Improvements in Brackets for Displaying Goods in Windows.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 30th. Apr., 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Displaying Goods in Windows.
I, THOMAS GRIFFITHS, trading as Thomas Griffiths & Co. 17 Dale End'
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Shop Fitter, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to the manner in which 1 construct a window bracket or
stand bracket for displaying rolls of ribbons and other circular rolls of material;
or for displaying circular cases, boxes or other circular formed articles, whereby
great effect can be obtained with a minimum amount of space occupied by the said
bracket.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing my improved bracket to
suit or fit into a clip or column bracket carried in any usual manner upon a vertical
stand, pillar, or frame. I cause the end of my bracket to be formed with a pro-
jecting stem or rod to fit into or engage with the hollow receptacle formed upon
the clip. Instead of a circular stem or rod I sometimes make the bracket stem in
the form of a flange or bar to fit into a suitably shaped recess upon the clip. The
projecting arm or support for the ribbons or other circular objects I form out of
metal glass or other suitable material; and provide for one or more rolls being
supported upon the flat surface of the bracket, by causing such surfaces to have
the configuration of a circle or part of a circle; so that there is but a small
amount of material around the base of the rolls or other objects, and such material
that does project being of a circular shape lends itself to the purposes of novelty
in display of such goods or objects. I sometimes form the upper portion or
supporting portion of my bracket as a thin plate or sheet of material with ribs
or supporting cross arms arranged beneath it; and I cut away the interior of the
plate in order to economise material in some instances.
To prevent the rolls or other objects from falling off the stand bracket, I some-
times construct my brackets with small clips or ledges of material which project.
up around the edges of the bracket and serve to securely hold the rolls or objects
in position.
When employing my bracket to carry three circular rolls, I form the flat
supporting surface with the configuration obtained by allowing three circles to
intersect each other. When four rolls are to be carried with the configuration
produced by the intersection of four circles, and so on for the number of rolls I
desire to arrange upon one bracket.
Dated this 30th day of July 1890.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Displaying Goods in Windows.
I, THOMAS GRIFFITHS, trading as Thomas Griffiths & Co. of 17 Dale End,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Shop Fitter, 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 :—
My invention relates to the manner in which I construct a window bracket or
stand bracket for displaying rolls of ribbons and other circular rolls of material;
or for displaying circular cases, boxes or other circular formed articles, whereby
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page_text: great effect can be obtained with a minimum amount of space occupied by the
said bracket.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing my improved bracket to
suit or fit into a clip or column bracket carried in any usual manner upon a
vertical stand, pillar or frame. I cause the end of my bracket to be formed with
a projecting stem or rod to fit into or engage with the hollow receptacle formed
upon the clip. Instead of a circular stem or rod I sometimes make the bracket
stem in the form of a flange or bar to fit into a suitably shaped recess upon the
clip. The projecting arm or support for the ribbons or other circular objects I
form out of metal, glass or other suitable material, and provide for one or more
rolls being supported upon the flat surface of the bracket, by causing such surfaces
to have the configuration of a circle or part of a circle, so that there is but a small
amount of material around the base of the rolls or other objects, and such material
that does project being of a circular shape lends itself to the purposes of novelty
in display of such goods or objects. I sometimes form the upper portion or
supporting portion of my bracket as a thin plate or sheet of material with ribs or
supporting cross arms arranged beneath it; and I cut away the interior of the plate
in order to economise material in some instances.
To prevent the rods or other objects from falling off the stand bracket, I some-
times construct my brackets with small clips or ledges of material which project up
around the edges of the bracket and serve to securely hold the rolls or objects in
position.
When constructing my bracket to carry three circular rolls, I form the flat
supporting surface with the configuration obtained by allowing three circles to
intersect each other. When four rolls are to be carried with the configuration
produced by the intersection of four circles, and so on for the number of rolls I
desire to arrange upon one bracket.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 is a side elevation of my improved bracket
having three circular supports A, A1, A2 formed out of one piece of metal, the
lower or undersides being strengthened by ribs A' A' formed thereon, the end A³
being arranged as a slide or leg to suit or fit into any bracket or holder.
I arrange
small projecting lugs or side guards a, a, a upon the upper surface of the plate to
keep the rolls of ribbon or other articles safely in position.
Figure 3 is a plan and Figure 4 is a side elevation of my improved bracket when
constructed of metal discs or separate plates B, B1, B2 and riveted or otherwise
ordinarily secured to a bottom ribbed flange or bar B³ having an end or stem
formed as a pin 63 to enter into the holder or supporting clip; this end being made
of any desired form to suit any particular shape of bracket or holder that is to
receive my improved bracket.
Figure 5 is a plan of my improved bracket when constructed out of four separate
discs D, D', D2, D3 and an attached underframe or cross flanged bar D', the end
being formed to suit any required holder.
Figure 6 is a plan of my solid form of bracket having two supporting discs C, C'
and its underframe C³ formed in one piece of metal or casting; c, c being the
side lips to prevent the rolls from becoming displaced when in position upon the
stand.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any peculiar shape of rib or
method of attaching the same to the separate plates, and I employ the same
system of construction when making solid or made up brackets to carry five or six
separate rolls as hereinbefore described and illustrated when arranged to carry
two, three or four separate rolls.
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
(1) The construction of brackets for displaying goods. having separate circular.

page_text: plates to carry each object connected or secured to one connecting stem or bottom
flange substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated
in Figures 3, 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
(2) The construction of brackets for displaying goods having the circular or
partly circular plates formed in one piece with the bottom flange plate substantially
as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 6 of the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of April 1891.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for Applicant.