US1130591A - Display-rack for electric wires. - Google Patents

Description

L. GRAY.

DISPLAY RACK FOR ELECTRIC WIRES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1914.

Patented M21112, 1915.

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. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 13,1914. Serial No. 838,298.? 1

To all whom may concern: I I

Be it known that I, Lou GRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Yorkcity, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Racks for Electric Wires, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention contemplates the construction of racks for supporting spools of wire especially electric wire. It'also contemplates certain features of construction whereby coils of such wire may be readily wound onto said spools for display in such a rack and whereby the spools are 'm'ade readily removable, with the result that wire in various gradesand gages may be more readily. put up in the desired quantities.

Therefore the invention consists in the formation and construction of parts and in their combination for the specified purpose substantially as hereinafterset forth and claimed.

For a full disclosure of the invention reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification and wherein- Figure 1 represents in perspective one form of a wire display rack embodying the invention, the view being taken from the rear of the rack; Fig. 2 is aIpartially sectionized elevation ofthe spool used for holding coils that are to be wound therefrom onto the display spools; Fig. 3 isan elevation, partially in section, showing the reel shaft removed from the rack and having thereon one of the display spools ready to be filled with wire; Fig. 41 is a perspective view of a display rack for holding one tier of spools, and Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a display rack showing two tiers of spools.

The display racks consist of a frame'6 and a prop 7, preferably made from iron pipe. The number of spools to be supported in a rack determines its width and its height is determined by the convenience with which the upper spools may behandled. The spools areindicated by 8. In

i No winding dGVlCGlSSllOWIl with'the single- 81 Fig. 1 three tiers of eight spools each is shown supported between the uprights 9 on made for two tiers of seven spools each, said I fPatentedMar. .1915.

spools being shown. place o'n their. re-

movable rods10'. The spools 8 may be made in any convenlent way as by securing flanges or collars 11 up0n a p1ece of pipe, Fig. 3. The hole in the pipe provldes for the passage of the supportmg rods 10. The prop 7 serves as the support for the coil-holding spool and the reel for winding the display spools. The coll-holding spool, Fig. 2, consists of a piece of pipe 12 screw-threaded for the reception of collars 13, between which the coil to be transferred to a display spool is clamped. WVhen the coil has been secured upon its spool the spool is located in the prop on the removable rod 14 which acts as a journal therefor. This rod and all the other removablespool-supporting rods may have a knob, ring or handle at one end to facilitate the manipulation thereof. In Fig. 1 such a handle is indicated at 15, on rod 14.

The reel consists of a shaft 16,- Fig. 3, which may have a crank 17 and a pulley 18 on one end for turning it, or only one of dotted lines 19, Fig. 1. The reel may besupported in any suitable way on the prop that will provide for readily removing it, as for instance, the reel shaft maybe j ournaled in hook bearings 20 or in one hook bearing and an'eye bearing 21. The spools 8 have a hole'through one of the collars whereby a key 22'1nay be passed through it and the shaft 16 to hold the spool to the shaft when winding wire from the coil ontothe spool. Any other suitable form of device may be used for temporarily fixing the spools to said shaft. A rod as 22 may pierce the uprights ofv the prop 7 for the support of odd pieces of wire. Ina single-tier rack like that of. Fig. l, the prop 7 may be a single upright'with a T-foot if desired, and while the coil spool and reel are not shown in Fig. 5' it is understood that they may be used thereon the same as fully shown'in-Fig. 1.

tier rack, sincesuch rack would besupplied' ing a rack the coils of commerce are placed a upon the spools 1213 and wound therefrom upon spools 8 placed successively upon 7 Q V r i 1,130,591

In a removable electric wire rack made 5 frompipe, the comblnatlon of a frame hav ing a series of uprights,- -a"'series=of spools removably journaled between said uprights;

a "back support or' prop connected to" the frame, a coil holder removably journaled on. 7 10 said prop, and a reel shaft also rernoyably 101111121186 on said prop and adapted to hold successively the spools of said series for filliiig them from coils supplied tosaid coil V holder, substantially asset forth.

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1 H NAT I L FISHMAN,

ELIZABETH WALLACE.

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