US655873A - Canopy frame or support. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Aug. l4, I900.

J. T. JOHNSON.

CANOPY FRAME 0R SUPPORT.

(Application filed Feb. 5 1900.)

(No Model.

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rrED STATES JACOB T. JOHNSON, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

CANOPY FRAME OR SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,873, dated August 14., 1900 Application filed. February 5, 1900. Serial No. 4,056- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB T. JoHNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Knoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Canopy Frame or Support, of which the following is specification.

This invention relates to canopy frames or supports; and the object of the same is to construct a cheap, durable, neat,.and easilyhandled device of this character, which will not tear the netting, and of such form as to permit the latter to be quickly removed or applied, and also capable of being reduced or folded into the smallest possible space for shipping and other purposes.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved canopy or support as it will be arranged in its preferred form, and illustrating the several parts operatively united. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the improved canopy frame or support, showing the parts disconnected. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the parts of the canopy frame or support more closely arranged as they will be disposed when reduced to compact form for storage and shipping. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4. l of Fig 1. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional elevation of portions of the improved device, showing the manner-of connecting the same. 7 Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of parts of the device, showing a-modified form of construction. Fig. 7 is a perspective View of a modified form of the canopy or support.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1, 2, ,3, 4, and 5, the numeral 1 designates two longitudinal side rods bent near their ends, as at 2, to provide angular extremities 3, the latter being disposed in planes at right angles to the side rods and in the same horizontal It is preferable that the extremities be disposed at right angles and also that the side rods 1 bebent midway the ends thereof, as at 4., to provide seats which preferably project inwardly and downwardly below the horizontal plane of the side rods, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, to receive the opposite extremities of a central cross-rod 5, having terminal eyes 6 large enough to slip over the side rods 1 or to permit the latter to be drawn therethrough and disconnected therefrom or assembled in operative relation in the eyes, as shown by Fig. 1, the said crossrod having an intermediate loop 7 for the attachment of a suspending device. When the eyes 6 are in the seats of the side rods, a flush fitting is produced in all directions, and particularly along the outer portions of the said rods as well as the upper parts of the latter, to thereby avoid the formation of a vertical or lateral projection at the point where the cross-rod is normally fixed in relation to the side rod in each instance, with the advantageous result of having the netting fall closely over the joints and present a neat and graceful appearance. Interposed between the inwardly-directed angular extremities 3 of the side rods are removable end rods 8, which are connected to the said extremities 3 by sleeves 9 long enough to set up apositive and reliable articulation between the said end rods and the extremities. In most of the structures it will be desirable to have the sleeves 9 freely slidable on the end rods 8 and over the angular extremities 3, yet it may be preferred, mainly for convenience in shipping and under other conditions, to have one or both sleeves securely fastened on the terminals of the end rods 8 and projected far enough from the latter to provide receptive sockets for the reception of the angular extremities 3, and in the arrangement where one of said sleeves is fast and the other up to one angular extremity 3 and the articulation of the several parts completed by moving the loose sleeve over the contiguous extremities at the other side in a manner similar to the employment of loose sleeves on both sides.

In Fig. 6 another mode of attaching the cross-rods 5 is shown and consists in forming depending eyes 10 in the side rods 1 and screwthreading the same, as at 11, the opposite eyes having the screw-threads running in dif* ferent directions to removably receive the loose the fast sleeve will be first connected opposite right and left screw-threaded terminals 12 of the cross-rod. This construction will afford means for very quickly connecting the side rods and Without requiring the movement of the cross-rod over the side rods, as in the form heretofore set forth.

The device as thus far described can be quickly set up in operative condition or parts disassociated and brought together in reduced close relation for storage or shipment and as clearly indicated by Fig. 3, and the cost of manufacture is reduced to a minimum in View of the fact that stock already in the market may be utilized for thispurpose and severed into proper lengths. It is only necessary to give the side rods the proper bend at the extremities and intermediate points or to construct threaded eyes therein and to also properly shape the cross-rod in view of the several constructions set forth.

In Fig. 7 a modified form of the frame is shown and embodies the same principle in the main, with the additional feature of collapsibility to reduce it in extent for convenience in storage or shipment, and comprises two frames 13 and 14, having their inner extremities telescopically joined, the inner extremities 15 of the frame 13 having seats 16, formed therein similar to those heretofore described in connection with the side rods 1, to receive the opposite bent terminals 17 of a cross-rod 18, having anintermediate suspending-loopv 19. These parts may be assembled in any suitable manner, and while this form of the improved device cannot be produced at as small cost as that heretofore set forth, yet it embodies the same main principle of firmly attaching the cross-rod within the contour, exteriorly considered, of the frame.

In all of the forms set forth the ends of the cross-rod to whichthe suspending device isciple or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is-- 1. A canopy frame or support comprising side and end rods detachably connected, the side rods being provided with intermediate seats and a central cross-rod for suspending the frame or support having its terminals removably attached to said seats formed in the side rods.

2. A canopy frame or support comprising side and end bars detachably connected, the

side bars having inwardly-deflected seats formed therein, and a cross suspending-rod having looped terminals removably fitted in the said seats and slidableon the said side bars.

3. A canopy frame or support comprising side rods having seats midway of the length of the same and inward angularly-bent extremities, end rods removably interposed between the said bent extremities and connected to the latter, and a cross suspending-rod having eyes at the opposite terminals adapted to he slipped over the side rods to and from the seats and normally fitted snugly in the latter.

4. A canopy frame or support comprising side rods having seats midway the length thereof in the form of depending inwardlydirected oblique bends, end rods removably connected to said side rods, and a suspending cross-rod having its opposite terminals removably fitted in the said seats.

5. A canopy frame or support comprising side rods'having angularly-bent extremities and central depending inwardly-deflected oblique bends to form seats, end rods removably interposed between the angularly-bent extremities of the side rods, and a suspending cross-rod having opposite terminal eyes removably fitted in the said seats.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB T. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. S. HYER, J. M. WALKER.

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