US2789703A - Costumer - Google Patents

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April 23, 1957 J, KURTZ 2,789,703

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ATTORNEYS.

J. KURTZ lCOSTUMER April Z3, 1957 Filed dan. 21, 1955 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 dof/v kan rz INVENTOR ATTORNEYS COSTUMER lohn Kurtz, Bethlehem, Pa.

Application January 21, 1955, Serial No. 483,365

2 Claims. (Cl. 211171) This invention relates to an improved costumer and more particularly to an improved coat and garment rack of the type commonly known as a clothes tree.

It is an object of this invention to provide a costumer of the kind to be more particularly described hereinafter which is rotatable on its base having garment supporting States PatentiO hangers movable outwardly or inwardly from a center supporting post therefor.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved clothes tree of this kind having half-garment engaging arms operative to an outwardly extending garment engaging position transversely of and supported by a center supporting post, the garment engaging halfarms being operative in unison with a similar and opposed half-arm to provide therewith a full garmenty hanger pivotally supported on the center post.

It is yet a further object of this invention to provide an improved clothes tree of this kind having a conventional type of center supporting post lwith foldable gar ment supporting hangers thereon, said hangers being foldable from a position parallel to the post to an outwardly extending position laterally of the post by the iingers of a person using the clothes tree.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter described and the novel features thereof defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a side elevation, partly in section, of an improved costumer constructed according to an embodiment of my invention. p

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side elevation, partly broken away, of the upper end of my costumer.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation, partly broken away and partly in section, of the intermediate portion of the costumer with the arms thereof in their extended position.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section of my improved costumer taken on the line 5 5 of Figs. 4 and 6.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary detailed longitudinal section of an arm of my costumer.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged side elevation, partly broken away and partly in section, of the intermediate portion of my costumer with the arms thereof in their folded position.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation, partly broken away, perpendicular to the view of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is an exploded perspective view of a clothes hanger and support therefor removed from my costumer.

Heretofore the use of a clothes rack has been substantially commonplace in a lot of homes or other meeting places where a number of persons are adapted to hang their garments on the clothes tree. With this invention the garments of the persons using the costumer or clothes rack are adapted to be hung from a garment hanger and all of the garment hangers are adapted to be spring pressed to a position parallel to and outwardly extending from a supporting post. By the use of a clothes rack,

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constructed according to an embodiment of this invention, the supporting post and the garment hangers attached thereto are formed for disposition in a part of a building in such a manner that the complete clothes rack will not require as much attention without clothes as an ordinary conventional umbrella supporting device, also found in the same establishment which may use this clothes rack.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings the numeral 10 designates generally a costumer or clothes rack constructed according to an embodiment of my invention. The clothes rack 10 is provided with an upstanding tubular supporting post 11 which extends upwardly from a base 12. The base 12 is particularly adapted to be circular in configuration having depending legs 14 on the outer periphery thereof and a tubular boss 15 at the center so that the supporting post 11 may be engaged within the upper open end of the boss l5 to support the supporting post 11 in its selected location.

Provided within the supporting post 11 adjacent to and spaced above'the base 12 is a solid ring 16 which is engaged by one end of an elongated rod 17 extending upwardly from the base. In this manner the rod 17 and ring 16 will substantially stabilize the elongated upstanding tubular supporting post 11 on the center of the base 12.

A plurality of garment hanger supporting arms 18 are adapted to be located in a row above the base 12 along the length of the supporting post 11.

Each of the hanger supporting arms 18 is hingedly connected to the supporting post 11 by a pair of horizontally spaced apart hinge arms 19 within which a hinge pin 20 is adapted to be engaged for the loose disposition of the hinge arms 19 thereon.

A spur gear 21 is secured onto the hinge pin 20, intermediate the length thereof so that the spur gear 21, the hinge pin 20 and the garment hanger supporting arms 18 will be moved at the same time and at the same speed.

