US1932634A - Display rack - Google Patents

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Oct. 31, 1933. s. A. Moos 1,932,634

DISPLAY RACK Filed Sept. 10, 1952 47 Tap/V V Patented Oct. 31, 1933 DISPLAY RACK Shulman A. Moog, St. Louis, Mo., assigner to St. Louis Spring Company, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application September 10, 1932 Serial No. 632,591

3 Claims.

This invention relates generally to display racks and has more particular reference to a rack especially adapted for the display of bar material, such as, for instance, automotive spring-leaves and the like.

My invention has for its prime object the provision of a sturdy, durable, and readily manufactured skeleton or open rack for the enicient storage and display in tiers or superposed l0 rows of assembled leaf-springs, spring-leaves,

and other bar articles, the rack including article-intervening members spaced the one from the other for maintaining the articles in the several tiers or rows in orderly7 stacis or columns ior convenient individual accessibility.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features oi form, construction, arrangement, and combination oi parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

En the accompanying drawing,-

Figure 1 is a iront elevational view of a display-rack embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is an end elevational view of rack; A

Figure 3 is a plan View oi the rack; and

Figure a is a detail sectional View of the racl: taken approximately on the line 4 4, Figure 1.

Referring now more in detail and by refer- G ence characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred'embodiment of my inventic l, the racl includes a base portion A, which, it may be said, has the form generally ci a trestle, and which comprises a pair of suitably spaced end# frames B, each, in turn, constructed or" some# what upwardly converging legs l rigidly tied together at their upper end by a horizontal cross-piece or beam 2; The legs l are preferably of structural angle-iron and are intermedia-tely braced and further tied together by crossed diagonal bars 3 suitably at their respective ends bolted or otherwise secured to the legs 1, as best seen in Figure 2.

At their upper end, the frames B are rigidly tied together in the desired spaced parallel relation by longitudinal structural s 4i preierably of suitable angular section, the beams e being bolted or otherwise secured to the registering legs 1 of the perspective frame B, as best seen in Figure 1.

Bolted or otherwise secured at their opposite ends to the respective pairs of registering legs 1 of, and further tying together, the frames B, are longitudinal beams 5 preferably also of an'- 5 gular section, the beams 5 attached to the one the (C1. 2li- 182) or front pair ci the legs 1 being suitably spaced vertically one from the other and from the top beam or rail 4 and being in horizontal registration with the like beam 5 attached to the other r rear pair of the frame legs l. The beams 5 60 thus provide supports oi great strength and rigi idity for conveniently and accessibiy holding' and displaying relatively heavy bar articles, such, for instance, as assembled leaf-springs C, or the like, as shown. 65

And laterally flanged at their respective lower ends, as at 6, to rest upon and at said flanges bolted or otherwise attachedto the respective front and rear upper beams ll, are upstanding end and intermediate posts or standards '7, 8, respectively, the posts 7, 8, upstanding from the one or front beam e being suitably connected or tied together in parallel relation by a series of horizontal aligning top longitudinal members 9 and by series of lower or intermediate 75 longitudinal or tier members 10 disposed in suitably vertically spaced relation one from the other and from the beams 4 and. top members 9, the tieremembers 10 of each series being alsoY in horizontal alignment or registration. Similarly, posts '7, 8, upstand from the other or rear beam i and in like manner are tied together by a series of top longitudinal members 9 and by series of intermediate longitudinal tier mem- ,f bers 10, the members 9 and lil in the iront and 8b rear of the rack being in respective horizontal registration, and the front and rear upstanding posts 7, 8, being rigidly adjacent their upper end tied together by a series of suitably longitudinallyspaced straps 11. Preferably, as best seen in Figure 1, the straps l1 may be concurrently with the top longitudinal members 9 and by the same fastening members bolted or otherwise connected in bracing relation to the end and intermediate upstanding posts 7, 8. ga

The longitudinal members 9 and 1f) are provided withy series or" spaced apertures respectively disposed in` vertical registration, and each horizontally registering pair or tier-mem'- bers 10 is adapted for supporting a plurality of bar-articles, such as springdeaves D spanning between the pair of supporting members 10, as indicated in dot-dash lines in Figure l.

And for segregating or separating the displayed articles D on the tier-members l0, a requisite number of vertical rcdsxlz is inserted preferably downwardly through the respective series or" said vertically registering apertures for intersecting the series of superposed members 9, 10, each pair of adjacent rods 12 providing Cil between the respective pairs of superposed tiermembers 10 an article-receptive approximately rectangular frame-opening 13, in and through which the articles D may be endwise inserted for residing on the lower tier-member of the pair, the frame-openings 13 in the front of the rack being horizontally aligned with similarly formed frame-openings in the rear of the rack, as will be understood.

