US808142A - Tool-rack. - Google Patents

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No. 808,142. PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905. J. W. DANHOUR.

TOOL RACK.

APPLICATION FILED DEC 12, 1904 21 l0 i7 20 men. 2. 25 19 8mm wwwwwo .1 01m W. Danhour UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed December 12, 1904. Serial No. 236,610-

To all whom it 771/661! concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. DANHOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huey, in the county of Clinton and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

In Patent No. 766,934, issued to me August 9, 190 1, is described and claimed a tool-rack for tools, brooms, shovels, and other similar articles.

The object of my present invention is to produce a rack of this class of such character that it may be manufactured for considerably less and such that it will not require aspecial carrying-base.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

v Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device, and Fig. 2 a plan in slight horizontal perspective.

My present form of tool-holders is composed almost entirely of a single piece of wire, as follows: Starting at one end I form a vertical eye 10, from which extends a horizontal track member 11, this track member being intended to extend at right angles from the wall to which the device is to be attached and of any desired length. At the outer end of the track member 11 the wire is bent up and doubled upon itself to form a substantially vertical eye or abutment 12 and from thence downward and inward to form the brace member 13. At the inner lower end of the brace member 13 the wire is bent to form a substantially vertical portion 1 1 and is then doubled upon itself to form a vertical eye 15 (said eye being parallel-with the eye 10) and thence upward as a vertical member 16. At the upper end of the member 16, immediately adjacent the eye 10, I form a vertical eye 17, the wire extending from thence outward at right angles to the track member 11 and at right angles to the planes of the eyes 10 and 17, as at 18. It is then doubled upon itself to form a vertical eye 19 at right angles to the planes of eyes 10 and 17 and forming also the horizontal transverse member 20, which passes through the eyes 17 and 10, extending from thence first upwardly and then downwardly to form a substantially vertical carat-shaped screw-receiving crotch 21, thence outwardly in the transverse member 22, doubled upon itself to form the vertical eye 23, corresponding with the eye 19,thence backward as a transverse member 2A and upward and around the transverse member 22, thus forming a vertical eye 25, similar to the eye 17, and from thence downward as a vertical member 26, similar to and parallel with the vertical member 16. At

and upward as an inclined brace 29, doubled 5 upon itself to forma vertical abutment or eye 30, thence inward as a horizontal track member 31, and at the inner end bent around the transverse member 22 to form a vertical eye 32 in form and arrangement like the parts 13, 12, 11, and 10, respectively.

In order to tie the lower ends of the vertical members 16 and 26 together, I provide a transverse member consisting of substantially horizontal end eyes 33 and 3 1, (which pass through the eyes 15 and 27, respectively, and the intermediate carat-shaped screw-receiving crotch 35.) The eyes 19 andr23 are displaced slightly from the vertical plane of the screwreceiving crotch 21, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and the screw-receiving crotch 35 is also displaced slightly from the horizontal plane of the vertical members 16 and 26, so that when ordinary screws or headed pins or nails are placed the proper distance apart in any wall the holder may be readily attached by forcing the crotches 21 and 35 behind the heads thereof, the transverse upper member especially being by this means straightened out and by reason of its resilience holding the device in position against accidental displacement.

It will be readily understood that in describing the shape of the wire no intention has been had of defining the exact successive steps of bending, but merely to indicate the final condition.

The holder described is much cheaper to manufacture than the device shown in my grior patent, and it needs no separate wooden ase.

I claim as my invention- 1. A device of the class described consisting of the two substantially vertical triangular members and a pair of connecting transverse members, each of said transverse members be- 10 5 ing provided with a carat-shaped crotch, and one of said transverse members having its ends displaced from the vertical plane of its crotch, for the purpose set forth.

2. A device of the class described consisting I I o of a single piece of wire bent to form a pair of vertical triangular members and a transverse member having an intermediate pinreceiving crotch, the said transverse member connecting one pair of adjacent corners of the triangular members; and asecond transverse member also provided with an intermediate pin-receiving crotch, said second transverse member connecting another adjacent pair of apexes of the vertical members.

3. A device of the class described consisting of a single wire bent to form an eye 10 at one end, a track 11 extending substantially hori zontal therefrom, an upturned eye 12 at the outer end of said track 11, a downwardly and inwardly inclined brace member 13, an eye 15 formed at the lower end thereof, a vertical member 16 rising from said eye, an eye 17 formed substantially parallel with the adjacent eye 10, a transverse doubled member 18 19 21 22 23 24:, an eye 25 formed adjacent the portion 21 of the transverse member, a vertical member 26 arranged substantially parallel with the vertical member 16, an eye 27 formed at the lower end of said member 26 an upwardly and outwardly extending brace member 29 extending from said member 26, an upturned eye 30 formed at the upper end of said brace member, a horizontal track member 31 formed substantially parallel with the track member 11, an eye 32 formed at the inner end of said track member and embracing the transverse member, and a transverse member provided with an eye at each end passing through and connecting the eyes 15 and 27, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Huey, Illinois, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1904.

JOHN W. DAN HOUR. [L. s] l/Vitnesses:

D. U. STRANG, J'os. L. Hour.

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