US1715078A

US1715078A - Magazine and jstewspabeb

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Publication number: US1715078A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1929-05-28
Anticipated expiration: 1946-05-28

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May 28, 1929. J. E. Wl-IYi'E ET AL 1,715,078

MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER RACK Filed Sept. 16, l926 JAMES E. WHYTE AND Duncan Menu-LAY, or NIAGARAFAIQLS, new YORK; sAI'n MQAU'LAY ASSIGNQR TO SAID WHYTE.

MAGAZINE Ann-NEWSPAPER RACK.

[Application filed September 16, 192:6. Serial No. 135,902.

Our invention relates to improvementsin magazine and newspaper racks, and ithas for one of its objects the production of a rack of this kind.in ,w hich magazines or newspapers may, be arranged systematically so that the headings or titles thereof will be displayed, the magazines or. newspapers being loosely retained so that-theycan. be

easily'withdrawn, from the rack.

Another object of our invention .is to pro vide arack of this-kindwh ch 1s simple in 1 construction, comparatively inexpensive, and

c m stored,withinastand or'taken into. a; shop which can ,be conveniently carried from. place'to place so that it can be placed outside,

of stands or shops during business hours and after such hours. A

kind in which the individual retainer ele- .ments are constructed so that one-is utilized a tofasten another in place. a

the retainerfele nents; in preferred form, of

' or into the-support and incidentallyser-ving to fasten one end of a an; adj acent retainer element to said-support.

1 ;With the bove and; other. objects in viewf I to -appear-;he1'einafter,the invention conmore 7 particularly pointed out in the subjoinedclaims. 1. In the; drawings,.

' I :Fig; li is a front elevation of: our;

proved rack.

Fig. 2 is a side-elevationthereof, partsof tainer .elements against the; support. 3 F

with .m'agazines inserted in the retainer 'elements. 'Fig. 4c is a one of the retainer elements. i

Y ll igs 5 is across section taken on line 5'5,:F1g.1.

. -l igpje is a longitudinal section taken: on

li11'e (i- '6,Fig,1. o

Fig. 7 is -a' detachedperspective vlew of thehangeig which incidentally serves to faselementftothe supporti ten ther i'ipper endof, the uppermost retainer v I accomplish this, the.retameraelement 1s powire, with theends of the wire fastenedtowhich .are brokenaway to show the manner offasten ng the upperends of certam re- Fig; 3 is a perspective? view.-.of; the rack detached perspective viewof Fig.8 is a detached perspective view of the fastener element whereby the upper end of the second retainer elementis secured to the support. 1 f V Referencebeing had tothe drawings in detail, the numeral 10 designates the support,

onwhich the retainer elements are systemat V ically arranged and to which they are fastene'd, Thisnsupport is preferablyin the form of a narrow board along which the re tamer elements are arranged, and in the construction shown, representing one+em bodiment of our invention, these retainer elements are arranged one above the other. Each of the retainer] elements, designated by the numeral 11, is formed of .wirebent to a i p providea transverse centralmember 12, at Another ob ect 1s, to provide arack of this opposite ends of which the wires are bent forwardly, as at 13, and thence inwardly.

r forming ,a substantiallyopen loop-at the up- A still further .ObJG Ql) is to provide-a suitable support forthe rack and. to construct:

at 17 and finally forwardly, as atl8, tl1e:lat-

ter; forming the fastening portions for the retainer'elements and incidentally serving to fasten the upper end of the second )retainer element below.

I The hanger, as best'shown 7, is formed of wire bentbetweenits ends to form,

an open loop l9, the' lowerends of the wire being directed forwardly, as at 20, fora purpose toappear hereinafter. v

. The fastener for fastening the upper end" of thesecond retainer element to the-support or foundation is in the form of an elongated staple,jas clearly shownvin Fig. 8, and is designated by the numeral -21.1

The retainer elements are arranged so that one overlies anotherand they are applied to the front of the support 10, the transverse central member 12 of each lying crosswisein'contact with the front face of the support or foundation. V

Atregular-intervalsalong the length of the support or foundation, two parallel rows of holes 22 are provided, theholes being arranged in pairs, and through the lowermost pair of-holes 22 the forwardly,- bent portions 18 of the lowermost fastening element are passed fromthe rear, of the'support. ,To

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' sitioned so that the inwardly-bent portions 17 lie against the rear surface of the support, while the rearwardly bent portions 16 thereof lie against the edges of said support.

portions 18 are bent downwardly against the front of the supporter foundatio s;

In placing the lowermost retainer element in position, the upper end thereof is arranged in front of the support or foundation, with the transverse central member support or foundation.

lying crosswise and directly beneath the third lowermost pair of holes 22 in said The rearwardlybent portions '16 are somewhat longer than the thickness of the support 10, so that they reach forwardly to a plane in advance of the frontsurface of said support and serve as rests for the newspapers or magazines placed within the retainer, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. a

larly arranged on and fastened to the support, withthe exception thatthe forwardlybent portions 18' of all retainer elements above the second lowest have their extremities bentover the transverse central members 12 of a lower retainer element, as shown at 24, thus serving to fasten the upper ends of the last-mention'ed retainer element to the support and at the same time serving to fasten the lower end of the retainer element of which it forms part, against said support.

