US1073763A

US1073763A - Collapsible clothes-horse.

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Publication number: US1073763A
Application number: US67892312A
Authority: US
Inventors: Wilhelmine Kalitzky
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-02-20
Filing date: 1912-02-20
Publication date: 1913-09-23
Anticipated expiration: 1930-09-23

Description

W. KALITZKY (BORN WOLFE).

OOLLAPSIBLE CLOTHES HORSE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20, 1912.

1,073,763. Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

WILHELMINE KALITZKY, BORN WOLFE, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

COLLAPSIBLE CLOTHES-HORSE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

Application filed February 20, 1912. Serial No. 678,923.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILHELMINE KA- LrrzKY, born l/VOLFF, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and resident at Hamburg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Clothes-Horses, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has for its object to provide a clothes horse the pedestal and bearing arms whereof are articulated in such a manner to the standard that when not in use the arms and pedestal may be collapsed against the standard.

The device is intended for use in displaying hats and the like and may be collapsed so as to minimize the space occupied when not in use.

In the accompanying drawing one formv of embodiment of the invention is shown and; Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device, Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line C-D of Fig. 3, Fig. 3 is a section of line A--B of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified end of the standard, Fig. 5 is a detail view showing a certain bayonet joint used herewith.

The standard a comprises two or more thin metallic tubes, which are connected in a bayonetlike manner, 2'. e. the ends thereof may fit the one in the other and be joined as at a The standard is according to the present invention provided on. its inferior end with a hub 25, having 3 pairs of projections b as is shown in Figs. 2 and 3, on an enlarged scale. The projections b are traversed by pivots on which oscillate the members 0 of the pedestal. These members are also made of thin metallic tubes, the articulated ends thereof being formed of angular-shaped cast irons c, the shorter ends 0 of which are pressed, when making use of the device, by the weight of the standard against the column 0;, so that the members of the pedestal occupy a spread position. (Fig. 1). Although the members are made of very thin material, the ends present a great resistance owing to the inserted cast irons. The spread position is moreover assured by a collar (Z shown in Fig. l in its elevated position and which may be placed over the projecting parts 0 lVhen one raises the collar and the stand ard, the members 0 collapse and occupy a parallel position with reference to the longitudinal axis of the standard.

The oblique arms t are articulated to starshaped hubs t and bear in the operative position on radial projections t" of the hub. When they are raised they fold against the standard. One of the arms has been shown in dotted lines in folded position in Fig. 1. The arms are provided at their free ends with vertical members i the extremities whereof situated below the pivots being bent angularly in such a manner, that in the vertical position of the members It, the bent portions engage beneath the free ends of the arms 6, so that the members t are maintained in vertical position. \Vhen not using the standard, 2'. 6. when the latter is collapsed, these members are brought in alinement position with the arms t.

In Fig. i there is shown a modified support for the standard a which is intended to be used in place of the pedestal where it is desired to attach the standard to a counter, shelf or the like. This support consists of a V-shaped clamp a to which the standard a is fixed, the clamp being used in the well known manner.

I claim:

In a device of the kind described, a standard, a collar fixed on the lower end of said standard and provided with spaced pairs of lugs, tubular leg members having their upper ends received between the lugs of the respective pairs, tubular reinforcements fitted within the upper ends of said legs and provided with angularly disposed extensions, and pivot pins each passing through a pair of lugs, a leg member and a reinforcement, whereby the single pivot pin holds all of said parts together.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of witnesses.

WILHELMINE KALIIZKY, BORN WOLFE.

Witnesses:

ImnrLon JULIUS VnALrrnuii, LAUMINIJTUR F. A. Sonnnnon, FURDINAND ARNOLD TYNBAGK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. C.