US560005A

US560005A - Rack for newspaper-files

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Publication number: US560005A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-05-12
Anticipated expiration: 1913-05-12

Description

(No Model.)

0. W. MOOERS.

RACK FOR NBWSPMPER PILES. No. 560,005. Patented May 12, 1806.

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CHARLES IVOODIARD MOOERS, OF TOW'ANDA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RACK FOR NEWSPAPER-FILES.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 560,005, dated May l2, 1896.

Application filed March 27, 1895.

T 0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WooDwARn Moonris, a citizen of the United States, residing at Towanda, in the county of Bradford and .State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Rack for Holding Newspaper- I `iles,'of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in that class of iiles used for holding a number of newspapers; and it has for its object to produce a file or rack in which the papers will be so held that the title of each paper will be in fullyiew to a person desiring to take a paper from the rack.

To this end the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described7 and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the device, showing several papers in position; and Fig. 2, a similar view without the papers. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. 4 a top view.

Referring to the various parts by letter, A A designate the two side pieces of the t rame of the rack, which are held together by cross-bars B and C, and are substantially parallel. The sides A A are connected at their upper ends by the top piece E.

The sides A A are substantially triangular in shape, their widest part being at their upper ends, from which point they incline inwardly and downwardly to their lower ends. These sides are so arranged that when the rack is placed in its proper position they ineline from their upper edge downwardly and to the right, while the top E and crossbars B and C are in a horizontal position. On the outer inclined edges of the sides A A are Serial No. 543,341. (No model.)

secured suitable hooks D, upon which the rods carrying the papers are removably supported in a horizontal position, said hooks being properly arranged for this purpose.

As will be readily understood by reference to the drawings, when the paperfiles are placed upon the rack they will hang in an inelined row, one vertical edge of each paper projecting slightly beyond the adjacent vertical edge of the papernext above. By means of this arrangement the title of each paperis exposed to view at all times when the paper is upon the rack, and all the papers will be in such a position that any one of them may be very readily removed and replaced without disturbing the others.

As will be manifest, the sides A A may inoline downwardly and toward the left, and I desire it understood that I do not limit myself toY theffbexact construction shown and described, as changes may be made without departing fromvthe scope of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- In a rack for newspaper-nies, the combination of a frame having two connected side pieces adapted to be secured to a support, these side pieces being approximately parallel and inclining upward and to one side, and a series of hooks iixed to the front edges of said inclined side pieces and adapted to hold a series of horizontal paper-supporting rods, whereby the papers will be supported in an inclined row and have their titles eX- posed at all times, substantially as described.

CHARLES wooDwIRD Moores.

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