US919173A - Hanger for ear-corn. - Google Patents

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L. W. HURFF. HANGER FOR BAR CORN. APPLICATION FILED lUG. 8, 1908.

Patented Apr. 20, 1909.

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ljUUlllN W. HURFF, OF GALESBURG, lliLlNOlS.

HANGER FOR EAR-CORN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 20, 1909.

Application filed August 8, 1908. Serial No. %7,517

llorn; and l do hereby dcclar that the following a lull, clear. and exact description which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to malco and use the same My invention relates to improvements in hangers for car col-in and has for its object the provision of an all metal hanger adapted to carry a largonumbor of ears upon a relatively small hanger and to he placed thereon enlirely separate "from one another that they may dry out uniformly and in lhe most pcrit'cct manner preserve the vitality of the corn: also, to adapt the hanger to he su'spendud in a corn cri'o so that the corn may be safe -from vermin and also to proride a hanger that will moot all requirements at the smallestpossihla cosl'.

I am aware that what are known corn trees andraclcs have been heretofore patented but none of them are made entirsly of metal and all of chem so far as I am aware, are unnecessarily cumbersome and. complex.

That my invention maybe more fully understood, reference is bad to the accompanying drawings, in Whichof the invontion,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my (levies showing cars of corn attached. The length. of the device as I would cniployit would be considerably longer than shown in tho lignrc however; Fig. also shows a side ration of a section of the device; Fl top plan VlQW upon the. lino However, in this view, the wire. is L'lii) oil; and Fig. 1- iiou along one sidu of the in parlivnlarly showi' l'hs man (the impalii A a ha: i

ll arc impaling of steel wire adapted to he coiled upon the hanger wire, the respective folds of the coil meeting corresponding depressions in the body of the hanger wire to adapt the said iinpaling prongs to he maintained in a fixed position so that lhsy will neither slide up and down upon the hanger wire or he turned from right to left.

The inipaling prongs are arranged in pairs, representing respective ends or the single wire that is coiled upon the hanger wire and are adapted to be sharpened at their ends to facilitate the penetration of the pith of the ears of corn. A scriss of such pairs ofiinpaling prongs are adapted to be arranged upon the hanger wire in as great: number as may be desired antladaptod to ho arranger upon tho hanger wire so that: the adjacent pairs of prongs will bear in a direclion at right a nglcs to each other; However, the adjacent, pairs may be arranged atany angles so long as they an. arranged so that the ears of corn may be olavcd thereon- \vitlr outv touching or interfering with each other. l ll *3l'21l; lf., I desire that the prongs shall hear urnvardly at approximatol v the angle shown; howevor, thcy nia he naalvv to hear in any angle from prrpvodiriilar hanger wire without departing from thy spirit of my invention.

In carrying ontany invention, the, simplest means that occurs to inn o i'rarqsing the c. s of the ro.--:;.)aotiva pairof impaling w to engage the porpeiuh-cnlar hanger. wile that; the coils may he Silplilfill. down (MQl' i hangar wire and thon hy the stroke of ahaonncr upon the coil. its 't'ohls will be caused to hrcinhcddml within tho body of lilo hangar Wire. llowvvorr dqirossions may no made in tho hodv o'l nu: hanger wire, and the (oils en Slipped down orsr the inns and he cans fl to spring; into such dapreswns and thereby he held in place.

"rl' hat'l claim is:

lo a device of the class described, the coinon of a hanger \virc p-Jovidod with a loop a its upper and adapting it to he hung iron, ol serrations an errals throughout the length of {l o who hanger and {li p-coed altornatoly 1n verlic prongs prclarahly made di'fi'erent vertical planes, a series of pointed prongs from vertical or circumferential impaling prongs arranged in pairs,'the removement upon the han er wire. 10 spective pairs meeting in coils at the centers In testimony whereo I have afiixed my of the respective pairs, said coils flattened to signature, in presence of two witnesses.

form an oblong central opening adapted to LUCIEN W. HURFF. v

' engage the different sets of serrations upon Witnesses.

thevertieal hanger, whereby the coils en ag- L. F. VVER MAN, ing the serrations will hold the impa ing F. L. CONGER.

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