Carpet-display rack.

Application filed June 2,1902. Serial Ho. 109,962. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, John Hensey Davis, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elizabethtown, in the county of Hardin and State 5 of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Carpet-Display Rack, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in carpet-display racks.

to The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of carpet-display racks and to provide'a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one, adapted for advantageously displaying a large number of rolls of carpet rg and adapted to also receive carpets of different widths.

A further object of the invention is to provide a carpet-display rack of this character which will enable a roll of carpet to be read20 ily unwound for display or sale and to be readily and quickly rewound when desired.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described; illustrated 25 in the accompanying drawings, and pointed, out in the claims hereto appended. ./

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a display-rack constructed in accord-¹ance with this invention. Fig. 2 is. a verti30 cal sectional view of the same.· Fig.. 3 is a detail view of one of the shafts or spindles. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the.same.

Like numerals of.reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the draw35 ings.

designates a frame composed of inclined portions connected at the top by a transverse rung 2, and each inclined portion of the frame is composed of two sides provided with 40 upper and lower sections or bars 3 and 4, Avhich are connected by metal brackets or plates 5. The lower ends of the bars 4 are connected by transverse rods, and these lower bars 4 are provided at .intervals· with in45 clined bearing-recesses 7, having metal bearings 8 and adapted to receive spindles or shafts 9. The upper bars 3 are inwardly offset from the lower bars 4 to provide a narrower upper space to receive narrow carpets, 50 and they are provided with bearing-recesses 9^a, constructed similar to those heretofore described. The lower rung 6 rigidly connects the lower ends of the bars 4 and spaces the latter and is of sufficient length to receive the wider class of carpets. .. · 55

The brackets or connecting-plates 5 are preferably oblong or rectangular when viewed in side elevation and have longitudinal openings, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and they are angularly bent at opposite sides of the center 60 to form upper¹ and lower portions 10 and 11 and intermediate connecting . portions 12. . The upper and lower portions are arranged at right angles to the intermediate connecting portions, and the upper portion is in- 65 wardly offset from the lower portion and is secured to the outer faces of the upper bars or members of the sides of the inclined portions or sections of the frame. The lower depending portion 11 of the connecting bracket 70 or plate is secured to the outer face of the upper end of the bar 4, and the transverse connecting portions 12 rest upon and are supported’ by the upper edge of the bar 4. By this construction the upper bars 3 are sup- 75 ported firmly and are held in position to receive rolls of narrow carpet. The lower bars 4 of the two portions or sections of the frame are also connected by horizontal side rods or bars 13, located adjacent to the upper ends of 8c the said bars 4. . ’

Each shaft or spindle is provided adjacent to its ends with annular flanges 14, between which the carpet is arranged, and the inner end of the carpet is held against the shaft or 85 spindle by means of a transverse locking device 15, consisting of a plate or bar provided at its ends with pivots 16. The pivots 16 are arranged in suitable bearings or perforations of the flanges 14, and the bars 15, which ex- 90 tend entirely across the space between the flanges, are slightly curved in cross-section and are provided at their engaging edges with teeth 17, the pivots being, located, adjacent to the opposite edges to’ permit/the bars 15 95 to swing inward into engagement with the carpet. The tension onvthp. carpet and the layer or coils pressing upon,tlie bar 15 hold the same securely in engagement with the carpet. One end of the shaft or spindle is 100 extended and provided with a tapering polygonal,portion 18, adapted to receive a removable crank-handle 19, which is designed to be applied to any of the shafts or spindles, ί2

730,239 so that only one crank-handle is necessary for handling all of the rolls of carpet.

It will be seen that the display-rack is simple and comparatively inexpensive in con5 struction, that it is adapted for advantageously displaying a large number of rolls of carpet or other material, and that the lower portion of the rack is constructed for the reception of wide carpets and the upper portion io for narrow carpets.