Improvements in Means for Supporting and for Indicating the Removal of Goods Exposed or Displayed for Sale.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1893-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Supporting and for Indicating the
Removal of Goods Exposed or Displayed for Sale.
I MORITZ SALOMON of 36, Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square, London, W.C.
Boot Manufacturer 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 certain means to be employed for indicating the
removal of goods from their supporting hooks, pegs or rails when such goods are
hung up
or displayed for sale or exhibition whether the same be in shops,
rooms, warehouses or outside of such places.
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In the carrying out of this invention the combination of parts constituting the
special means comprises an electric circuit and a supporting rail or board carrying
hinged hooks, rings, rails, shelves or pegs for supporting the article or articles
and a finger or tail piece, the same being a continuation of the hinge portion of
the said hooks or pegs. Springs are provided to act upon the tail pieces of the
hooks or pegs (so as to exercise force sufficient to press and hold the tail piece of
the hook or peg upon the contact piece of the electric circuit when in normal
condition. The hooks or pegs are of metal connected up in circuit with the contact
pieces which are acted upon by the tail ends of the hinged hooks or pegs.
bell or alarm is connected in the circuit to be operated by the electric circuit
employed.
A.
When in use the articles are hung upon or supported by the hinged hooks,
rings, rails, shelves or pegs and the weight thereof will cause the said rings, rails,
shelves, hooks or pegs to turn upon the hinges and thus to lift the tail pieces of
said hooks or pegs off the contact pieces and when in this condition the alarm
bell will not be sounded. Should an article be removed or lifted off the particular
hook or peg will be relieved of their weight and the force of the spring will act to
press the tail of the hook or peg upon its contact piece so establishing circuit and
setting the alarm bell to ring.
In the drawings annexed hereto there is represented a rail or board of hooks
fitted according to this invention.
Fig. 1. is a face view of the hooks and rail.
Fig. 2. a back view thereof; and
Fig. 3. is a partial sectional view showing the suspending hinged hook in side
view with detail of connection.
a, is the supporting rail or board carrying hinged hooks or pegs b (for supporting
the article or articles) and the finger or tail piece 6', is a rearward continuation of
the hinged hook b. Springs c, are provided to act upon the tail pieces b', so as to
exercise force sufficient to press and hold the tail pieces of the hooks or pegs upon
the contact piece d (here shown as a plain riband-wire piece) of the electric
circuit.
The hooks b. b' are of metal and connected up through the hinge-wire e in
common to all the hooks in circuit with the contact wire d, which is acted upon by
the tail ends b¹ of the hinged hooks as aforesaid. The bell is not shown nor is the
battery.
The necks of the hooks pass through the slotted spaces a¹ of the rail a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
The improvements in means for supporting and indicating the removal of goods

page_text: from their supporting "hinged-hooks," "
pegs,
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"rings," 66
rails," or
"shelves"
combined and operating as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dated this 13th day of July 1893.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.