US764343A - Shoe-rack. - Google Patents

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No. 764,343. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904. L P BOWEN SHOE RACK. APPLICATION FILED APR. 22, 1904.

NO MODEL.

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6 represents bolts massing transversely through. the uprights b and I) and through the bar (ii and serves to not only hold bars (I in place, but also to clamp the uprights to gether. The bars d are provided with the usual laterallycirtendiuinpins or pegs by which the shoes are supported.

it will he observed that when the material from which the uprights are constructed is shrunken, as it necessarily will be after having stood in a dry place for a long time, the bars may be tightened and brought into shape again and alinernent by tightening the nuts upon the bolt Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is l. A shoe-rack comprising airame, having uprights, recesses in adjacent faces of said uprights, hers having laterally-extending pegs adapted to rest in said recesses,'means for To call whom it may concern:

Be it known that i, iiniinnnn i9. Bowen, oi- .r'iuhurn, in the county of Cayuga, in the nitrite oi New York, have invented newand nseiul improvements in @hoeitaclrs, of which the ioiiowing, taken in connection with the ne compunving drawings, is a iuii, cheer, and ear act description.

This invention relates to improvements in shooraclrs, having more particular reference to their detail construction, unon which shoes ere placed and held during the process oi manu ii'acture and drying.

My object is to improve upon construction oi the uprights or standards at the end, so as to provide for and guard against the checking or splitting thereof; and to that the general and novel features of construction hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims hereunto annexed, reference losing had to the accompanying drawings, in Wllifili Figure 1 is a symmetrical elevation oi the rack complete. Fig. 2'; is an end view there oi. 3 is a top plan of Fig. 2,

in the druwings, a is a frame having cross bars rt and mounted upon casters in the usual wny. Upon the cross-bars as are mounted the uprights or standards, made in two parts it and b and recessed, as shown at c, to receive the bars d. The recesses 0., however, arenot deep enough to admit the i'uli width oi the her '(Z, so that when they are mounted, as shown Fig. 2., the hare Wlllititiifiild beyond the face of the uprights bend b, so as to hold them a short distance apart bars.

2. Ashoe-rack comprising a frame, having uprights constructed in two parts recessed in their adfacent faces, bars ot a greater depth than said recesses mounted therein and means for securing" said umights together as set forth.

in witness whereof l have hereunto set inv hand this 16th day of April, 1904:-

LEANDER l BOWEN.

Witnesses:

DELI/i. ll. CUYKENDALL Annunr ii'l- CLARK.

securing the uprights together through said

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