US1278790A - Clothes and hat hanger cabinet. - Google Patents

Description

. P. THUNELL.

CLOTIIS AND HAT HANGER CABINE.

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ISAAC 1?. TIIUNELL, 0F SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

CLOTHES AN'D HAT HANGER CABINET.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patenten sept. io, asis.

Application led .T une 18, 1917. Serial No. 175,336.

To all whom z't may concern.'

Be it known that I, IsAAo P. THUNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes and Hat Hanger Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes hangers, and pertains especially to a combination of co-acting clothes hangers adapted to be contained Within a wall cabinet in closed position, and to be projected from the cabinet when the latter is in open position.

The principal object of the invention is to 'provide a plurality of hangers, for various articles of Wearing apparel, of such novel and peculiar construction and connection with a wall cabinet as to be contained within the cabinet in closed position, and as to be projected from and suspended by the cabinet in open position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cabinet with special devices for holding hat and clothes hangers in compact position within the cabinet in closed position, and for suspending the hangers from the cabinet in open position.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a cabinet with swinging arms of such character as to suspend clothes hangers, and to furnish special hat racks or hangers adapted to be hung from and suspended by said arms.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application Figure 1 is a perspective view of a closed wall cabinet, embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front view showing the cabinet door open and containing the various racks and hangers.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an open cabinet showing the various racks and hangers as in position for use.

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the standard racks partly broken away.

Fig. 5 is a similar view of one of the hanging racks.

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one of the coat hangers, ber in folded position.

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective View of one of the cabinet brackets.

Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view of one of the arm hinges.

showing its hook memt Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a modificaion.

The same reference characters denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings. i

In carrying out my invention Ipreferably employan ordinary wall cabinet, and such cabinet is shown in the drawings for illustratingthe application of my invention, but other similar cabinets of various size may be used,"or the invention may be applied to wall closets or wardrobes, with the same effect and results. The cabinet l, which is shown,,secured to a wall, is of the usual or ordinary depth, and has a hinged door 2, and a shelf 3, having a conveXed concaved edge permitting the articles placed thereon and thereunder to be readily grasped for removal.

Referring now to the various improved devices attached to and connected with the cabinet, each of such devices will be hereinafter particularly described in detail.

The back la of the cabinet has transverse parallel slots l", reinforced by metal plates 2a, secured to the inner face of the said back and having a slot fg'corresponding with the slots 1b, so that suitable screws 2", may be worked at various positions through said slots for securely suspending the cabinet upon various walls in various positions,

and in other places as may be found most suitable, convenient or desirable. Vhile this means of fastening the cabinet is preferable I do not confine myself thereto. But it .is obvious that, having the securing screws extend'through the cabinet back aifords substantial means for firmly anchoring the cabinet, and also affords means whereby the screws may in the slots, for finding the most convenient and desirable place or position for driving the screws. The cabinet sides have vertical cleats 1, for holding certain hangers.

The inner face of the back of the cabinet is provided with a pair of brackets comprising a flange 4 secured to the upper portion of said face by suitable screws, and an arm 5 projecting at right angles from the flange. These arms are shorter than the depth of ,the cabinet, permitting the arms 7 to be folded against the end of the brackets, and the top edge of said arms is provided with a plurality of small notches 6, and a central large notch 6a, the function or purpose of be shifted to various positions4 these arms and their notches will hereinafter be fully explained.

The cabinet attachments for supportlng a plurality of hat and coat hangers, comprise a pair of upper swinging arms 7 and a llke pair of lower arms 8, each of said arms being hinged or pivoted at 8a near the front edge of each side of the cabinet by a hinge member 9 secured to the inner face of said sides, and swingable inwardly in overlapped position within the cabinet and in front of the bracket arms 5. The arms 7 and 8 being swingable outwardly to any position de sired. Said arms and the brackets are the only actual attachments secured to the cabinet.

There are two kinds of hat racks or hangers, and a special coat or clothes hanger, embodied in my invention, all of which are applied to the swinging arms 7 and 8. The

coat hanger has a central thin portion 10, to which is pivoted at 11, the ends of a single piece of wire 12, which form a fork to straddle the portion 10, and permit the hook 13V formed by this wire to be folded in such position on the top edge of this hanger as to rest upon said edge for convenience in packing or storing these hangers on the cabinet shelf 3. This hook 13 fits the swinging arms 8 -so as to suspend these hangers in slidable position on said arms.'

The hat racks or hangers 14 are slidably suspended by the swinging arms 7, and these racks being all of the same construction only one of them will be described in detail. A single piece of Wire is bent and folded upon itself to form upwardly curved hat-hanger, members 15. rIhe wire is extended vertically from a point central of the curved members 15, so as to form a central double stem 16 and a spread hook 17 which fits the arms 7. The other form of hat rack or hanger comprises a single piece of wire, one end of which is bent to form a plurality of parallel loops 18 fitting and slidable on the swinging arms 7. The wire is extended vertically from said hooks to form a standard' 19, and the wire is branched laterally from the top of the standard' 19, and folded upon itself to form hat-hanging ends 20. The other end of this Wire is projected centrally above the cross arms or racks 20, as a continuation of the said standards, and forms an'- other means for hanging a hat, capyor the like. Obviously the intersection of the cross arms and the vertical portions of all these wire racks or hangers may be soldered, or

fore described, in the cabinet, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the hooks of the coat or clothes hangers are folded as in Fig. 6 of the drawings, and nested upon the shelf back of the cleats 1, the hanging hat racks are hooked into the small notches of the bracketarms so as to depend therefrom, the standard hat hangers are laid lengthwise in the central or large notch of the bracket arms, and the swinging arms are closed' inpairs one upon the other against the notched arms for retaining said racks, so as to permit the cabinet door to be closed without interference.

Obviously one or more swinging arms mayments as applied to a wall cabinet, theyr may.

be applied to a wall closet, Wardrobe or other similar inclosure, for the same purpose.

I do not wish to be understood as confining my invention to any particular size, number o f parts, or materlal, but reserve the right to make such changes and variations therein and in the manufacture and application of the several parts, as may come within' the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a clothes hanging wall cabinet, a pair of hanger brackets having one end secured to the inner face of the back of the cabinet and terminating within the cabinet, a plurality of hanger-supporting arms, means for hinging the arms to the inner face of the sidesof the cabinet to afford free swinging movement outside of the cabinet, said arms adapted to overlap in pairs with one pair against the front end of said brackets in closed position of the cabinet.

In witness whereof I hereunto setmy hand in the presence of two witnesses.

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