US270134A

US270134A - Show-rack for watches

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Publication number: US270134A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-01-02
Anticipated expiration: 1900-01-02

Description

P atented Jan. 2, 18833 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO SCHMIDT, oF oHIoAeo, ILLINOIS.-

SHOW-RACK FOR WATCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,134, dated January 2, 1883.

A pplication filed June 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom'lit may concern Be it known that I, HUGO SCHMIDT, acitizeu of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Show-Racksfor Watches, of which the following is 'a specification.

My invention relates to a watch-rack made mostly of tubing, where two or more uprights are provided with holes to carry cross-bars, where the ends of those cross-bars carry ornaments, and where a number of hooks can be titted to those cross-bars for the purpose of hanging Watches thereon.

It consists in one or more cross-bars made of tubing, and having a slot running lengthwise from one end to the other, and in the combination thereof with uprights provided with holes to carry those crossbars, with ornamental pieces fitted to the ends thereof, and with hooks movable therein.

In the drawings herein referred to and forming a part of this specification, Figure I is afront view of the watch-rack. Fig. ll is a view of a section at the line a I) of Fig. I, and Fig.

III is a sectional view at the line 0 d of Fig. I. A A represent the standards or uprights,

' which are provided with holes ate ee 6 to hold the cross-bars B B. These cross-bars consist ofa tiieceoftubing, and have a slot, 11, running from end to end, as can best be seen from the lower crossbar B, which is turned one-quar- .ter turn out of its naturalposition to show this slot in the front. The slot makes the crossbar flexible enough to adjust itself to slig ht variations in the size of the holes through flexible tube than to a rigid one, and the spring in the tube will prevent them from shaking otf. G G G are books provided with headsf,

which arefitted, to enter the slotted bar B as the neck 9 of the hook passes into the slot at the end of the bar. This can best be seen in Fig. II. The hooks are set in the cross-bars when the ornaments are off and before the cross-bars are fitted to the uprights. hooks can be kept securely from falling out of the cross bars by putting the ornamental acorns r on each end of the cross-bar, and the Watch-rack can conveniently be set in a boxapart. When it is put together the uprights will not allow the hooks to come off.

Having thus described my inventiomwhatl claim to-have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a show-rack for watches, the combination of the standards A, having holes 6, with the cross-bars B, having slots b from end to end, adapted to receive and hold hooks G, as shown, the cross-bars being passed through the standards, and having ornaments 1" se' cured to their slotted ends, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' HUGO SCHMIDT.

Witnesses: I

WILLIAM S. NORTH, AUGUST KoRTH.

Then the