US1161955A - Display-rack. - Google Patents

Description

R. G. NICHOLAS.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILYED NOV. 21, I914. NOV. 30,

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R. G. NICHOLAS.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21, 1914.

Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

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U NITE STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

ROBERT G. NICHOLAS, OF CLYDE, KANSAS.

DISPLAY-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 21, 1914. Serial No. 873,354.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT Gr. NICHOLAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clyde, in the county of Cloud and State of amined without removing the remaining garments, and likewise to enable the garments to be readily attached to and removed from the rack without injury to the, garments.

Another object of the invention. is to provide a simply constructed device which may be readily increased or decreased in size to adapt it to various kinds of garments or like articles without 11 aterial structural change.

vVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detached perspective view of one of the price tag holders. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view. Fig. i is a front elevation with the guard member detached and the end members in transverse section. Fig.5 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. a. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 3 illustrating a modification in the construction.

' Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a body member 10 which may be of any required length and width, but is preferably of sufficient width to enable advertising matter to be applied thereto above the holding devices, as hereinafter more fully explained.

The member 10 will be supported at any required height and attached to any suitable support, but for the purpose of illustration terminal legs or standards 11 are shown to support the member at a convenient height. At its ends the body 10 is provided with lateral end members 1213 and f Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

supporting a guard member 14, the latter being equal in length to the body 10 and spaced therefrom as illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, 5 and 6. stands vertical, and the confronting face of the member 14 is directed obliquely to the confronting face of the member 10 as illustrated at 15, the oblique or inclined portion opening through the lower edge and the in ner side of the guard member,.as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6 of the drawings.

A plurality of holding devices represented at 16 are inserted through the lower The inner face of the body 10 portion of the member 10 and extend upwardly and outwardly toward the inner face of the member 14; and terminate at a relatively slight distance therefrom and above the line of the upper edge of the oblique portion 15 as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6. The

free endsof the members 16 are pointed to enable the garments to be readily located upon the holding devices. By this means the garments may be readily located upon the pins 16 by thrusting them upwardly between the members 10-11 and engaging them with the pins 16, the oblique portions 15 of the guard member materially facilitating the action of connecting'the garments with the pins, as the oblique face of the guard member guides the garments into proper position to engage over the free ends of the pins, and without the necessity for manipulating the garments to find the points of the pins which are covered and protected by the body of the'guard member. Thus it will not be necessary for the operator to see the pins or to note the places where they pass through the garments, as the oblique face 15 automatically guides the garment in to proper position relative to the pins. This is an important feature of applicants device and materially facilitates the operation of disposing the garments upon the pins.

The members 16 are usually formed of pointed wire and are thrust through the body of the member 10 in suitable apertures formed therethrough, the apertures being smaller than the wires which form the supporting members so that considerable force will be required to insert the pins into the member 10, the shrinkage and reaction of the pins 12 and the ranged to point upwardly and outwardly, as

illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6, to prevent the garments from slipping from the pins after they have once been located thereon, while alt the same time the garments may be read- 1 y applied thereto.

Garments of different forms may be suspended from the supporting members 16, but the improved device is more particularly designed to support stockings of various sizes, but it will be understood that it is not desired to limit the improved device for use in connection with any particular kind of garment. The size or location of the members 16 may be readily varied as required, and placed at any distance apart.

The improved device may be constructed of any suitable material, but the parts will preferably be constructed of Wood, except price card holders. At-

removed when a suflicient force has been tached to the outer face of the member 14 opposite each of the supporting members 16 is a frame represented as a whole at 18 to support price cards and other data as may be preferred.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

l. The combination with a fixed guard having a straight face and an inclined face, of a suspension device supported to project toward the guard with its free end disposed in spaced relation to the straight face thereof and arranged in a plane above and upon one side of the said beveled face of the guard. V

2. The combination with a fixed guard having a straight face and an inclined face, of a suspension device supported to project toward the guard and terminating at its outer extremity in spaced relation to the straight face thereof with the said inclined face of the guard sloping downwardly and laterally away from the said outer extremity of the suspension device.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT G. NICHOLAS.

\Vitnesses C. F. ARMSTRONG, C. E. MURPHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of I'atents, Washington, D. 0.

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