US398349A

US398349A - Basin-rack for bath-tubs

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Publication number: US398349A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-02-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-02-19

Description

(No Model.)

L. D. RUTH.

BASIN RACK FOR BATH TUBS.

Patented Feb. 19, 1889;

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LOUIS RUTH, 0F PI'ITLADELPI'IIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BASIN RACK FOR BATH -TUBS..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,349, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed November 22, 1837. gerial No. 255,887. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS D. RUTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philai delphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Basin-Racks for Bath-Tubs,

of which the following is a specification.

The ob ect of my invention is to so construct a basin-supporting rack for bath-tubs i that it can be readily adapted to tubs of different widths and readily applied to or re- 1 moved therefrom, and this object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the rack as folded up when not in use.

The rack consists of a series of strips, A l), crossing each other at an angle and pivoted together at their (Tossing-points, on the lazytongs principle, so that the strips are free to assume different angles in respect to each 1 other, and the rack can be expanded in one direction by contracting it in a direction at i right angles thereto.

At each end of each of the central strips, A and B, of the rack is a hanger, D, which is preferably composed of bent and twisted wire, forming a shank, a, and an enlarged and flattened head, 7), said heads projecting over and resting upon the front and back rails of the tub, so as to support the rack at some distance below the top of said tub, as shown in Fig. 1.

As each of the hangers l) is secured to the end of one of ihcbars of the rack, and is free i from connection with any of the adjacent bars, there can be no interference with the free expansion and contraction of the rack; hence, owing to this capacity of the rack for being expanded and contracted, it can be readily adapted to tubs of different widths, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and as the hangers simply rest on the rails of the tub the rack can be applied or removed with facility.

The shanks a of the hangers, being flexible, l

i maybe bent or twisted to any extent which may be required to insure the proper pro jection of the heads 5 of the hangers over the rails of the tub.

To one of the bars of the rack is secured a soapcup, F, which thus becomes a permanent I l l l t part of the rack, and as it is secured to one of the bars of the rack and free from connection with any of the adjacent bars it cannot restrict the free expansion and contraction of the rack.

I am aware that shelves have been con- \structed in the form of racks composed of bars crossing each other and connected at the crossing-points, on the lazy-tongs principle, and also that shelves or seats have been provided with hangers at t-he'ends, so that they may be suspended from the rails of a bath tub but such hangers were in the form of rigid flanges extending from side to side of 1 the shelf and secured thereto from side to side; hence they were different from the separate and independent hangers which I use, and which are essential when the construction of the rack is on the lazy-tongs principle.

I therefore claim as my invention 1. The within -dcscribed supporting-rack for batlrtubs, said rack comprising two sets l of bars crossing each other and pivoted to gether at the crossing-points, in combination 1 with hangers each secured to the end of a bar oi the rack, but free from connection with any of the ad jaeont bars, all substantially as specified. 2. The combination of the rack comprising 1 two sets of bars, crossing each other and pivioted together at the crossing-points, with hangers having projectin heads and flexible shanks, each hanger being secured to the end of a bar of the rack, but free from connection 1 with any of the adjacent bars, all substantiall y as specified.

In testimony whereof I. have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Loris in. RUTH.

\Vitnesses: 7

WILLIAM l). UONNER, HARRY SMITH.