US1286878A - Adjustable standard for dress-forms. - Google Patents

Description

F. B. GRANGER. ADJUSTABLE STANDARD FOR DRESS FORMS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 26, 1915- Patented Dec. 3, i918.

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FRANK B. GRANGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HALL-BORCHERT DRESS FORM COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE STANDARD FOR DRESS-FORMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK B. GRANGER, a. citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Adjustable Standards for Dress-Forms, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to adjustable standards for supporting dress forms and the like and it has for its object to provide a novel standard adjustable as to its height and which is provided with novel means for releasably holding said standard in any adjusted position so as to present the article supported by the standard at the desired The standard comprises two sections having a telescopic relation to each other and a locking device for holding the sectionsextended more or less whichcomprises a flexible member and a gripping device cooperating with the flexible member to hold the sections in the desired adjusted position.

In order to give an understanding of the invention I have illustrated in the drawings a selected embodiment thereof which is adapted to operate as a means for supporting a dress form, but I desire to state that the invention is capable of use for supporting various other objects than dress forms and, therefore, the invention is not limited to use in connection with a dress form.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a standard embodying my invention and showing the dress form thereon in dotted outline;

tional view taken at right angles to Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line :n-w, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view showingthe operation of the cord-clamping device.

The standard herein shown comprises the two sections 1 and 2 having a telescopic relation to: each other, the lower section 1 Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sec-V being herein shown as sustained in a pedestal or base piece 3 and the upper section 2 supporting the article to be sustained, which in the present embodiment of the invention is a dress form 4:. The lower section 1 is shown as tubular in shape. The upper section 2 may have any suitable construction adapted to permit it to telescope relative to the section 1. I have, however, herein shown it as comprising two heads or ends 5 and 6 which are connected by two rods 7. The lower head 5 is in the form of a disk to which the rods 7 are secured and which are provided with central openings through which the lower section 1 of the standard extends. The upper head 6 is provided with some suitable means for attaching thereto the part to be sustained. In the present construction this head has a screw-threaded stud 8 rising therefrom which extends through the neck plates of the dress form and having the clamping nut 9 screwthreaded thereto by which the neck plates are clamped in position. i

The rods 7 of the upper section are shown as extending through apertures in a collar or flange 10 at the upper end of the lower section 1, said flange constituting a guiding 'means for the rods.

For holding the upper section in any adjusted position I have" provided a flexible member extending between the two sections and a gripping device cooperating with said flexible member to lock the upper section at the desired elevation. This flexible member is shown at 11 in the form of a cord which is connected at its' two ends to the upper end of the lower section 1 and which passes around guiding elements herein shown in the form of pulleys 12 carried by the upper section 2. These pulleys are shown as located at the upper and lower ends of the section 2. but they may be arranged in any desirable location. With such a construe tion the upper section 2 can be readily raised and lowered and the cord or connection 11 will always be taut. The collar 10 is shown as having a notch 13 therein through which the cord passes, said notch acting as a. guide tends up through the collar and has a spring 18 situated between the collar anda nut 19 thereon. This provides not only a flexible... connection but also for taking up any undesirable lack in th cord.

The gripping cooperates with the cord 11 to hold the section. 10 extended is shown at 14 andit is provided with two openings or passages 15 through which the tworuns of the cord pass.

These openings are situated a less'distance apart than the distance between the point 16 at which the cord 11 is secured to the collar 10 and the notch 13, so that when the gripping member 14 is moved toward the collar 10 the portlon of the cord passing through the'notch will be bent sharply over the edge of the collar 10. The friction thusproduced by the cord bending over the edge of the collar is sufficient to hold the upper section in any adjusted position.

Means are provided which tend normally to hold the gripping member 14 in its operative position, which means are releasable from the lower end of the standard so that when a dress form or other article is supported by the standard the gripping device can be released from the lower end thereof and without disturbing the dress form or other article, thereby permitting the standard .to be raised or loweredto the desired height. For this purpose the gripping member 14 is secured to a rod 20 which extends downwardly through-the tubularsection '1 and at its lower end is engaged by one end of a treadle 21. The treadle is shown as formed with the rounded socket 22 in which the lower end of the rod 20 rests. and said treadle is provided on its under side with a notch 23 in which is received a fulcrum pin 24 carried by arms 25 depending from the pedestal or base 3. The rod 20 is acted upon by a spring 26 which tendsnormally to depress the rod and, thereby hold the gripping member in its operative position. This spring is shown as confined between an interior shoulder 27 at the upper end of the standard and a collar 28 carried by the rod 20. The treadle is shown as p'rovidedwith its operative gripping position, as shown in connected to said collar through the device or element which 7 Fig. 4, and when in this position the friction of the portion 30 of the cord where it passes over the edge of the notch will be suflicient to hold the upper section 1 in its adjusted position. If the upper section is to be raised or lowered, the operator merely depresses the treadle thereby raising the gripping member into the dotted line pesitien shown. in Fig. 4 and whenin this position the trio- ,tional engagement of the cord with the collar 10 isreleased so that the upper section can be raised or lowered. \Vhen the 'pres sure on thetreadle is relieved the gripping member 14 will automatically assume its gripping position.

1. In an adjustable standard for dress forms and the like, the combination with two sections having a telescopic relation, of a'flexible member having its opposite ends connected to'one of said sections, a gripping tive to each other. and means for releasing the gripping member.

movement endwise in. either direction'rela- 2. In an adjustablestandard for dress forms and the like, thecombination with two sections havin a telescopic relation, of a flexible member extending from one end to the other of one section, a gripping device carried by the other section and adapted to grip the flexible member, said flexible memher when thus gripped'locking the sections from endwise movement in either direction relative to each other, and means to release the gripping member.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with two sections having a telescopic relation, of a flexible member connected at both ends to one section and looped about guiding elements carried at the opposite ends'of the other section. a'gripping member cooperating with the flexible member to hold the latter in frictional engagement with the first mentioned section, and means operable from the base of the member torelease said gripping member.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with tw'o sections having a telescopic relation.v of a flexible member connected at its ends to the upper end of the lower section. guiding elements carried by the opposite ends of the upper section and about which said flexible member passes, said lower-section having a guiding notch through which the cord passes and, a gripping member out of line with said notch and acting on the flexible member adjacent the notch to cause the latter to have sufficient frictional engagement with said notched member to hold the sections in adjusted poping member cooperating with said flexible sition. member to hold an intermediate portion of 15 5. A device of the class described, includthe. latter between said guiding members ing two sections having a telescopic relation, against endwise movement in respect to said a a flexible member having both ends confirst mentioned section.

nected to one section, a pair of spaced guides In testimony whereof I have signed my carried by the other section and over which name to this specification.

said flexible member is looped and a grip- FRANK B. GRANGER.

Copiea of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Wuhington, D. G.

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