An Improved Combined Show-case and Receptacle adapted for Facilitating the Sale of Small Articles such as Buttons.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1891-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Show-case and Receptacle adapted for
Facilitating the Sale of Small Articles such as Buttons.
I, ARTHUR EGBERT WRIGHT, of 47, Grantham Road, Laisteridge Lane,
Bradford, in the County of York, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Small articles such as buttons and studs, are usually sold on cards wholesale, and
the retail dealer generally disposes of them by the dozen or in still smaller.
quantities, sometimes even singly. When a quantity of such small articles is kept
in a drawer, or the like (as is the usual custom) from the cards becoming mixed up,
a considerable amount of time is wasted in searching for a particular size, colour,
or quality, and on detaching one or more of the articles from a card the rest are
easily loosened therefrom and consequently frequently lost or wasted.
Now the main object of this invention is to obviate the above mentioned dis-
advantages, and I accomplish this by constructing a receptacle in which any size,
colour or quality of article may be found at a glance. The receptacle consists : in
a case or box, of wood, or other suitable material, having sloping sides, the one open
end being made slanting with a door or cover preferably hinged thereto at the
bottom and fastening at the top. The receptacle is provided with a suitable number
of shelves on which trays or other carriers may be placed if desired. The door.
has a glass front and a detachable back on which latter specimens of the goods.
contained in the receptacle are attached and any information as to price and so
torth may likewise be appended thereto. The slope or slant of the sides and front
end of the receptacle is such as to produce a gradual narrowing from the base
upwards, consequently each shelf is slightly shorter in length and breadth than the
one next below it. Each shelf is thus made to the exact dimensions to suit the.
particular size of card or small box apportioned to it. On the face of each shelf
or at one or both sides of each of the intervening partitions formed by the shelves,
information relative to the size, number, colour, quality and so forth may be marked,
or labels setting forth such particulars may be attached.
When the goods have been arranged on their respective shelves in the receptacle,
on a customer pointing out on the show case front the particular article required, it
may at once be found inside by referring to the number on the show case which
should correspond with the number on the shelf carrying the particular article
desired. One or more of the articles on that shelf may then be withdrawn without
disturbing the goods on the remaining shelves. Articles such as linen buttons are
in this way prevented from becoming soiled by constant handling in searching
through drawers as hitherto.
To better provide for different makes or qualities of goods I may construct the
receptacle as two or more boxes or cases, combined in one,; or, if preferred, one
receptacle may be made to contain two or more sets or tiers of shelves.
Dated this 24th day of March 1891
CROSSLEY & Co.,
72, New Market Street, Bradford, Yorks, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Show-case and Receptacle adapted for
Facilitating the Sale of Small Articles such as Buttons.
| ARTHUR EGBERT WRIGHT of 85 Holte Road, Aston Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Warehouseman late of 47 Grantham Road, Laisteridge Lane,
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page_text: Bradford in the County of York, 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 :-
Small articles such as bottons and studs, are usually sold on cards wholesale, and
the retail dealer generally disposes of them by the dozen or in still smaller
quantities, sometimes even singly. When a quantity of such small articles is kept
in a drawer or the like (as is the usual custom) from the cards becoming mixed up
a considerable amount of time is wasted in searching for a particular size, colour, or
quality and on detaching one or more of the articles from the card, the rest are
easily loosened therefrom and consequently frequently lost or wasted.
Now the main object of this invention is to obviate the above mentioned dis-
advantages, and I accomplish this by constructing a receptacle in which any size
colour or quality of article may be seen at a glance.
The receptacle consists of a case of wood or other suitable material having sloping
sides (A) the front end being slanting (B) with door or cover preferably hinged
thereto at the bottom, and fastening at the top.
The receptacle is provided with a suitable number of shelves on which trays or
other carriers may be placed if desired, the door in front has a glass face and
detachable back on which latter, specimens of the goods contained in the receptacle
and any information as to price and so-forth may likewise be appended thereto.
The slope or slant of the sides and front end of the receptacle is such as to produce
a gradual narrowing from the base upwards, consequently each shelf is shorter in
length & breadth than the one next below it, each shelf is thus made to the exact
dimensions to suite the particular size of card and small box apportioned to it, on
the end of each small box information relative to the size, number, colour,
quality, and so forth may be marked, or labels setting forth such particulars may
bc attached.
.
When the goods have been arranged on their respective shelves in the receptacle,
on a customer pointing out on the show case front the particular article required, it
may at once be found inside by refering to the number on the show case which
should correspond with the number on the shelf carring the particular article
desired.
One or more of the articles on that shelf may then be withdrawn without
disturbing the goods on the remaining shelves. Articles such as linen buttons are in
this way prevented from becoming soiled, by constant handling in searching through
drawers as hitherto.
To provide for different makes or qualities of goods, I may construct the
receptacle as two or more boxes or cases, combined in one; or if preferred one
receptacle may be made to contain two or more sets of shelves.
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. That all different sizes, colours, or qualities, also quantity of articles in
receptacle can be seen at a glance.
II. That the construction of receptacle is such, that any article can be withdrawn
from the shelves, without disturbing, soiling or in any way dis-arranging remainder
of articles in said receptacle.
III. The receptacle being light and portable, can be placed before customers
who are enabled at once to select article of the size, colour or quality required thus
saving a large amount of time and labour.
Dated this Twenty-first day of December One thousand eight hundred and
ninato su
ARTHUR EGBERT WRIGHT.