US439846A

US439846A - Walter winfield o hara

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Publication number: US439846A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-11-04
Anticipated expiration: 1907-11-04

Description

2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

W. W. OHARA. COMBINED SPLASH BACK AND TOWEL RACK. No. 439,846.

Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

, W. W. OHARA. COMBINED SPLASH BACK AND TOWEL RACK. No. 439,846. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VALTER \VINFIELD OHARA, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

COMBINED SPLASH-BACK AND TOWEL-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,846, dated November 4, 1890. Application filed June 5, 1890- serial No. 354.34.9- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER WINEIELD OHARA, commercial traveler, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Combined Splash-B ack and Towel- Rack, of which the following is a specification;

The object of the invention is to design a combined splash-back and towel-rackin which the frame willhold the material used stretched taut and yet may be easily it is desired to change the material; and it consists, essentially, of placing the material on two cross-rods which are held apart at each end by the spring extension-arms which form racks for the towel, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my combined splash-back and towel-rack. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing it. applied as a picture-frame and stretcher. Fig. 3 is a skeleton view of wire frame.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A and B are the top and bottom rods, and O the material forming the splash-back.

D are the spring-wire arms which fit into the holes a and b in the top and bottom rods, respectively. The spring-wire arms D are made so as to form racks d and e for the reception of thetowels, whilea sponge F, as indicated, or other articles may be suspended from them.

It will be seen that as the arms D are made of spring-wire, the rods apart that the material is A and B are so held held stretched taut taken apart when and yet the ends of the arms may be easily re moved from the holes a, and b, and the rods removed when it is desired to change the material.

On reference to Fig. 2 it will be noticed that I can utilize my frame as a stretcher or picture-frame, the arms being used in this case, as indicated, to supporta fancy scarf or other desired ornamentation.

In Fig. 3 I show the cross-rods A and B made of wire and connected by the upright wire rods E and F, which are sharpened at their ends so that a towel or other material may be slipped over their ends to form the splash-back. In this case the ends of the rods A andB are formed into loops f, receive the ends of the spring-wire arms D.

That I claim as my invention is- 1. In combination with the rods A B for supporting the material O,spring-arms D, composed of wire interposed between the rods A B at each end and adapted to hold the material C taut thereon, the said arms D, being bent intermediate of their length to form racks cl e, whereby the said arms form both supports and rack, substantially as described.

2. The rods A and B, having end loops f, and the vertical connecting-rods E and F, sharpened at their ends, in combination with the wire arms D, forming towel-racks cl and e, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

WALTER WINFIELD OHARA.

Witnesses:

JAMES LUCKWELL, GEORGE A. BEAN.

so asto