US805051A - Clothes-tree. - Google Patents

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PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

M. BIDWELL. CLOTHES TREE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1905.

WITNESSES;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTHES-TREE.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed April 11, 1905. Serial No 255,069.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Mosns BIDWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Trees, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in clothes-trees, the object being to provide new and improved construction whereby the same may be folded into small compass and yet may be readily opened to provide one or more clothes-supporting arms so arranged as to balance one anotherand as to be rigidly supported at a proper angle to in turn support the clothes to be hung thereon.

Incidentally, my invention has for its object simplicity and economy of construction.

In the accompanyin drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of t e preferred form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the base detached. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the tree, the ends of the arms being broken away.

1 is a base of any suitable form, upon which is mounted the tree portion. The tree portion comprises the uprights 2 2, spaced apart by what I term stop-blocks 3.

4 4 are arms pivoted at -5 to the uprights 2 2. These arms are capable of being folded into the, position shown in Fig. 1, wherein the lowermost arms are coincident with the uprights 2 2. The position of the pivots for the arms is such relatively to the stop-blocks 3 that thelatter perform the valuable function of supporting the arms when turned down into the operative position in addition to that of furnishing a reinforcement for the uprights. For example, the pivot 5 is placed not at the end of its respective arm, but near the end, a tailpiece 4 projecting below said pivot to a sufiicient extent to furnish a substantial bearing, which will engage with the under side of its respective stop-block when the arm is turned down to the horizontal position or the position of use. It should be understood that any number of uprights may be provided and that the various arms may be so placed thereon as to avoid interference with other arms above, below, or at the sides thereof.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the apparatus is of skeleton form and is hence very light,- and conse uently may be very cheaply manufacture The upright portion is, when'completed, of truss or bridge like construction; hence, though light, is very strong.

What I claim is A clothes-tree comprising, a skeleton-like body composed of a plurality of separate upright members, stop-blocks at frequent intervals between said members spacing them apart and rigidly connecting the same, swinging arms pivoted near their ends to said upright members adjacent to said stop-blocks, the inner ends of said arms engaging said blocks when the former are swung outwardly.

MOSES BIDWELL.

Witnesses:

R. C. MITCHELL, L. VREELAND.

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