US479485A

US479485A - Trunk

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Publication number: US479485A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 1909-07-26

Description

(No Model.)

P. B. YAEGER.

TRUNK.

' Patented July 26, 1892.

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PHILOMENA B. YAEGER, OF HELENA, MONTANA.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 479,485, dated July 26, 1892.

Application led January 21, 1892. Serial No. 418,841. (No model.)

To all whom iv' may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILOMENA B. YAEGER, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Helena, in the county of Lewis and Clarke and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunks,of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this improvement is to provide a trunk that will be very convenient in use-one having a number of compartments to receive different kinds of clothing and provided with means for hanging up coats or other garments to prevent their becoming creased and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described and then definitelyT claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of a trunk constructed according to my improvement, with the cover in dotted lines and with parts broken away Fig. 2, an end View of the same with the end removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the tray detached.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by gures, l represents the body of the trunk, having cross-partitions 2 and 3 and a third partition 4, parallel with the front side,

to which the front ends of the partitions 2V and 3 are fastened and which provides a receptacle for canes, umbrellas, (be. On these partitions rest the tray 5, having partitions, as shown, for shirts, handkerchiefs, collars, cuffs, cc. The largest compartment is designed to receive coats and is provided with a number of (preferably) wooden cross-bars 6, arched in the center, so as to extend up into the space in the cover. Each of these bars (only one of which is fully shown in Fig. 1, the rest being represented as broken away) is provided with a hook. 7 to receive a wire coat-stretcher 8 and is hinged to the back of the trunk at one end, while its front end rests in a notch 9, cut in a cleat 10, secured to the front of the trunk. Beneath these cross-barsare shown straps 11,' having buckles 12, which straps are designed to pass to keep the coats from rubbing against each other.

Pockets 13, 14g, l5, and 1G are shown designed to receive, respectively, slippers, brush and comb, paper and envelopes, and a whiskbroom.

It will be seen that the front partition 4E and the transverse partition 3 are slightly lower than the partition 2, which allows the tray to rest on partitions 3 and 4, while the partition 2 keeps the tray in position.

From the above description it will be seen that I have produced a trunk that will not only be very convenient, owing to its various divisions, but will be found to allow of several coats being kept in it free from the creases which are inseparable from the keeping of these garments in an ordinary trunk. It will also be seen that the cross-bars, which are supported on the trunk-body, are archshaped and project into the cover, which allows the coat to be hung higher than would be possible with the straight bars, and that there is a decided advantage in supporting the said cross-bars on the body of the trunk, as the cover can be raised without in any way interfering with the coats, which would not be possible when they are supported by or from the cover, as has been proposed.

Vhat I claim as new isl. In combination with a trunk-body, crossbars supported thereon, extending up into the cover and provided with coat-stretchers, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a tru nk-body, crossbars extending up into the cover, each having one end hinged to the 'trunk and its other end resting on a cleat attached thereto, substantially as described.

3. The combination of atrunk having front, back, and end walls and partitions 2, 3, and 4:, the last two partitions being slightly lower than the partition 2, with the tray 5 resting on partitions 3 and 4 and held against moving toward the coatcompartment by said partition 2, substantially as described.

4. As an improved article of manufacture, a trunk constructed substantially as herein in presence of two Witnesses, this 15th day of January, 1892.

PHILOMENA B. YAEGER.

VViLnesses:

W. D. GARDINER, HENRY C. SMITH.