US2412011A - Garment rack - Google Patents

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A. E. SANDERSON GARMENT. RACK Dec. 3, 1946.

Filed Feb. 12, 1945 INVENTOR.

.Smvosesou v Q9266202 622: ,W W fik A w v $922226 a iii 7 g EThUR E g &- E 4 n Z Z I ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 3, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT RACK Arthur E. Sanderson, San Pedro, Calif.

Application February 12, 1945, Serial No. 577,504

2-Claims. (01. 211-99),

This invention relates to a garment rack of the general character embodied in my U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,902,724, issued March 21, 1933, and wherein is disclosed and claimed, a structure by which a large number of garments can be supported and compactly stored in a shallow closet or other restricted space Without wrinkling or disarranging the garments, yet enabling the garments to be applied to and removed from the abling the garments to be conveniently applied to and removed from the rack. V

A further object of the present invention is to provide a garment rack of the above described character whose few parts can be cheaply constructed by quantity production methods from sheet metal, and simply assembled to form a rack of such structural strength and engineering design, that when properly installed on a suitable support, the rack will be extremely rigid under a load of garments, yet can be readily manipulated to occupy a raised position for the 'application and removal of garments, or a lowered position to compactly store the garments.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the combinations, arrangements and functional relationships of elementsas set forthin the following specification and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a view of the garment rack in side elevation, and installed in a shallow closet or similar restricted space; v

Figure 2 is an enlarged plan view of the rack;

Figure 3 is an enlarged side view partly broken away, showing the rack sustained in its raised position for the application and removal of garments;

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view taken on the line l4 of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary view similar to Figure 3 and illustrating the rack released for lowering movement; and

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 5, but with the rack lowered to compactly store the garments carried thereby.

Referring specifically to the drawing, the invention in its illustrated embodiment comprises a bracket designated generally at B and constructed of sheet metal to provide a rectangular attaching plate In from one vertical edge of which projects at a right angle, a bearing or cheek .plate II which has an extension along its upper horizontal edge return bent downwardly and parallel to the plate so as to provide a second bearing or cheek plate l2.

The plates II and [2 are in spaced relatio to provide therebetween a guide channel I4 closed only at the top to provide along the length of ,the latter a fixed abutment l5.

shaped cross section to provide a relatively long arm having a vertical flange 20 co-extensive in length with the arm, and a horizontal flange 2| extending. along the upper edge of the vertical flange; The horizontal flange terminates in spaced relation to the inner end of the arm by beingreturn bent against the vertical flange as indicated by 22, with the combined thicknesses of the flanges enabling the inner end portion of the arm to be closely received in the guide channel 14..

The check plates l l and 12 are provided with registering openings 25 and 26, whereas the ver, tical flange 20 of the supporting member S is provided adjacent its inner end with a. horizontal slot 21, through all of which passes a pivot pin 28 which maybe in the form of a rivet or othersuitable fastening member. By means of thepin 28 and slot 21, the supporting member S is thus mounted on the bracket B for various manipulations. With the attaching plate l0 secured by screws 39 or other fastening members to a rigid support such as a wall W, the pin and slot co-act to mount the supporting member for translatory movement horizontally which is parallel to the length of the bracket, to occupy the extreme position shown in Figure 3, or the extreme position shown in Figure 5, to accordingly sustain the member raised, or release it for pivotal lowering movement about the axis of the pin, as will be later fully described.

At intervals along its length, the flange 20 of the supporting member S is provided with vertically elongated openings 3| through which the hooks of conventional garment hangers are adapted to be hooked to suspend garments from to. be closed.

ing its raised position as shown in broken lines in Figure 1. v I I With the; supporting member bccupying the: ext-.2 treme position of translatory movement horizontally as shown in Figure 3, the pin 28 will 7 be disposed at the inner end of the slot 21 sothat the portion of the member between its in ner end and the axis of the pin will constitute a lever arm a of such length, that underthe weight 1 of the member and the IOad-of-garments carried thereby, the lever arm will be forcedulih wardly to bear tightly against the fixed abutment l5 formed by the closedgtop of the channel M. Thus, the member2 S Wi1l"be,1;loched initsraised position by-its binding aoti'onupon the bracket B, sothat garments carried by'thehangers can beconveniently applied to andremoved from the supporting member.

