Improvements in Brackets and Standards for Supporting Shelves or Displaying Goods.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1891.
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets and Standards for Supporting Shelves or
Displaying Goods.
I, GRIFFITH GIBBON Shop Fitter, of 54, Nutcroft Road Peckham London, S.E.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
A metal standard say 1" × or such sectional proportion, is notched on one
edge at every inch space apart. Edge notched called front edge. Upon this
standard fixed securely in a perpendicular position (any length) the self locking
bracket is fixed.
The bracket coming into contact with the standard at an acute angle upwards is
brought down to square with perpendicular standard and in that position is fixed
and self supporting. See sketch Figure 1. A is a metal standard notched on one
edge as at . . B is a bracket self locked in position. c, c, are grooved grips
formed in bracket,d, a projection stud in groove. e is the moveable stop pin in
bracket. C. is bracket in position when taken off standard.
Fig. 2 shows the application of same principle in bracket of self locking when
fixed to standards, oblong or circular in section, and not notched.
.
A. Fig. 2 is a standard. B. bracket in position when self locked and self
supporting. D is a moveable plate shouldered at c and moving in slots d. d. upon
two riveted pins e. e. Bracket when brought to square with perpendicular standard
is tightened by pin e and is self locked and supported. F is a moveable stop pin.
C. Fig. 2 is bracket when taken off standard.
Dated this 5th day of February 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements 1 Brackets and Standards for Supporting Shelves or
Displaying Goods.
I GRIFFITH GIBBON of 54 Nutcroft Road, Peckham in the County of Surrey,
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 :-
This invention relate to improvements in and relating to brackets such as are
commonly attached to s: indard bars rods or tubes to project therefrom and support
shelves generally employed for displaying goods in warehouses or shop windows.
The object of my invention is to so construct the bracket and the standard or
the bracket only, that the bracket may be placed upon the standard and retained
in any one of certain definite positions marked thereon and be removed entirely
therefrom at pleasure or tht the bracket may be placed. upon the standard and
retained in any suitable position thereon and be removed entirely therefrom at
pleasure.
The construction of the bracket and standard is shown in the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 shows one of my in proved brackets attached to a standard of rectangular
section having definite positions for the bracket marked thereon by notches made at
suitable intervals.
Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1 the standard being marked therein in cross section.
Figure 3 shows the application of my bracket to a round tubular standard
without notches.

page_text: A is the standard having notches B made at definite distances apart suitably to
retain the bracket C in any one of the various desirable positions. The bracket C
is made with a recess of the width of the standard A to which it is to be applied
but this recess is so made in the bracket that it coincides with the standard A only
when the bracket is raised to the inclined position shown in dotted lines in Figure 1.
The walls of the said recess are undercut to allow the bracket to descend from the
inclined to the right angle position as shown in full lines in Figure 1 and in that
position the standard is grasped by the overlapping parts D and E. In the
undercut wall of the recess at the side which faces the notches B of the standard A
I provide a projecting piece F conforming to the shape of the notch into which it
enters to prevent the bracket from descending upon the standard. In order that
the bracket may not be released from the standard by any accidental upward
movement of the bracket, 1 provide the locking latch H which is dropped into the
position shown in Figure 1 when the bracket is fixed in the required position and
has to be raised to the position shown in dotted lines when the bracket is to be
detached from the standard.
Figures 3 and 4 illustrate my improved bracket as applied to a tubular
standard K in which notches cannot conveniently be made. The bracket C in this
case is provided with a wedging piece J provided with two pins a and b engaging
in slots c, d made in the bracket C to operate upon the pins a in the descent of
the bracket from the inclined to the horizontal position in such a way as to urge
the wedge against the standard K. By this means the bracket C is retained at
any desirable position upon the standard.
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. A bracket for supporting shelves or displaying goods, constructed with a
lateral opening having under-cut walls by means of which the bracket engages the
standard when it projects therefrom at the required angle and is detachable there-
from when tilted to another angle substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The combination of an attachable and detachable bracket claimed in the
above claiming clause 1 with a notched standard and a projection upon the bracket
corresponding to the notch in the standard substantially as and for the purpose
described.
3. In an attachable and detachable bracket as claimed in the above claiming
clause 1 the locking latch H substantially as and for the purpose described.
4. In an attachable and detachable bracket as claimed in the above claiming
clause 1 the wedging piece J for securing the bracket upon a standard without
notches in any desirable position substantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of November 1891.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.