GB911702A - Improvements in or relating to folding supports - Google Patents

Abstract

911,702. Garment stands. SMITH BROS. (WIREWARES) Ltd. March 22, 1960 [March 24, 1959], No. 10082/59. Classes 52 (3) and 53 (5). [Also in Group XXV] A folding support comprises at least two wire or like material frames, each of which has at one end a pair of horns 15 projecting away from the frame in opposite directions, each horn comprising a stem portion extending from the frame and an end portion cranked relative to the stem portion, the arrangement being that two frames may be placed in end to end abutment (Fig. 3) with their planes substantially parallel to one another and then hingedly connected together by means of loops 17 passed over the end portions of respective pairs of horns on the two frames and thence located around the stem portions so that the loops may not be removed when the frames are hingedly moved relative to one another (Fig. 2). As shown, the end portions of the horns on each frame lie in a common plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the frame upon which they are mounted so that when two frames are placed in end to end abutment with their planes substantially parallel to one another (Fig. 3) the end portions of respective pairs of horns on the two frames will lie parallel to one another. The frames may be coated with resilient plastics material and the interior diameter of the loop 17 may be slightly less in diameter than the combined thickness of each two horns, so that the resilience of the plastics material will prevent play developing at the hinge. The frames, which may be used to air clothes, are ladder-like and the bottom rung 12 (Fig. 1) of each frame extends beyond the side members 10 to provide cranked portions 13 which may be used to support the frames on a bath. A tie-rod 18 having eyed ends 19 may be detachably engaged with the cranked ends 13 at one side of the frames.