Rotating clothes tree

• US 4,889,246 A
• Filed: 03/02/1989
• Issued: 12/26/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kil J. Lee
• Original Assignee: Kil J. Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Kil J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin-Shue, Alvin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PUROL, SARAH L
• Application Number:
  US07/317,844
• Time in Patent Office: 299 Days
• Field of Search: 211/163, 211/205, 211/131, 211/133, 211/33, 211/54.1, 211/57.1, 211/59.1, 211/194, 211/196, D 6/411-415
• US Class Current: 211/163
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/02 Rotary display stands rotary show-cases A47F3/10

Abstract

A disassembleble clothes or other garment rack or stand having a base, a supporting axle rod extending upwardly from the base and a plurality of spool-like elements separated from each other, and disposed for rotation about the rod at different height levels, and each said element having angularly, upwardly extending peg-type hangers insertable into it, with each of said elements and its hangers being greater in size and extent than the element and its hangers at the level immediately below.

Claims

1. A clothes stand comprising:

(a) a base member, said member being at least partially axially orificed, from its top downwardly, said base member including means to support said base member on a horizontal surface with the axis of said orifice in a substantially vertical orientation;

(b) a cylindrical axle rod, said rod having a portion of a configuration to fit into the orifice in said base member, and being inserted therein;

(c) a plurality of spool-like elements disposed in series on said axle rod, each of said spool-like elements having an internal diameter slightly greater than the external diameter of said axle rod, thereby being rotatable about said axle rod, and each of said spool-like elements being rotatable independently of the others;

(d) a spacer sleeve member interposed between at least two of said spool-like elements;

(e) at least one support arm longitudinally extending angularly upwardly from each of said spool-like elements to support a coat or other garment therefrom; and

(f) each spool-like element above the lowermost said element being of a greater outside diameter than that immediately below it, and each support arm extending from the spool-like element above the lowermost such element, being of a greater longitudinal dimension that that of any of the arms extending from the spool-like element immediately below

whereby garments on the several support arms on the different spool-like elements may be rotated about said axis for different angular dispositions relative to said rod, and garments hung on the upper support arms will not hang on the same vertical line as the garments hung on the lower support arms, thereby permitting garments hung on the support arm of any spool-like element to be rotated about the axle rod in a different concentric cylindrical path from that defined by the rotation of garments hung on the support arms of any other spool-like element.

2. The garment rack or stand as described in claim 1 wherein each spool-like element above the lowermost said element is of a greater diameter than that immediately below it, and each support arm extending from the spool-like element above the lowermost such element, is of a greater longitudinal dimension than that of the arm extending from the spool-like element immediately below;

whereby garments hung on the upper support arms will not hang on same vertical line as the garments hung on the lower support arms.

3. The garment rack or stand as described in claim 1 wherein the axle rod may be rotated within the orifice in the base member.

4. The garment rack or stand as described in claim 1, wherein the axial rod may not be rotated within the orifice in the base member.

5. The garment rack or stand as described in claim 1, wherein at least one of the spacer elements is formed integrally with one of the adjacent spool-like elements.

6. The garment rack or stand as describe in claim 1, wherein each spool-like element is provided with at least one orifice upwardly angled from its outside wall, said orifice is threaded, and each support arm is matingly threadedly for insertion into said angular orifice.

7. The garment rack or stand as described in claim 1 wherein all parts are readily disassembled.

8. A clothes stand comprising:

(a) a base member, said member being at least partially axially orificed, from its top downwardly, said base member including means to support said base member on a horizontal surface with the axis of said orifice in a substantially vertical orientation;

(b) a cylindrical axle rod, said rod having a portion of a configuration to fit into the orifice in said base member, and being inserted therein;

(c) a plurality of spool-like elements disposed in series on said axle rod, each of said spool-like elements having an internal diameter slightly greater than the external diameter of said axle rod, thereby being rotatable about said axle rod, and each of said spool-like elements being rotatable independently of the others;

(d) a plurality of support arms longitudinally extending angularly upwardly from, and disposed equi-angularly about, each of said spool-like elements to support a coat or other garment therefrom;

(e) each spool-like element above the lowermost said element being of a greater outside diameter than that immediately below it, and each support arm extending from the spool-like element above the lowermost such element, being of a greater longitudinal dimension than that of any of the arms extending from the spool-like element immediately below; and

(f) the support arms extending from each spool-like element being vertically spaced from the arms extending from the adjacent spool-like element

whereby garments on the several support arms on the different spool-like elements may be rotated about said axle rod for different angular dispositions relative to said axle rod, and garments hung on the upper support arms will not hang on the same vertical line as the garments hung on the lower support arms, thereby permitting garments hung on the support arm of any spool-like element to be rotated about the axle rod in a different concentric cylindrical path from that defined by the rotation of garments hung on the support arms of any other spool-like element.