US779345A - Trunk. - Google Patents

Description

No. 779,345. PATENTED 9991.9, 1995. M. B. BEHRMAN.

TRUNK. APPLICATION 3mm) APR. 7, 1904. i

'L11/ji .I f n ,1 MamusBBehrman 'U f @YW AYTOHNEYS Patented January 3, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS B. BEHRMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,345, dated January 3, 1905.

Application led April '7, 1904. Serial No.1202,028. I

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS B. BEHRMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have made certain new and useful Improvements in rlfrunks, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention is an improvement in packing-cases-such, for instance, as trunks, dresssuit cases, shipping-cases, delivery-cases such as merchant tailors use to deliver clothing, cases for ladies wearing-apparel, and similar cases wherein it is desired to pack articles of clothing; and the invention has for an object, among others, to provide a novel construction by which the clothing may be held from movement in the case and may be preserved in the position in which it is placed in the case, so that itV will not move about and become wrinkled and otherwise disarranged; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions tail section on about line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig.

l is a detail perspective view of the presserbar, partly broken away at the middle andu showing the spring devices at the opposite ends of such bar. Fig. 5 is a detail perspectiveI view of one of the keeper-plates in connection with aportion of the side of the case. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the seatplate for use opposite that shown in Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 shows a somewhat different form of presser-bar from that illustrated in Fig. 4.

While I have illustrated my invention in connection with a trunk-tray, it will be understood that I do not desire to be limited to such use of the invention, as it may be employed in other constructions-such, for instance, as before referred to. I will therefore refer to the construction with which my invention is employed as a body7 or caseA, vintending body or case A is provided at one end with an upright series of hooks B for engagement by a clothes hanger-frame C, as shown in Fig. l.

At the opposite sides of the box or case I provide plates D and D, which are alike, eX- cept that the seats CZ in the plate D are round openings, while the seats d in the plate D are slotted at D2, so that the keeper-bar E may be inserted endwise at one end in the seats CZ and be slipped laterally at its other end into the seats d through the slots (Z2, as will be understood from Figs. l, 2, and 3 of the drawings. In order to space the plates D and D away from the sides of the case A, I secure upright spacing-bars F to the inner sides of the case A and support the plates D and D on such spacing-bars F in such manner that the plates project beyond the spacingbars F toward the end of the body A provided with hooks B, so that the keeper-bar E will be securely held in the seats (l and Z against movement toward the end of the case A opposite the hooks B, as will be understood from Figs. land 2 of the drawings. Below the plates D and D or on the side of said plates opposite the hooks B, I provide keeper-plates G g, one of which is provided with undercut slots G, opening in the reverse direction to the seats CZ and arranged for engagement by the pivoted tongue and latch-plate at one end ofthe presser-bar H, presently described, and the other, g, having openings g for the projecting tongue at the other end of said presserbar. These plates G g are spaced away from the inner sides of the body or case A like the plates D and D and are preferably supported on the inner faces of upright bars G2, whose outer faces are secured to a base-plate G3, which is slotted horizontally at G* for the passage of the clamping-screw I, which receives the nut I', the edges of the slot G* being slightly turned up at g4, forming ribs against which the clamping-nut bears, as will be understood from Fig. 5 of the drawings.

By this construction the keeper-plates G can be adjusted longitudinally within the body or case A in such manner as to properly press upon the garments of different lengths, as will be understood from Figs. l and 2 of the drawings.

The presser-bar H is designed to press the garments firmly against the bottom of the case A or against the garments placed belovs7 them, and this bar, as shown in Fig. 4, is constructed of spring or other material, being preferably upturned at /L near its end and having the outwardly-projecting end portions L and ft2, one end of the presser-bar being provided with a tongue h3 to enter the seats g', and the other end of the presser-bar being slotted at if to fit on opposite sides of the seat-plate G and having at such end the latch-plate J which is lpivoted at J at one end and may be swung at its other end into and out of engagement with the slots G in the seat-plate G. This presserbar H being of spring material may be made to exert any desired pressure upon the garments. The latch J has a thumb-piece J 2 near its swinging end and may be readily adjusted into and out of alinement with the bar H in the use of the invention.

