US263945A

US263945A - Clothes-frame

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Publication number: US263945A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-09-05
Anticipated expiration: 1899-09-05

Description

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W. O. NELLY. CLOTHES FRAME.

No. 263,945. Patented Sept. 5, 1882.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

I V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. NELLY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLOTH ES-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 263,945, dated September 5, 1882.

Application filed June 2, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM G. NELLY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improvement shown as extended for use. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same folded.

The object of this invention is to provide elothesframes constructed in such a manner that they can be compactly folded for storage and, transportation, and when extended will have a large clothes-supporting capacity. 7

The invent-ion consists in a clothes-frame constructed as will be herein-after fully described.

A are four supporting-bars, which are connected and pivoted toeach other at their middle parts in pairs by a cross-bar B. The corresponding bars A of the two pairs are connected above and below the pivoting-bar B by cross-bars O.

To one of the top cross-bars O are pivoted the middle parts of two' side bars D, which are connected by cross-bars E, and have hooknotches formed in the under sides of their inner ends to hook upon the other top cross-bar U, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

As thus far described there is nothing new in the construction. i

To the ends of the top cross-bar O that engages with the notched ends of the side bars I) are pivoted the ends of the sidebars F, which are connected by cross-bars G, forming (No model.)

a swinging frame, which can be swung up into .a horizontal position, as shown in Figs. l and 2, orswung down against the supporting-frames A B G, as shown in Fig. 3.

To the second cross-bar G of the legs A, that support the swinging frame F G, are pivoted the lower ends of two bars, H, which are connected at their middle parts by a cross-bar I. The free ends of the bars H have notches formed in them to'receive the inner cross-bar of the frame F G, so that the frame H I will serve as a brace-frame to support the said frame F G in a horizontal position. WVith this construction, byraising the cross-bar of the frame F G out of the notches in the ends of the side bars of the brace-frame H I the said two frames can be swung down against the supportingframes A B U, as shown in Fig. 3. By this construction the clothes-supporting capacity of the'clothes-t'rame will be greatly increased,

andat the same time the said clothes-frame can be folded nearly as compactly as when the frames F G and H I are not use Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent-- The combination, with the two cross-frames A G, pivoted together upon the crossbar B, and the top frame D E, pivoted on the top cross-bar G of one frame A and hooked to the other top cross-bar of the extension top frame, F G, pivoted on said other top bar 0, and the brace-frame H I, pivoted to a middle cross-bar O of the frame A and supporting said extension-frame by one of the cross-bars G, resting in notches in the ends of the side bars H, as shown and described.

WILLIAM G. NELLY. Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, O. SnnevvioK.