There is provided Within the tubular supporting post 11 an elongated rack 22 which is adapted to be positioned according to the location of any one of the garment hanger supporting arms 18 so that all of the garment hanger supporting arms and hangers supported therefrom will be located in the same relative position to each other and to the supporting post upon the movement of one of the supporting arms 18 caused by the movement of the controlling supporting arm by the ngers of a person using the costumer or clothes rack 10, constructed according to an embodiment of my invention.

A garment hanger 24 is hingedly supported on each of the garment hanger supporting arms 18 remote from the supporting post 11 and outwardly therefrom for engagement with a garment to be suspended from the clothes rack. Each of the garment hangers 24 is formed of a pair of hingedly connected garment hanger arms 25 which may extend outwardly from the supporting post 11. An arm 26 is hingedly connected by a pin 27 to each of the garment hanger arms 25 and to the arms 29 as can be noted from Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings. The hinge pin 27 provides a vertical axis for the arm 26 when the said arm is to be extended outwardly from the supporting post 11.

An elongated bar 28 is extended through part of the length of the hanger supporting arm 18 and engages arm 29 at one end and the center tubular supporting post 11 at the other end thereof thereby actuating the movement of the hinge arm 19 and the garment hanger when at least one of the garment hanger supporting arms 18 is moved to its selected position.

There are provided a pair of arms 29 hingedly connected to the outer end of the bar 28 and the other end Patented Apt. 23, 1957- ispivotally connectedto one of the arms 26, a part of the arms 25 as most clearly indicated in Figs; 5 and 6 of the drawings.

Each of the garment hanger arms 25 is provided with a leaved boss 3i) at one end thereofthrough which' ex `tendsa hinge pin 31 for holding both of the hanger arms 25 together on the outer endv of the garment hanger supporting'arm 18` when the garment hangers are prop` erly located in their desired position forV hanging a' garment therefrom.

An elongated resilient coil spring 32 is disposed within the tubular supporting arm 11 for constantly urging the rack 22 downwardly toward the base 12 and the hanger invention is not confined theretotas changes and alterations may be made without departing from the spirit and supporting arms18 outwardly'from the supporting post `11. TheA upper end ofthe coil spring 32, being secured to the lower end of the rack 22 has the lower end'of the' spring secured at a` lower'position within thek supporting tube by an anchor'pin 34 which is engaged transversely of the supporting post adjacent the extreme lowerV end thereof.

An umbrella supporting plate 315V is disposed adjacent tothe lower end of the supportingpost 11 andupwardly from the base 12 for properly supporting' umbrellas therein when and as the necessity of the use of umbrellas is required. The umbrella supporting plate 35 is provided with openings 36 therethrough through which the umbrellas may be positioned at the same time that garments are hung from the garment hangers 24 on the costumer 10.

To add to the utility of the improved costumer` 10 described above, a clothes supporting ring 36 rotatable on the tip of the post 11 has outwardly extending clothes supporting hooks 37 extending outwardly from the periphery thereof. This added ring 36 and clothes supporting hooks 37 are rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the post 11 thereby facilitating the engagement of and removal of clothes from the costumer irrespectiveV scope thereof as dened in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. kA collapsible clothes rack comprising a base, a tubularpost secured to`and`rising from saidbase, a series of opposed tubular hanger supporting, arms pivotally secured at the inner ends thereof to said post, a gear carried by the inner end of each arm, a vertically disposed gear rack in said post meshing with said gears, an arm collapsing spring fixed at one end relative to said post and secured at'the other VendV thereof to the lower end of said rack, said spring constantly urging said rack downwardlyto thereby raise said arms to vertical collapsed position, a pair of hanger members pivotally carried by the outer end of each arm and gravitatingly hanger members, anda bar slidable in each arm pivotally of the use of the foldable garment engaging supports secured at the outer end thereof to the inner convergent ends ofsaid'latter named pair of members and engageable at the inner end thereof with said post to effect extension of said larger members.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 334,656 Goodyer et al. Jan. 19, 1886 612,718 Finan` Oct. 18, 1898 1,175,817 Robertson Mar. 14, 1916 1,587,674 Patterson June 8, 1926 1,587,676 Patterson June 8, 1926 2,520,414 Kurtz Aug. 29, 1950 2,654,484 Win et al. Oct. 6, 1953

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