US1448657A - Wardrobe trunk - Google Patents

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Patented 'i ai'. 13, 1923.

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ALBERT L. DUFF AND JAMES W'. MATHESON, v0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WARDROBE, TRUNK.

Application led June 25, 1920. Serial No. 391,630.

T o all whom t may cof/tecra.'

Be it known that we, ALBERT L. DUFF and JAMES W. MATHEsoN, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ot' New York, have invented a new and Improved Wardrobe Trunk, of which thev following is a description.

Our invention relates to wardrobe trunks and has for its general object to provide a trunk of the indicated class having novel means for hanging garments in the wardrobe section of the trunk in a manner that hung garments may be compact in the trunk or slid out of the trunk and disposed in any one of various angular positions to be yreadily accessible.

The nature'of the invention, its distinguishing features and advantages will clearly appear as the description proceeds.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawing's are merely illustrative ot' one example of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view ot a wardrobe trunk embodying our invention showing the same in open position and with the garmenthanging means in inner position in the wardrobe section of the trunk;

Figure 2 is a sectional plan view of the trunk in the closed position, the section being taken just below the top of the trunk;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional plan View on an enlarged scale at the right of the wardrobe section of the trunk;

Figure 4 is a vertical section on the line 6 6, Figure 2;

Figure 5 is a longitudinal vertical section on the line 7--7, Figure 4;

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 5, showing a modified carriage for the garment supporting arms, the trunk parts shown in Figure 5 being omitted;

ln the illustrated example the numeral lidesignates generally the drawer section of our impro-ved trunk, and 16, the wardrobe section, said sections having a suitable hinge connection as indicated at 17.

In the wardrobe section 16 of the trunk our improved garment-hanging means is provided and includes upper and lower parallel fixed tracks 32 suitably supported as by upper and lower members 33, rigid with the front of a bracket plate 34, suitably astened to the inner wall of the wardrobe section 16. A track section 35 is of U-shape to present upper and lower tracks corresponding with the fixed tracks 32 and pivotally secured to the latter as at 36, whereby said U-shaped hinged track section may be swung to an inner position within the wardrobe section 16 as in Figures 1, 4 and 6, or swung out of said wardrobe section as shown in Figure 5. A carrier 37 is adapted to slidably engage the fixed track section 32 or the swingable track section 35 and may be slid from the fixed tracks tothe swingable ones when the respective tracks are in alinement. Said carrier has suitable means for engaging the tracks. In the form shown in Figure 7 the upper and lower ends 38 are rounded to engage above and beneath the respective tracks, there being an additional curved member 39 above the lower track to prevent detachment. of the carrier from the tracks. In the form shown in Figure 6 the carrier 37a has the lower member 38 as well as a member 39 to engage the lower trac-k rail 32 or the corresponding track rail on the swin able section 35. At its upper end 37b t e carrier 37a is bent inwardly and downwardly or twice at-r/ight angles, so that it accommodates and forms bearings for the axles of groloved wheels 37c to run on the top ytrack rai s.

On the carrier 37 or 371 hanger bars 4() are provided with hooks 41 or equivalent means on which garment hangers A may be suspended. The bars 40 are preterably arranged in pairs, the bars of a pair being providedwith a suitable clamp conventionally indicated at 42 for clamping trousers legs. The free ends of the hanger bars 40 when in position within the trunk are aiorded support on a ledge 43 preferably in the form of an angle bar. Also, preferably the bars 40 of a pair are swiiigably connected with the carrier, there being shown for the purpose strap-hinge elements 46 on said bars secured by hinge pins 45 passing through the same and through upper and lower lugs 44 on the carrier 3T or 37 a. From the foregoing it will be readily apparent that the carrier with the series of hanger bars may be slid onto the tracks 32 to be housed within the wardrobe section 16. Or, the swingable track section 35 may he swung outward into alincment with the fixed tracks. thereby permitting the carrier to be slid onto said swingable track section. and whereby said swingable track section and said carrier with its hanger arms may be positioned at various angles clear of the trunk section 16.

In wardrobe trunks or' the type to which our invention relates` the hanger arms are swingably mounted on what is termed a backboard. said backboard being fixedly secured to the trunk at the interior. In our invention the carrier 3T constitutes a slidable backboard as distinguished from a fixed backboard and it carries the garment hangers mounted thereon to be slidable therewith on the respective track sections.

As will readily be understood. the carrier 3T, when the track rails 32, 35 are in alignment, may be slid partly on to the fixed rail 32 and partly on to the swingable section 35, in which position of the parts it will beclear that the carrier forms a lock between the fixed and pivoted rails toI maintain them in alignmentA and prevent the supported hangers from swinging or vibrating about the axis of the hinge 36. Thus the hanging and removal of the garments will be attained by less annoyance by the swingable track rails being held rigid.

It is to be noted moreover that the rails 32, 35 constitute a means whereby the carrier 37, with the clothes hangers thereon, can be given a sliding movement into or out of the trunk, and this is in addition to the capability of swinging the hangers and carrier into and out of the trunk about the axis of the hinge 36.

We would state in conclusion that while the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodiment of our invention, we do not limit ourselves strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated since manifestly the same can be considerably varied Without departure from the spirit of the invention as dened in the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. In a wardrobe trunk, a fixed track section, a pivoted track section swingable to a position within the trunk or to an outer position alining with the fixed section, a garment-hanging backboard slidable to or from either of said trae-k sections when the samel are alined, and a series of elongated garment-hanging arms mounted on said backboard to slide therewith on the track sections. said arms projecting at approximately right angles/to the face of the backboard and being laterally swingable on thc backboard into an approximately parallel relation or in spread form.

2. In a. wardrobe trunk, a fixed track-section. a carrier constituting a backboard. garment-hanging means on said hackbmlrd, said backboard heilig accommodated on said track section and being slidable thereon. and an auxiliary track section pvotally supported at one end on the trunk adjacent to the outer end of the fixed track section, and swingable approximately inL a horizontal plane to a position in the trunk or to a position outside the trunk and movable when outside the trunk either in alinement with the fixed track section or to different. angular positions at either side of the fixed track section, said hackboard when the track sections are alined being slidable to or from either track section.

3. In a wardrobe trunk, upper and lower fixed track sections, a pivoted track section presenting upper and lower tracks, corresponding with the fixed track sections and swingable laterally to aline therewith or t0 positions within the trunk or outside of the latter, a carrier constituting abackboard and adapted to slidably engage either of said track sections, and garment-hanging means mounted on said slidable back board and slidable therewith on said track sections.

4. In a wardrobe trunk, a fixed track section within the trunk, a second track section pivoted at one end adjacent to the outer end of the fixed section to swing horizontally into the trunk or out of the same, and a backboard slidable from either track section to the other, said swing-able track section when disposed outside of the trunk being movable on its pivot into alinement with t-he fixed section, or to various angular positions at either side of the fixed section to thus variously dispose the backboard in positions at either side of the fixed track section, and garment supporting means on said backboard.

5. In a Wardrobe trunk, a fixed track section within the trunk, a second track section at the front of the trunk and pivo-tally mounted at one end, said pivoted track section adapted to be swung in a horizontal plane to various angular positions outside of" the trunk, andl a carriage affording accommodation for garment hangers thereon, said carriage movable from either track section onto the other track section and swingable laterally with the outer track section whenl moved onto the latter.

ALBERT L. DUFF. JAMES W. MATHESO'N.

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