Endless Belts or Chains either Horizontal or Vertical.
Year: 1885

page_text: Endless Belts or Chains either Horizontal or Vertical.
I JOHANN HEINRICH HELBERGER Merchant of Frankfort, / Main do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention for "A MECHANICAL CHANGE OF THE
SHOW PIECES IN SHOP WINDOWS &° BY MEANS OF ENDLESS BELTS OR CHAINS
EITHER HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL," to be as follows:-
This invention relates to and has for object an improved method for effecting
mechanically the change of show pieces, advertisements or display of articles or
samples or specimens of goods in shop windows and reserved places where such
display may be effected, whereby a greater number or variety of advertisements
specimens or goods may be displayed than is at present obtainable.
In carrying out this invention the advertisements or goods are attached to any
required number of wood or metal plates with or without a border and a horizontal
movement will be given to these plates by mounting them on wheels travelling
either on rails or on a flat surface or they may be moved on rollers, and the move-
ment of these plates and wheels or rollers is effected by means of a driving belt or
chain. When a vertical movement is required two endless belts or chains are
arranged .in a parallel position so as to leave a distance of a little more than the
breadth of the plates between them. Each plate is then secured to the belts so as
to hang vertically down from the fixing point. In this latter case the pulleys on
which the belts or chains run will be of equal diameter or may be drums mounted
on spindles so as to ensure the same speed and relative positions of the belts the
one to the other.
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Endless Belts or Chains either Horizontal or Vertical.
I, JOHANN HEINRICH HELBERGER Merchant of Frankfort / Main Germany do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to and has for object an improved method for effecting
mechanically, the change of show pieces advertisements, or display of articles or
samples or specimens of goods in shop windows and reserved places where such
display may be effected whereby a greater number or variety of advertisements
specimens or goods may be displayed than is at present attainable.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Figs. 1 and 2 represent respectively an 1
arrangement of movement working in horizontal position in vertical cross section
and plan; and Figs. 3 to 7 represent an arrangement of movement upon double
chains working in vertical position, Fig. 3 being front view, Fig. 4 top view Fig. 5
vertical side elevation, Fig. 6 a side view and Fig. 7 a front view.
The goods to be exhibited are placed or attached to any required number of
wooden or metal plates c with or without ledges and when a horizontal movement
is to be given the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 will be used. The plates or
shelves c in this case may form the bottom surface of small carriages suitably
attached to a strap or chain working around pulleys a. b driven as indicated in
Fig. 1. or it may be from above and said carriages may travel on either a flat
surface or on rails; or the plates or shelves c may be carried on an endless belt or
double belt over pulleys driven by the motive power and in this case the wheels on
the carriages may be dispensed with.
When the vertical movement is required two endless belts d, d¹ are arranged as
shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, in a parallel position so as to leave a distance a
little more than the breadth of the plates c between them. Upon these belts or
chains bearings or sockets are placed at equal distances apart and serve to receive
journals of the trays or shelves c on which they are mounted in such a manner
that the shelves will depend vertically from their supports at any point or position
of the belt in its traverse (see Figs. 3 and 6). The equal movement of the belts or
chains may be attained by two equal pairs of pulleys working together as well as
by pins fixed on the upper pair of pulleys A, B, and pressing upon the belt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare 'that what
I claim' is
A mechanical arrangement for altering or changing show pieces in shop windows
by either horizontal or vertical endless belts or chains
a) For horizontal movement according to the general arrangement shown in
Figs. 1 and 2 wherein a pulley is driven from above or below and by means
of an endless horizontal belt or chain arrangement passing over a second
pulley driving carriages along flat plates or along rails,

page_text: b) For vertical movement two endless belts or chains of equal length driven by a
pair of pulleys mounted on one and the same spindle receiving motion from
any convenient source said belts or chains imparting their motion to the
plates or shelves suspended upon journals thereof and between them, as and
for the purpose herein set forth.