It will be noticed that the presser-bar H is made of a length not in excess of the space between the opposite plates G, so that when the tongue /t is inserted in the slots g of plate g the presser-bar may be brought squarely down close to the inner side of the opposite slotted plate Gr and the latch J be swung from the position shown in Fig. 4to that shown in Fig. l, in which it engages with its proper slot G. By this latch it will be noticed I avoid any swinging or horizontal movement of the presser-bar upon the clothing and am able to bring such presser-bar squarely down upon the clothing in order to hold the same as desired. Thus in securinga pair of trousers as shown in Fig. l the garments may be properly folded into the desired creases and then folded over the rod E and held at both ends beneath the presser-bar. Ladies garments may also be held from movement.

1n Fig. 7 l show a somewhat different form of presser-bar from that shown in Fig. 4, the presser-bar shown in Fig. 7 having an upwardly-projecting spring-tongue L at one end and a pivoted latch M at its other end, the upper surface of the bar being grooved at M', adjacent to the latch M, to receive the said latch when the latter is adjusted into alinement with the bar and to lock the latch in the recess M' by the upward pressure of the clothing beneath the said presser-bar.

By providing the seats for the rod E and the presser-bar in vertical series any quantity of clothing may be secured in the box or case and firmly held from movement therein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is4

1. The combination of the body or case, an upright series of hooks at one end thereof for engagement by aclothes hanger-frame, plates at the opposite sides of the case for engagement by the opposite ends of the keeper-bar, the seats in one of said plates opening toward the end of the case provided with the upright series of hooks, the l eeperbar engaging the seats of said plates, keeper-plates secured to the case on opposite sides of said first keeperplates from the series of hooks, and provided with seats opening in the'reverse direction to those in the said first plates, and a presser-bar provided at its ends with means engaging with the seats of the keeper-plates, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. rlhe combination with a body or case, of akeeper-bar, plates having seats for said keeper-bar, a presser-bar and plates having seats for said presser-bar, the seats for the keeper-bar being closed in the direction of the presser-bar, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the body or case, a pair of plates having seats, a presser-bar arranged'to iit between said plates and having at one end a tongue to engage with the seats of one of said plates, and a swinging latch carried by the other end of the presser-bar to engage with the other seat-plate, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with the body or case, and the opposite seat-plates, of a presser-bar arranged to lit between said plates, and provided at one end with means to engage with the adjacent seat-plate, and the swinging latch arranged to engage with the adjacent seatplate, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of the body or case, side plates g having seats for a presser-bar, upright spacing-bars to which said side plates are secured, base-plates secured to said spacing-bars and slotted for the passage of the clamping devices, clamping devices for said base-plates, and a presser-bar having means for engagement with the seat-plates, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination ofthe body or case, seatplates adjustable longitudinally within the body or case, means for securing the seatplates in different adjustments within the body or case, and the presserbar having means for engagement with the opposite seatplates, substantially as set forth.

7. In an apparatus substantially as described the combination of the body or case, a presser-bar of spring material having at one end a pivoted latch swinging horizontal into and out of alinement with the presserbar, and a vseat-plate in the body or case for engage- TOO IIO

ment by said swinging latch, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination of a body or Case, opposite seat-plates arranged therein, one of said plates having slots opening toward the adjacent end of the boX or case, a keeper-bar to engage said plates; keeper-plates having the seats of one plate opening toward the adjacent end ofthe body or ease and in the opposite direction to the slots of the other keeper-plate, IO and the presser-bar having means engaging with said keeper-plates, substantially as set forth.

MARCUS B. BEHRMAN.

Witnesses:

NATHAN BALSER, WALLER E. SMITH.

Images