Improvements in and connected with Supports or Stands for Display- ing Boxes and other Articles in Windows and Elsewhere.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb., 1898-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1898
Improvements in and connected with Supports or Stands for Display-
ing Boxes and other Articles in Windows and Elsewhere.
I, FREDERICK JERMYN SMITHI, of Gunville Lodge, Thorpe Road, Peterborough,
Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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My invention relates to supports or stands for displaying articles in windows
and elsewhere, and in carrying it into effect, I proceed in or in about the following
manner. I take a rectangular piece of sheet metal or other suitable material
of greater length than breadth. This piece of material I bend in or in about
the centre of its length, so that one portion may be at an angle to the other
portion. By standing the bent material on its free ends, one half will be
supported by the other half. The free edges may be bent up into flat, grooved
or other ledges to support one end of the article to be shewn, while one side of
it rests on the sloping support. The corners of the ledge may be turned down
so as to rest on the surface on which the stand is placed, and so keep it (the ledge)
from bending down by the weight of the article. Holes may be provided in the
supports by which they can be hung up, and the two portions of the stand may
be connected by a wire or equivalent to render them more rigid and not liable
to crush out of shape.
In some cases I employ a shorter piece of material and bend over one end,
by which it can be hung on a rail, the other end being turned up to form a ledge
as already described. As a further modification, the stand may consist of a
rectangular piece of suitable material with a ledge as before, but instead of being
bent over so that one part may support the other part, I provide triangular pieces
of material at the sides, the proportions of the triangular determining the slope
of the stand. In these side pieces may be holes for hanging up the stand, or slotted
parts for passing over rails or rods, and the bottom of the side pieces may be notched
to catch on rods or rails to prevent the stand slipping forward. For portability,
the stand may be hinged, and they may be ornamental in any manner.
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1807
Improvements in and connected with Supports or Stands for Display-
ing Boxes and other Articles in Windows and Elsewhere.
I, FREDERICK JERMYN SMITH, late of Gunville Lodge, Thorpe Road, Peter-
borough, but now of 81, Bridge Street, Worksop, Draper, do hereby declare the
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page_text: 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in and connected with supports or stands
for displaying articles in windows and elsewhere, and in carrying it into effect,
I proceed in or in about the following manner, making reference to the accom-
panying drawings, Figs. 1 to 16, of which represent isometrical views of various
types and modifications of my invention. take a rectangular piece of sheet
metal or other suitable material of greater length than breadth and I bend
it in or in about the middle of its length as at b so that one portion may be at an
angle to the other portion. (See Figs. 1 to 8.) By standing the bent material
on its free ends, one half will be supported by the other half. The free ends may
be bent up into flat, grooved, or other ledges as at c d d e f g h i to support one
end of the article to be shown, while one part of it rests on the sloping support.
The corners of some of the forms of ledges inay be turned down as at (Figs. I,
2, 6, 15 and 16) so as to rest on the surface on which the stand is placed and so
keep it (the ledge) from bending down by the weight of the articles. Holes may
be provided in the supports by which they can be hung up, and the two portions
of the stand may be connected by a wire stay or equivalent to render them more
rigid and less liable to crush out of shape. In some cases I employ a shorter
piece of material and bend over one end 7 (Figs. 9, 10, 11) by which it can be
hung on a rail, the other end being turned up to form a ledge in any of the manners
already described. As a further modification, the stand may consist of a rectan-
gular piece a of suitable material with a ledge as before, but instead of being
bent over so that one part may support the other part I provide triangular side
pieces or wings m (Figs. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), the proportions of the triangle deter-
mining the slope of the stand. In the wings m may be holes by which the stand
can be hung up, or slotted openings n (Fig. 14) for passing over rails or rods,
the bottom edge of m may also he notched as ato (Fig. 14) to catch on to rods
or rails to prevent the stand slipping forward. For portability, the stands may
be hinged at b, and they can be ornamented in any way, or bear advertisements.
To strengthen the stands the edge of the material may be turned over, or the
material may be corrugated. The edge of the material from which the supports
are made may be scalloped or otherwise cut.
The invention being capable of some variation, without departure from its
essential features, I do not confine myself to the precise shapes or relative propor-
tions of the parts described in the above specification or exemplified in the accom-
panying drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention in and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is:-
CLAIMS.
1. Supports or stands for displaying boxes and other articles in windows and
elsewhere, the said supports being constructed by bending a piece of metal or
other suitable material of greater length than breadth, the said bend being at any
position between the two ends of the piece of material, and the manner of bending
being such that the two free ends of the piece of material may rest on the surface
on which the support is to stand, and keep the bend upwards, the whole substan-
tially as described in the above specification and exemplified in Figs. 1 to S, of
the accompanying drawings.
2. In supports such as are the subject matter of the preceding Claim 1, providing
them with side stays substantially as described in the above specification with
reference to Fig. 2, of the accompanying drawings.
3. The modification of the supports which are the subject matter of the above
Claim 1, by which modification the bend is made near one end of the piece of
material so as to form an overhanging part for placing over a rail or the like,

page_text: the whole substantially as described in the above specification with reference to
Fig. 9, 10, 11, of the accompanying drawings.
4. Supports or stands having triangular sides or wings with or without slots and
notches, the whole substantially as described in the above specification with
reference to Figs. 12 to 16, of the accompanying drawings.
5. In any of the supports which are the subject matter of the above Claims 1 to 5,
the provision of flat, grooved or other ledges, substantially as described in the
above specification with reference to the parts c, d, d¹, c, f, g, h, i, shown in
Figs. 1 to 16, of the accompanying drawings.
6. The use of hinges in connection with supports such as are shown in Figs. 1
to 8, of the accompanying drawings, the said hinges being for the purpose
mentioned..
Dated this and dox of Fahmi 1908
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for Applicant.