US1126717A - Clothes-rack. - Google Patents

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G. DANIELSON. 'CLOTHES RACK. APPLICATION TILED SEPT. 23. 1914.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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CLOTHES-RACK.

Application filed September 23, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES DANIELSON, citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- .Racks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved clothes rack; and, to this end,

it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several Views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved clothes rack, with the arms thereof turned into open, operative positions; Fig. 2 is a view, partly in elevation and partly in vertical section, taken on the line 00 m of Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale; Fig. 3 is a detail view, in perspective, of the clothes rack frame and so-called traveler; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the improved clothes rack, turned into an inoperative position, with the arms thereof closed.

The improved clothes rack comprises a skeleton frame and two groups of horizontal swinging arms. As shown, the frame comprises top and bottom, vertically spaced bars 1, rigidly connected by diagonal back pieces 2. There is one group of arms 3 at each end of the frame and they are pivotally secured between the ends of the bars 1 by pins 4. The arms 3 are on such lines that when one arm of each group is folded upon the other, they will have the same outline as the bars 1, thus permitting both groups of arms to be folded one upon the other within the space between the upper and lower bars 1.

To the back and longitudinal center of the bars 1 is rigidly secured a hanger plate 5, having an upwardly contracted extension 6, in which is formed a perforation 7 As best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the longitudinal edges of the hanger plate extension 6 are bent laterally to afford stiffening flanges. A filler block 8 is interposed between the bars Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

Serial No. 863,205.

1 and hanger plate 5 to support the same in a plane outside of the diagonal back pieces 2.

The improved clothes rack is supported on a wall, or other suitable place, by supporting bar 9, secured in position by screws 10. The bar 9, which is secured in an upright position, has its longitudinal edges at the back thereof rabbeted at 11. Slidably mounted on the supporting bar 9 is a channel-shaped traveler 12, having in-turned flanges 13 which slide in the rabbeted edges 11 and thereby secure said traveler against lateral separation from said bar. The hanger plate 5 is pivoted at 14 to the traveler 12 to permit the clothes rack frame to be turned from a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 1, to a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 4.

The clothes rack is supported in different horizontal positions from the bar 9 by a thumb-screw 16, passed through the perforation 7 and having screw-threaded engage ment with any one of a plurality of nuts 17 set in the back of said bar and vertically spaced one above the other. Obviously, when the thumb-screw 16 is released from any one of the nuts 17, the traveler 12 may be slid vertically on the supporting bar 9 to carry the clothes rack into different horizontal positions. It is also evident that in the released position of the thumb-screw 16 the improved clothes rack may be rotated on the pivot 14 to carry the same into a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 4. In this position of the clothes rack the outer group of arms 3 hang downward and are held in closed positions under the action of gravity. Said outer group of arms 3, when in this position, hold the inner group of arms in folded positions and against outward swinging movement. To the lower end portion of the supporting bar 9 is secured a stop block 18 on which the clothes rack rests when turned into a vertical position as shown in Fig. 4.

The vertical adjustment of the clothes rack permits the same to be lowered into a position where the clothes may be easily hung thereon, and then raised into a position where the clothes rack and clothes hung thereon are entirely out of the way. \Vhen the clothes rack is not in use the same may be folded and turned into a position as shown in Fig. 4, where the same takes up very little room and gives. a neat appearance. The pivotal mounting of the clothes rack permits the same to be secured to a door or window casing and, when not in use, it can be turned into a position that will not obstruct the door opening or thp window,

What I claim is 2- l. The combination with a clothes rack, comprising a horizontal frame and two groups of arms pivoted to said frame for horizontal swinging movements toward and from each other, of a fixed upright supporting bar a traveler, mounted on said bar for vertical sliding movement, said frame being intermediately pivoted to said traveler, for vertical swinging movement in a plane substantially parallel to said bar, whereby said frame and arms may be folded in inoperative vertical positions in front of said bar, and

a fixed stop projection on said bar on which said frame loosely rests when turned into a vertical position.

2. A clothes rack, comprising a frame and two groups of arms pivoted to said frame for horizontal swinging movement, whereby one group of said arms may be folded upon the I in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES DANIELSON. ll itnesses ALICE L. KING, HARRY D. KILeoRE.

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

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