fig. 8 is a perspective view illustrating yet another orm of my view of the 100 or sta le shown in Fig. 8.

The supporting device illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5 cons1sts of a piece of thin flexible sheet metal, die-cut into cruciform shape producing two elongated flexible strips 11 and two shorter narrow arms 2-2, which may if desired, be pointed as at '3 to facilitate their insertion into the wall 4, of the bag after which they are folded one above the other as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The strips 11 are made of a length to embrace such sup orts as a bed rail or table edge but are prefera ly left flat with the bag until the time comes to use the same, when they are bent to clasp whatever support is handy.

invention; and Fig. 9 is a detail,

. to avoid the necessi It'will be understood that a great many changes can be made in the detailshape of the support. For example in Fig. 6 the strip 1, instead of being formed with laterally extending" arms, is formed with flexible clips or staples 2 notched out from the sides of the stripat 5-5 and folded parallel to its length. This has the advantage of enabling the device to be made from a narrowribbon of metal without waste of material. In the form shown in Fig. 7 the strip 1 is fastened to the bag wall 4 by means of an annular rivet 6. In

the form of the invention shown in Fig. 8 the supporting strip 1 is not permanently attached to the bag, but is slidably received in a suitable loop or staple 7, here shown as of metal and formed at its ends-with flexible teeth 8-8 which-are folded over after insertion into the wall ofv the bag 4. It will also be understood that this loop can be made of paper or cloth and secured to or formed out of the bag in any suitable manner; also that the 'strip 1 can be inserted at any desired time, and need not always be made of metal. but may in some cases be made of other flex ible material.

Whatever be the nature of the attaching strip, it is important that it be located verti-- cally ofthe bag so as to be available for suspending uses. It may either be applied to the bag at time and place of use or at the factor where the bags are made, or at any interme 'ate timeand place. Unless this application occurs at the moment of use it is important that the support be flat in shape so as not to impede the folding of the bags into the usual flat packages. However, I also find it desirable in some cases to furnish the cli s to the users independently of the bags, to e attached by them, and it is ossible in some cases to remove the clips an use them repeatedly, although such course is undesir ab e from a sanitary standpoint and I prefer to have them 'made soinexpensively as for so doing.

'It will therefore apparent that many changes in details can be made within the scope of my inventive idea.

What I claim is: a

1. A hospital bag comprising a collapsible paper container having an open end and a supporting device for said container, said device including a flexible metal strip having one part fixedly secured to the wall of said container intermediate the ends of said container, and having another part projecting lcngthwise'of said containerand adapted to be applied to an article of furniture to support said bag with its mouth opening upwardly, the last named part of said strip being bendable for application to a supportingelement. a

2; A hospital bag comprising a collapsible pa er container having an open mouth at one en and a bottom at the other end, and aflexible metal striphaving' one-part fixedly sea cured to one of the side walls of said conopening upwardly.

3. A hospital bag, comprising a container consisting of a collapsible paper bag having a mouth at oneend and a bottom at the other end, and a supporting device for saidTbiig consisting of an elongated strip of. flexible material fixedly secured atone point to one =wall of said bag at a point nearer to said mouth than to said bottom, said strip being of bendable metal and having a length suflicient to embrace a piece of furniture in supported relation, such length beingparallel to the'vertical axis of said bag.

4. In a hospital bag the combination with a foldable aper container of a type which, when unfdlded, comprises. a bottom and spaced sides defining an upwardly opening mouth of a flexible metal strip of a length to embrace a piece of furniture in supported relation, and means securing said strip fixedly to one of the side walls of said container with said strip substantially parallel to the height of said container.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

NELLIE G. CROZIER.

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