US1305210A - Combined garment and hat back - Google Patents

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v H. HANKWiTZ. commen GARMENT AND HAT HACK.v

-APPLICATION FILED MAR. l5, 1918. l

Patented May 27, 1919.v

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HERMAN HANKWITZ, 0F OUACHITA, ARKANSAS. Y

COMBINED GARMENT AND HAT RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1919.

Application filed March 15, 1918. Serial No. 222,629. y

, Be it known that I. l'lnunax l'lxxnwrrz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ouai chita, in the county of Dallas and State ot Arkansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Garment and Hat. Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined garment and hat rack of the type which is in'- tended for connection with a support which may be the back of a wardrobe or the wall of a closet. h

The primary object of the invention is to provide a combined garment and .hat rack wherein a pluralitiY of hook carrylng arms are swingingly mounted between a pair of shelves which not. only serve as braces for the arms when the arms are in garment` supporting position, but are so constructed and connected with the bach plate for connection with a. support that a plurality of supplemental hook carrying arms may be slidably -and detachably connected with the rack.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention resides in thenovel combination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, although no restriction is necessarily made to the precise details of construction therein shown, as changes, alterations, and modifications wit-hin the scope of the claim may be resorted to when de sired.

In the drawings l Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined garment and hat rack constructed in accordance with the-invention and with the hook carrying arms shown in garment supporting position.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of same.v

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. y

Fig. @L is a detail section on the line 4-4 of Fig. l.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring now to the drawing in detail the letter A designates a combined garment and hat rack which when constructed in accordance with the invention includes a back plate 5 which is adapted to bel connected with a support in any suitable manner and which may comprise the back of a wardrobe` or the wall of a closet. The back plate is of rectangular shape and has fixed to the bottom edge thereof a shelf 6 which is coextensive in length with the back plate and of less width than a shelf 7 fixed to the top edge of the back plate The lower shelf G is intended to be employed as a support for smaller articles, while the upper shelf T may have placed thereon hats and the like.

A pair of tapered hook carrying arms 8 having their larger ends arranged between the shelves G and 7 are pivotallyconnected therewith by means of dowel pins 9 which extend beyond opposite edges of the arms and adjacent their larger ends and are re- -ceived in suitable openings of the shelves 6 and 7. Each of the arms S has formed therein a longitudinally extending row of spaced openings 10 in which are received the Shanks of hooks 12.

Through the above described manner of connecting the arm's S with the shelves 6 and 7 it is apparent that these shelves not only serve as braces for the'arms S when the arms are in lgarment supporting position. but the arms may be folded upon the back plate 5 to lie wholly between the shelves 6 and 7 when not in use.

When the arms 8 are positioned as shown in Fig. Q, the comparatively narrow shelf 6 permits garments to depen'd in lapped relation from the angularly disposed hooks 12 on the arms.

Arranged between the shelves 6 land 7 at opposite ends of the rack A are supplemental hook carrying arms 13 each of which comprise a rectangular shaped frame with the top and bottom rails of the frame extending within grooves 14: which extend inwardly from the ends of the shelves and per- Init the -arms 13 to be slid to a position 4in which they extend beyond theends of the rack A as shown in Fig. 1 in the drawings.

The hooks 15 with which the arms 13 are provided are mounted to turn in the to and bottom rails of the arms 13 so that the hooks 15 may be turned to lie in a plane par-l allel with the arms 13 when the arms are not in useto allow the arms 8 to be folded close against and in parallel relation to the arms 13.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that my invention resides in thepeculiar con-

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