US2301585A - Device for hanging mirrors - Google Patents

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DEVICE FOR HANGING MIRRORS Filed March '7, 1942 INVENTOR.

Bi-ooks E Bogerson Patented Nov. 10, 1942 FFlCE DEVICE FOR'HANGING MIRRORS Brooks E. Rogerson, Chagrin Falls, Ohio Application March 7, 1942, Serial No. 433,800 2 Claims. (01. 248-31) This invention relates to an improved form of device for hanging a mirror or other article upon a Wall, this device being especially useful in a display room.

In a display room, it is the usual custom to frequently change the position of the mirrors, pictures and other mural hangings; and, if such articles be suspended from nails driven in the wall, the removal of the nails necessarily means the disfigurement of the wall because of the remaining holes or the removal of some of the plaster with the nails. In either case, such marring of the appearance of the wall is especially objectionable in a professional display room.

For many years past, there have been employed the familiar S-shaped hooks for suspending a mirror or other article from the molding; and there have been further attempts to provide a device by which such an article can be suspended from the molding at any desired elevation without having to change the length of the wire on the back of the article. Numerous patents have been granted upon this latter type of device, as for instance that to Jackson et al., No. 717,859, January 6, 1903.

The object of the present invention is to provide such a device that is extremely efficient and dependable and at the same time can be manufactured in a very simple manner and sold at a popular price.

Other objects will appear from the following description and claims when considered together with the accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 is a view illustrating the manner in which my device is intended to be used;

Fig. 2 is a. perspective view of the hanger clip alone;

Fig. 3 is a view of the suspension wire alone.

It is to be understood that the present form of disclosure is merely for the purpose of illustration and that there may be devised various modifications thereof without departing from the spirit of my invention as herein set forth and claimed.

My present device comprises the suspension wire I and the hanger clip or clips 2 which are adjustably mounted thereupon. The wire I has its upper end formed as an open loop 3 which is adapted to be suspended from a screw hook 4 secured in the familiar wall molding, while the lower end of the suspension wire I is flattened, as at 5, so as to prevent the hanger clip from accidentally slipping therefrom.

The hanger clip 2 has a hole 6 in its rear end 2a which is thereby adapted to be placed upon the open end of the loop 3 and slid thereabout and along the straight part of the suspension wire I to any desired point. The hole 6 is slightly larger than the diameter of the wire I so as to be freely slidable therealong and to have binding engagement therewith when it is caused to assume downwardly inclined position thereupon by the weight of the mirror or other article suspended therefrom.

The metal hanger clips 2 are made as duplicates and each of them is of substantially oblong form with its length extending from its rear end toward its front end. The rear part 2a thereof, with the hole 6, is of flat form and the front part 212, which is inclined upwardly and for-.

wardly therefrom, is a, continuation of the rear part 2a and is of the same width and thickness as the rear part. The function of the upwardly inclined part 2b is to receive and support the suspension wire of the mirror or other article. If so desired, a plurality of hanger clips may be placed upon the same wire I for supporting mirrors or other hangings at different elevations.

The wire I may be of any suitable size, according to the weight; of the mirror or other article to be suspended therefrom, and the hanger clips will be of corresponding size for any particular size of wire. The wires and hanger clips will be made up separately in quantities and later assembled as required, it simply being necessary to place the hanger clip upon the looped end of the wire. The manufacture of these parts is not at all involved but is rather simple and inexpensive. The loop 3 and the hanger clip are so formed, with respect to each other, that the hanger clip can be placed upon the open end of the loop and moved thereabout, for assembly, in the manner stated.

The notable features of improvement in my present form of device are the particular form of hanger clip which can be so easily manufactured and so conveniently packed for shipping; the same thing is true of the wire I which is reduced to the simplest form and in which the flattened portion 5 occupies substantially the same plane as the loop 3, thereby facilitating packing of this part of the device also; the two-fold function of the loop 3 which permits the hanger clips to be applied to the wire or to be removed therefrom and which serves also as a means of supporting the device from a hook in the molding; also the convenient manner in which the parts can be assembled for use; and finally the flattened end portion 5 which prevents the accidental removal of the clip or clips from the wire I.

All of these several features are of a very simple nature and this fact, coupled with the practical success of this device which has already been demonstrated, is believed to recommend it for quite general adoption for the purpose intended.

What I claim is:

1. A device for hanging mirrors and the like, comprising a wire provided with means at its one end for suspending the same from a wall molding, and a hanger clip having a hole through the rear end portion thereof for mounting the hanger clip upon the wire and having an upwardly inclined forwardly projecting free-ended portion to receive and hold in the angle thereof the bight of the suspension wire of a mirror or the like, said hanger clip consisting of but one separate and unattached substantially rectangular part of substantially the same width and thickness throughout its entire extent from the forward end to the rear end thereof, said hole being slightly larger than the diameter of said wire to which applied so as to be slidably adjustable therealong and capable of binding inclined engagement therewith for supporting the mirror in position at any height desired.

2. A device for hanging a mirror or the like, comprising a wire provided with an open loop at its one end for removably suspending the same from a hook in a wall molding, and a hanger clip formed of a substantially oblong separate and unattached one-piece body with a rear part of fiat form and an upwardly and forwardly inclined free-ended front part extending as a continuation of substantially the same form and width as said rear part, said rear part having a hole therethrough slightly larger in diameter than that of said wire so as to be slidably adjustable therealong and capable of binding inclined engagement therewith at any point desired, said front part being adapted to receive removing the same therefrom, and said wire having its lower end flattened so as to prevent accidental removal of the hanger clip therefrom.

BROOKS E. ROGERSON.

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