US1572340A - Brake-lining rack - Google Patents

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E. WARREN BRAKE 141mm RACK Feb. 9 1926. 1,572,340

Filed Feb. 24, 1925 f j a m 6 7 x ,5. /Z N I M 9 7 I 9 INVENTOR E. WARREN ATTORNEYS Patented Feb. 9, 1925.

unireo STATES ERNEST WARREN, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

BRAKE-LINING RACK.

Application filed February 24, 19-25. Serial No. 11,298.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST l VARREN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Brake-Lining Racks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates toimprovements in racks for displaying and dispensing coils of flexible material such as brake linings, and it consists in the combinations, constructions and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of my invention is to provide a rack in which the rolls of brake lining or other similar material may be displayed and from which pieces of desired length may be removed at will without the necessity of disturbing other rolls.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the type described which can be readily folded when not in use so as to render it compact for shipment or for storage.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the type described which will easily permit the insertion of a roll of brake lining and which will retain the brake lining roll in position while it is being unwound when a sale of a portion of the roll is made.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification, and the novel features of the invention will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims. 4

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming, part of this application, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment ofmy invention,

Figure 2 is a plane view of the device shown in Figure 1 showing the position of the roll of brake lining,

Figure 3 is a detailed view showing the means for securing the shelves together.

Figure 4 is a detailed view of the upper portion of the device, and

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a modified form of the device.

Referring now to Figure 1, I have shown therein a rack comprising an inverted U shaped portion 6 consisting preferably of a flat strip of metal bent as shown in the drawing. Between the opposite arms of this inverted U shaped portion are shelves 7 made of flat strips of metal havin their ends '7 turned downwardly and abutting the inner faces of the strips 6.

Similar inverted U shaped frame members 8 are provided having shelves 9 secured to the inner faces of the strips in a manner similar to the shelves 7. The shelves 7 and 9 cross at their centers 10 as will also the upper central portions 6 and 8 of the in verted' U shaped'frames. The centers 10 are in axial alinement so to permit the U shaped frame members, with their respective shelves, to move relatively to one another.

At the top of the frame thus formed is an L shaped bracket 11, the front part of which serves as a. nameplate. This bracket, as will be observed from Figure 41, is riveted to the upper members 8 and 6 and has a portion 12 extending rcarwardly. A plate orbrac-ket 13 may be secured to the lower shelves 7 and 9. The upper bracket portion 12 and the lower plate 13 are perforated, and a rod 14 having a hook at its upper .end is thrust through these perforations and serves as a holding member for the rolls of brake lining. The rod 14 is substantially parallel to the axis along which the centers 10 are located.

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof may be readily understood. The device may be shipped in a folded condition in which the shelves? and .9 are substantially parallel. The .device is opened up as shown in Figure 1 and the brake lining rolls may be placed on the shelves. The rod 1st is then thrust down through the centers of the rolls of brake lining 15 and the device is ready for use. The free end of the brake lining roll may be pulled and the roll as a whole will revolve about the rod 1 1 without any danger of the roll being displaced, thus the requisite length of the brake lining may be cut as desired.

The device is of relatively light weight and of simple construction and the rolls of brake lining may be easily placed in the rack.-

and secured in position so that when the ends thereof are pulled the roll will still maintain its position in the rack.

In Figure 5 I have shown a modified form of the device. In this figure a frame 16 having shelves 17 is pivotally secured at to the shelves 18 of a frame'lt). The shelves 18 and the frame 19 have registering openings through which a rod 21 is passed. This therewith.

rod 21 serves as a central pivot rod around which the bralre lining coils may rotate when the brake lining is being pulled therefrom.

In this form of the device thebrake lin ing is put in from the front, Figure 5 being a perspective View from the rear of the de vice. In this form of the device, as in the preferred form, the frame member may be closed so as to take up little room in shipment or storage. v

It will be observed that both of these fm'mscomprise shelves arranged in pairs spaced apart from one another, the members of each pair being pivotally connected common axial line, and a removable rod verse shelves carried by each frame, each of the shelves of one frame being pivotally secured to a shelf of the other frame, the pivotal points of connection being in vertical alignment, a bracket carried by said frames and having an opening and a rell'lOVdblG rod carried by the bracket and e:\'- tending vertically in the angle between the fraifnes, the space between the adjacent pivoted shelves being adapted to receive rolls ofv flexible material and said removable rode being arranged to extend through the centers of the rolls of said flexible material.

ERNEST WARREN. 1.8.

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