US2031461A - Clothespole - Google Patents

Description

Feb. 18, 1936.

v E. F. CHAMBLESS c LoTHEsPoLE Filed NOV. 22, 1954 Patented Feb. 18, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE half to Joseph W.

Fay, Villa Park, Ill.

Application November 22, 1934, Serial No. 754,330

7 Claims.

My invention relates to clothes-poles such as are arranged across clothes closets from one wall to another and attached at opposite ends to the molding strips or cleats with which the walls of -f the closet are provided.

Extensible devices of this character for employment in closets of varied widths have been provided before, but the mountings for these devices either have not provided the requisite strength or have been difcult to attach, or, when attached, were impossible to remove Vwithout mutilating or destroyingA the attachment means.

The object of my present invention is to provide an extensible device of the character above described with improved means for attaching the ends of the device to the molding strips or cleats with which the walls of the closet are provided, which improved means will provide attachments of requisite strength and attachments which may be readily applied, and at the same time are adapted to be readily removed without mutilating or destroying the attachment means or pole.

Further objects and the features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying the present invention, showing fragmentarily at one end a section of one of the closet walls supporting one end of the device;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevational View of one end of the pole shown in Figure 1, showing the attachment means therefor; and

Figure 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, 5--5 designate the opposite walls of a closet; 6 6 supporting strips, such as molding or hookstrips secured to the walls; and 1 the improved extensible clothes-pole.

The extensible clothes-pole 'I is shown as comprising telescopically related sections in the form of tubes 8 and 9 equipped with means I0 and II, respectively, for attaching the ends of the pole to the supporting strips 6, 6. The attaching means at I0 and II are of the same form and construction, and are applied to the tubular members 8 and 9 in the same manner, so that a description of one will suffice for both.

Describing the attachment means at II), it consists of a sheet metal cap I2 having an end wall I3 and an annular ange I4 receiving telescopically the adjacent end of the tube 8. The end of the tube fitting within the flange I4 has integral tabs I5 which extend through diametrically opposite arcuate openings I6 in the end wall I3, and are turned over and clinched firmly to the wall I3 rigidly to join the cap to the tube. It is to be understood that the invention may employ other means than the means shown for rigidly securing the outer ends of the tubes 8 and 9 to the respective caps I2. The opposite end of the outer tube 8 may be finished by means of a ferrule II.

The cap I2 is provided with a wood screw I8, the shank of which passes through the center of the end wall I3 and extends axially from the endl of the pole. The head of the screw I8 is disposed internally of the annular flange I4 at I9, and the screw isrigidly joined to the cap I2,- for example, by upsetting the shank radially outwardly at 2|] to secure the wall I3 between the upset portion 26 and the head I9. Other means may be employed for rigidly joining the screw I8 to the cap I 2. Adjacent its headed end the screw I8 has a square or non-circular neck 2l which locks the screw against rotation with respect to the cap I2.

To provide leverage means for tightening the screws I8 into place, the flange I4, of each cap I2, has a pair of integral and diametrically opposite wings 24. These wings 24 are turned or bent out to extend radially from the adjacent pole section, and the opposite vertical edges of these wings have flanges turned outwardly at 25 to form finger-pieces suitable to be grasped between the fingers. The nger pieces 24 are joined to the flanges I4 by connecting portions 26 which, preferably, widen toward the flanges I4 to provide adequate strength.

In applying the pole, its sections 8 and 9 are extended between the molding or hook-strips 6 on opposite walls 5 until the screws I8 are engaged with the strips 6 sufiiciently so that upon turning the screws, they will be threaded into these wood strips 6. The screws I8 may then be threaded into the strips 6 by grasping the pole sections 8 and 9 and turning the same, for example, in opposite directions, the screws threading into the strips 6 with the turning movement of the pole sections. As the caps I2, at the ends of the tubes, are brought up toward the strips 6, the finger-pieces 24 may be grasped and the screws tightened rmly into place, the fingerpieces 24 providing leverage means for this purpose. These finger-pieces also provide for releasing the screws from secure attachment, and after they are released, they may be threaded out of the strips 6, or other supports, by graspreir ing the pole sections and turning the same in directions opposite to the directions in which they are turned in applying the device.

I do not intend to be limited to the precise details shown or described.

I claim:

1. An extensible clothes-pole comprising telescoping pole sections and wood screws extending axially from the outer ends of said sections and joined rigidly thereto, whereby said screws may be threaded into molding strips and the like by grasping and turning the pole sections. l

2. An extensible clothes-pole comprising telescoping pole sections, Wood screws extending axially from the outer ends of said sections and joined rigidly thereto, whereby said screws may be threaded into molding strips and the like by grasping and turning the pole sections, and radially extending ringer-pieces adjacent the outer ends of said pole sections to provide leverage means for tightening said screws.

3. An extensible clothes-pole comprising telescoping pole sections, cap members rigidly secured to the outer ends of said pole sections, and Wood screws extending axially from the outer ends of the pole sections and joined rigidly to said cap members, whereby said screws may be threaded into molding strips and the like by grasping and turning the pole sections.

4. An extensible clothes-pole comprising telescoping pole sections, cap members rigidly secured to the outer ends of said pole sections, wood screws extending axially from the outer ends of the pole sections and joined rigidly to said cap members, whereby said screws may be threaded into molding strips and the like gy grasping and turning the pole sections,andfinger-pieces formed integral with said cap members and extending radially from the outer ends of said pole sections to provide leverage means for tightening said screws.

5. An extensible clothes-pole comprising telescoping tubular pole sections, cap members having end walls adjacent and annular flanges f1tnecks between said abutments for preventing` .relative turning movement between the screws and the pole sections.

6. An extensible clothes-pole comprising tele- Scoping tubular pole sections, cap members having end walls adjacent and annular flanges iitting Y over the outer ends of said pole sections, tabs on the outer ends of said pole sections and iltting through openings in the end walls of said cap members and turned over and clinched to said cap members, Wood screws having Shanks passing through the centers of the end walls of said cap members and extending axially from the opposite ends of the pole, said screws having abutments on opposite sides of said end walls for securing the screws thereto, polygonal necks between said abutments for preventing relative turning movement between the screws and the pole sections, and linger-pieces formed integral with the annular anges of said cap members and extending radially from the opposite ends of the pole sections.

7. An extensible clothes-pole comprising telescoping pole sections, cap members rigidly secured to the outer ends of said pole sections, wood screws extending axially from the outer ends of the pole sections and joined rigidly to said cap members, whereby said screws may be threaded into molding strips and the like by grasping and turning the pole sections, and leverage means formed integral with said cap members for tightening said screws.

ERSYL F. CHAMBLESS.

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