US1409852A

US1409852A - Garment rack

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Publication number: US1409852A
Application number: US392756A
Authority: US
Inventors: Thomas W Harvey
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-06-29
Filing date: 1920-06-29
Publication date: 1922-03-14
Anticipated expiration: 1939-03-14

Description

T. W. HARVEY.

GARMENT RACK.

APPLICATION FILEDJUNE'ZQ, 1920.

Patented Mar. 14, 1922.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

a nvcnto'c THOMAS W. HARVEY, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

GARMENT RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 14, 1922.

Application filed June 29, 1920. Serial No. 392,756.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, T norms W. HARVEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntington, in the county of Cabell and State of lVest Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a rack or tree which may be properly termed a night rack intended to support articles of apparel in convenient and orderly arrangement when removed from a person at night preparatory to retiring and disposed in readily accessible association for subsequent wearing application. The improved rack has been devised particularly for use in bedrooms and is provided with means for hanging and maintaining articles of wearing apparel thereon in such manner that the desirable shape of the apparel will be preserved. Among other of the many advantages of the rack is a provision for hanging or suspending trousers from the waist band portion in order to overcome the necessity for manually removing and also preventing accidental displacement or falling out of the contents of the pockets and at the same time hold the trousers in a position to preserve the desirable shape thereof. The improved rack also embodies means for hanging a coat and vest in a shapely manner as well as other articles of wearing apparel. The improved rack is readily portable or may be easily moved from one place to another, and it is proposed to construct the same either of wood or metal.

The preferred form of the improved rack is shown in the accompanying drawings,

wherein F ig. '1 is a perspective view of the improved rack formed of suitable wood.

Fig. 2 is atop plan view of the upper extremity of the rack shown by Fig. 1. A

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the upper extremity of therack as shown by Fig. 1 and illustrating a portion of the main standard broken away. Y a

-Fig.' 41 is a perspective view of the-improved rack shown made of metal.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the upper extremity of the rack shown by Fig. 4, parts being illustrated in horizontal section.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the numeral 5 designates a central standard or upright having divergent legs 6 secured to the lower extremity thereof to provide a stable support therefor. On the upper end of the standard or upright 5 is a cross-arm 7 having a bowed hanger and garment shaper 8 fixed to one end thereof and adapted to receive a coat and vest or analogous garments. At the op posite end of the arm 7 an elongated resilient clamp or holder 9 is secured, said clamp or holder consisting of a pair of spring jaws 10 preferably formed by doubling a spring metal bar or rod and slightly flaring the free ends 11 to provide for ready insertion and withdrawal of a garment relatively to the jaws. As shown by Fig. 2 the clamp or holder 9 is extended equally on opposite sides of the end of the arm 7 and one jaw is centrally secured as at 12 to the end of the said arm. For clearance purposes the arm 7 is formed with lower bevels 13 to remove the material so as to give the said arm at its ends a reduced construction to avoid interference with or bearing upon the garments applied to the

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8 and 9. At the center of the top of the arm 7 a ring or other analogous gripping device 14 is secured to facilitate carrying or moving the rack as a whole from one place to another. At a suitable distance below the arm 7 upwardly inclined pins 15 project outwardly from the standard or upright 5 and terminate in suitable heads or balls 16, these pins 15 being adapted to support a shirt, collar, necktie, undergarments, etc. The standard or upright 5 also has oppositely disposed upwardly inclined hanger arms 17 projecting therefrom at a suitable elevation above the lower supported extremity of the said standard or upright, and from the ends of the said hanger arms flexible hanger devices 18 depend and are intermediately secured to shoe shapers or formers 19. Below the arms 17 a hanger pin 20 also projects outwardly from the standard or upright?) and. terminatos in a head 21, the said pin 20 being adapted to support socks or stockings. The

parts of the improved rack thus far described are preferably formed of wood, ex-

cept the clamp or holder v9, the flexible hanger devices 18 and ring or gripping device 14, and will be of a comparatively light weight.

Figs. 4 and 5 show the improved rack formed of metal, the standard or upright 22 in this instance being formed of a suitable metal tube having divergent legs 23 secured to the lower end thereof by a collar or socket 24. The upper cross-arm 25 is secured to the upper end of the standard or upright 22 by a T-union 26 having end caps 27, a garment holder and shaper 28 being secured to one cap and a clamp or holder 29 centrally connected to thcopposite cap, as clearly indicated by Fig. 5. To the center of the top portion of the T-union 26 a suitable ring or analogous device 30'is secured for carrying this form of the rack from one place to another, and below the arm 25 areoutwardly project ing upwardly inclined pins 31. This form of the rack also has lower hanger arms 82 with flexible depending hanger devices 33 attached theretoand also secured to shoe formers 34:. Below the arms 32a hanger pin 35 extends outwardly from the standard or upright 22. This metal form of the improved rack embodies precisely the same features' as that shown by Figs-2 and 3, the only difference being in the construction in order to adapt the several parts to the metal components above described.

