US105086A - Improved clothes-rack - Google Patents

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adii-titled tatrt JOSEE JOHNSON., OF NEW YORK, N,

Letters Patent N 105,086, dated July 5, 1,870; antedateal J'tme 30, 1 870.

IMPROVE!) CLOTHES-RACK.

The Schedule referred to in eligen Letten Patent and making part of the lame.

To all tvliom tt 'may concern Be it known that I, Josas JOHNSON, of New York, in the county of New York and in the State of New Yorin-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Racks; and d hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accoinpanyiiigdrawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a hanging clothes-rack, which, when not in use, can be folded vup out of the way. g

1n order to enable others skilled in .the artto which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my clothes-rack iii position for use, and

Figure 2'is a perspective' View Aof the same when not in nse.-

My clotliesrack consists of a series of round bars, A A, of -any desired length, connected at their c'nds any suitable distance apart by means of cords'a and b.

The upper or top one of the bars A is provided 'at one end with a cross-bar, B, forininga T`shaped bar, which has a cord, d, attached at each ei'id of the bar B, and forming in the center a loop, e.

The cord b, which connects the -outer endsof the bars A A, passes above the. upper bar, and through the knot which forms the loop. on the cord d, so that said cord bean, be drawn up when desired, as will be hereinafter desciibedt The clothes-rack thus constructed is suspended from a pino nail by means ofthe loop e, in such a mani ner that thecross-bar B will bear against the wall,

when the bars A A will be held in a horizontal position at'i'ight angles with the wall, and clothes, can be hung on said hars. If the pin or nail on which the rack is suspended should stand straight out from the wall, it will-only be necessary to take a turn 1n t-lie loop, when it will he as securely fastened as is necessar Syhonld the outer ends of the arms oi' bars AA sag down, it will readily be remedied, b yniei'ely drawing up the cord b, and shortening it directly under the loo e.

Then the rack is not in use, the cross-bar B is re moved from itsl position againstA the `wall, and hung on the nail, when the bars A A willl hang, as shown in lig. 2, close totlie wall, and be out ot the way. The lower end of the cord a may be provided with a loop, f, to be' also suspended from the same nail when the rack is not in ilse, as otherwise the rack might drag on. the floor. The cords a b d may all be in one piece instead of several, as above mentioned.

This simple, but -yet vei'y liaudy clothes-rack can'v ,he made very cheap, and may be easily packed away in a trunk when traveling,

Having thus fully described my invention,

. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the arms A.A, crossbar B, one or more cords a b d, and with or without the loo'ps e f, all constructed and arranged as describethto form a hanging clothes-rack, substantially as herein set forth. In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereuntoset 'my hand this 23d day of December, 1869.

J OSEE JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

A.. N. MARR, G. M.' ALExANDEn.

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