US1734768A - Wardrobe - Google Patents

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INVENTOR Edward B. 'rcmjr BY a0 W M ATTORNEY Nov. 5, 1929. E. B. GREEN, JR

WARDROBE Filed May 6, 1929 Patented Nov. 5, 1929 if". TAT

UNITED amass WARDROBE 1 Application filed May 6,

The present invention relates to wardrobes or clothes closets, and is aimed to provide a simple construction whereby a highly efficient use is made of available space and the doors of the wardrobe will be pushed partly back into the wardrobe when they are open.

The essential feature of my invention is that I supply a pivot removed back a substantial distance from the plane of the door in such a manner as to support the weight of the door, and connect the door to this pivot at least in part by a bar on which ordinary clothes hangers can be hung. I have found that the cheapest Way to arrange this pivot is to supply a member inside the wardrobe running from the top to the bottom thereof to which the door is connected, but if preferred I may use two separate pivot members one at the top and one at the bottom.

My invention can readily be understood by reference to the illustrative examples shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a sectional view through a wardrobe embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a front view of a portion of such wardrobe; Fig. 3

is a sectional plan view corresponding to Fig. 1 showing a slight modification, and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 44 of Fig.

3 showing details of the hinge construction 3 used in Fig. 3.

The wardrobe (which may eitherbe built in the wall or made as a complete unit) is here shown as comprising a back member 10, two side members 12 and two members 14 which extend a short distance across the face.

The doors 16 meet in the middle and are bevelled near their outer edges to match up with the members 14. The pivots about which the doors move are positioned well back of the plane of the doors and in this example each is shown as being slightly to the side of the center of its door. In the present instance such pivots are made up of apipe 18, mounted in the top and bottom bearings 20 and 22, in which the pipe 18 pivots.

A bar 24 connects the upper part of the central portion of the door withthe pivot 18,

and a similar lower bar 26 connects the lower paljtof the door with the pivot. An additional bar 28 is supplied which is substan- 1929. Serial it 360,638.

'tial'ly a continuation of the bar 24. These bars maybeformed of ordinary pieces'of pipeand the entire device, except the pivots '20 and 22, can be assembled from usual pipe fittings. Thecoat hangers, as 30, maybe 5 hungfrom the bars 24 and 28, which may be considered as formingjointly an upper door support bar. f

W'ith this construction, the doors may be made no wider than the coat hangersandthe. parts may be so proportioned that the ends of the coat hangers will extend across in back ofthe' front portions of the'enclosure so that all of the space in the enclosure will be" used efliciently. The doors are preferably supplied with knobs as indicated at by which they can be opened. I p When the doors are'shut, 'a pull on a knob 32 will start the door 16 pivoting around the pipe 18. This means that, as the front-edge of the door comes forward, the outer edge will move back into the wardrobe. At the same time, the bar #28 "will swing 'with. the door and the clothes will be swung around into suchposition that they are readily accessible from the'front or the wardrobe and actually extend out of the wardrobe. The device operates very easily, fort-he weight of the clothes is not carriedby the door but is carried on themeta'l pivot and as thebars 24 and 28 are'rigidly connected together, the weight of the clothesori the bar 28 is balended by theweight of the 'doorto keep the thrust more or less directly on the bottom bearing." In the modification shown *in Fig. '3 the front panel 14 is madenarrowerthan the correspondingpanel'14 of Fig. 1 and the outer edge of the door 16 is much closer to the end 12 of the enclosure. In order that the door 16 may clear the side of the enclosure, an additional pivot is provided between the bar 24 and the door. This pivot comprises a member 34 attached to the door and connected by a pivot pin 35 to amember 9'. 36 attached to the bar 24. Member 34 is provided with a pin 38 which cooperates with stops 40 on the member 36 to limit the relative amount of movement of the two members 34 and 36.

In Fig. 3 the door 16 is shown as open and ,is shown in closed position and in two intermediate positions in broken lines. If the door is closed and one pulls on a knob 32 the door will first swing into position A flexing about pin 35. A further pull on the knob 32 will cause the main pivot 18 to rotate, and the door and upper support bar will move into position B where the outer edge of the door just clears the side 12 of the enclosure. ,On further pivoting about themain pivot 18 the edge of the door which is swung back into the cabinet will strike vention.

the stop 42 (arranged on either the top or bottom of the cabinet) and will swing into position C or the open position shown in full lines. While this form is slightly more expensiveto produce than that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it may be useful wherethe space availableis of a shape that does not readily lend itselfto the other form of structure.

It is to be understood that-the examples are given only by way of illustration and may be modified inmany particulars without departing from the spirit of my in- I claim:

.1. In an enclosure adapted for use as a wardrobe or the like, a substantially fiat door, a vertical pivot bar inside the plane of the door held against substantial lateral movement, support arms connecting'the door with said pivot bar whereby the door is supported-bythe pivotbar, and a clothes support bar: connected with the pivot bar and extending, from the pivot bar in a direction away from the door andadapted to move with said support arms.

2. A structure as specified in claim 1, in which the door is connected to the support arms bya hinged joint permitting relative movement of the door and support arms.

3. In an enclosure adapted for use as a wardrobe or the like, a door therefor, arms extending back, fromthe central portion of the door adapted to support the door, means for supporting such arms to pivot about a line a substantial distance inside the plane of the door, and an extension for the upper of said arms which moves with such upper arm and is adapted to serve as a support for clothes or the like.

EDWARD B. GREEN, J 11.,

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