US2291177A - Universal mounting for hang rods - Google Patents

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y 1942- I A. VANDERVELD 2,291,177

UNIVERSAL MOUNTING FOR HANGRODS Filed Feb. 24, 1941 AnTkori lam uvda Patented July 28, 1942 UNIVERSAL MOUNTING FOR HANG RODS Anthony Vanderveld, Grand Rapids, Mich., assignor to Grand Rapids Store Equipment Company, Grand Rapids, Mich, a corporation of Michigan Application February 24, 1941, Serial No. 380,203

4 Claims.

This invention relates to a mounting for hangrods which in practice are used between spaced apart supporting end members or partitions in display store furniture cabinets.

Where a plurality of such cabinets are located in direct horizontal alinement and the space filled by the furniture is divided into a plurality of cabinet lengths, as by vertical partitions spaced at proper distances from each other and from the ends of the furniture, the mounting of horizontal hangrods is simple and easy. But in cases where the furniture, one end to the other, is of a generally curved form, perhaps in the arc of a circle, and the front sides of the cabinets at which access to the merchandise held and displayed therein are either presented in a convex orconcave form, the dividing partitions in such case are not parallel but are disposed at various angles with respect to each other and in many cases with the angles different and not the same. It is to this condition which is met with in furnishing stores that the present invention is directed for providing a very simple, practical and useful hangrod mounting applicable to whatever may be the angular condition of two adjacent dividing partitions with respect to each other.

With my invention the hangrod mounting is ofa novel construction and includes a novel means for detachably holding and supporting the hangrod so that it may be removed if desirable or necessary. Also the immediate supporting brackets attached to the ends or partitions of the store furniture may be removed as, for example, in utilizing the cabinet structure for filling with other store furniture accessories such as shelves, drawers and the like as may occur with changes of merchandise at different seasons of the year to be carried and displayed.

To the ends stated, as well as others not at this time specifically enumerated, I have made the invention described in the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which,

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary horizontal section illustrating the hangrod mounting of my invention and looking down upon the hangrod supported at each end by the mounting which I have devised.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section showing, perhaps in an exaggerated form, the use of the hangrod mountings with two partitions or ends of a cabinet unit located in vertical planes not parallel but in angular relation to each other.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through a mounting and an adjacent end of the hangrod inserted therein, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view with parts broken away and in section of the mounting of my invention.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figures of the drawing.

In store furniture a cabinet chassis or carcass may be used which in a single cabinet will comprise two spaced apart ends I with a base and top and with the back closed, the front being open or in some cases closed by doors which may be opened for access to the interior of the cabinet. In a line of such furniture along a wall there will be two ends and at spaced intervals between the ends vertical partitions dividing the space into a series of cabinet sections. When the furniture is disposed in a curve, such ends or partitions I will be located in unparallel vertical planes or at an angle to each other as indicated in Fig. 2.

With my invention flat metal brackets are attached in the upper part of the cabinet and to the inner sides of the ends or to the partitions in any cabinet or cabinet section, two of such brackets being used at substantially the same vertical height. Each of these brackets include a flat plate 2 attached to the end or partition I by screws. Said plate at its upper end is formed with an inwardly and upwardly inclined curved section 3 which terminates in an arc-shaped section 4, the axis of which is horizontal. Over the brackets the immediate hang rod supports are adapted to be detachably placed and supported. Each of these supports comprises a cylindrical ring 5, at one end provided with a continuous annular inwardly extending flange 6 and at the other end with a continuous annular downwardly and outwardly tapered flange l, as best shown in Fig. 4. Such hangrod immediate support may be hooked over the upper end of a bracket described, the inclined pointed flange 1 coming to and resting against the inclined section 3 of the bracket and the inner side of the drum 5 resting upon the curved terminal flange 4 (Fig. 1).

The entrance opening for an end of a tubular hangrod 8 is surrounded by the flange 6, such opening being greater in diameter than the exterior diameter of the rod 3. With a rod 8 having each end portion received within one of the supports it is evident that the rod will rest at its lower side against the lower edges of the flanges 6 and that the horizontal longitudinal axis of said rod 8 may be disposed at a considerable angle to the longitudinal axis of the support 5 as shown in Fig. 2, or to both of such supports.

This construction while of simple form has proven very practical and useful. A supporting member 5 may be hooked over its bracket, the other member 5 slipped over an end of the hangrod 8, the opposite end of the rod 8 inserted in the first member 5 and then the rod with the other member 5 thereon lifted substantially to place and said member 5 hooked over the opposite bracket 2. The removal of the rod is quite as simple, direct and easy as is the attachment. Of course, the bracket plate portions 2 being secured to the ends or partitions I by screws may be removed by drawing the screws if the cabinet space is to be used for otherpurposes than supr porting merchandise by hanging it-from the rods 8. Such rods 8 generally are most used upon which to connect garment hangers on which garments are held and suspended.

The invention is defined in the appended-claims and is to be considered comprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim:

1. In a construction of the class described having two spaced apart vertical supports, a supporting device secured to each of the adjacent sides of said supports comprising, a bracket having a portion at its upper end turned away from the support, and a cylindrical ring suspended from each bracket and covering the same, whereby a rod extending between the supports is adapted to have its ends received in the rings, the diameter of the rod being less than the entrance openings therefor in the rings.

2. In a construction of the class described having a vertical support, a rod mounting comprising a bracket having a body portion secured to a side of the support having an upper end portion turned away from said support and provided at its upper end with a curved ledge and with a downwardly and inwardly inclined integral section between said ledge and the body of the support, a ring of cylindrical form having an inclinedflange at one end located over said support with said flange engaging said inclined connecting section and the ring resting upon said curved ledge, said ring having an open outer side through which the end of a rod may be insertedand whereby said rod may be located either perpendicular to the support or at angular positions away from such perpendicular position.

3. In a construction of the class described having a vertical support, a rod mounting comprising a bracket attached to one side of the support, and :a ring suspended from the upper portion of and covering the bracket and abutting against the "support, said 'ring'being readily removablefrom the bracket, and said r'ing'having an outer openin'gthrd'ugh whichthe end of a rod may be inserted, as and for 'the purposes described.

'4. Inaconstru'ction'of the class described hav- Y ing tw'o spaced "apart supporting panels and a ANTHONY VANDERVELD.

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