Improvements appertaining to Clothes-holding Devices, applicable for Use in connection with Fire-places.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Aug., 1898-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements appertaining to Clothes-holding Devices, applicable
for Use in connection with Fire-places.
I, JAMES HENRY COWBURNE, of 331, Church Street, Westhoughton, near
Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Butcher, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows, that is to say:-
It consists of improvements in the construction of parts appertaining to
clothes-holding devices whereby these may be mounted and secured in position on
the jambs or other parts of or near an ordinary kitchen or other fire-place or
range in such a manner that they may be made to perform their functions
in one or other of their positions or be turned to occupy little space as occasion
may require or as the users may desire.
To attain this object I make use of two or more rods of metal or wood or of
tubular bars which I mount in appropriately shaped clamps, so that they shall be
thereby held parallel or about parallel to each other in order that the articles of
clothing which they have to carry or support may be securely placed thereon or
mounted in connection with them.
The clamping devices are so constructed that their jaws will firmly hold rods
or bars of varied diameters or thicknesses while they are further made so that
they may be pivotally mounted on lever arms carried by bearings secured to one
or other part of or near the fireplace or range.
The pivotal spindles or bars upon which the jaws are mounted are preferably
of sufficient length to reach well above the openings of the fire range, while the
hoops, collars or the like which secure the clamping devices on them are made
adjustable whereby their positions on said vertical spindles may be regulated to
occupy a higher or lower place thereon as may be desired.
The mounting of the lever arms upon which said vertical spindles are carried
is such that they may be moved on their respective hinges so
as to hold
the rods at varied distances from the fire for purposes as will be well
understood.
Or instead of said vertical spindles being mounted on lever arms they may be
made to take over horizontal bars secured at or near the ceiling of the room
and in appropriate proximity with the fireplace so that the clamping devices and
their tubular bars may, by the sliding of these vertical spindles on their supporting
bars, be made to approach nearer or recede further from the fire.
Supplementary tubular bars may be employed and be supported from those
secured in the clamping devices, by means of hanging or supporting hooks which
latter are so constructed that when not in use they may be taken from laying hold
of the primary bars and slided into these supplementary ones or otherwise placed so
as to occupy space or room otherwise of no use.
When the bearings for the parts above described are to be supported by
clamping pieces which lay hold of the jambs adjoining the fire-place I construct
these clamping pieces in two or more parts to make them adjustable for varied

page_text: sizes of jambs, while by central binding bolts or screws I am enabled to tighten
them up so that they grip the jambs as desired.
J. H. COWBURNE.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
Improvements appertaining to Clothes-holding Devices, applicable
for Use in connection with Fire-places.
1, JAMES HENRY COWBURNE, of 331, Church Street, Westhoughton, uear Bolton, in
the County of Lancaster, Butcher, 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, that is to say :-
It consists of improvements in the construction of parts appertaining to clothes-
holding devices whereby these may be mounted and secured in position on the jambs
or other parts of or near an ordinary kitchen or other fire-place or range in such
a manner that they may be made to perform their functions in one or other of their
positions or be turned to occupy little space as occasion may require or as the users
may desire.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings which are illustrative of my
invention :-
Figs. 1 and 2 are side views of two forms of clamps constructed as herein-
after described.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation showing portions of a jamb and shelf adjoining a
range, to which my improved parts are applied.
Fig. 4 is a similar view to Fig. 3 but shows a modification hereinafter
described.
Fig. 5 is a front elevation illustrating another arrangement of my improved
parts.
Fig. 6 is an end elevation illustrating certain clamping devices and lever arms
constructed in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 7 is a front elevation showing one end of the parts illustrated by
Fig. 6.
Fig. 8 is an elevation showing an alternative method of mounting certain of the
parts as hereinafter described.
Figs. 9 and 10 are front and plan views of my improved clamping device constructed
as hereinafter explained.
Fig. 11 and 12 are illustrative of a modified form of clamping device hereinafter
referred to.
Figs. 1, 2, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are drawn to an enlarged scale as compared with that
of the other figures.
To attain the object of my invention I make use of two or more rods of metal or
wood or of tubular bars a, which I mount in appropriately shaped clamps 6 so that
they shall be thereby held parallel or about parallel to each other in order that the
articles of clothing which they have to carry or support may be securely placed
thereon or mounted in connection with them.
The clamps b are so constructed as by having the set screws c that they will
firmly hold rods or bars a of varied diameters or thicknesses while they are
further made so that they may be pivotally mounted on spindles d carried by lever

page_text: arms e e¹ supported by bearings g g¹ secured to the jamb h and to the mantle-
shelf k.
b
Or the clamps 6 may be pivotally mounted on the lever arms ff¹ while these latter
are mounted upon their pivotal spindles ff to enable their adjustment vertically
as do the spindles d the clamps 6 in each case the hoops in which are adjustable
on the spindles d and f³ form the means of support for the clamps b or the lever
arms ff. The said hoops m are secured on their respective spindles by their set
screws 3.
The mounting of the lever arms e e¹ and ff is such that they may be moved on
their respective hinges 4, 5 and 6, 7, so as to hold their rods a at any desired
distance from the fire for purposes as will be well understood.
Or instead of the vertical spindles d being mounted on lever arms they may be
made to take over horizontal bars n secured at or near the ceiling of the room and
in appropriate proximity with the fire-place, so that the clamps b and the bars a
may, by the sliding of their spindles d upon the bars n, be made to approach
nearer or recede further from the fire.
Supplementary tubular bars p may be employed (see Figs. 4 and 5) and
supported from the rods a by means of hooks g² g³ which latter are so constructed
that when not in use they may be taken from laying hold of the said bars a and
slided into these supplementary ones p or otherwise placed so as to occupy space or
room which in an ordinary way is of no use.
In the arrangement shown by Fig. 4 the bearings or supports r for the bar a
are of well known type, while I show my hinged connections e as supporting the
holding links or hooks g2 by which the bar is supported.
When the bearings g are to be secured to the jamb h I construct them in two
parts, as shown by Figs. 9 and 10 so that a binding screw may secure them to each
other and cause them to grip said jamb h whether same is comparatively wide or
narrow. The clamp g which is to be secured to the mantel-shelf k is also made in
two parts, as shown by Figs. 6, 11 and 12, each part having teeth or serrations s
which will mesh so that by being held together with the bolt they are firmly
secured in any of their relative positions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. The clamping and holding devices herein described, the same being
constructed and arranged to be fixed substantially as herein specified.
2nd. Adjustable clamping devices for supporting lever arms or spindles upon
which are mounted rods for the purpose specified, the same being constructed and
arranged substantially as herein set forth.
3rd. Clothes holding devices constructed to be mounted in proximity with a fire,
the same being arranged substantially as herein specified.
Dated this 30th day of July 1898.