US1896898A - Supporting device - Google Patents

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Feb. 7, 1933. c E, HILDEBRAND 1,896,898 7 SUPPORTING DEVICE Filed June 30, 1931' Patented Feb. 7, 1933 uNiTED STAT-ES cam. E. HILDEBRAND,

or CLEVELAND, orrro surroa'rme nnvron"v Application filed June so, 1931."Seria1 no. 547,9 5.

This invention relates to improvements in body supporting devices, and pertains p'artic-V ularly to a device for the support of clothes lines or other similar bodies.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a device for the support of lines or similar bodies, which may be easily and quickly secured to a carrying member such, for example, as an overhead joist in an attic or a cellar.

Another object of the invention is to provide a support of theabove described character which will not slip from position or lose its grip upon the body to which it is attached. 7

A still further object of the invention is to provide a device of the character de-. scribed which is of simple but strong and durable construction and of a character to be easily and economically constructed. r

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, with the understandin however, that the invention is not con ed to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawing but may be changed or modified I so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims. 7

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawing but may be changed or modified so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of the device embodying the present invention shown applied to a supporting body.

Figure 2 is a view in side elevation of the device.

Figure 3 is a sectional view line 33 of Figure 1. I

. Referring more particularly to the draw ing, wherein like numerals 0f reference'indicate'corresponding parts throughout the several views,the numerall indicates gen erally the device embodying the presentinvention, the same being shownapplied to ,a joist, a portion of which is shown and which a is indicated'by the numeral 2. i The device 1 consists of asingl'e body of metal of a suitable and resilient character, I which is substantially, u shaped in configura' tion- 'This body has the relativelydong straight and parallel jaw portions?) which merge with convergently related lower por t1ons4 which in turn are connected to and j oinedi'by a yoke portion 5' which" is in th e form *of a sp it ringor collar. 'Each end of this ring or collar yoke "portion 5 has an integral longitudinally extending lip 6,"the side edges of which merge into the adj acent' edges of the portionsfl, as "shown in Figure 1, these portions 4 having their edges out in wardly, as shown, so that'they are ofmaterially less width at the point of connection with the portion 5 than attheir upper ends. 'Theside portionsor jaw plates 3 of the device arerelatively broad, as shown, andfeach of these has a central longitudinally extending-out-pressedfrib' 7 whichextends from a point in close proximity to its free end, into the adjacent side of thecircular yoke portion 5.v At one or more pointsthroughout its length andabove. the points of connection between the portions4 and the jaws 3, the ribs 7 are flattened slightly, as indicated at 8, and have bolt openings 9 formed there-v through. V j I. I Each of the plates 3 has cuttherefrom and, pressed inwardly, along eachside of. the rib 7, a series of, spurs -10 which arein opposed relation, as shown in Figure 2. u y In applying the present device to the; joist 2, the lower edge of the joist is disposed be.- tween the jaws "3 and a' bolt 11 i'spassed through aupairz of transversely. aligned apeiitures 9, beneath the, joist,and the jaws .are drawn" tightly against the faces of theiinter-.

taken en th' as having been designed particularly for the support of clothes lines, it will, of .course,,b.e.

1, understood that it may be employed for supporting.. other bodies such, for example, as

pipes or bars. v v Having thus described the. invention,.what is, claimed is:

1. device of the character described,

comprising a body of elongated substantially said straight portions, the head of the bolt resting upon one flattened area and the wing nut thereon bearing against a flattened area of the opposite side portion of the body.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

CARL E'. ,HILDEBRAND.

.U;.shaped design, each of the side portions. of v the body beingrelatively broad and substantiallystraight throughout the major portion 8.;5 of their lengths and merging into converging portions at their inner ends, said converging V ortions being joined at their adjacent ends y a circular yoke portion, a reinforcing rib extending longitudinally throughout the side members ofthebody upon their outer faces, said reinforcing ribs having transversely aligned apertures therethrough, spur ele- Inents struck from each of said sideportions ateach sideof the rib thereof and projecting means connecting said side portions and passing through said apertures, for drawing the I side portions together into gripping relation with a body interposed therebetween. 2. A hanger device of the character described comprising a body of elongated-substantially U-shaped'designformed of a relainwardly toward the opposite portion, and v tively broad initially fiat material, each. of i the side portions of the body being substan- 4 tially straight throughoutthe major portion 7 of itslengthand Inerginginto converging portions at their inner ends, the said converging portions being joined at their convergent endsbya substantially semi-circular yoke, a rib pressed outwardly from the said straight throughout the lengths of the same, the said ribs terminating against the side of the said substantially circular yoke, the yoke being of 55 unbroken surface contour throughout from one side to the other, spur-members struck inwardly from the material of the said straight portions'of the hanger and upon opposite sides of the said out-pressed rib, said ribshaving flattened areas injthe outer side thereof within the limits of the said straight portions and the said converging portions portions and further having apertures through said flattened area's, anda wing nut transversely alignedapelitures to connect the carrying bolt extended through; a pair of 1

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