This technical drawing may appear to show a way to dry out soggy underwear. It may turn out to be a method to dry out soggy underwear. But the specified use is otherwise. The patent document explains [AIR 16:2]:
“Teabag Squeezer and Holder”, U.S. patent #3550528, granted to Thomas Montague O’Neill, December 29, 1970:
Heretofore, many efforts have been made to provide devices that could be used to squeeze any remaining
liquid from a used teabag, but most such devices are deficient in that edge portions of the teabag protrude
thus permitting free liquid to appear on the exposed edges and in that any free liquid that is expressed
through the faces of the teabag will have a delayed drip from the inner faces of such devices….An object of this invention is to provide a holder of the character stated having a perforated inner
liner coextensive with the inner faces of the front and rear panels for retaining any residual liquid that
may be expressed from the faces of a teabag when the panels are squeezed toward each other after the
teabag has been drawn into the wedge-shaped void.