Improvements in the Manufacture of Sliding Sockets for Shop Window Fittings.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1897
MOD
1007
5th Mar
1000
Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Dec., 1907 Accepted, 5th Mar
1000
Certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Sliding Sockets
for Shop Window Fittings.
I, WALTER HENRY WILTON, trading as Walter H. Wilton & Co., of 114 and 116,
Barford Street, in the City of Birmingham, Brassfounder, Metal Spinner and Stamper
and Piercer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to sliding sockets which are used on the upright
tubular parts of shop window fittings for carrying horizontal curved and other arins
on which articles are displayed in the window. Heretofore the said sliding sockets
have usually been made of cast metal with one two three or more smaller vertical
side sockets in which the spigot ends of the arms fit.
By my invention I am enabled to make the said sliding sockets cheaper than
heretofore by making them from solid drawn or other'thin metal tubes or from sheet
metal as I will now describe.
In carrying out this invention I first form a short tube of about the same length as is
the required sliding socket and of somewhere about the same diameter as the larger
part of the same. This tube is solid drawn or is a brazed tube or is raised from sheet
inetal by spinning or by press tools or other means seamless or formed from a flat
sheet metal blank by press tools with the edges lapped or otherwise secured together.
By swaging tools or other like appliances worked in a stamp or press or by other
means I neck down the upper and lower parts of the tube so that the tube will now
have about the same appearance as a cast socket without the side sockets namely a
central enlarged body with a reduced top and bottom neck to fit on to the upright
tubular part of the shop window fitting the socket terminating with trumpet shaped
ends. The body part of the socket may be round hexagonal or other form. The
said small sockets for the arms are made as sinall separate tubes which are soldered
or otherwise fixed to the outside of the body. Fixed in the body of the tubular
socket by soldering or other means I provide a boss through which the set screw for
fixing the socket on to the said tubular upright passes.
Dated this 19th day of March 1897.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
Certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Sliding Sockets
for Shop Window Fittings
I, WALTER HENRY WILTON, trading as Walter H. Wilton & Co., of 114 and 116,
Barford Street, in the City of Birmingham, Brassfounder, Metal Spinner and Stamper
and Piercer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
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page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention has reference to sliding sockets which are used on the upright
tubular parts of shop window fittings for carrying horizontal curved and other arms
on which articles are displayed in the window. Heretofore the said sliding sockets
have usually been made of cast metal with one two three or more smaller vertical
side sockets in which the spigot ends of the arms fit.
By my invention I am enabled to make the said sliding sockets cheaper than
heretofore by making them from solid drawn or other thin metal tubes or from sheet
metal as I will now describe by referring to the accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one of the said sliding sockets constructed in accordance
with this invention; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the
same; Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation shewing the said sliding socket attached to
an upright tubular pillar; Fig. 5 shews a piece of tube from which form the said
sliding socket; Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the
main portion of the sliding socket which is formed from the tube represented by
Fig. 5; Fig. 8 shews one of the small side sockets (to which however I make no
claim); Fig. 9 is a side elevation and Fig. 10 is a front elevation of the rollers of a
swaging machine for forming the tube represented by Fig. 5 into the said sliding
socket shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts' in all the figures of the
drawing.
A is the sliding socket adapted to move up and down on the vertical tubular rod B
and to be fixed thereon in any required position by the binding screw C, and D¹ D²
are two side sockets fixed on the main socket A for carrying the arms on which the
articles are displayed in the window.
In carrying out this invention I first form or take a short ductile thin inetallic
tube such as represented by Fig. 5 which is rather longer than the required sliding
socket A and is of the same diameter as the larger central part of the same. This
tube is solid drawn or is otherwise formed by any well known means. By swaging
tools in a swaging machine or by other suitable appliances I neck down the upper
and lower parts of the tube so that the tube will now have the appearance represented
by Figs. 6 and 7 which is of the same external shape as a cast socket with the side
sockets removed, that is to say, it has a central enlarged tubular part a¹ with a
reduced top neck a² and a reduced bottom neck a³ to fit on to the tubular upright
part B of the shop window fitting, the socket terminating with inwardly turned
trumpet shaped ends a' a. The body part of the socket is by preference made
round as shewn, although it may be made hexagonal or of other form by being
formed from a tube of corresponding shape instead of from a round tube as
represented by Fig. 5. The small socket or sockets such as D1 D2 for the arms (of
which sockets there may be any convenient number) are made of small separate
tubes such as shewn in Fig. 8 which are brazed or otherwise fixed to the outside of
the body part a¹. Fixed to the body part a' of the tubular socket A, I provide a
metal boss E through which the binding screw C for fixing the socket on the tubular
upright B passes. This boss E is by preference made as represented in Figs. 1, 2, 3
and 4, that is to say, square or of other shape than round passing through a hole a
in the body part A and having a flange e¹ to take against the interior of the socket a¹
and be secured by soldering or by other convenient means.
Figs. 9 and 10 shew swaging rollers suitable for necking down the ends of the
tube for forming the said socket A. It will be seen that these rollers consist of. an
internal swaging roller F made with a groove 1 corresponding with the interior of
the necks a² as of the tubular body A and also made with a collar f² corresponding
with the interior of the trumpet shaped mouth at a. The other swaging roller G has
a collar g' to take against the outside of the neck a² or a³ and has a collar g² to
turn in the trumpet shaped ends at a'. These Figs. 9 and 10 shew one of the sockets
A in position with its neck swaged down by the swaging rollers F and G which it will
be understood are mounted in an ordinary swaging machine.

page_text: 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. Making a sliding socket for shop window fittings of a thin ductile metal tube
which is necked down and shaped near each end in the manner and for the purpose
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
2. A sliding socket for shop window fittings consisting of a socket A made from a
piece of thin ductile metal tube necked down and shaped near each end in the
manner set forth, one or more tubular side sockets such as D1 D2 fixed to the socket A
and a setscrew passing through a boss fixed in said socket A, substantially as
hereiubefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of December 1897.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.