US1055064A - Display-rack. - Google Patents

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A. E, MILLER;

'DISPL AI RACK. 'APPLIcgrIoN FILED MAY 15, 1911 Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

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' 1 BALTIMORE,

j Aiip et o fii d'may 1 ToalZ who-m flaring concern.

Be it known that'I, ANDREW E. MILLER,

a snbject of the King of .Great Britain, re

" siding in the'city of' Balti lnore ahd State.

' of Maryland, have invented new andu'seful Improvements in "Display-Racks, of which i I the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in display racks for garments and the. like, and relates more particularly to the case in which the rack is inclosed. l

In'that-class of display racks in which a reciprocable rack member is mountedin a case,'it iscustomary to provide the case at as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1, they are first moved into the position indicated at- (1,

the front with doors which are swung to open and then slid inside the-case adjacent v the sides of the latter. Or else the doors are hinged to the'case in the. usual manner. In

either form considerable floor space is re quired to permit the swinging of the doors, and one of theobjects of the present invention is to provide improved. means forreducing the space required in front of'the case. for the manipulation of'the doors.

- A-further "object is to provide improved means for, supporting the doors.

. set forth and jThe invention will be hereinafter fully particularly pointed out in the claims.

In theaccompanying drawing :'Figure 1 is a plan View of a display rack and its inc'losing casing,- illustrating my invention.

- 'Fig. 2 is a detail illustrating the door supporting carriage: Fig. 3 is a'detail.

Referring to the drawings, designates a case provided wit side walls 11, a back wall .12, and a fro t opening 13, closed by doors 14; Each or is pivotally mounted betweenforwardl projecting ears 15 located .at the upper and lower ends-respectively. of a bar 16,.the lower. end of said bar being'als'o provided 1 with a rearward extension 17 forming a carriage provided with supportingrollers 18. The bar 16 and carriage 17 may be made, integral to form an approxi- -mately L-shaped support for. the; door as shown. The top and bottom edges of each door are provided with pins or rollers 19 adjacent the middle of theudoor, and the lugs 15 are provided Wllh pins or rollers. 20 opposite the pivotpins 21gf- The pins, or rollers 19, 20 "work in groovesor slots MARYLAND.

ANDREW MILLER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIG-NCR T0 SOLQMON HIMMEL, QF

DISPLAY-RACK.

, Specification of: Letters Patent. Patented llIl 1'. 4, 1913.

1911. Serial 627,332.

spectively of the case, and parallel with the s de walls,- each of said grooves being provided with an angular branch 23, parallel \v ith and contiguous to the front edge; The

carriage 1T reciprocates in a suitable guideway above groove 22.

A display rack is conventionally illustrated in F1g. 1',,.the same being adapted to be moved forwardly when the doors are opened, to permit a display of the garments supported thereby. The form of display rack, and the means for reciprocating the same are immaterial and further description thereof 15 cons dered unnecessary.

In practice assuming the doors are closed the pins orrollers 19 of each door sliding in. the branch grooves or slots 23 and the'pins or rollers 20 in the grooves or slots The pinsor rollers 19, 20 continueto move in their respective grooves or slots until, the door assumes the position indicated in full lines on the left of the case whereupon it is moved in parallel with the adjacent side wall 11. In closing the foregoing operation is reversed.

From the foregoing it will be observed thatthe weight of each door is supported by its carriage 17, and that instead-of requiring space to permit a full length swing of the door, only such space is required as will permit the swinging of a door equalalthoughflwithout attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made oi .all of the forms of its use, what Iclaim 1s 1-,

.' 1. The combination with a case having grooves'therein"each provided with an angular branch, of an upright bar provided atits upper end with an overhanging for wardly projecting lug and at its lower "end with a second forwardly projecting lug, said bar beingalso provided at its lower end with a rearward projection forming carriage,

- ro llers supporting said carriage, pivot pins married by said forwardly projecting lugs and engaging the main portions of said grooves, a door, pivot pms for said door 22 formed in the top and bottom wal1s', ;fg5,

' jiilso carried-by said forwardly projecting lugs, and additi n 1al pinscarried b y the door to engage the angular branchesof said grooves. e

The combination with a case having groovestherein each provided with an angular liiranch, of an Leshaped supporting ineinber providedat its upper end with an I overhanging forwardly ro ectmg lug and at its lower end with a second forwardly projecting lug, supporting rollers connected with theL-shaped port-ion of saidmember, pivot pins carried by said forwardly' projucting lugs and engaging the main portion of said grooves, a door, pivot pinsfor said door also carried by ,said lugs, and additional pins carried by the door toengage the angular branches of said grooves In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

7 ANDREW E. MILLER. \Vitnesses JoHx J. \VAoxER, LEE I. IIECHT.

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