US2462321A

US2462321A - Rack

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Publication number: US2462321A
Application number: US635954A
Authority: US
Inventors: John E Holmes
Original assignee: CLARENCE W CARLSON
Current assignee: CLARENCE W CARLSON
Priority date: 1945-12-19
Filing date: 1945-12-19
Publication date: 1949-02-22
Anticipated expiration: 1966-02-22

Description

J. E. HOLMES Feb. 22, i949.

RACK

Filed D60. 19, 1945 fg Il Patented Feb. 22, 1949 RACK John E. Holmes, Anburndale, Mass., assignor to Clarence W. Carlson, Atlantic, Mass.V

Applieatien neeember 1s, 1945, serial No. 635,954

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to racks for use in holding and displaying articles, particularly wearing apparel such as womens dresses and it has for its object to provide an adjustable rack of this description which will be of simple, inexpensive, attractive and eicient construction.

To this end I have provided an improved display rack of the character described which, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, may be constructed as set forth in the following descrption, it being understood that modifications of the invention not herein disclosed are vintended to be included within the scope of the appended claims by which the several features of the invention are separately pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings:v

Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly broken away, of a rack constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1 and on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

The illustrated embodiment of my invention comprises a rectangular wooden frame consisting of a base I on top of which are rigidly fastened the lower ends of a pair of relatively parallel spaced-apart vertical side members or standards II, II, whose upper ends are rigidly connected by a top cross-bar or lintel I 2.

Each standard II includes, as a part thereof, an elongate longitudinally disposed apertured metal channel member I 3 that is about three feet long and xedly fastened by screws I4 to the inner side of its standard with its upper end abutting cross-bar I2. These two metal members I3 are preferably bars of channel iron each of which is disposed with its flanges fitted edgewise against its standard so that its web I3a is spaced away from the standard as shown in Figs. 3 and 4,

The web I3a of each metal member I3 is provided with a longitudinal row or series of spacedapart key hole slots I4a having their smaller ends disposed lowermost with each slot of one member disposed horizontally opposite one of the slots of the other member.

The key hole slots I4a are provided for the reception of studs I5 and I6 provided at the opposite ends of one or more, usually a plurality, of cross-bars I'I each of which comprises an intermediate chromium plated metal tube I8, a chromium plated cap I9 driven into position upon one end of said intermediate tube I1 and permanently xed in position thereon by a screw 20 (Fig. 4), and a -chromium plated cap 2l telescopically and loosely associated with the opposite end of tube I8.

The stud I6 of cap I9 is circular in cross-section and provided as an axially disposed integral extension of cap I9 (Fig. 4), while the stud I5 is also circular in cross-section and made as an axially disposed integral extension of the` c ap 2| (Fig. 3). e l

Within the end of tube I8 that is associated with cap 2l there is welded or otherwise permanently xed an interiorly threadedl bushing 22 (Fig. 3) that is occupied by an axially disposed threaded stern 23 that is an integral part 0i cap 2l.

The shank portion of each stud I5 and I6 is of a diameter slightly less than the width of the lower relatively narrow portion of each slot I4a and each of said studs is provided at its free end with a radial ilange 24 whose diameter is slightly less than the size of the partly-circular upper relatively larger end portion of the slot.

To prepare a cross-bar I'I for installation within the above described frame the cap 2I is screwed on to tube I8 until the distance between the extremities of studs I5 and I6 is less than the distance between the two metal members I3 whereupon one of the two studs is inserted within one of the slots I 4a of one member I3 and permitted to drop to the bottom thereof after which the cap 2| is screwed outwardly relatively to tube I8 while maintaining the other stud in register with the upper end of the corresponding slot I4a of the other member I3. When the hanged end of said last-mentioned stud is entirely within its channel member I3 it is permitted to descend to the lower end of its slot after which cap 2I is screwed outwardly relatively to tube I8 until the two caps at the opposite ends of the latter are forcibly clamped against the two members I3. The cross-bar is thus rigidly xed in position within the rectangular frame so that it cannot be displaced when garments are hung thereon or removed therefrom.

The described construction provides for bodily vertical adjustment of the cross-bars I'l relatively to the frame and also relatively to each other according to the size and type of the garments in order that the latter may be displayed to the best advantage.

The flanges 24 positively lock the studs Within the slots I4a while said studs are within the lower parts of the slots and cannot be withdrawn except by adjustment of cap 2| while the cross-bar that is to be removed is held near the limit of its 3 upward movement relatively to the pair of slots that are occupied by its studs. While inserting or removing one of the cross-bars the stud at one end thereof will rst be inserted within a slot I 4a of one channel and maintained at the bottom of said slot while the cap 2l is adjusted either to insert its stud into a slot of the proximate channel or to remove it therefrom and during` this operation the flange 24 of therst-mentioned stud at the opposite end of the bar'will prevent said stud from slipping out of its slot.

What I claim is:

As a. new article of manufacture, a rack of the',v

character described, comprising an upright rectangular frame including a pair ofV vertical spaced-apart uprights each of which has fixed upon its inner side an elongated vertically ,disposed metallic channel member Whose flanges are seated edgewise against its upright and whose web is formed with a vertical series of spacedapartfstud-'receiving key hole-slots disposed with theirr narrower ends f lowermost vand. with each slot horizontally opposite one of lthe slots of the otherchannel member; a longitudinally extensible and icontractible article-supporting crossbar including a tubular intermediate element havingY a cap member telescopically and rotatably tted upon the exterior of one end thereof and a cap member telescopically andxedly mounted 'upon 4the iopposite end thereof; one of said capimembers beingjprovided upon its outer end withan axial 1 flanged stud adapted to be removably tted'lnto'aslot of oneof said channel members andV the-other cap member being vpro,b

so that when rotated relatively thereto in the opposite direction it is adjusted longitudinally 1 thereof in the opposite direction to free said article-supporting cross-bar for removal.

JOHN E. HOLMES.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are ofrecord inthe file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Denning Oct. 3, 1916 Vaudreuil Feb. 19, 1918 Sostheim May 22, 1928 Pannier Oct. 21, 1930 Fenstermaker Augxlf, 1932 FOREIGN PATENTS i Country Date Great Britain4 1914 Great Britain May'25,.1922

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