US1227705A - Garment-hanger. - Google Patents

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c. B. ULRICH.

GARMENT HANGER. APPLICATION FILED Ausiza. I915.

1,227,705. rammed May 917.

2 SHEETS-S El c. B. ULRICH.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.23. 1915.

1,227,705. Patented May 29, 1917.

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TION OOMI 'AN'Y, OI J'AMEBTOWN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

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Intimidation of Iietten Yatent.

PatentedMay 29, 1917.

Application fled gamut 28, 1815. Serial No. 46,887.

To all whom it may honcem: 5

Be it known that I, Cmuums B. Um'fl'oii, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Jamestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers, and while capable of eneral use, it is articularly designed to e mounted within a closet, wardrobe, wardrobe trunk or the like. The device is complete in itself and may be conveniently mounted within a wardrobe or the like without. requiring any chan es whatsoever in the latter. The device is collapsible or telescopic and may be conveniently collapsed and .folded into a wardrobe or the li e, and also ma be very conveniently extended and broug t out in front of the wardrobe so as to give ready access to the arments which may be supported upon the device.

When the device is in its normally close condition, the hanger bar, from which the garments 'are directly supported, occupies a position extending from front to rear of the device, and when the device is in its extended position to bring the garinentsout of the wardrobe, the hanger bar may be swung into a. osition at substantially right angles to its ormer position so as to-arrange the arments in a series transversely across the rout of the device so that each garment is readily discernible and conveniently accessible.

With these and other objects in view, the present invention consists in the combination and 'arrange nentjof parts,,as. will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the drawin and particularly set forth in the a pen ed claims, it being understood that c anges in the form, proportion, size and minor details may be made, within the scope of the claims,i without departing from the spirit or sacri cing'an'y o the advanta' s of the invention.

11 the drawings, I

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of the upper portion of a wardrobe havin 'the garment hanger-of the present invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2-is an enlarged plan view of Fig. 1, the top of the wardrobe being removed and "end with a groove of a vertica thefarment hanger shown in it open or exten ed condition.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the device in its normal or closed condition.

Fig. 4 isa sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 2 on a reduced scale.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary detail 4 view.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each of the several figures of the drawin The present device includes a substantially rectangular frame 1 disposed in a substantially horizontal position and preferably of metal. Each side of the frame is pieferably a channel bar, and the frame may made of one or more pieces, as may be desired. Within the frame and extending forwardly from the back thereof are two substantially parallel rods or bars 2 and 3 preferably cy indrical or circular in crosssection. Each rod is suitably connected to the rear end of the frame 1, and the two rods are located equally distant at opposite sides of the longitudinal center of the frame and spaced only a slight distance apart. These rods terminate short of the frontend of the frame and are bowed or curved outwardly toward the respective sides of the frame, as shown at 4 an 5, the forward extremity of each rod b'ein' suitably connected to the adjacent side 0 the frame near the front end thereof. Beneath the frame is a substantially horizontal garment hanger bar 6 which is suspended from a pair of roller brackets 7, eac bracket bein provided at its upper or flanged roller 8, while the lower end of the bracket is pivoted to then per side of the bar 6 by means pivot connection 9. One of these roller brackets is mounted to travel upon the rod or track. 3, while the other roller bracket is mounted to travel upon the other track 2, the rollers 8, of course, being upon the upper sides of the track members. It will here be noted that the bars 2 and 3 constitute a guideway, while the parts 4 and 5 of said rods constitute guideway branches forming continuations of the guldewaiy and extending transversely in c posite irections from the front of the guideway.

The normal osition of the hanger bar is shown in dot lines at A in Fig. 2 of the i draw said bar lying beneath the track members 9' and 8 and opposite the space therebetween, the front on I of the bar bein at or slightl in rear of the front end 0 the frame. y pulling u on the front end of the ban er bar, it. wil move forwardly, the roller rackets .traveling on the respective tracks,-and by'conti'nued pulling upon the bar, the latter will gradually assume the position shown in dotted lines at B and eventually take a position transversely across the front of the device, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawinfispby reason ofthe fact that the roller brac ets will follow the tracks and thus change the position of the hanger bar from the osition A to the position shown in full mes transversely across the front of the device. When the hanger bar 6 is in the position shown in Fig. 1, its association with the track or guideway branches prevents swinging of the hanger bar about a vertical axis.

Any suitable or preferred form of garment hangers 10 may be hun from the hanger bar 6, as best s own in ig. 1 of the drawings, so that when" the hanger bar is in its transverse position across the front of the device, the garment hangers will be disposed in a series transversely across the front vof the. device, which permits of a convenient inspection of all of the garments and enables the convenient selection of any one of them. a At each end of the hanger bar 6 there is a suitable stop or shoulder 11 to prevent the garment h is. from being accidentally pushed or lpul ed off of either end of the bar.

t e device is mounted within an inclosure, such for instance as a wardrobe, 0. portion of a conventional form of which has been shown in the accom an ing drawings at 12, the side bars of t e mine 1 are mounted to slide back and forth in suitable guideways within the'wardrobe and at opposite sides thereof. A satisfactory guideway is a channel'bar, such as shown at 13, suitably secured to the adjacent wall of the wardrobe, the front of the channel bar be'- ing 0 so as to permit of the sidebar of the s 'dable frame working throu h said '0 en end. The rear end-0f the gui eway is c osed, as at 14, so as to form a stop to limit the rearward movement of the frame. To prevent binding and give an easy movement to the slidabl'efframe, the rear end of each side-of the slidable frame, is provided with -top and bottom rollers 15 and 16 to travel within and against the top and bottom, respectively, of the guideway, The idewa terminatesshOrtof the front of t e war v ,robe,.and an anti-friction supporting roller aving its rear working through an 0 cm 19 in the of the guide'way and a apte to drop 1n engagement with a mounted upon the top of; each guideway member and seat orshoulder' on'the top of the adjacent side of the'slidable frame.- sprmg-pressed dog or detent frame may be the manipulation of the dog or frame may be readily taken out of the guldeway ytrippmg the dog and holding it clear of the frame when pulling the latter out of the guideway.

Haw thus described the invention, what is c aimed is:

1. A garment be By usm the slide Is very conveniently pulled into er compris' a supporting frame, a gui eway extendmg from the rear toward the ,front of the frame, guldeway branches formin continuations of the guideway and extending transversely 1n opposite directions from the front of the gm away, a hanger bar, andslides travel mg n ,on the dewa and .pivotally connee to the anger ar, each slide also travehng upon its respective guideway branch.

2. garment hanger comprisin porting frame, s aced track mem tending frame 1n substantial parallelism and divergmg at the front ofthe frame, a hen er bar, and a pair of roller brackets pivotay connected to the bar andmounted to travel upon the respective track members.

3. The combination of a case or cabinet having an open side, a guideway therein leading to the open side of the frame mounted in said guidewa ble of being projected through-t e thereof and provided with branches forming continuations of the guideway and extendin transversely in op from t e front of the 1 eway, a hanger lfiar, ang-slidel's t1pivoii:18 y carlrlied b the 'ger ar-an ave' .onte iewa and the branches thereof. gu y v CHARLES B. ULRICH. wlm =4: 1 I Oman D. Danna, R. FnN'roN Frame.

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