US349212A - Goods-rack - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. BANNER.

GOODS RACK.

No. 349,212. P-

tented Sept. 14, 1886.

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NITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DANNER, OF CANTON, OHIO.

GOODS-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,212, dated September 14:, 1886.

7 Application filed January 23, 1886. Serial No. 189,456.

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Be it known that I, JOHN BANNER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Canton, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in GoodsRaek s, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, -making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvementsin goods-racks; and it consists in providing a portable rack adapted to support a series of shelvesfor books or merchandise, and that is provided with projecting pins or arms adapted to'support bolts of goods for exposition or other purposes, and that may be taken down and folded together for conveniencein storing when not in use or for packing for transportation.

My invention also relates to and consists in the detail and combination of parts, as described, and set forth in the claims.

Figure 1 is a View in perspective of my improved goods-rack, showing the rack as partly occupied by bolts of goods and shelves of books and groceries, and partly unoccupied, showing the supporting-pins. Fig. 2 is same view of the rack empty and partly folded. Fig. 3 is a view .of the rack folded as when not in use or for transportation. Figs. 4 is a view of a frag ment of the frame, showing the upper end with hinges attached. Fig. 5 is a fragment of the pinsupporting strip and pin, enlarged.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

The rack A is composed of two frames,B and B, connected at their upper ends by hinges, the other end formed into legs or feet, which, when the rack is in use, rest on the floor. The side bars,O, of the frames B and B may be of wood one inch thick and three inches wide, united by cross-bars I), placed one at the upper end of the frame, and to which the hinges a may be applied, and one near the bottom. Said bars may be of such size and number as may be required, preferably two and about oneand one-halfinch wide and oneinch thick; or, if desired, the space between the side bars, 0, may be closed with board-work in panels or other forms of finish. On the face of the barsCthere is provided a facing-strip, E, of about one and (No model.)

one-half inch in width and about one inch thick,and may be of the full length of the frame or shorter, as maybe required,and may be provided with aseries of perforations, b, of about five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter and of such distance apart, as desired, and to correspond in this measurement. Said strips are secured to the face of the sidebars, O, by hinges e, (see Fig. 2,) and may stand out edgewise or at a right angle with the face of the side bar,

0, orbefolded downupon the face of the bar,as shown in Fig.2. The supporting-pins (1 may be of any suitable material, preferably of steel or stiff brass, and may be polished or plated, if desired. Said pin has formed on one of its ends a countersunk head, 0, the pin and head adapted to the countersink, and perforations b to place the pins in position. The strips E may be folded down on the face of the side bar, C, as shown in Fig. 2, and the pins passed into the perforations, as shown in Fig. 5, and when so placed at such intervals as may be desired the strip E maybe turned out, as shown in Fig.

1, and secured in position by the hook f or 7 5 other fastening, and when so fixed the head of the pin will rest in the countersink in the strip E and against the side bar, 0, or the hinged strip E may be provided with other means of supporting the pin 01 instead of the perforations liereinbefore mentioned. The stay-rods h may be pivotally connected by one of their ends to the side bars, 0, of the frame B, as shown in i Fig. 2. The other end is formed into a hook, k, that may catch over a pin or into a sta 8 5 ple, Z, on the side bars, 0, of the frame B, to support the rack when in use, or may be turned up, as shown, by the dotted lines m, Figs. 2 and 3. In Fig. 1 is shown a few of the uses to which this invention is adapted in the exhibition of bolts of goods, a shelf of books, and a case of groceries. The shelves M and N may be of a variety of forms and are removable, and when on the frames are held in position by the rings or staples n,provided on the under side of the shelf, and through. which the pins pass. Said rings also form feet for the shelf to rest upon when reinov ed from the frame and placed on a counter or elsewhere. The shelves may be provided with folding backs or ends and may be provided with a glass or other covering. The number of the pins d may be varied and so placed in the strips 0 as to adapt the rack to the required use, and may be moved from one perforation to another byfoldingthe stri p over on its side, as shown in Fig. 2, when the pins may be moved out of and into the perforations, as desired, and will be held in position when the strip is again turned back into position, as shown in Fig. 1, and secured by the hook f.

To fold the rack for convenience in storage or transportation, remove the shelves, fold in the pin-strips, raise the stay-rods, as shown by the dotted lines, and fold the rack, as shown in Fig. 3.

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A goods-rack consisting, essentially, of two rectangularframeshingedtogether at theirupper ends, each of said frames having strips hinged to the front face thereof, and devices projecting from said strips for supporting the articles, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with two rectangular frames hinged together at their upper ends, each of said frames being provided with the strips E, the latter being hinged to the frames and provided with projecting devices for supporting the goods orshelves, ot'hooks or equivalent fastening devices for locking the frames in open adjustment, substantially as set forth.

3. I 11 a goods-rack, tl 1e frames B and B, hinged together, as described, having side bars, 0, provided with thepertorated strips E, hinged thereto, the outward]y-projeeting removable pins (Z as a support for shelves, show-cases, bolts of JOHN D A NNEH.

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