US973750A - Garment-support. - Google Patents

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R. H. BUGKINGHAM.

GARMENT SUPPORT. APPLIUATION FILED *213.11g 19m.

Patented 061.2511910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSWELL H. BUCKINGHAM, 0F BARBERTON, OHIO,A ASSIGNOR TO THE BARBERTON NOVELTY COMPANY, OF BARBERTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

GARMENT-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oet. 25', 1910.

Applicationl filed February 11, 1910. Serial No. 543,317.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RoswnLL I-I. BUCK- INGHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barberton, in the county of Summit, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Supports, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to garment supports and has for its principal object to provide a support upon which various articles of wearing apparel are adapted to be hung so as to take up as little room as possible.

It is a further object of my invention to improve garment supports in sundry details hereinafter pointed out.

The means by which I have accomplished these objects are shown in the drawings and hereinafter specifically described.

' That which I believe to be new will be set forth in the claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side view of my improved support. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. In Figs. 1 and 2 there are indicated in dotted lines a number of garments in posit-ion on the support. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of my improved device. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the several figures of the drawings in which corresponding parts are indicated by like reference characters, 10 indicates the main supporting bar of my device.

11 indicates the main vertical bar of my device, in the construction shown being in the form of a metal strip.

12 indicates a corner iron secured to the bars 10 and 11 in any suitable manner.

13 indicates a diagonal brace bar extending from the upper end of the bar 11 to an intermediate point on the bar 10, being secured at its ends in any suitable manner to said bars 10 and 11. The bar 11 is provided with suitable holes at its ends through which screws are adapted to be passed to secure the device in position against a wall or other upright surface.

14 indicates a frame secured on the upper face of the bar 10, in the construction shown being formed by a continuation' of the diagonal strip 13.

15-16 indicatetwo strips which are revolubly secured upon a pin 17 above a sleeve 18 on the vertical upper portion 0f the frame 14. The strips 15-16 are provided with offset end portions, whereby they are adapted to support a hat as illustrated in Fig. 1, the strips being adapted to be turned at any desired angle relative to each other to accommodate hats of various sizes.

19-20 indicate three-sided rectangular frames pivotally mounted on the frame 14, one at each side thereof and extending sidewise therefrom.

21 indicates arms one of which depends from each of the transversely extending bars of the frames 19-20.

22-23 indicate strips secured to the lower ends of the arms 21, one at each side of thel bar 10.

24-25 indicate coiled springs secured at their ends to the frames 19-20 below the point at which such frames are secured to the frame 14, one of such springs being employed at each end of the frames 19-20. The springs 24-25 thus serve to hold the strips 22-23 yieldingly against the bar 10,

a pair of trousers being adapted to be ins-erted between the strip 22 and the bar 10 or between the strip 23 and the bar 1() and held securely in position, as will be readily understood.

26-27 indicate coat hangers hooked over the longitudinally-extending horizontal bars of the frames 19-20.

While I have shown the strips 22-23 of a length to receive and grip the full width of the legs of a pair of trousers, I do not restrict myself to this construction, the essential feature being that the bars 22-23 shall clamp the trousers legs firmly against the bar 10, and the claims are to be construed accordingly.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a garment support, the combination of a horizontal bar, a standard rising therefrom, a strip pivotally mounted on said standard at each side thereof and adapted to swing toward or away from said bar, and a spring connecting said two strips below their pivotal point tending to draw said strips toward said bar.

2. In a garment support, the combination of a horizontal bar, a standard rising therefrom, a longitudinally-extending strip ivotally mounted on said standard at each side thereof and adapted to supporta Coatlianger, other strips connected rigidly with said rst-mentioned longitudinally-extending strips and adapted to be swung into and out of close Contact with said bar, and yielding means tending to draW said last-mentioned strips toward said bar.

3. In a garment support, the combination of a horizontal bar, a standard rising therefrom, a three-sided rectangular frame pivotally mounted on said standard at each side thereof, arms depending from each of said frames, a strip mounted on said arms at each side of and opposite said bar, and a spring connecting one of said frames to the other and tending to hold said strips in contact with said bar.

ROSVVELL H. BUOKINGHAM.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. WILLIAMS, OLIVER J. CURFMAN.

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