Appliance for Hanging Up Articles of Clothing and the like on.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Appliance for Hanging Up Articles of Clothing and the like on.
I, ADOLF BERNHEIM, Gentleman, of 14-16 Ehrenstrasse, Cologne, in the
Province of Rhineland and Kingdom of Prussia, 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 :-
The appliance represented in annexed drawing is intended to supply a long felt
want by making it possible to hang up articles of clothing of all descriptions for
the purpose of beating, brushing, cleaning and drying them etc., in a convenient
and suitable manner, so that, as they are capable of being turned, they may easily
reached from every side and thus be more thoroughly cleaned than hitherto. The
breaking off of the pegs etc. is also avoided and the article of clothing in question
no longer comes in contact with the surface of wall which may possibly dirty it.
The annexed drawing shews the front-view in Fig. 1 and in Fig. 2 the ground-
plan of the appliance.
Figs. 3-5 shew the apparatus as applied to different articles of clothing..
The apparatus consists principally of a cross or carrying arm T and the umbrella-
frame S hanging moveably at one end of it.
The arm T which is made of round iron is moveably and vertically secured with
its one end that is turned off at right angles, in a socket H, to be screwed to a
wall, a door-post or elsewhere. As the arm is moveable, it may, when the appliance
is not in use be laid flat against the wall, but when wanted be placed at right
angles to it.
In order that the arm may remain firm in the latter position and not give way
or turn round, it is provided at the top of its vertically lying end with a bolt or
pin passing through it, the two ends of which stand out like small pegs; when
the arm T is laid flat against the wall these pegs rest on the upper edge of the
socket H, but when the arm is in its vertical position to the wall, they sink into
corresponding notches in the upper socket-edge thus securing the arm.
The free end of the arm T to which the frame S is attached, is flattened off and
perforated for the reception of a bolt. This bolt b which is provided with a
screw-thread and is fastened by two nuts lying one over the other to the rod T, has
below, also between two nuts or simply resting on a bolt-head, several arms a
consisting of hoop-iron and bent in the shape of an arc. These arms may be laid
over each other in such a manner as to appear when viewed from the side like a
plate-spring consisting of a number of plates (Figs. 1 and 5) or they may be drawn
more or less apart from each other so as to form, when seen from above, two or
more rays cutting each other in pretty small acute angles (Fig. 4) or to appear as
the chief axes of a regular polygon of six or more sides, like the frame of an
umbrella (Figs. 2 and 3).
The first arrangement having the rods a laid quite over each other may be used
most suitably with trowsers, coats and the like, as shewn in Fig. 5, but for coats,
bodices, children's clothes etc. it is better to place the frame-rods somewhat apart
so that the shoulders of the article of dress in question may be somewhat filled
out and stretched by the ends of the rods. In Fig. 4 this is shewn as applied to a
bodice.
Ladies' skirts etc. are best laid with their upper edge over the arms, these being
spread out completely in the shape of an umbrella and when the band of the skirt
has been drawn tight or the slit has been closed in the usual manner by means of
hooks, buttons and the like it closes tightly on the frame and hangs down in the

page_text: shape of a bell as shewn in Fig. 3. By turning the frame about the central-
bolt b, a motion which is greatly aided by the action of brushing and takes place
almost automatically-the brushing etc. can be effected, while the person who is
operating may without leaving his place reach all parts of the coat at his ease.
The special position of the arms a of the frame S is shewn by dotted lines in the
article of clothing in question in Figs. 3 to 5.
The bolt b, on which the frame is hung is continued under the frame and
terminates in a clothes-hook d, being simply bent back so as to form a hook which
is also useful in cleaning clothes.
After the apparatus has been used, the arm T which takes up a good deal of
room, may be laid against the wall by lifting out the pins out of the notch in the
socket or it may altogether removed from the socket and put away. The screwed-on
socket H remains and will hardly be in the way.
Of course the different parts of the apparatus may also be made in another form
or of another material as wood, whalebone etc. as may be most suitable. Between
the frame-arms a, also, polygon connections may be made or at the extreme end of
one or more arms suitable continuations for stretching coat-sleeves. These
continuations may be attached by hinges so as to turn down or arranged in
telescope fashion so as to draw out.
"
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:
Appliance on which to hang up articles of clothing of every description for the
purpose of brushing and beating them etc., distinguished by several arms (a) laid
one upon the other and hung moveably on a common axis so that they may be laid
together or spread apart more or less as desired.
Dated this Fifteenth day of February. 1894.
For ADOLF BERNHEIM,
B. Brockhues,
Attorney..