Improved Folding Clothes Bracket.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Folding Clothes Bracket.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18, Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, (a communication to me from abroad by George Morrison
and Peter Sindlinger, both of Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., Gentlemen,) do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
By this invention is provided a base plate having an upwardly projecting stud,
and at its rear a projection or stop. An arm having a slot near its end, and a
notch at its extremity is adjusted upon the base in such inanner that the stud afore-
said passes through the slot in the arm. In this arm are a series of transverse
mortises, and a series of hooks, each having a reduced curved portion which is
adapted to pass through the mortises and engage one side of the arm.
The hooks
are each formed with a shoulder adapted to engage the other side of the arm. By
this arrangement, the hooks can be folded transversely across and parallel with the
surface of the arm when the arm is lowered and automatically extended when
the arm is raised.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Folding Clothes Bracket.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18, Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communi-
cation to me from abroad by George Morrison and Peter Sindlinger, both of
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., Gentlemen,) to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved folding clothes bracket.
The object of my invention is to provide a bracket adapted to hang clothing
upon, and to be attached to a bedstead, or other like place where it is desired that
the bracket should be extended when in use, and folded up out of the way when not
in use, as hereinafter fully described.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
Fig. 1 represents an elevation showing my bracket secured to the rear side of the
head-board of a bedstead and extended.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation.
Fig. 4 is a view, like Fig. 1, the arm of the bracket being folded down.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same.
Fig. 6 represents a section at A, Fig. 2, on a larger scale.
Fig. 7 is a plan on a larger scale of one of the clothes hooks.
The bracket consists of the base A adapted to be secured by wood screws to a
plane surface, and having a projecting headed stud B, and projecting stop C, and
a light arm D having a slotted opening e adapted to slide and to turn on stud B,
and notch adapted to engage the stop C. Arm D is mortised transversely at
intervals as at h, and a series of hooks 1, each having a reduced upwardly curved
portion and shoulder are mounted in the said mortises, the reduced portion j
and the hook being passed through the arm, and then slightly upset, so that it is
free to turn or slide in the mortises, but cannot fall out.
In operation, base A. having been secured to the head-board L of a bedstead,

page_text: and the notch f of the arm D engaged with the stop C, the arm is held extended
rigidly, so that it cannot swing up or down, and the hooks I stand out at right
angles thereto, as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, the shoulders of the hooks raising against the
face of the arm and the front edge of the curved reduced portion j raising against
the back of the arm. On drawing arm D outward till notch fis disengaged from
stop C, the arm swings downward on stud B, and the hooks on coming in contact
with the edge of the head-board or post, swing in their mortises into a position
parallel and transversely across the flat sides of the arin, as in Figs. 4 and 5, and
are prevented from falling out by the upsetting of their ends. In raising the arm
from its folded position the hooks are again automatically extended at right angles
to the arm by the force of gravitation, aided slightly by the sliding movement of
the under edges of the hooks against the surface of the post.
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
claim is:
In a clothes bracket, the combination, with the base-plate A, having the stud B,
and stop C, and a vertical surface, as a bed-post, to which said base is secured, of
the arm D, having slot e, notch, and a series of transverse mortises h, and the
series of hooks I, each having the reduced curved portion, adapted to pass through
the mortises h, and to engage one side of the arm, and the shoulder k, adapted to
engage the other side of the arm, all arranged to co-operate, substantially as
specified, whereby the hooks are automatically folded transversely across and
parallel with the surface of the arm when the arm is lowered, and automatically
extended when the arm is raised, as set forth.
Dated this 28th day of February 1891
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant..