US730239A - Carpet-display rack. - Google Patents

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PATENT @erica CARPET-DIS PLAY RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,239, dated J' une 9, 1903.

Application filed June 2, 1902. `Serial No. 109,962. (No mpdel.) t

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Be it known that I, JOHN HENSEY Davis, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elizabethtown, in the county of Hardin and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Carpet-Display Rack, of which the following is a specification. l ,u

rlhe invention relates to improvements in carpet-display racks.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of carpet-display racks and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one, adapted for advantageously displaying aplarge number of rolls of carpet and adapted Vto also receive carpets of different widths.

A further object of the invention is to provide a carpet-display rack of this character which will enable a roll of carpet to be readily unwound for display or sale and to be readily and quickly rewound when desired.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described; illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed` out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a display-'rack constructed in accordance with this invention. 2 is. avvertioal sectional view of the same.- Fig., 3 is a detail view of one of the shafts or spindles. Fig. 4E is a detail sectional view of thesame.

Like numerals ofreference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates a frame composed portions connected at the top by a transverse rung 2, and each inclined portion of the frame is composed of two sides provided with upper and lower sections or bars 3 and 4, which are connected by metal brackets or plates 5. The lower ends ofthe -bars 4 are connected by transverse rods, and 'these lower bars L are provided at intervals with'inclined bearing-recesses' 7, having metal Vbearings S andadapted to receive spindles or shafts 9. The upper bars 3 are inwardly offset from the lower bars 4 to provide a narrower upper space to receive narrow carpets; and they are provided with bearing-recesses 9, constructed similar to those heretofore described. The lower rung 6 rigidly connects of ,inclinedVV latterl and is of sufficient length to receive the wider class of carpets.

The brackets or connecting-plates 5 are preferably oblongor rectangular when viewed yin side elevation and have longitudinal openings, as clearly shown in Fig. l, and they are angularly bent at opposite sides of the center to form upper and lower portions l0 and 1l and intermediate connectingportions l2.

The upper and lower portions are arranged at right angles to the intermediate connecting portions, and the upper portion is inwardly offset from the lower portion and is secured to the outer faces of the upper bars` or members ofV the sides of the inclined portions or sections of the frame. The lower depending portion l1 of the connecting bracket or plate isvsecured to the outer face of the upperend of the bar 4, and the transverse connecting portions l2 rest upon and are supported' by the upper'edge of the bar 4. By this construction the upper bars are supported firmly and are held inposition to receive rolls of narrow carpetl The lower bars 4 of the twoportions 'or sections ofthe frame Vare also connected by horizontal side rods or barsl, located' adjacent to the upper ends of the said bars 4:.

Each shaft or spindle is provided adjacent to its ends with annular lianges 14, between which the carpet is'arranged, and the inner end of the carpet is held against the shaft or spindlevby means of a transverse locking device 15, consisting of a plate or bar provided extended and provided with a tapering polygonalpertion lh-adapted to receive a removable crank-handle 19, which is designed to be applied to any of the shafts or spindles,

so that only one crank-handle is necessar Y for handling all of the rolls of carpet.

It will be seen that the display-raek is siniple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted for advantageously displaying a large number of rolls of carpet or other material, and that the lower portion of the rack is constructed for the re ception of wide carpets and the upper portion for narrow carpets.

vWhat I claiin isl. A display-rack comprising a frame provided with bearings and having upper and lower bars arranged in pairs and connected together and forming the sides of the frame, the space between one pair of bars being less than the space between the other pair of bars to provide carpet-receiving spaces of dierent widths, and the brackets or plates connecting the upper and lower bars and composed of upper and lower portions secured to the said bars and an intermediate connecting portion arranged at right angles to the upper and lower portions, and shaits or spindies arranged in the bearings, substantially as described.

L. A display-rack comprising a frame coniposed of opposite sides having bearings and provided with upper and lower bars, the upper bars being inwardly offset from the lower ones to form a narrower space between them to receive narrower rolls, and the connecting-plates provided with openings and composed of upper and lower portions secured to the upper and lower bars at the outer faces thereof, and the intermediate connecting portions supported upon the upper ends of the bottom bars and arranged at right angles to the upper and lower portions, and shafts or spindles arranged in the bearings, substantially as described.

3. A display-rack comprising inclined sections connected at their upper ends and provided with upper and lowerbars spaced apart, the upper bars being inwardly offset from the lower bars, the angularly-bent brackets or plates supported upon the upper ends of the lower bars and extending inward therefrom and secured to the lower ends of the upper bars, and shafts or spindles journaled in suitable bearings of the upper and lower bars for supporting carpets, substantially as described.

4. A display-rack comprising a frame provided with bearings, shafts or spindles arranged in the bearings and provided with flanges, and bars pivotallymonnted between the flanges and extendingl across the space between the saine and provided at their en gaging edges with teeth, substantially as described. y

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

Y JOHN HENSEY DAVIS.

Vitnesses:

J. K. LAYMAN, S. 1I. BUSH.

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