US1192965A - Hanger or rack. - Google Patents

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F. WHITE.

HANGER 0R RACK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 4. 1911.

Patented Aug'. 1,1916.

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F. WHITE.

HANGER 0R RACK.

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Application filed March 4, 1911.

7 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK WHITE, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Glen Ridge, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hangers or Racks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention herein described consists of a rack or hanger that is designed to provide means for suspending articles, preferably kitchen utensils, which are provided with a headed shank.

The hanger is made in any length and can be provided with any number of slots of peculiar structure and disposed in a manner to provide a positive and safe means for suspending articles with the headed shanks to cooperate with the slots.

The invention consists also of a pocket which forms a receptacle for kettle covers and the like, and is made of one piece with a bead or off-set which is provided with the slots, which slots are key-hole slots.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of a hanger of my improved construction. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2, 2, in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective of one end of the hanger shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section taken through one of the key-hole slots shown in Fig. 3, showing the method of placing and removing the articles from the hanger.

The hanger is made preferably from a single sheet or strip of material such as metal, and I illustrate in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, a structure in which the metal is bent to form the front wall 10, which wall is in clined and when fastened to a suitable support 10 forms a pocket 11 for kettle covers 12 and similar things. The metal is bent into side walls 13 and end tabs 14. The end tabs form means for fastening the device to the support 10 preferably by nails 15. vVhere the bottom edge of the wall meets or nearly meets the support 10 it is bent to form a bead or off-set which has a top 16, a front 17 and a bottom 18. I provide the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Serial No. 612,358.

front and the bottom of the off-set with keyhole slots 19 which have their enlarged ends 20 in the front 17 and the narrow end of the slot terminating in the bottom 18.

The articles to be suspended, whether they be kitchen utensils, tools, or other articles, are each provided with a screw, or pin or any shank 21 that has a head 22 on it smallenough to pass through the enlarged end 20 of the key-hole slot and too large to pass through the main part of said slot. The article with its headed shank is inserted as shown in Figs, where a shows the position of the article when it is being installed or removed, and 6 shows the position when the article is suspended. The front 17 of the bead is preferably arranged at an angle'so that the handle of the article, with its shank 21, must be lifted well up before it can be removed, thereby making it impossible to accidentally knock off the articles by brushing against them. The angular arrangement of the front 17 has another function which is to draw the inner edge 23 of the bottom 18 away from the support 1O so that the articles, such as the handle 24, which are sometimes of large diameter, can be suspended without coming in contact or interfering with the wall or support 10". The

angular arrangement of the front 17 is not, however, essential.

This structure provides a safe device in which the suspended articles are not apt to be jolted or swung from the holder. The hanger is so constructed that when secured to a door or in other positions where it might be moved or stopped suddenly, or in situations where the utensils or tools suspended from the holder might be hit to swing them, the head of the shank will engage the angle formed at the juncture of the front and the bottom of the bead, which would act as a fulcrum, and the liability of the handle to swing from-the slot is very remote. It will be noted that in order to remove the tool with the headed shank from the slot, it must be swung up to at least 90 degrees from its suspended position, as shown at a in Fig. 4, in order to remove it.

In Fig. 6 is shown a circular bead which is bent out and then downwardly and inwardly to form a front 25 and a bottom 26. This construction provides a device that is smooth and without points particularly at the places where the articles are suspended,

and there is little or no chance for clothing to become caught on the bead or off-set and there is no chance of injury or cutting by engaging the edges of the bead, since the rounded or projecting beads act somewhat as fenders.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A hanger for holding devices with headed shanks, said hangers comprising a sheet of metal formed into a bead having a front which extends downwardly and out wardly and a bottom which extends downwardly and inwardly, the front and bottom having a key-hole slot vertically arranged therein with its large end uppermost, the front and bottom being oined so as to form a sharp angle intermediate of the ends of the slot, the distance from the angle to the enlargement of the slot being greater than sheet of metal formed into a head with a front and bottom meeting at a sharp angle, and a key-hole slot extending from said angle part way into the front and part way into the bottom, the slot having its large end uppermost, the distance from the angle to the enlargement of the slot being greater than the length of the shank from the article to the head.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 3rd day of March 1911.

FRANK WHITE.

Witnesses VVM. H. CAMFIELD, M. A. J OHNSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certifiedthat in Letters Patent No. 1,192,965, granted August 1,

1916, upon the application of Frank White; of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, for an improvement in Hangers or Racks, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, strike out lines 105-107, and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 5th day of September, A. D., 1916.

F. W. H. CLAY, Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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