Most of the rods 12 are provided at their respective upper end with a head 14 for engaging the upper face of the particular top member 9 for suspending such rods 12 removably therefrom, and a suitable retainer-plate 15 is mounted over the series of rod-heads 14 residing on the particular member 9 for preventing dislodgernent oi said rods. Some of the rods 12, however, are threaded at their upper end, as at f, and provided with a jam-nut 16 normally underlying said frame top member. Such threaded rods extend upwardly through the respective plates 15, and such respectiveiretainerplates 15 are, in turn, preferably detachably engaged with the speciiic frame-members by means of suitable fastening nuts 17 threaded on such projecting rods, as shown. Of course, it will be understood that such threaded rods 12 are equipped with the nuts 17 and the upper members 9 suitably fitted'thereover in the assembling of the rack.

The spacing between the rods 12 may be readily changed by varying the spacing of their accommodating apertures provided in the several longitudinal members of the rack, or by omitting one or more of the rods 12, for reception of bar articles or the like of various widths in the so formed frame-openings, and it will be evident that said articles may, most conveniently for increasing the storage capacity of the rack, be stacked or piled one upon another in the frame-openings 13, the rods 12 then most erfectively providing a lateral support for the stack of articles D, as illustrated in Figure 1.

The several members of the rack are constructed of metal or other preferably unbreakable material, and I thus provide a most convenient, economical, sturdy, durable, and highly useful rack for compactly displaying relatively awkward and bulky bar-articles, such as automotive spring-leaves, assembled leaf-springs, and the like, the rack being readily built up to any desired height and capacity and being also readily collapsed or disassembled to so-called knocked-down condition for convenient'` handling and shipping. The displayed articles are readily visible from all sides thereof and may with ease, facility, and convenience be removed from or replaced in the rack one by one without interfering with or disturbing the other articles in the rack.

It will be understood that minor changes and modiiications in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the rack may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. In a display rack, a pair of end-frames upstanding in spaced parallel registering relation, each frame comprising a pair or upwardly converging front and rear egs of structural shape, cross-beams iixed to and tying the legs of respective pairs together, said cross-beams having a length greater than the space between the respective legs and overhanging the legs at their upper end, longitudinal beams xed at their respective ends to the projecting leg-overhanging ends of the cross-beams, and a rectangular skeleton structure built upon said frames, said structure including series of front and rear posts bolted to and in spaced registering pairs upstanding from the longitudinal beams, cross-straps xed to and connecting respective pairs of front and rear posts, series of vertically spaced iront and rear horizontally registering longitudinal straps fixed to the respective posts for both tying the same together and providing supporting-seats for article-display, and series of spaced rods vertically intersecting and engaging the longitudinal straps for separating the displayed seated merchandise.

2. In a display rack, a pair of end-frames upstanding in spaced parallel registering relation, each frame comprising a pair of upwardly converging front and rear legs of structural shape, cross-beams fixed to and tying the legs of respective pairs together, said cross-beams having a length greater than the space between the respective legs and overhanging the legs at their upper end, longitudinal beams fixed at their respective ends to the projecting leg-overhanging ends of the cross-beams, .and a rectangular skeleton structure built upon said frames, said structure including series of front and rear posts bolted to and in spaced registering pairs upstanding from the longitudinal beams, series of vertically spaced front and rear horizontally registering longitudinal straps having flangedends abutting and iixed to the respective posts for both longitudinally tying the same together and providing supporting-seats for article-display, and cross-straps fixed intermediate the hanged ends of the upper longitudinal straps and the posts for tying the respective posts together in transverse relation.

3. In a display rack, a pair of end-frames upstanding in spaced parallel registering relation,

yeach frame comprising a pair of upwardly converging front and rear legs of structural shape, series of front and rear vertically spaced horizontally registering longitudinal beams fixed to and Within the length of the frontV and rear legs of said frames for both tying the legs together and providing supporting-seats for article-display, cross-beams vfixed to and tying the legs of respective pairs together, said cross-beams having a length greater than the space between the respective legs and cverhanging the legs at their upper end, upper longitudinal beams xed at their respective ends to the projecting leg-overhanging ends of the cross-beams, and a rectangular skeleton structurebuilt upon said frames, said structure including series of front and rear flanged posts bolted to and in spaced registering pairs upstanding from the Lipper longitudinal beams, series of vertically spaced front and rear horizontally registering longitudinal straps having hanged-ends abutting and xed to the respective posts for both longitudinally tying the same together and providing additional supporting-seats for article-display, and cross-straps nxed intermediate the anged ends of the upper longitudinal straps and the posts for tying the respective posts together in transverse relation.

SHULMAN A. MOOG.

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