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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JOSEPH HYMANS, OF DEL RIO, TEXAS.
PICTURE-HANGER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,160, dated January 3, 1893,
Application filed July 1,1892. Serial No, 438,674. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOSEPH HYMANS, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Del Rio,
in the county of ValVerde and State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Hangers for Picture-Frames
and Like Articles; and I do hereby declare
the following to be a full, clear, and exact de-
scription of the invention, such as will enable
to others skilled in the art to which it apper-
tains to make and use the same.
My invention relates to hangers for picture
and other frames.
The object of my invention is to provide
15 a hanger adapted to support the picture or
other frame at the top and bottom thereof, the
upper support to be adjustable and adapted
to hold, and project the frame rigidly at any
desired angle from the wall or ceiling, and
20 the lower support to be adjustable to meet
the different sizes of frames.
It is also my object to provide a hanger
adapted for suspension from the ceiling, or
from the side walls, or from both ceilings and
25 side walls.
It is also my object to provide a hanger
which shall fend the frame from contact with
the wall and also hold the frame securely and
rigidly in position.
30o In the accompanying drawings forming a
part of this specification: Figure 1 is a per-
spective view of a picture frame showing my
hanger attached thereto. And Fig. 2 is a
front elevation of the hanger secured to the
35 Wall and ceiling.
The frame of the hanger is composed of a
single piece of wire forming a horizontal sus-
pender bar A and elongated arms B B bent
at right angles thereto, said arms again bent
40 laterally at points taken on a line X X of Fig.
2 spreading the lower ends apart.
C C denote hooks or rests formed on the
lower cr free ends of the arms B B.
D denotes a yoke formed of a single piece
45 of wire and having eyes E E, formed in each
end, these eyes are adapted to receive and be
threaded over the rests C C and up upon the
arms B B the ends of the said arms being first
pressed together to meet the eyes.
50o F denotes a wire rod having its end bent
around the center of the suspender bar A in
a groove or slight depression formed in saidbar in which said rod is free to turn, the pur-
pose of the groove being to prevent any lat-
eral play, said rod has a hook f upon its 55
outer end.
G denotes a flat metal bAr having a shoul-
der g formed in one end which is provided
with a perforation h to admit the passage of
the rod F, h' h' denote perforations in saxd 60
bar which receive the hook f, and serve to
adjust the length of the bar G.
h2 denotes a perforation in the outer end
of the bar G adapted to receive a hook K, se-
cured to the back of the picture frame near 65
the top.
The hanger is secured to the ceiling and
wall as shown by hooks secured in the ceil-
ing to which the bar A is secured, and also
by hooks secured to the side walls near the 70
ceiling, as shown,either or both sets of hooks
may be used, depending upon the size or
weight of the frame.
To hang a picture frame, the rests or hooks
CC are first adjusted to the desired width 75
by operating the sliding yoke up or down,
the lower part of frame is then placed in said
rests, and the hook K secured in the perfora-
tion h2 of the bar G. The desired angle of
pitch from the wall is then given and the 80o
hook f secured in one of the perforations h'
of the bar G.
It is evident that my frame hanger is
equally valuable for hanging mirrors.
Having shown and described my invention 85
what I claim and desire to secure by Letters
Patent is:
A hanger for picture frames or like articles
consisting of a horizontal hanger bar having
dependent flexible legs formed integral there- 90o
with, said legs being bent laterally apart at
a point about midway of their length, and
having hooks or rests formed in their lower
ends. A sliding yoke for adjustingand hold-
ing in position the lower or bent portions of 95
said legs in combination with an adjustable
top support adapted to hold and project the
frame at an angle from the wall.
In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in
presence of two witnesses.
JOSEPH HYMANS.
Witnesses:
S. J. CONNOR,
A. MALANON.
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Hymans, Joseph. Picture Hanger, patent, January 3, 1893; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173278/m1/2/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.