US398027A

US398027A - Show-rack

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Publication number: US398027A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-02-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-02-19

Description

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B. G. GASLER.

I 'SHOW RACK. No. 398,027. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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SHOW RACK.

No. 398,027. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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BENJAMIN G. CASLER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SHOW-=RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,027, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed December 10, 1888- Serial No. 293,103. (No model.)

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of devices embodying my invention. end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the main-frame clamp on the line 05 06, Fig. 1. Fig. lis a detail sectional view of the shelf-combining clamp on the line y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail and detached Fig. 6 is a detail and detached view of one of the shelves. Fig. 7 is a detail view of modified form of hookbolt for connecting the shelf-rods. Fig. 8 is a detail sectional view of the crank of the upright.

Like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur.

My invention relates to the construction of display-racks for show-windows, and has for its object the production of a neat, strong, and efficient separable and convertible rack which can be set up or taken down with facility, closely packed for storage or transportation, and when set up is calculated to display a great variety of merchandise to the best advantage.

To this end the structure, broadly stated, consists of uprights, a main frame pivoted and sliding on the uprights, and shelves attached to and pivoted 011 the main frame, all in such combination that any desired inclination can be given to the main frame while the shelves remain in a horizontal plane; or the frame may remain vertical and the shelves be inclined, or both frame and shelves maybe inclined, at the will of the user.

There are minor features of invention pertaining to the specific construction of the various parts, as well as limited combinations of the elements composing the structure, all of which will hereinafter more fully appear.

My improved rack is best and most cheaply constructed from sections of small pipe connected by threaded thimbles, elbows, and Ts,

Fig. 2 is a side or 1 as will be hereinafter specified; but I do not limit the invention thereto, as bars, rods, or equivalent frame-work may be used, if preferred, provided the principle of construction is retained.

I will now proceed to describe the invention more specifically, so that others skilled in the art to which it appertains may apply the same.

1 1 indicate foot pieces or steps for the verticals or uprights 2 2, which support the main frame. These foot-pieces may be threaded nuts, cups, or their equivalents, and are secured to the floor of the show-window or to a suitable base-board, B, at the will of the user.

22 indicate verticals or uprights secured to or stepped in the foot-pieces 1. 1, and for sake of extended movement and accurate adjustment the footpieces and uprights are preferably connected by the intermediate movable bend or cranks, 3, composed of two elbows, 4 4, connected with each other and with the foot-piece by short threaded nipples. These verticals or uprights 2 2 support a shelfframe or main frame, A, which is pivoted, as at a, on slides 5 5, movable on the uprights 2 2, and provided with thumb-screws or setscrews 18, by means of which the slides may be fixed in any desired position, and thus hold the shelf or main frame A.

For light or small racks, or racks which are to carry light loads, the frame may be composed of only the two side bars, 6 6, and these may be pipe-sections connected by the T- pieces 7 7, as the cross-rods of the shelves will sufficiently connect said bars 6 6 to insure stability of the frame; but for large racks I prefer to connect said side bars, 6 6, by

crossbars

8 and 9, the upper of which, 8, may be joined to the ends of side bars, 6 6, by elbows 10, and the lower to said side bars, 6 6, by Ts 11, both upper and lower crossbar being made in sections connected by right and left hand threaded sleeves (or turn-buckles) 12, for the purposes of setting up and adjusting the frame. The side bars, 6 6, are pierced at suitable intervals, as at 13 13, for the passage of bolts which are to connect the shelf-bars with the main or shelf frame.

14 14 indicate shelf-bars, which maybe small pipes or bars pierced at suitable intervals, as at 15, for the passage of the bolts 16, which connect said shelf-bars with the side bars, 6. The shelf-bars 1e are connected with and pivoted on the side bars, 6, of the main frame by bolts 16, provided with nuts 17, (thumb-nuts, if desired,) by means of which the position of the shelf can be fixed after having been duly adjusted.

1.) indicate cross-bars which connect the shelf-bars 11 1-1 of the opposite sides with each other, for which purpose bolts 20, provided with nuts 21, are employed. These cross-bars In order that two shelves may be connected to the main-frame bars 6 at the same point and project on opposite sides thereof-4t such an arrangement of shelves is deemed desirable-I provide a clamp, (or pivot-section,) C, composed of two plates or side pieces, 2t 24:, pivoted on the frame-bars ('3 by means of bolts 25, having nuts 26, and between which the ends of slmlf-bars 11 may be clamped by through-bolts 27, having nuts 28.

