US1554375A - Fixture for automobile bodies - Google Patents

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Sept. 22, 1925.

W. SCHNELL FIXTURE FOR AUTOMOBILE BODIES Filed llay 1924 of Michigan, have invented certain new and- Patented Sept. 22, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM SCHNELL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO TERNSTEDT MANUFAC- TURING (30., OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

FIXTURE FOR AUTOMOBILE BODIES.

Application filed May 14, 1924. Serial No. 713,171.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVIL-LIAM SonNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State useful Improvements in Fixtures for Automobile Bodies, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fixtures for automobile bodies, and has for its object a fixture for fastening on the back of an automobile seat for the purpose of affording both a robe rail and a handle with which one may help himself into the car, or the handle may act as a bracket on which to hook an umbrella, cane or similar article.

The design of the fixture is such that the bracket portion for the handle blends into, and harmonizes with the robe rail so as to present a unitary fixture of pleasing and artistic design.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary elevation showing a car equipped with the improved fixture.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of one end of the fixture.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of one end of the fixture.

Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

The ordinary robe rail is provided with an anchoring bracket that is secured by screws to the rear of the front seat. On this bracket is pivotally supported a swinging bar supported by a pair of short arms that are pivoted to the bracket; this part of the construction is old.

In my improvement at designates the bracket, 2) the swinging bar and c the arms. However, my improvement embraces not only a plate or escutcheon designated a, but a loop member 03 which is an integral part of the casting or stamping which forms the escutcheon. This loop 01 extends not only laterally but rearwardly and downwardly, as clearly shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4. The lowerjend of the loop is permanently anchored to the back of the seat immediately below the escutcheon plate by a screw. This additional part of the robe rail bracket performs several functions. One is that it presents a very much stronger support for the robe rail, for instead of being anchored over a small area of the seat back at each end the robe rail is anchored at each end at two fairly widely spaced points. This means that the anchorage is a great deal stronger as against twisting or tearing strains by reason of reducing the leverage of these strains on the anchor fasteners. Furthermore, the loop presents an additional member for supporting such articles as an umbrella, cane, scarf, etc.

Another very important function of the loop is that it presents a handle in a very convenient place to be grasped by one entering the car. This is especially advan tageous for an old, decrepit or invalid person; it presents a handle at the most convenient place for pulling one into the car. At the same time the handle has not a detached or isolated appearance such as it might have if it were mounted as a separate fixture on the seat back. It is a part of and a symmetrical continuation of an ornamental fixture that is now found in all firstclass body jobs.

What I claim is:

A fixture for automobile bodies, comprising a pair of loops the top of each loop merging into an escutcheon plate secured to the back of the seat, the said escutcheon plate provided with a bracket, the intermediate portion of each loop. bowed laterally outwardly and downwardly to form a handle and terminating into a foot which is secured to the back of the seat,- and a robe rail hinged to said bracket carried by each of said escutcheon plates.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

WILLIAM SCHNELL.

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