US1517814A - Clothes bagger - Google Patents

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Dec. 1924. 1,517,814

J. v. WOLSIFFER CLOTHES BAGGER Filed April 5, 1924 155 .4.

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Patented Dec. 2, 1924.

UNITED STATES JOHN V. WOLSIFFER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CLOTHES BAGGEB.

Application filed April 5,

[ all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN V. oLsrrrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Clothes Bagger, of which the following is a specification.

Dry cleaning and tailoring establishments customarily pack articles of clothing which are to be delivered in long bags or envelopes which completely cover such articles of clothing to protect them from becoming soiled or otherwise damaged while at the same time eliminating the disarrangement of the clothing necessarily involved in folding and packing in boxes. The placing of the clothing within such bags has heretofore been attended with more or less inconvenience and danger of tearing the paper of which the bags are made.

It is the object of my invention to produce a clothes bagger on which the article of clothing to be inserted in the bag is supported while the bag is placed over it and from which the bag and the article contained within it can be readily removed. A further object of my invention is to provide such a clothes bagger which shall be durable, of simple construction, easy to manufacture, and light in weight so that it may easily be moved from place to place as may be required.

I accomplish the above objects by providing a slender rod, on the upper end of which the article of clothing to be covered may be supported, and I mount this rod on a base by means of a spring hinge which tends to hold the rod substantially vertical but permits its swinging to a substantially horizontal position during the removal of the article of clothing covered, and I provide a spring bumper to cushion the return of the rod to its normal vertical position after it has been swung from such vertical position.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention: Fig. 1 illustrates a dress supported on my clothes bagger in position to be covered by the bag or envelope; Fig. 2 shows the clothes bagger in the position it assumes during the removal of the covered article of clothing; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation showing the mounting of the vertical rod and bumper on the base.

Near one edge of a suitable base is mounted a spring hinge 11, which may be of the type commonly used on screen or 1924. Serial No. 704,546.

other swinging doors, with the spring so arranged that it tends to hold the two leaves of the hinge together. The lower leaf of the hinge 11 is securely fastened to the base 10, and on the upper leaf of the spring 11 is supported a slender rod 12. Preferably, the rod 12 is mounted at an angle to the up per hingeleaf; so that when the rod is in vertical position, the leaves of the hinge are slightly separated. At its upper end, the rod 12 is adapted to support a clothes hanger of the usual form. This is conveniently accomplished by splitting the upper end of the rod longitudinally for a slight distance and spreading apart the resulting fingers.

A second spring hinge 13 similar to the hinge 11 is mounted 011 the base 10 with its hinge axis parallel to that of the hinge 11. The lower leaf of the hinge 13 is securely fastened to the base 10, and the upper leaf of the hinge 13 carries a bumper 1 1, which extends obliquely upward and at its upper end meets the rod 12. At its upper end, the bumper 1 1 is provided with a roller 15 which may, if desired, be made of some cushioning material.

The hinges 11 and 12 are spring hinges in which the tension exerted by the spring may be adjusted. As my invention is not concerned with the means for adjusting such springs, and as such springs are readily obtainable, I have not shown or described the specific construction of the hinges. The spring in the hinge 11 is so adjusted that it exerts a comparatively slight resistance to the downward swinging of the rod 12. The spring in the hinge 13 is so adjusted that it holds the two leaves of the spring 13 together in opposition to the force exerted on the upper end of the bumper 14 by the rod 12 owing to the spring in the hinge 11. As was pointed out above, when the leaves of the hinge 13 are together, the rod 12 is held in a substantially vertical position; but while the rod 12 is in this position, the leaves of the hinge 11 are separated slightly, so that the rod 12 may be moved from its vertical position against the force exerted by the spring in the hinge 13.

As lightness of construction is one of the objects of my invention, I prefer to form the the rod 12 of two partsa lower part of iron or steel and an upper part of aluminum or some similar light metal. The two parts of the rod 12 may be joined together by lll means of the sleeve 12. By making the rod 12 oftwo parts as described, I am able to decrease the weight, while still retaining in the lower part of the rod suflicient strength and rigidly to withstand the forces to which it is subject in operation.

The bags or sacks are conveniently supported with their open ends in proximity to the upper end of the rod 12, as shown in Fig. 1. The article of clothing to be covered is supported on the upper end of the rod 12 by means of the usual clothes hanger 16. 'ith the garment so supported, one of the sacks 17 is drawn down over the garment and at the same time over the rod 12. lVhen the sack is in place, thehook of the clothes hanger 16 projects outward through a hole in the top of the sack. After the garment is covered, the workman grasps the clothes hanger either by the hook or through the sack 17 and walks away with it as shown in Fig. 2. It is not necessary that the garment be lifted at all, as the rod 12 swings downward to permit the ready removal of the garment and sack. When the rod 12 is disengaged from the sack 17, it returns to its normal vertical position owing to the force exerted by the spring in the hinge 11, and the rod 12 is checked on its return by the bumper 141.

I claim as my invention 1. A clothes bagger, comprising a base, a vertical rod pivotally mounted on said base on a horizontal axis, and spring means tending to hold said rod substantially vertical, said rod being adapted at its upper end to support a garment.

2.. A clothes bagger, con'iprising a base, a vertical rod pivotally mounted on said base on a horizontal axis so that it can be swung from a substantially vertical to a substantially horizontal position, spring means tending to hold said rod si-ibstantially vertical, and a resilient bumper arranged to cushion the return of the rod to its vertical position after it has been swung therefrom, said rod being adapted at its upper end to support a garment.

A. clothes bagger, comprising a base. a pair of hinges mounted on said base so that their respective axes are parallel and horizontal, an upwardly extending rod mounted on one hinge so that it can swing in a vert ical plane, an obliquely extending arm mounted on the other hinge and arranged so that its upper end engages said rod when said rod is in vertical position and said armcarrying hinge is closed, spring means tending to hold said rod in contact with the upper end of said arm, and a second spring means tending to close the arm-bearing hinge, said rod being arranged at its upper end to support a garn'ient.

4. A clothes bagger, comprising a base, a pair of spring-hinges, each spring hinge consisting of two pivotally joined leaves and spring means tending to hold said leaves together, one leaf of each hinge being socured to said base so that the pivotal axes of the hinges are parallel and horizontal, a rod mounted on the upper leaf of one oi' said hinges at an oblique angle so that when the rod is vertical the hinge leaves are separated, an arm mounted on the upper leaf o l the other of said hinges and extending obliquely upward from said hinge to engage said rod when said rod is vertical and said arm-bearing hinge is closed, said rod being arranged at its upper end to sup 'iort a garment.

5. A clothes bugger, connnising a base. a pair of hinges mounted on said base so that their respective axes are parallel and horizontal, an upwardly extending rod monnted on one hinge so that it can swing in a vertical plane, an obliquely extending arm mounted on the other hinge and arranged so that its upper end engages said rod wh ieh so. id rod is in vertical position and said arm earrying hinge is closed. means tending to hold said rod in contact with the upper end 0 t' said arm, and spring means tending to close the arm-bearing hinge, said rod being arranged at its upper end to support a garment.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this In'd day of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty-tour.

JOHN V. \Vt) L91 I I ER.

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