US888295A - Kitchen-rack. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 19, 1908. B. L. BAILEY. KITOHEN RACK. APPLICATION TILED 0UT.22, 1907.

mma BWZMZ flad y BERTIE L. BAILEY, OF GRESSTON, GEORGIA.

KITCHEN-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

TPatented May 19, 1908.

Application filed October 22, 1907. Serial H0. 398,688.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTIE L. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gresston, in the county of Dodge and State of Georgia, haveinvented new and useful 11 provements in Kitchen-Racks, of which the ollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to kitchen racks, the

I object of the invention being to'provide a other articles and bein cheap and convenient rack for use in kitchens, the same being adapted for the support of spoons, forks, dish cloths and various further especially ada ted for drying dish 0 oths and the like.

' ith the above and other objects in view,

, the invention consists in the novel construcrec several lengths of wire of suitable gage are bent and twisted together so as to form when completed a series of horizontal bars 1, 2, 3 and 4, and another series of vertical bars 5, 6, 7 and 8, and in this connection, it is to be noted that the number of horizontal and vertical bars may be increased or diminished to satisfy the taste of the manufacturer. The

top bar is provided at one or morepoints ties by the top and with suspending eyes or hooks 9 by means of which the rack as a whole may be hun on a wall, partition or similar sup ort.. T e remaining horizontal bars are ashioned into hooks 10 adapted for the support of spoons, forks, dish cloths and the like. Qn account of thesehooks being interposedbetween the vertical bars any strain on the hooks will be distributed by means of the vertical and horizontal bars to different parts of the rack;

In the manufacture of t e main body of the rack, the vertical end wires 5 and 8 are connected at their u per and lower extremiottom horizontal wires as clearly shown in Fig. 1 and also by the central intermediate wire 3. The other intermediate vertical wires are then connected with the top and bottom and central intermediate horizontal wires after which the other intermediate horizontal wires 2 and 4 are connected with all of the vertical wires. The horizontal wires are wrapped around the vertical wires andmade up of sections, the adjoinin ends of which are twisted together to form looks at the same time producing a tension on both the horizontal and vertical wires and thereby making a strong and practically indestructible rack frame.

In connection with one or both and bars of the rack, I employ one or more pivoted and foldin arms 10 having upturned extremities or hoo s 11 u on which cloths may be mounted to be dried. On each of the pivoted and folding drier arms 10 is mounted one or more clothes ins 12, each of which is formed as shown in ig. 3 of a single len th of wire,

the middle ortion of which is fas ioned into the sha e 0 the letter E to form a clamp wire are coiledaround the body of the drier arm 10 so as to anchor the clothes in securely thereto while adapting said clot es pin to be turned upon said arm to bring the clamping portion of .the clothes in either above or below or to either side 0 the drier arm, as may be desired. By thus fastening the wet cloths u on thedrier arms they are prevented from being blown away. When the arms 10 are not in use, they may be folded closely against the body of the rack for transportation or storage.

The arms 10 are of a size adapting them to be swung inward into the spaces or openings between the meshes of the vertical and horizontal wires. so that when said arms 10 are folded inward they are contained within the plane of the rack and are entirely out of the way so as not to interfere with suspending various articles-on the hooks 10. Llkewise, the clothes pins 12 which are journaled on the drier arms 10 are adapted to be swung into the plane of the arms so'that when the arms are folded inwardly said pins will lie in the plane of the body of the rack. Thus,

for hol ing the cloth while the ends of the,

folded into the openings adjacent thereto, they will not interfere with hanging articles on the hooks 10.

Havin thus fully described the invention, what is c aimed as new is A rack for the purpose set forth embody- 1 ing a frame comprising vertical end wires, top and bottom and intermediate horizontal Wires-connecting the end wires and each composed of sections, the adjoining ends of whloh are twisted together to form hooks, interfileturned so es to lie in the opening? or openings diate vertical Wires connecting the horizontal and Within the plane of the rack.

Wires and leaving 0 enings between the ver- In testimony whereof I efifix my signature tical and horizonta Wires, one or more drier in presence of two Witnesses.

'erms journaled on the vertical end Wires and BERTIE L. BAILEY. adapted. to fold into the adjacent opening Witnesses:

or openings, and one or more clothes pins MATTIE M. HARRELL,

journaled on each arm and adapted to be AMANDA LORD.

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