US2675923A - Clothes display rack - Google Patents

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April 20, 1954- H. G. HUMPHREY 2,675,923

CLOTHES DISPLAY RACK Filed April 10, 1953 in I"? INVENTOR. Haney G. Huu ueen ATTORNEY.

Patented Apr. 20, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention pertains to improvements in clothes racks and is particularly directed to an improved dress and coat hanger display rack which is of highly efficient design and sturdiness of operation at all times.

This invention is directed to an improved structure over that described and claimed in my Patent 2,061,156 issued November 17, 1936.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide an improved display rack for clothes, dresses, coats, and the like, especiallyadapted for use in public stores and sales rooms.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved clothes display rack which will give instantaneous information of the dress size, price, and the like.

A further object of this invention is to provide a highly compact clothes, dress and coat display rack which is rigid in construction and which may be manipulated for examination of the garments hung thereon Without the necessity of touching such garments.

Still another object of this invention is to provide an improved clothes'rack of a coat hanger type which can be manipulated for examination of the clothes without skill or care upon the hart of the person in manipulating the clothes hangers and which may he done Without manual contact with the actual garments.

Still another object of this invention is to provide an improved clothes display rack in which the garments may be moved to and from an examination position but which may also be manipulated further to remove the respective hangers and garments from the rack as a whole.

Still another object of this invention is to protion will appear from a detailed description of drawings in which: Fig. 1 is a plan view of the dressdisplay rack incorporating the features of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a left hand endelevation of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary enlarged section on the line 3-3 of Fig. l.

v Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary section on theline l.-.-4ofFig.3.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view partly in section on the line 55 of Fig, 2.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary view on the line 5e' of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6 but showing the coat hanger member drawn outwardly to latched examination position.

Fig. 8 is a view similar to Figs. 6 and 7 but showing the tilting up motion for releasing the coat hanger member from the display rack,

As illustrative of one embodiment of this invention there is shown a clothes display rack having a main base member l3 comprising a channel iron structure having the vertically disposed portion i l and the upper and lower horizontal portions i2 and i3 respective. At each end of the base member I8 is pivotally mounted the support arms is on suitable pivot pins and to the outer ends of these support arms are pivotally connected by suitable pivot pins [5 an angle iron shaped member ll having its horizontal portion it carried on the pivot pins- I 5 and having a downwardly extending portion I9. The member i? may be rocked from side to side on the lever arms M to positions such as Ida or may be positioned with the lever arms extending outwardly at right angles to the vertically disposed portion H of the member H1 and locked in any of these adjusted positions by means of a locking device consisting of a rod pivotally mounted about one of the pivot pins it on the outer end of one of the arms it and which rod extends through an eye-bolt 2i carried on a supporting bracket piece 22 fixed to the vertically disposed portion ii of the base member it and which eye-bolt may be tightened down to restrict sliding move mentof the rod 29 in the eye of the bolt by a suitable thumb screw 23.

Each of the clothes hanger mem indicated generally at 2t comprises a rectangular hollow section having bifurcated inner end portions 25 which straddle downwardly extending headed pins 21, Fig. 3, fixed in the upper horizontal portion It of the member We Also fixed on an intermediate portion of the hollow section 25 is the support piece'zt having fixed thereto the downwardly extending pin 29. This pin has a head with anupwardly facing abutment surface 31 which engages the under side 32 of the horizontal portion 58 of the angle iron shaped member 5? as the body of the downwardly extending pin enters a slot 33 formed in said portion l8. Further, a cut-away portion 34 merging with the slot 33 is also formed in the downwardly extending portion id of the member H so as to allow the head 3!) of the downwardly extending pin 29 3 to pass through the portion is of the member H at the same time that the bifurcated slotted end portion 26 of the hollow section 25 is entered over the pin 21. Thus, the rectangular hollow section it is demountably and rigidly secured on the members is and I! in the manner described.

In order to lock the member 25 in its mounted position above described, a locking bar 35 is provided which slides along the inner face 36 of the downwardly extending portion l-S of the member i! and is held in the position shown by a pair of operating pins 31 having inwardly extending portions 38 slidably mounted in the slots 39 formed in the portion IQ of the member I I as best seen in Fig. 4. The bar 35 also has arcuate cut-away portions 40 which coincide with the cut-away portions 34 in the member I 3 when the bar is moved to unlocked position as shown in Fig. t so as to enable the head 39 of pins 29 to enter into the position shown in Fig. 3 when mounting the clothes hanger elements 2d in the rack comprising the members Hi and Il. By moving the locking bar 35, to the left in Fig. 4, by manually pushing on the operating pins 31, the bar 35 moves past the fiatted portion ll of the pins 29, moving the cutout portions iii of the bar 35 to one side and therefore preventing the clothes hanger elements 2 5 from being rcmo-ved from the rack. It is to be understood that any number or series of clothes hanger elements E i may be utilized in connection. with the mem bers l and ll and that various spacings and arrangements depending upon the thickness of the garments to be hung can be readily obtained by providing a whole series of slots 33 and pins 2? as shown in the drawings.

On each of the rectangular hollow section members 25 individual coat hangers 42 are provided having upwardly extending plate portions fixed to rectangular bar members A l slidably mounted in the hollow interior of the rectangular hollow portions 25. On the outer ends of the members 44 are fixed tabs 45 in which may be inserted or otherwise secured thereto the size indicating numbers 46, the tabs 45 serving as a means for manually sliding the bar members M in and out of the members 25 without manual contact with the clothing hanging on the coat hanger portions 42 of the device.

