US2144534A - Utility rack - Google Patents

Description

Jan. 17, 1939. c. s. HEDQUls-r ET AL.- I 2,144,534

UTILITY RACK Filed OCT.. 18, 1937 7 |||||..|\l|\\. 0l. f mm 7 mw G 'IF E m G 3 wm m A L U G v V f l E ER m M 1mm m B W L Il E M mm m m \w y G P W ZN' VENTQRS? d TZ'WENEX y Patented Jan. 17, 1939 UNITED; :;STEAT Es PATENT orFlce f y, 2,144,534 A f 1 1j y?:f UTILITY1mois` n Carl S. Hedquist, George A. Johnson, and Eric A. Malmberg, Minneapolis, Application October 18, 1937, Serial No. 169,572

2 Claims.

Our invention relates to utility racks which may also be aptly designated as portable holders arranged to be suspended or fastened on a wall, the panel of a pantry door or any other convensaid sections designated 6A, 1A, 8A and 9A to engage slidably in the corresponding channels 6, l, 8 and 9 extending rigidly from the other end wall, as best shown in Fig. 1.

ient place within easy reach as in a kitchen. In each of the rear flanges 5C, near their up- 5 The main object of our invention is to provide per ends is provided a suitable aperture l2, for a simply constructed, light weight, highly efscrews (not shown) to hang or fasten the device cient and inexpensive holder for containers of on an;7 vertical surface such as a wall or door spices, condiments,v extracts and other ingredients panel, designated Ill in Fig. 2.

10 such as used dailyV by housewives, a particular All the rails are of course parallel to each other, 10 feature of this device being its light weight and and each is flat vertically, the rear lower rail telescopic construction such that it may be set v'I--lA comprising a support rail and made narto certain length to hold a predetermined number rower than the lower front rail 8--8A so that its of containers, al1 as hereinafter fully set forth top edge is in lower plane than the top edge of l5 and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in said rail 8-8A. On said support rail may be l5 whichzplaced any predetermined number of containers Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of our im- Il, in a row, such containers being slipped downproved utility rack. wardly between the upper rails, and all resting on Fig. 2 is a direct iront View of the device holdthe top edge of the rail '1 -1A as indicated by ing five containers of uniform size and one of dotted lines in Fig. 3.

which is shown partly withdrawn from its seated The containers will of course be automatically position. alined in the rack, in a neat appearing row, as

Fig. 3 is an enlarged scale sectional elevation shown in Fig. 2, the content designations of the as on line 3-3 in Fig. 2, looking toward Vone end containers disclosed in clear view, as in the space of the device, and Fig. 4 lis a top view of the between the upper and lower front rails. The 25 right hand end of the utility rack. front lower rail having its top edge at an elevation Referring to the drawing by reference numerhigher than the top edge 0f the 51111100145 rail als, like parts being designated by corresponding l1.A, the former serves as a guard and alines the characters in the severalv figures; our device front lower parts of the containers. If the device comprises preferably two horizontally registering, is set to snugly hold five containers, as shown, 30 upright, sheet metal end walls 5- of channel shape or any other number, any one of the containers in cross section, each having a horizontal bottom may be easily removed by pushing its bottom end edge 5A, a front flange 5B shorter than the rear upwardly, or by contacting the front part of it ange 5C and the upper edge of each end wall over rail 9-9A and bearing upwardly.

cut in an angular line as 5D from the top of the Our utility rack, as above described, provides 35 front flange to the top of the rear flange. a useful holder for uniformly sized containers The end walls are rigidly but adjustably conand is easily set by telescoping it to desired size nected in variously spaced relation to each other for a predetermined number of containers. by a number of telescopically constructed rails, It is obvious that the rails need not necessarily shown four in number and designated 6, 1, 8 and be of sheet metal. They may comprise two par- 4o 9, of which 6 is an upper rear rail connecting the allel wires and their respective free ends each upper rear end parts of the end walls. 1 is a. formed with a loop slidably engaging the other lower rear rail, inward of the rear edge of the Wire. Other modifications mai7 be made Withdevice, 8 is a lower front rail connecting the out departing from the scope and spirit'of our iront lower corners of the end walls and 9 is an invention. 4,5

upper front rail but in a plane lower than the We claim: rear upper rail 6. 1. A utility rack of the class described com-l Eaen rail is preferably made of two sheet metal prising a pair of upright. horizontally spaced end telescopic sections, one section of channel shape Walls, a number of telescopic parallel rails con- Y in cross section and the other rail section a sheet neting Said end Walls in adjustable felation to 50 metal fiat rail doubled at its edges longitudinally, each other to provide a rack of predetermined for strength, and of a size to be guided slidably length, said telescopic rails located two at the in the corresponding channel section of the rail. front in vertically spaced and fixed parallel rela- The smaller rail sections may all extend rigidly tion, one at the rear and upper part of the rack,

from one end wall and parallel to each other, and a lower inside rail parallel to the lower 55 y means for containers inserted downwardly in the rack, said lower front rail xed in a parallel position relative to the support rail but its upper edge in higher plane than the top edge of the support rail, for the purpose set forth.

2. A utility rack of the class described coml rear upper rail connecting corresponding parts prising a pair of upright, horizontally spaced end Walls, a,- numherof' telescopic; panallel rzailsecpnnecting said end-walls in adjustable. relation to each other, to provide a rack of predetermined length, said telescopic rails located twoat thai; i Y front in vertically spaced parallel relationpneat; the rear and upper part of the rack, and a l'ower inside rail parallel to the lower front rail but spaced forward from the rear edge of the rack, the latter rail comprising support means for containers inserted downwardly in the rack, said end walls comprising two identical vertically disposed channels, said front rails ofthe device con-V nectingvthe front flanges of said channels, the

of the rear flanges and the support rail connectipgd-hetloweremgparts offthegwepbs. of the channelsf as shown.' and described.

CARL S. I-IEDQUIST. GEORGE A. JOHNSON. ERIC A. MALMBERG.

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