Improvements in Apparatus or Devices for Exhibiting Goods, Patterns, or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Devices for Exhibiting Goods,
Patterns, or the like.
I, JOSEPH POVEY, London Manager to the Anaglypta Company, Limited, of
92 and 93, Great Russell Street, in the County of London, 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 has for its object to provide an apparatus or device for exhibiting
goods patterns_or the like which will allow of the goods, patterns,
or the like (I will for brevity refer to them as patterns) being
readily manipulated and exhibited with lessened liability to injury and which
will allow of either of the patterns being readily removed and replaced without
disturbing the others. According to my invention I mount at a convenient
height a reel or roller having two end pieces or discs between which extend rods
the respective ends of which are secured in the said end pieces or discs. The
said rods are so mounted that they can be readily withdrawn and replaced so
as to allow of the patterns which are held by the said rods being removed as
required. Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation
and Figure 2 in transverse section an apparatus or device constructed in accord-
ance with my invention.
A are two side standards supported on feet B secured at the requisite distances
apart by struts C. To the top of each of the said standards is secured a piece a
these pieces being connected together by a rod d which supports the reel con-
sisting of a tube E and two end discs FF. These ends discs have holes f in
them in which are received the rods the said rods passing through plain holes
in the disc F2 and having screwed ends which screw into the holes in the disc F
which are tapped to receive them. The ends of the rods which project from
the disc Fare squared or provided with nicks as shewn or equivalently formed
to receive a key or spauner to facilitate their being turned to screw. in, or un-
serew their other ends, from the holes in the disc F. One of the rods is shewn
separately in Figure 3, and Figure 4 is an inside face view of one of the discs
both these views being drawn to a larger scale than Figures 1 and 2. The
patterns are secured in place by passing the rods through loops or the like
secured to or formed on the patterns as shewn in the cross section of some of the
rods in Figure 5. I have shewn two circular rows of rods and holes in the discs
for receiving them but I do not limit myself to this arrangement of the holes
and rods nor do I limit myself to this particular way of securing the rods in
place as other ways may be employed which will allow of the rods being readily
removed or detached from the dises or from one of them to allow of the patterns
being placed in position or removed for example the rods may be hinged at one
end to one of the discs and be secured by a screw or other securing device at
the other end in radial slots which will allow of these ends being removed from
the disc when the securing device releases them. Their other ends turning on
the hinge so as to allow of the patterns being passed onto or off from the rods.

page_text: In the arrangement shewn to secure the patterns in position the rods are passed
through the holes in the disc F2 and through the loops on the patterns and their
other ends are then screwed into the holes in the disc F whilst to remove the
patterns the rods are unscrewed from the disc and withdrawn from the loops
on the patterns and from the hole in the disc F2.
The patterns are hung from the several rods and can be readily exhibited by
turning them over from the front to the back of the apparatus, the reel revolving
upon the rod d in either direction in accordance with the preponderence of
weight on either side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. An apparatus or device for exhibiting goods, patterns, or the like, the said
apparatus or device consisting of, or comprising a reel mounted at a suitable
elevation and so as to be capable of revolution and having rods for supporting
the goods, patterns, or the like, which can be removed from the reel, or displaced
so as to allow of the removal and replacement of patterns substantially as herein-
before described.
2. An apparatus or device for the purposes mentioned constructed substan-
tially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of February 1899.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.