US1174565A - Wardrobe-trunk. - Google Patents

Description

WITNESSES.

D. GOLDSMITH. WARDROBE TRUNK. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-I7, l9l3.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

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ATTORNEY- D. GOLDSMITH.

. WARDROBE TRBNK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-17,1313.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

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MJQMQ DAVID GOLDS'MITTEI, HF NENVARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR '20 L. GULDSI'FIITH $5 SON, OF NEWARK, NEN JERSEY, A FIRM. COMPOSED OF DAVID GQLDSlViITI-I, NATHAN GQLDSMITH, AND DELVID OSTERV/"EIE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. Y, 19316.

Application filed September 1?, 1913. Serial No. 790,179.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, DAVID Gonnsrurrr, a citizen of the U itcd States and a. resi dent of Newark. in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Vardrobe Trunks, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a. swinging support for the garment hangers which shall be firm and strong and 'which shall strengthen the trunk; to secure an improved pivotal head for the attachment of the garment hangers to said swinging support; to provide a bracket upon the back of the trunk for supporting the free ends of the hangers when closed into the trunk; to secure simplicity of construction and ope ation. durability and freedom from get-ting out of: order, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views. Figure 1 is a perspectiveyiew of a wardrobe trunk embodying my improvements, the same being shown open to receive garments and with a portion of its wall broken away to disclose the bracket abovementioned: Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a portion of the trunk taken just above the swinging; support and Showing the same with the garment hangers removed; Fig. 3 is a detail plan of the swingino' support in closed or folded position and removed tron'i the trunk body; Fi 4 is a detail longitudh nal section through the pivoted end of a ment hanger, on line A A, Fig. 5, and is a perspective view of one of the pivotal heads 'for the hangers.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the Wardrobe section of the trunk and '2 its packing section. said wardrobescction hauuo a back 3, sides 4-, 5, and top 6 and bottom 7. To the side Wall 4; next the packing section 2. and near the top 6 of the trunk. applied a. swinging support 8 adapted to open iorwardly into substantially the plane of the front of the. wardrobe section, as shown in Figsl and 2. and to close rearwardly against the side wall 4.. To this swinging support 54 are hinged a series of garment hangers S) to receive garments as iustrated lay trousers i n the dra'wi in use said section, as shown, but when for shipment the support 8 is closed inward th hangers lie parallel to the back 3 of the trunk, preferably with their free ends over a bracket 11 shown in Fig. 1 and hereinafter described.

In the particular form shown, the support 8 comprises a leaf 12, see Figs. 2 and 3. adapted to be fixedly secured to the side wall s ot the trunk, and a swinging member p voted to the front end of the leaf l2 and adapted to carry the garment hangers 9, as subsequently described. It is preferable to form said member 13 from a single piece of "sheet metal bent into channel shape longitudinally along its middle 14- and providing at its margins li'eetv or flange 15, 15 in sub stantially the same plane and on opposite sides ofthc channel portion. The horizontal projecting rib or middle portion 14% provides a series of vertical sockets 16 arranged at suitable distances apart and each formed by alined holes in the upper and lower sides of said projecting portion. Preferably, at one end of the said member 13, the flanges 15 are extended beyond the middle channel portion 14- us at 17. and wrapped around a hinge pin 18 to which the adjacent end of the flanges 15 and secured by rivets 19 or equivalent means thereto. The leaf 12 attached horizontally to the side wall 4 forms a rigid brace for strengthening the trunk,

in addition to providing a pivotal mounting for the swinging" member 13. A stop 20 may project from the exposed surface oi the leaf 12 adjacent its inner end or end away from the hinge. so as to limit the in ward swing of the member 13 into substantially parallel relation thereto in closed position. said stop also acting: as a support for the free end of the swinging member if it be. so desired. Also. in forming the hinge extension 21 on the leaf 1? it is preferable to produce a shoulder 22 therein which projects out 'ardly beyond the end of the leaf and lies in the path of the member 13 so as to limit its outward swing, as shown in Fig. 3. Such limitation is pretcrably to prevent the'mcmhcr 3 from swinging out Farther than the plane of the open front, but obviously such limitation may be made to any degree desired and may be caused by a. stop otherwise positioned than the particular ono heroin Slh'HVIl.

clamping means securing it thereto.

