US317343A

US317343A - Garment-hook

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Publication number: US317343A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-05-05
Anticipated expiration: 1902-05-05

Description

(No Model.)

G.- R. GRIMES.

GARMENT HOOK.

No. 317,343. Patented May 5, 1.885.

INEINTOR:

BY v ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. GRIMES, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECL'PICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,343, dated May 5,1885.

Application filed June 11, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. Gnnuns, of Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved garment-hook adapted to hold a number of garments, and also to hold tags bearing the-number of the arms and of the hooks on the arms.

The invention consists in a garment-hook formed of an arm, from which aseries of hooks project downward, on the prong of each of which hooks a curved transverse piece is held, on which the garments are hung. The invention also consists in parts and details, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

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

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved garment-hook, parts being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a front view ofthe same.

Anarm, A, projects from a plate, B, which plate can be secured to a post, wall, &c., by means of screws, or in any other suitable manner. A series of hooks, 0, project downward from the arm A, and on the upwardly-projecting prong of each hook a transverse bar or hanger, D, is secured, which is curved downward and outward from the prong of the hook, and forms the support for a garment. The bars or hangers D are made flat, and have flanges D on the fronts, which flanges are secured to the prongs of the hooks.

At the upper end of each hook O a short hook, E, projects from the side of the arm A, which hooks E are adapted to hold tags or checks F, which are provided with the number of the arm A, and with the number of the corresponding hook O on the arm. For example, the first arm A of a series is marked 1, and the hooks O on the same have the

numbers

1, 2, and 3, &-c., the outer hook being 1.

(No model.)

The tags or checks F are marked 1 1, 1 2, l 3, &c., respectively, and for each arm the nun1- ber of the arm is produced on the check or tag in addition to the number of the hook. The checks F are handed to the persons who give their garments in charge, and if a person hands in a check on which, for example, are produced the numbers 6 and 2, the attendant knows that the garments hang on the second hook of the sixth arm. In the same manner garments can be hung in stores, &c.

I do not limit myself to any special number of hooks on the arm. The hooks may be at right angles to the arm, or at an inclination to the same, or may be held on a rod parallel with the wall. The curved barsDa-re to vary in length from three to twenty inches, so as to adapt them to any position and to all kinds of garments. The arms may be fastened to a wall, as shown, or made detachable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-. ters Patent, is

1. A garment-hook made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of an arm from which a series of hooks project downward, to the prong of each of which hooks a curved transverse bar is secured, as set forth.

2. A garment-hook consisting of the arm A, provided with downwardly projecting hooks C, on the prong of each of which a curved transverse bar, D, is secured, some of the bars D being longer than the others, substantially as herein shown and described.

' 3. In a garment-hanger, the combination,

with the arm A, of the hooks O, projecting downward from the same, the curved crossbars D on the ends of the prongs of the hooks O, and of the hooks E, projecting from the arm A at the upper ends of the hooks 0, substantiall y as herein shown and described.

GEORGE R. GRIMES. Witnesses:

FRANK H. COOPER, FRANK TUTTLE.