Display Stand for Paperhangings.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug.. 1394
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1895-Accepted, 15th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Display Stand for Paperhangings.
I, THOMAS RICHARD SHILLITO of 89 Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a
communication to me from abroad by Charles Mortimer Patterson and Herbert
Bruce Patterson both of Warren Avenue Chicago, U.S.A. Salesmen to be as
follows:-
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The object of this invention is to be able to display paperhangings or wall papers
in the relative positions they would occupy when fixed in a room for instance the
paper for the side walls, the border and the ceiling. It consists of a main rack
frame the legs of which may by means of a toothed rack and catch pin be adjusted
relatively to one another. To the top of the rack frame is hinged a frame on which
the paper
is displayed separately and at a different angle to the paper on the main
rack frame. At the back of this latter there is a receptacle for holding paper-
hangings and at both sides of the same near the top, clamps for holding border
paper across the wall paper. The frame hinged to the top of the rack frame is
also provided on each side with clamps for ceiling paper, and may be turned on
its hinge to bring it in the desired position relatively to the border and wall paper
on the main rack frame.
Dated this 15th day of August 1894.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Display Stand for Paperhangings.
I, THOMAS RICHARD SHILLITO of 89 Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a
communication to me from abroad by Charles Mortimer Patterson and Herbert
Bruce Patterson both of Warren Avenue Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and in what
mauner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for object to provide a display stand for paperhangings on
which the paper to be placed on a wall is shewn and across the top of it the border
is exhibited and above the border the paper intended for papering the ceiling all
three kinds of paper being brought into substantially the relative positions they
would occupy when used in papering a room.
In the drawing,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the display stand with a portion of the frame
Fig. 2 a front elevation thereof.
cut away.
Fig. 3 a side elevation shewing the side opposite to that shewn in Fig. 1 and
with the back portion of the frame cut away.
D

page_text: Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 2 of a detached portion.
A are uprights of the main frame, B the bottom cross pieces and C the legs.
D are cross pieces between the uprights near their tops, constituting a receptacle
for holding the rolls of paperhangings. E a front frame hinged at its upper end to
the top of uprights A by hinges F. G a notched bar pivotted to the frame E and
designed to hold this frame at any desired angle to the frame or uprights A by
means of the notches engaging on a cross piece H on uprights or frame A. I a roll
of paper placed in the receptacle D, with the end I extending down in front of
the frame E. Several widths of the paper may be placed side by side making
sufficient to cover the front frame E. Ja roll of border having its end clamped
by a spring clamp L which is joined by hinges M to the front frame E the hinges
being made to spring by the coiled springs N. O is a handle by means of which
the operator can throw the spring clamp L back and after placing the end P (shewn
partly cut away) of the paper under the clamp the springs N, force the clamp
down and clamp the end of the paper against the side of the frame E holding it
there while being unrolled across the top of the paper hangings when the roll J
is placed under the spring clamp Q on the opposite side of the frame E. The spring
clamp Qhas hinges R, springs S and handle T by means of which it is hinged to
the side of frame E but can be thrown back and the roll of paper placed under
the front portion of the clamp as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2. U. is a frame pivotted
to the top of the frame A at V. The frame U extends quite across the top of
frame A over the top of which it can be thrown back or it can be thrown forward
over the frame E as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3. On one end of the frame U there is
also a clamp a hinged by hinges b which have springs c, and d is a handle by which
said clamp may be thrown back to receive the end e of the roll of paper in the
same manner that the clamp L receives the end of the border paper. g is another
clamp on the opposite end of the frame U and operates to hold the roll of paper f
in the same manner that the clamp Q holds the roll J of the border paper.
When
this roll of ceiling paper f has been placed on the frame U and clamped to be
held in position by the clamps a and g said frame is swung over, above, and in
front of the frame E into substantially the position of Figs. 1 and 3, when the
wall paper, the border paper, and the ceiling paper are brought into the relative
positions there shewn, when a purchaser can at once judge of the harmony of
colours and figures and see how they will appear when in use in a room. The
border paper or the ceiling paper may be readily changed or the wall paper
and different colours and figures of paper matched to suit a purchaser.
It is known that display stands have been constructed having the frame E hinged
thereto, provision being made in the top of the frame A for a receptacle to hold
the wall paper which is displayed over the frame E and such a construction is not
herein claimed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The main frame of the display stand having near its top a receptacle for
holding rolls of wall paper; a frame hinged to the main frame at or near its upper
end on which the wall paper is displayed; clamps on each side of the frame E
for clamping and holding the border paper across the wall paper whereby the
wall paper and border paper are brought into relative positions to be displayed,
substantially as described and shewn.
2. The frame U; the spring clamps a and 9 hinged to the frame U; the frame A
to which the frame U is pivotted; and the front frame E hinged to the frame A,
substantially as described and shewn.
3. In a paperhangings display staud, the spring clamps attached to the side of
the pivotted frames pivotted to the main frame, in combination with the main frame;
and the pivotted frames pivotted to the main frame for clamping and holding the

page_text: border paper and ceiling paper and throwing it into relative juxtaposition to the
wall paper for comparison, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 11th day of May 1895.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.