In order to normally limit the outer position of the bar members 44 in the members 25 and so that they are not inadvertently pulled out therefrom and the clothes drop upon the floor, there is provided an automatic latch device as shown in Figs. 6, '7 and 8 comprising a spring detent member il secured to the upper surface of the member 25 by a suitable screw 48, spring detent member ll having a downwardly turned end portion 49 which normally resiliently engages the upper surface 50 of the bar member 44 as shown in Fig. 6 with the bar member 44 pushed fully inwardly. As the bar 44 is pulled outwardly as shown in Fig. 7 a notch in the upper surface 5d of the member 44 is engaged by the end 49 of the spring detent member 47 so that the bar normally held in the position shown in Fig. '7 by its own weight or the clothing thereon will not come out from the member 25. However, should it be desired to remove the garment and coat hanger from the rack structure and from the tubular member 25 it is merely necessary to raise the outer end of the member 34 upwardly whereupon the notch is released from the spring detent member ll and its end 49 which is limited in its downward movement to the position shown 4 at 49a in Fig. 8 while the lower surface 52 of bar 44 is formed as a bevel or tapered portion relative to the normal straight bottom of the bar M to enable the bar member and coat hanger and garments thereon to be readily lifted from and removed from the support of the bar member 25.

There has thus been provided an improved garment hanger and display rack which may be readily adjusted for sidewise swinging movement; which may be provided with a series of clothes hanger members of variable spacing desired; and in which each of the clothes hanger menu bers have individual coat hanger elements which may be slid in and out between predetermined fixed limits but which coat hanger elements may also be readily individually removed from their respective supporting structures in the display rack.

While the apparatus herein disclosed and described constitutes a preferred form of the invention, it is also to be understood that the apparatus is capable of mechanical alteration without departing from the spirit of the invention and that such mechanical arrangement and commercial adaptation as fall within the scope of the appendent claims are intended to be included herein.

Having thus fully set forth and described this obtained by United States Letters Patent is:

1. In a clothes display rack, a base member, an upper horizontal portion formed integral with and projecting forwardly from said base member, downwardly extending headed pins fixed to the under side of said upper horizontal portion of said base member, support arms pivotally mounted on each end of said base member, an angle shaped member having a downwardly extending front portion, and an integral rearwardiy extending horizontal portion pivotally mounted on the outer ends of said support arms, slots formed partially through said rearwardly ex ing horizontal portion from said downwa extending front portion, an enlarged cut-away portion in said downwardly extending front poltion aligned with said slots, a series of rectangular hollow clothes support members, a bifurcated inner end on said rectangular hollow clothes support members adapted to be presented around said downwardly extended headed pins on said base member, and downwardly extended headed pins fixed intermediate the ends of said rectangular hollow clothes support members adapted to be slidably received in said slots in said angle shaped member.

2. In a clothes display rack, a base member, an upper horizontal portion formed integral with and projecting forwardly from said base mem-- ber, downwardly extending headed pins fixed the under side of said upper horizontal portion of said base member, support arms pivotally mounted on each end of said base member, an angle shaped member having a downwardly tending front portion, and an integral rearwardly extending horizontal portion pivotally mounted on the outer ends of said support arms, slots formed partially through said rearwardly extending horizontal portion from said downwardly extending front portion, an enlarged Cllt"a c portion in said downwardly extending front portion aligned with said slots, a series of rectangular hollow clothes support members, a bifurcated inner end on said rectangular hollow clothes support members adapted to be presented around said downwardly extending headed pins on said base member, downwardly extended headed pins fixed intermediate the ends of said rectangular hollow clothes support members adapted to be slidably received in said slots in said angle shaped member, a locking bar slidably mounted on said angle shaped member having arcuate cut-away portions along its upper edge arranged in alignment with said slots in said angle shaped member when said. locking bar is moved to unlocked position, said locking bar blocking said slots to prevent removal of said rectangular clothes support members when said locking bar is moved to a locked position.

3. In a clothes display rack, a base member, an upper horizontal portion formed integral with and projecting forwardly from said base member, downwardly extending headed pins fixed to the under side of said upper horizontal portion of said base member, support arms pivotally mounted on each end of said base member, an angle shaped member having a downwardly extending front portion, and an integral rearwardly extending horizontal portion pivotally mounted on the outer ends of said support arms, slots formed partially through said rearwardly extending horizontal portion from said downwardly extending front portion, an enlarged cutaway portion in said downwardly extending front portion aligned with said slots, a series of rectangular hollow clothes support members, a bifurcated inner end on said rectangular hollow clothes support members adapted to be presented around said downwardly extending headed pins on said base member, downwardly extended headed pins fixed intermediate the ends of said rectangular hollow clothes support members adapted to be slidably received in said slots in said angle shaped member, a locking bar slidably mounted on said angle shaped member having arcuate cut-away portions along its upper edge arranged in alignment with said slots in said angle shaped member when said locking bar is References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 721,944 Douglas Mar. 3, 1903 1,500,999 Kurtz July 8, 1924 1,548,739 Pinto Aug. 4, 1925 2,061,156 Humphrey Nov. 1'7, 1936

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