Itwill be understood that both forms of the rack 'may be suitably ornamented-or I tastefully decoratedand also may be modified in the vgeneral proportions and dimensionsas may be desiredand found necessary.

In the use of the improved rack a coat and vest'when removed from the personarezapplied over the holder andshaper 28 and the trousers are suitably folded at the waist band portion and drawn inwardly between the jaws 10 of the holder -9qandvsecurely held with the legs-depending and the pockets and the contents thereof in normal condition,.and whereby I the trousers will be preserved in shape and the necessity of removing the contents, of the pocketsiavoided. The shoes may be readily applied tojthe' formers 19. or 84:

and held suspended, andfin proper shape fromthe arms 17' or 32,1and the socks or stockings may be'hung over the

20 or 35. A collar, necktie, shirt and undergarments may be-readily arranged and supported upon the: upperpins'15 or 31, and by this means all'of the apparel of a person may be conveniently grouped or associated-for ready reapplicntion to the wearer. It will be seen that the garments are held separatedby the severaldevices of the improved rack adapted to hold the same, and, as a consequence, there will benointerference or crowdin of the garments which will remain in orderly arrangement foreasy removal. The improved rack will also be. found advantageous in overcoming the inconveniences heretofore :n-equentlyexperienced in bedroom disposal of garments, and particularly in hanging trousers in such manner that their shape will be ,preservedwithout reversing the l same, as ordinarily practiced, .-aand necessitating the removalof the :contents of the pockets. 'iNumerous otherf advantages will become apparent to users of theimproved-rack, and in view of the-simplicity of the several parts *it may be readily manufactured :and assemv bled ;at; a comparatively small cost;

'parel. .4. Ai-garment. rack of the: c'lassxspecified,

Vhat is claimed as new is: V l. A garment rack of the class specified, consisting'of a'rigid standard, a cross arm ,immovably secured at its central portion on the upper end of'thc standard, a coat hanger and shaper immovably fixed at its intermediate portlon to one end of the cross arm, and a holder fortrousers immovably fixed at its intermediate portion to the opposite end of 7 said cross arm, the trousers holder comprising a pair of elongated spring j aws open and accessible at one end onlyand adapted to hold trousers by the waistband portion of the latter to obviate displacement of the contentsof theg'pockets of the trousersythe troumovably fixed at their intermediate portions 7 to opposlte ends of thecross. arm inplanes' at right angles to the latterand iheld'by said cross arm at a distance from the standard, thetrousers holder consisting .of a pair of straight jaws which are:.normally parallel and open and accessible at one endaonlyand adapted to hold trousers by thewaistband portion-of the latter to obviate displacement of the-contents of the pockets'of the trousers,

the trousers ha-ving the inner member only thereof secured to the cross arm.

3. A garment rack of; the class comprising a rigid standard-having supporting meansat itsflower end, a cross arm immovably fixed at its central portion lon' the upper end of the standard and provided vwith rigidly securedcoat and trousers holding means at the opposite ends and at right angles thereto, and outwardlyprojecting devices disposed in spaced relation along-the length of thestandard eat various'vertical elevations forholding articles of clothing thereon, a portion of said projecting devices beingv provided with depending wflexible hangers secured tointermed1ate portions of shoe engaging means, a" single 'iontwardly projecting :device being located between .the outwardly projecting devices having thedepending flexible means securedto the shoe 7 engaging: means and the lower. supporting specified,

means for. the'standard for holding 'foot apcomprising. a standa'rd,a cross armimmovgably fixed on the upper end of thestandard *and projecting outwardly equally beyond opposite sides of said'standard, a garment supporting' means' fired on 7 one end ofthe said arm, and a trousers holder intermediately secured against the remaining end of the cross arm and consisting of a pair of elongated longitudinally straight jaws open at one end only, the inner member of the trousers holder being secured to the cross arm and the outer member free to move outwardly from and inwardly towards the inner secured member for receiving and tightly holding the waistband portion of trousers.

5. A garment rack of the class specified, comprising a standard, a cross arm immovably fixed on the upper end of the standard and projecting outwardly equally beyond opposite sides of the latter, a coat hanger and shaper intermediately secured against movement on one end of the cross arm and having a bowed shape and disposed at ri ht angles to the cross arm, and a trousers hol er intermediately secured against the opposite end of the cross arm and consisting of a pair of longitudinally straight elongated jaws, the inner jaw being centrally fixed to the end of the cross arm to dispose the trousers holder at right angles to the arm and both jaws open at one end only, the outer jaw of the trousers holder being free to move outwardly from and inwardly towards the inner securedjaw to receive and positively hold the waistband portion of trousers.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS W. HARVEY.

lVitnesses:

R. P. ALESHIRE, STARR SADLER.