US2536278A - Plate hanger - Google Patents

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G. A. GRANT Jan. 2, 1951 PLATE HANGER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 26, 1947 I 6 A m d W 6 Jan. 2, 1951 G. A. GRANT 2,536,278

PLATE HANGER Filed July 26, 1947 2 Sfieets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. Gordan A, Gram BY (J A TTOR/VEY Patented Jan. 2, 1951 Application July 26, 1947, Serial No. 763,922

3 Claims.

It is customary to hang ornamental plates and the like for display purposes.

It is my object to provide a simple inexpensive device which can be applied to plates of different sizes and shapes.

Another object is to provide such a device which can be packed in a small space.

Another object is to provide a device which can be easily and quickly adjusted to a plate.

Accordingly, I provide a number of cross pieces, each of which is bendable, to fit the rear of a plate and has hooks to engage its edge. Each cross piece has at least one perforated lug and the pieces are drawn tightly into engagement with the opposite edges of the plate by means of a cord or wire passing through these lugs. Preferably each cross piece has a perforated lug at each end and another between the ends so as to adapt the device to various methods of connection. Such devices can be suspended from a cross piece or from the wire or cord which connects them.

Fig. l is a rear view of a plate with one form of supporting device attached.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view showing a plate supported from a wall by the device of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a back view of a blank for forming the main cross piece of the device. 5

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the cross piece and showing in dotted lines how the cross piece is bent when applied. I

Figs. 5 and 6 are edge and cross sectional views of the cross piece.

Figs. 7, 8 and 9 are rear views of three methods of applying the device.

Each cross piece such as I0, I is preferably formed of sheet metal such as aluminum to be applied to the rear of a plate 12 near its edge and is bendable to adapt it to the wall of the plate which is usually conical. It has a hook l3 at each end adapted to fit around the edge of the plate in an inconspicuous manner. This hook may be ribbed at I4 to strengthen it if desired. Each cross piece is preferably curved on an arc of a radius large enough so that it can be applied to large plates as well as small ones and the hooks project outwardly from the main portion. Each cross piece preferably has a perforated lug I at each end and another perforated lug i6 midway between the ends through which a cord or wire tie can be passed to draw oppositely disposed cross pieces into snug engagement with the plate.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the attachment to consist of two cross piecesone at the top and one at the bottom connected by a wire H fastened at its upper end to the central lug l6 and branched to the end lugs l5, l5 below. When this wire or cord is twisted or tied tightly the cross pieces will grip the opposite edges of the plate which can then be suspended for instance by a ring or clip 11 on a nail I8 or other conventional hanger or hook driven into the wall H9. The ring 11 also serves to twist the wire for adjusting the distance between the cross pieces.

In Fig. '7 I have shown the two cross pieces connected by a single wire or cord 20 fastened to the central lugs of the upper and lower cross pieces. This device can be hung from a ring or loop 2| fastened to the upper lug l5 or to the cord or wire.

In Fig. 8 cords or wires 22, 23, 24 and 25 are fastened to the end lugs of the upper and lower cross pieces and connected together near the center and provided with a hanger ring or clip 25' for suspension.

In Fig. 9 I have shown four cross pieces applied to corners of an octagonal plate 30 and connected by a cord or wire 3! which extends through all of the end lugs. This can be suspended from rings or clips 32, 32 attached to the opposite sides of the cord or wire.

Such a device not only affords a simpleand convenient means for supporting a plate or platter but actually strengthens it. This is quite important especially if the plate is cracked or fragile.

I claim:

1. A plate hanger comprising two cross pieces adapted to be applied to opposite edges of a plate, each cross piece having an integral hook at each end integral with the cross piece for fitting around an edge of the plate and a lug at each end and a lug midway between the ends and a cord connecting said latter lug with some of said end lugs for drawing the cross pieces against the plate.

2. As an article of manufacture, a cross-piece for plate hangers comprising a single strip of flat bendable sheet metal having a hook integral therewith at each end bent to enable the strip to be hooked around the edge of a plate, said strip being flexible so as to curve along the back of a plate and having perforated lugs integral with the strip projecting from the rear of the strip adjacent said hooks and athird perforated lug integral with the strip near its center, said lugs providing means for connecting one strip to another strip when the strips are applied to the back of a plate.

3. A device of the kind described comprising a pair of spaced elongated metal strips bendable to conform to the arc of the rear surface of a shallow circular plate adjacent its outer edge, each strip having a perforated lug at each end adjacent one corner thereof, a hooked extension at each opposite corner adapted to be engaged over the edge of the plate and a perforated lug midway its ends along one edge thereof, flexible members twisted together at one end and secured to the middle lug of one strip, the other end of the flexible members being secured to the end lugs of the other strip and a ring member secured to the flexible members for suspending the twist the flexible members for adjusting and tightening the strips on the plate.

GORDON A. GRANT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS 0 Number Name Date 1,962,730 Boyd June 12, 1934 2,209,972 Horwitt Aug. 6, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date Great Britain Oct. 6, 1937

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