However, upon effecting translatory movement, of .the' supporting member, to its'oth'e'r extreme position shown; in' Figure 5,vthe pin 28 -,.will be disposed at the outer. end of the slot, thus shortening the length of the lever arm a sufficiently for it 30 to beincapable of engaging the fixed abutment 15,1 (withthe result, that the, supporting member will be, free,.jto gravitate about the. axis of the pin 28 to the loweredpositionshown in Figure 6 and inffull lines in Figure 1. Thesuspended garments will now be compactly stored smoothly one againstanother by the rack, with the supporting member entirely disposed within the shallow depth of the closet Cso as to permit the door D Astheg-pivotedendportion of the supporting member S is closely confined between the bearing or cheek plates Il and-l2 of the bracket'B,v and slides 'jdllliingfits"tI'aIlSIQtOIY movement in close relationship to the surface of the bracket-de fining thefixed abutment l5,--the member will be rigidlysustained in its lockedraised positi0n, yetcan be easily manipulated for translatory mover ment to itstreleased raised position by merely exerting a slight upward pressure upon the outer-- or freeend'of. the member as such translatory V movementofthe member is being effected; thus enabling the member to be-loweredwith the utmostiease It :will be clear that thesupporting member can be aseasilyraised and restored to locked position 'by-reversingthe above described operation; so asto render the stored garments accessible 'forr'emoval from the rack, or enable v 4 garments tobe applied to the rack, as the case may be.

It will be manifest that the essential functions as above described result from a simple construction and arrangement of elements which lend themselves to cheap, quantity production, so that the garment rack can be manufactured and sold at a lower cost than racks of this type heretofore proposed. a Y

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"1.A garment rack comprisingz a sheet metal bracketrincluding an attaching plate having a vertical cheek plate projecting at an angle therefromsaid cheek'plate provided along its upper edge with an extension return bent downwardly 1:-. in.spaced:parallel relation to said cheek plate to provide asecond cheek plate; a sheet metal supporting arm of inverted L-shaped cross section providing a vertical flange and a horizontal flange terminating in spaced relation to one end of the armby being "return ,bent. at said-endover the vertical flange to reinforce thehlatter; said vertical flange having. allslot therein adjacent said one end of the arm and whose length extends in the direction of. the length of the arm; andapin mounted in said cheek'p'lates, and passing through said slot to mount the arm between said cheek plates for translation. from oneextreme horizon c tal position or another,to'accordin'gly cause said one end of the arm to engage said return bendof the cheekplates for co-action ..therewith in. sustaining the arm elevated,jor ,to free s'aidone end of the arm from suchgreturnf bend for lowering movement of the arm about the axis of said pin.

2. A garment rack comprising; a sheetmetal bracket including an attaching platehaving angularly disposed cheek. plates in. spaced parallel relation and connected .j'across the topthereoi to provide a fixed abutment surface; a sheetmetal garment vsupportinggarm of inverted L-shaped cross section providing .a vertical flange anda horizontal flange return, bent upon-the vertical flange along one end portion of.- the arm; said end portionof the arm being closely received -between said cheekplates and having a slot whose length extends. longitudinallyof the arm; and a pin-mounted in the cheek plates. andpassing. N through said-slot;- s aidend 'portion of the arm 1 co-acting with said fixed abutment to, sustain: the: arm J against lowering movement when the arm 7 is longitudinally; adjustedgto disposefthe pinratr, the inner end of :the: slot; and; tozbe clear. of; the; abutment when the, arm. :1 is-; l0 n gitudina1ly;j a'd-: justed todispose; the pin at theothenend ofsfthe .slot, sothatthe arm willbefree to; gravitate about the axis of the pin, r

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