I have shown the hangers, forpurposes of illustration, consisting each of two fiat strips 23, 23 arranged vertically edgewise and adapted to clamp between themselves a garment such as the trousers 10 which are shown, the outer ends of said strips being releasably held together by a clip 2% of any ordinary and well-known type. understood, however, that any other form of hange' adapted to support garments or the like might be substituted for the one which I have specifically shown, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

For pivotally connecting each hanger to the swinging member 13, the same is provided at its inner end with a head as shown in detail more particularly in Figs. 4 and 5. This head is preferably stamped out of a. single, piece o1 sheet metal doubled together so that its opposite ends '26, 2G together form a sleeve to fit over the ends of the strips 23, '23, rivets 27' or equivalent llx tending from said sleeve in the opposite direction from said strips, the head 25 prorides a neck 28 which connects the sleeve to .a transversely upright pivot formed at the doubled edge of the head, and which projects upward above the neck as at 30 and also downward below said neck as at 31 sufficiently to pass entirely through the rib ll of the swinging member 13, allowing the neck to rest edgewise on the top of said rib, as shoi'n in Fig. 1. It is preferable to stamp the pivot 29 into cylindrical shape with conical or tapered ends, as shown, so as to permit readily inserting the same into the sockets l6 and mounting the hanger to swing freely on the member 13. The neck 28 is preferably of less height than the sleevev formed by the ends 26, 26 and projects from the same adjacent the top thereof, although it will be understood that I do not limit my self to such details.

The upper end 30 of the pivot 29 prevents by its engagement with the top (3 of the trunk removal of the pivot from its seat or hearing, except when the swinging member 13 is in its extreme forward position, and thus the hinged ends of the hangers are secured against dislodgment during shipment of the trunk.

The bracket H l have shown made oi? strap iron with its forward end 32 roundei'l and overlapping feet 325, ill at its rear end. which are riveted or otherwise firmly se cured to the back of the trunk in vertical position at a little distance from the side wall 5, so that there will be no uncertainty about the free ends of the hangers 9 ,overlying the bracket. The hangers readily swing into closed position overlying said It will be.

bracket as the swinging support member 13 is pushed back against the side wall i, and the garments depend from said hangers between the bracket and swinging support. The bracket 11 being free from the adjacent side wallot' the trunk enables a hand to be inserted between it and said side wall, as for instance to untastenthe clasp of one of the hangers 9 and release the garmentheld thereby without swinging all of the hangers out into the room. 7

Obviously, various modifications in detail construction can be made by those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and I' do not wish to be understood as restricting myself except as required by the following claims when construed in thelight of the prior art.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination with a trunk, oi a garment hanger support comprising a leaf fixed firmly to the side of said trunk, a swinging member having a middle rib with llanges on opposite sides thereof extending at one end of the member beyond said middle rib, a hinge pin on said leaf around which pin said extending flanges are hingedly wrapped, and a shoulder on one of said members adapted to engage the other and limit the outward swing of the swinging member.

'2. The combination with a trunk, of a garment hanger support comprising a leaf fixed firmly to the side of said trunk trans versely thereof and extending substantially the depth of said side bracing the same. a swinging memberhav g a middle rib with flanges on opposite smes thereof extending at one end of the member beyond said middle rib, a hinge pin on said leaf around which ')in said. extending flan es are hin edly wrapped. and a shoulder on one o'l said members adapted to engage the other and limit the outward swing oi" the swinging member.

In atrunk. the combination with a socketed support hingedly mounted thereon to swing in a plane parallel and adjacent to the top of the trunk. of a garment hanger having a head with a transverse pivot at the end thereof projecting both up ard and downward, the lower end of said pivot adapted to enter a socket 0? said support and the upper end adapted to engage the top of the. trunk and prevent removal f the lower end from its socket when the support lies beneath-the trunk top.

DAVID o mnsinri-r t. s.l

\Vitnesses:

Ina M. Mnaoo'r'r. C. B. llor'r.

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