Suspending Clothes therein.
Year: 1885

page_text: Suspending Clothes therein.
I, JAMES COLLINGE of 51 St James Street, Burnley, Lancashire, Draper do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARDROBES
to be as
AND IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF SUSPENDING CLOTHES THEREIN
follows:-
"
This Invention has reference to wardrobes for use in private houses, shops or
warehouses and consists in making such wardrobes so that more articles of wearing
apparel can be placed therein.
Wardrobes as at present constructed are made with hooks or pegs on which to
hang the various articles of clothing but by my Invention these will be dispensed
with, and instead thereof I place from end to end or from side to side of wardrobes
one or more rods provided with a suitable number of rings. The clothing I place
onto a semicircular or other form of bar called a shoulder, two of such shoulders
being connected together by a suitably shaped connection or link. Onto one of the
shoulders I place say the skirt of a Lady's dress, and onto the other shoulder
I place say the bodice of the same dress the double shoulder is then hung onto one
of the rings on the rods by which means they are suspended together to one ring
taking up much less space than would be the case if each part of the dress were
hung onto two separate hooks in different parts of the wardrobe as is now done.
This method of hanging clothes is much better than hooks because both parts of
the dress are together, and can be easily found.

page_text: Improvements in Wardrobes and in the Means or Method of
Suspending Clothes (therein.
I, JAMES COLLINGE of 51 St James' Street Burnley, Lancashire, Draper do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARDROBES
AND IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF SUSPENDING CLOTHES THEREIN " and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
This invention has reference to wardrobes, for use in private houses shops, or
warehouses, and consists in making such wardrobes so that more articles of wearing
apparel can be placed therein.
Wardrobes as at present constructed are made with hooks or pegs on which to
hang the various articles of clothing, but by my invention these will be dispensed
with, and instead thereof I place from end to end or from side to side of wardrobes
one or more rods.
The clothing I place onto a semi-circular or other form of bar called a shoulder,
two of such shoulders being connected together by a suitably shaped connection or
link.
Onto one of these shoulders I place say-the skirt of a lady's dress and onto the
other shoulder I place say-the bodice of the same dress, the double shoulder is
then hung onto one of the rods, by which means they are suspended together to
one ring, taking up much less space than would be the case if each part of the
dress were hung onto two separate hooks in different parts of the wardrobe as is
now done.
Such being the nature and object of my Invention I will now proceed to describe
the same more fully, and for that purpose have annexed the accompanying sheet of
drawings wherein Fig. 1 is elevation of a wardrobe having the doors opened in
order to shew my improvements.
It will be seen that the wardrobe is provided with a horizontal rod A on which
is suspended by means of a hook a the double shoulder B the separate bars of
which shoulder are connected together by the bent plate b. As many of those
combination shoulders are used as is thought desirable and placed side by side upon
the rod A as shewn in Fig. 2, where it will be observed that the skirt of a lady's
dress can be placed upon one shoulder and the bodice of the same dress placed
upon the other shoulder, and in practice I have found that a great many more
clothes can be hung up in a wardrobe on this system than on the old system,
besides in all cases both parts of the same dress are together and can therefore be
easily found.
Figures 3. 4, and 5 are separate views of the combination shoulder.

page_text: Having now shewn and described my improvements, and the manner of putting
the same into practice I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the use of a shoulder having two bars, as they may have one, two, or three, but
what I do claim is
Firstly. The use and employment of a shoulder such as B for the purpose of
suspending clothing in wardrobes.
Secondly. The manufacture of wardrobes having rods A on which to suspend
shoulders such as B for supporting clothing.