An Improved Bracket for Suspending Garments and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug.. 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bracket for Suspending Garments and the like.
I GOTTLIEB PÜRLER Engineer of Fraunhofer Strasse 27, Münich in the Empire
of Germany do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to brackets or holders principally intended for supporting
clothes or garments whilst brushing them.
Heretofore such brackets have been made with or of an arm hinged upon a wall
plate and carrying at the end a cross bar over which the garment may be hung when
the arm is folded down the latter being folded up against the wall plate when not
in use.
The improvement consists in combining with the said arm a second arm which
shall fold down over the aforesaid arm and automatically hold the garment thereon
by pressure increasing with the weight of the garment.
The improved bracket is shown in side elevation in the drawing hereto annexed.
8 is the wall plate and 2 the main arm hinged thereto at the point 1. The slot in
the arm 2 into which the lug 9 projects for hinging is extended along the arm to the
point 3 whence the bar 2 is solid to the end. Within the slot near to the point 3 is
pivoted at 4, the two armed lever 5 adapted to be folded down so that the cross
piece 6 on its outer and longer arm lies exactly on the cross piece
of the main
bracket arm 2.
The lug 9 is extended below the bracket to form the track 9a 9b which is described
as an arc of a circle of which the point 4 is the centre when the shorter arm of tho
lever 5 rests upon the said track as shown in dotted lines.
In using the said device the arm 2 is folded down and the arm 5 raised as shown
in dotted lines so that the whole rests upon the track 9 9. The garment being hung
over the cross bar 7 the arm 5 is moved down thereon by hand and when in contact
its shorter end will move off the track 9' 9" and lie upon the point 9ª. It is obvious
therefore that the greater the weight of the garment the greater the pressure at the
point 9 and the greater therefore the pressure between the parts 6 and 7.
When not in use the whole may be folded up against the wall plate.
The lever 5 may be allowed to press upon the part 7 through the medium also of a
spring. It is obvious that such a bracket may be suitable also for suspending other
articles than clothes for the purpose of brushing or cleaning.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The combination with a bracket arm 2 of a two arm lever 5 pivoted thereto
and adapted to be pressed upon said arm 2, by the weight of a garment suspended
on said arm substantially as set forth.
2. The combination of a supporting plate 8, a bracket arm 2 hinged to said plate,
a lug 9 with point 9ª on said plate and a two armed lever 5 pivoted to said bracket
arm and adapted to be pressed thereon by the action of said point substantially as
set forth.
3. The combination of a supporting plate 8, a bracket arm 2 hinged to said plate, a
lug 9 thereon with track 9 9° on said lug, a point 9 on said track and a two.

page_text: armed lever 5 pivoted to said bracket arm and adapted to rest upon said track and
to be pressed onto said bracket arm by the action of the point 9* of said track
substantially as set forth.
Dated this 28th day of June 1889.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.