In such arrangement of shelves as last described, or in any arrangement where the shelf'bars 11 1 1 are pivoted at or near one end to the main-frame bars 6, the leverage of the load will usually be so great in case of heavy goods as to cause the shelf to unless supported, and to meet such emergencies I provide chains 2.), secured to the main frame 6 6 at or near its top, as indicated at 30, and pins 31 at or near the ends of shelf-bars 1414-, whereby the shelves can beset and supported level or at any inclination considered best to show the particular goods to be displayed.

The foot of the main frame 6 6 rests upon the floor of the window, and for securing or steadying the same pegs or stops 32, or equivalent devices, maybe employed, and are preferably of a detachable or adjustable character, as they will require to be differently placed for various inclinations of mainframe bars U U. \Yhere pipe used for the mainframe bars 0 6 and thelower ends of the bars U U are left open, I have found that nails driven in the floorof the window answer very well as stops for the lower ends of mainframe bars (3.

The rack, being constructed substantially as hereinbefore specified, is set up and adjusted as follows: The foot-pieces 1 1 are secured to the floor of the window or suitable base-board, B, at a suitaljilc distance apart. The verticals or uprights 2 are then passed through the slides 5 5, which are pivoted to main-frame bars 6 6, and the lower ends of said uprights 5 are screwed into the bends or cranks 3, which have been previously screwed i into the foot-pieces 1 1, after which the inelination of the bars 6 6 and the height of slides 5 5 are properly adjusted and the slides fixed to the upright by means of the set-screws 18 of slides 5, the lower ends of the frame-bars 6 6 having in the meantime been secured by means of pegs or stops 32, which have been fixed to the floor of the window such distance in advance of the foot-pieces 1 1 as the height of slides 5 5 and the inclination of side bars, 6 6, of the main frame demand. After the uprights and main frame have been properly set and secured, the shelf-bars l-l 11- are secured to the main bars 6 G by means of bolts 16, and after being properly adjusted thenuts 17 are screwed home to clamp the shelf-bar to the main-frame bar.

Accordingly as it is desirable to have the shelf project on both sides of the main frame,

as the middle shelf is shown, or on one side of the main frame, as thelower shelf is shown, will the bolts 16 be passed through the holes at the middle or near the end of the shelf-bar 1i; and when two shelves are to occupy the same plane, but on opposite sides of the mainframe bars 6 6, the combining-clamp C may be secured to the frame-bars (5 and the ends of shelf-bars 14: 11 secured thereto, the shelves being supported by chains 2.), as hereinbefore pointed out.

It will be evident that owing to the sepa a ble and convertible character of the structure the rack may be given a very great variety of forms or changes in arrangement, which will adapt it for displaying hats, caps, boots, shoes, and gents furnishinggoods, as well as a great variety of other merchandise, to the best advantage.

Having thus described the nature and ad vantages of my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a show-rack, the combination of two vertically-pivoted uprights, 2 2, each having a bend or crank, 3, slides 5 5, arranged 011 said uprights, and a main frame, A, pivoted on said slides 5 5, substamvially as and for the purposes specified.

2. In a show-rack, the combinatiim of two vcrtically-pivoted uprights, 2 2, each provided with a bend or crank, 3, slides 5 5, and main frame A, pivoted on said slides, said main frame having the ad 3' ustable cross-bars 8 and 9, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a show-rack, the combination, with pivoted adjustable uprights, of a main frame pivoted thereon, said. main frame having side bars, 6 6, cross-bars S and 9, which connect the side bars, and turn-buckles 12, for adj usting the crossbar, suljistantiall y as and for the purposes specified.

+1. In a show-rack, the combination of two vertically-pivoted uprights, 2 2, each provided with a crank or bond, 3, slides 5 5, arranged on said uprights, side bars, 6 6, pivoted on the slides,

adjustable cross-bars

8 and 9, which connect the side bars, and shelf-bars 14. 1%,

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 6th day ofDe- IO cember, 1888.

BENJAMIN G. GA SLER.

Witnesses:

J. A. OSBORN,

WM. M. MONROE.