The upper end'of the second retain-er ele mentis fastened to the support by means of the staple 2l,'the parallel free ends of which are passed through the second pair of holes 22 in said support and are bent over the transverse central member 12 of said secondv retainer element.

The upper end of the uppermost retainer element is fastened to the support by means of the hanger 19 which is placed against the rearsurface of the sup ort andhas its loop projecting upwardly t erefrom, while the extremities 20 thereof are passed throughthe uppermost pair offh'oles 22 in'the support and bent over the transverse central member 12 of said uppermost retainer element.

The downwardly converging members 15 and the inwardlybent portions 14 of the wire prevent forward tippingof the news papers or magazines placed within the re tainer, and these downwardly converging members315, with the open loop wire construction at the upper end thereof, form an 7 ends of the pockets.

open'pocket into which newspapers or magazines can be conveniently placed, the rearwardly-bent portions 16 forming rests for the newspapers or magazines at thelower l B reason of the fact that the members 15 are made tonconverge downwardly and overlie the transverse central member 12 of wardly and be nested one within the other .so that newspapers and magazines placed The projecting ends of the forwardly-bent within said retainer elements, or 1nore par ticularly the pockets thereof, will be displayed in overlapping relation, the lower-v mosthaving its front page 'or cover fully exnumber of newspapers or magazines to be.

displayed within a; comparatively small I space. V

Having thus described our invention, what I we claim is 1. A rack of the kind described, comprisv ing an elongated support having a plurality of holes formed therethrough, retainer eleoneend against one side of said support and with its'other end against the opposite side thereof, said last mentioned end having free terminals passed through certain of said holes and serving to fasten the first-mentioned end of another retaineri element to said support. 1 V 1 2. A rack of the kind described, comprisments formed of wire, each arranged with The remalnmg retainer elements are sinning an elongated support having'a plurality r of pairs of holes formed therethrough, re-

tainer elements formed of wire and ar- V ranged one above another on said "support, each retainer element having a transverse member at one end extending across said support and free terminals at. its lower end passed through a pairof said holes, the free terminals or certain retainer elements being bent over the transverse members of alter-- nat'eretainer elements.

n 3. A rack of the kinddescribed, compris ing a supportlhaving a plurality of pairs of holestherethrough-,a series of retainer elements arranged along said support, each re tainer element being formed ofwire bent to form a retainer pocket and a rest at the lower end of said retainer pocket and hav-' ing free terminals at its lower end. passed through a pair of holesin said support-from tainer pocket including a transverse member ns 5 the rear thereof,'theupper end of said relying against the front of saidsupport' and having the extremities of the free terminal of another member bent over the same to fasten it to said support.

4. A rack of the kind described, comprising an elongated support provided with av pair of holes near its upper end,j;retainer elements arranged along sa d support in over-lapping relation, a loop I applied to the rear surface of said support and extending above the upper end thereof, said loop having free terminals passedthroughl said pair of holes and engaging the upper end of the uppermost retainer velement to fasten the same in position.

5. A rack of the kind described, compris-,

ing an elongated support having a plurality of pairs of holesformed along the same in-spaced relation, retainer elements formed of wire having free terminals at their lower ends passed through certainof said pairs of holes and being bent to hold the same in position and ineidentally fasten the upper ends of certain retainer elements to said support, a staple having free terminals passed throughone of said pairs of'holes I and being ,bentto fasten the upper end of one of said retainer elements to said support, and a hanger in the form of a loop having free terminals passed through the uppermost pair of holes in said support and being bent to fasten the upper end of the uppermost retainer element to said support.

6. Arack of the kind described, comprise ing'an elongated support having a plurality of pairs of holes formed therethrough and arranged in spaced relation a series ofre- I tainer elements appliedfto said support with their lower ends against the rear surface thereof and their upper ends against the front surface thereof, each of said retainer elements being formed of a length of wire bent centrally between its ends to form a transverse central member and forwardly wardly to lie against the rear face of said I support and finally forwardly to extend through a pair of holes in said support, the

extremities of certain of said forwardly bent portions being bent around the central extending portions at opposite ends of said transverse member of another retainer ele- .ment, and means for independently fastening the transverse central members of the of said support. I y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

' JAMES E. WHYTE.

DUNCAN McAULAY.

two uppermost retainer elements to the front