US121953A

US121953A - Improvement in clothes-racks

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Publication number: US121953A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-12-19
Anticipated expiration: 1888-12-19

Description

5 DANiEL MILLER.

Improvement in 'Clothes Racks.

No. 121,953. 7 Patented Dec-19,1871.

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DANIEL MILLER, OF MARIETTA, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JACOB MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-RACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,953, dated December 19, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL MILLER, of Marietta, in the county of Washington and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Rack; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to that class of clothesracks which are provided with removable arms; and consists of certain details of construction which will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved clothes-rack, and Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of the same.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe fully its construction and manner of operation.

The rack may be generally described as follows: A back-board is provided with a projecting top piece, and also at each end with side pieces extending out from the back-board and supporting a front bar preferably provided with recesses. The upper edge of the front bar is located below the lower surface of the projecting top piece of the back-board a suflicient distance to permit the arms of the clothes-rack, when placed in position, to lie in a horizontal position, the arms being held by the frontbar and the projecting top piece. To prevent accidental displacement the arms are provided with a pin at their rear ends.

A represents the back-board of the rack, to the ends of which are attached side pieces a a and to the top a projecting piece, a, as shown. To

the end pieces are attached a strip or bar, b, preferably provided with recesses or notches b l). O (J represent the arms for supporting the clothes, which consist of any proper strips or bars, having upon their outer ends pins cc above and below, and upon their inner ends pins 0 as shown. The extreme inner ends are slightly curved, as shown. The arms, when in position, rest upon the bar I); their rear ends being held by the projecting portion of the top-piece a, as shown, the pin 0 serving to prevent them from being accidentally displaced. When the arms are not in use they may be either all removed to one end or be hung in a vertical position by raising their outer ends and lettingthem slip through the opening between the back-board and the bar 12, until they are caught by the pins upon their outer ends. These arms may be adjusted upon the front bar to rest in any desired position.

The rack, as a whole, is suspended in any suitable manner from the wall. It can be produced at a very small cost and it is well adapted for the purpose for which it is intended.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The rack described, consisting of the parts A a a, b, in combination with the arms 0 havingthe pins 0 0 0 as and for the purpose set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 4th day of November, 1871.

DANIEL MILLER.

Witnesses:

W. H. J oHNsoN, A. F. WARD.