US1306272A - Wall-hanger for radiators - Google Patents

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T. MULLEN AND J. W .Mo0RE.

WALL HANGER FOR RADIATORS. APPLICATION msn 1ML-1o, |919.

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ROBERT T. MULLEN AND JOHN W. MOORE, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

WALL-HANGER FOR RADIATORS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 10, 1919.

Application led January 10, 1919. Serial No. 270,480.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, ROBERT T. MULLEN and JOI-1N W.' MOORE, citizens of the United States of America, residinglat Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented'certain new and useful Improvements in Wall-Hangers for Radiators, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to wall hangers for radiators and other heavy structures, and the primary object of our invention is to provide a wall structure with adjustable supports and brackets by which a radiator of a desired size may be safely and conveniently supported in parallelism with a wall. For a smallradiator a single hanger may be employed, but in actual practice two or more hangers are used for supporting a radiator in a horizontal position in parallelism with a wall or similar support.

A further object of our invention is to provide a simple, durable and inexpensive hanger'that may be easily and quickly attached to a support, and adjusted so as to positively grip and safely hold a radiator or other structure relative to a suitable support.

The above and other objects are attained by a mechanical construction which will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed, and reference Vwill now be hadto the drawing, wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the wall han er;

Flg. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same as attached to a wall and as supporting a conventional form of singlecolumn radiator, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the line III-III of Fig. 2.

The wall hanger, as now constructed, comprises a channel member 1 having end walls 2 and 3 with the front wall 4 of said member provided with an opening 5 to receive a screw bolt 6 or other fastening means which permits of the member 1 being clamped and held against a wall 7 or other su port.

he lower end of the wall 4 has a longitudinal slot 8 and extending therein is the shank or reduced end 9 of a support 10, said support being shaped to conform to the bottom 11 of a wall radiator 12. The support 10 bears against the wall 4 of the member 1 and is normally maintained at right angles thereto, but may be raised and lowered within the limits of the slot 8. The shank 9 of the support is attached to the lower end of a flat bar 13 disposed longitudinally within the member 1, said bar having the upper end thereof terminating in a bolt 14 which extends through the top wall 2 of the member 1, and is provided with shiftable nuts 15 and 16, the latter supporting the bolt 14 relative to the top wall 2 of the member 1.

Adjacent the upper end of the member 1 is a channel guide 17 which is preferably pressed out from the wall 4 of said member, and slidable in the guide 17 is a bracket 18 adapted to overhang and engage the top of the radiator 12, so as to coperate with the support 10. in firmly maintaining the radiator in an upri ht position in parallelism with the wall The bracket 18 has a rearwardly protruding extension 19 through which the bolt 14 extends and the nut 15 is adjusted to engage the upper face of the extension 19 and hold the bracket 18 clamped on the top of the radiator 12.

The flat bar 13 within the member 1 has a longitudinal slot 20 providing clearance for the screw bolt 6, as best shown in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing it will be observed that the hanger as an entirety may be secured in a desired position on the wall 7 and with the support 10 properly adjusted for a radiator of known size, the radiator can be placed on the support 10 and then the bracket 18 adjusted to grip the top of the radiator and hold it in a vertical position. With the bracket 18 adjustable independently of the support 10, it is possible to firmly hold various kinds of structures relative to the wall and we attach considerable importance to the` radiator being suspended from a single point, as it may swing or shift due to expansion and contraction, without any danger of the radiator becoming displaced.

It is also possible to make the support 10 and the bracket 18 on a small scale so that pictures may be safely supported relative to a wall, and while in the drawing there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of our invention, it is to be understood that the variations and modieations es fall within' structural elements are susceptible to suoli the appended claim.

What we claim is A device of the type described comprising a channel wall member, a support. adjustf able at the lower end of Said member and` ber,y a bracket sldable in said guide, a rearward extension cerriedby saidbraeket and through whiohsaid boltYA extends, ;nndnuts V15 Y l' on. said bolt engaging said extension amd'r the top of seid member soies to permit of seid support and said bracket being adjusted independentof each other.

In testimony whereof we aflx our signa- 2o tures in presence of two witnesses.- Y

ROBERT T. MULLEN. v JOHN W. MOORE. v itnesses: Y

KARL H. BUTLER, IANNA M; DORR.

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