Improvements in Devices for Holding and Displaying Articles for Sale.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 18th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1899
Improvements in Devices for Holding and Displaying Articles
for Sale.
I, HARTAS FOXTON, of the Firm of Foxton Bros. Ltd., of Selby Braid Mills,
Selby, in the County of York, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to-devices such as show cards upon which articles such
as boot and shoe laces, rolls of tape, skeins of silk, wool or the like and other
articles of light weight and appropriate form, can be mounted and displayed for
sale.
The object of my invention is to provide a device of the kind referred to that
will support the articles in an efficient manner, and will at the same time be.
inexpensive and require very little labour to mount or secure the articles thereon.
By means of my invention the use of stitches or of elastic loops or strips may
be dispensed with.
According to my invention I employ strips of cardboard or similar material
connected to the sheet or plate of cardboard or other material forming the base
or back of my improved device by being passed through slits in the same, or
by moans of rivots, eyelets, wire clamps or the like. The said strips may be
attached to the base at the ends only, or both at the ends and at one or more
intermediate points; and the articles are adapted to be slipped beneath the said
strips and to be held in position thereby.
In some cases I also provide strips of material projecting at right angles to
the base and serving as an additional means for retaining the articles in place,
the said strips being attached to the base in a similar manner to those above
described. I sometimes provide these projecting strips with a flap or portion
bent so as to lic parallel with the base, and serving to cover the ends or edges
of the articles. By these means articles may be as securely held in position as
they would be in a box or case, while at the same time they are exposed to view,
and are capable of being readily removed.
The aforesaid projecting strips may also be employed to form partitions by
means of which the articles may be separated from each other or into certain
quantities, as, for instance, into lots of half a dozen skeins of silk or pairs of
boot laces.
Dated this 18th day of November 1808
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Devices for Holding and Displaying Articles
for Sale.
I, HARTAS FOXTON, of the Firm of Foxton Bros. Ltd., of Selby Braid Mills,
Selby, in the County of York, Manufacturers, 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 relates to devices such as show-cards upon which articles such
as boot and shoe laces, rolls of tape, skeins of silk, wool or the like, and other
articles of light weight and appropriate form, can be mounted and displayed for
sale.
The object of my invention is to provide a device of the kind referred to that
will support the articles in an efficient manner, and will at the same time be
inexpensive and require very little labour to mount or secure the articles thereon.
By means of my invention the use of stitches or of elastic loops or strips may
be dispensed with.
According to my invention I employ strips of cardboard or similar material
connected to the sheet or plate of cardboard or other material forming the base
or back of my improved device by being passed through slits in the same, so
that they lie partly in front of and partly at the back of the said base. The
slits may be straight or diagonal; or of such a shape as to form tongues
or flaps in the base behind which the strips can be readily passed, without the
necessity of threading the strips through the slits. Instead of slitting the base
however, rivets, eyelets, wire clamps or the like may be employed for securing
the strips thereto.
The articles to be displayed are adapted to be slipped beneath the said strips
and to be held in position thereby.
In some cases I also provide strips of material projecting at right angles to
the base and serving as an additional means for retaining the articles in place,
the said strips being attached to the base in a similar manner to those above
described. These projecting strips may have a flap or portion bent so as to lie
parallel with the base, and serving to cover the end or edges of the articles.
By these means articles are as securely held in position as they would be in a
box or case, while at the same time they are exposed to view, and are capable
of being readily removed. I also employ projecting strips to form partitions by
means of which the articles may be separated from each other or into certain
quantities, as, for instance, into lots of half a dozen skeins of silk or pairs of
boot laces.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the same more fully with reference to the accompanying
drawings which illustrate by way of example various constructions of my
improved holding and displaying device. In all the figures the same letters of
reference indicate the same or similar parts.
The show-card illustrated in Figure 1 comprises a cardboard base a in which
are formed slits ; and one or more strips 6 of cardboard or other appropriate
material adapted to be passed through the said slits, thus forming loops b₁ at
the front of the base beneath which loops laces such as c or other similar articles,
can be retained.

page_text: In the construction shown in Figure 2, the strips b, instead of being passed
through slits in the base a, are attached thereto by rivets or clamps a
In Figure 3 I have shown a modified construction wherein the slits al in the
base a are arranged to form tongues or flaps as beneath which the strips 6 can
be readily slipped. Some of the tongues have their free ends pointing in one
direction and the others have their free ends pointing in the opposite or another
direction for the purpose of preventing the strip from slipping out of its position
when placed beneath said tongues. The tongues may be of approximately
triangular shape as shown in Figure 3, or they may be of semicircular, square
or other appropriate shape.
Figure 4 illustrates another medified arrangement of the slits a¹, a portion only
of the base a and one strip b being shown in this figure. The corners of the
strip bare passed through diagonal slits a adapted to receive them, while the
middle part of the strip is retained by two tongues a³, a³, one on each side of the
strip, the said tongues being each formed by a slit of semicircular shape.
It is to bo understood that I may combine in one device two or more of the
above described means for securing the strips 6 to the base a For example I
may use straight slits, such as those shown in Figure 1, at the middle of the
base and a tongue or tongues, such as those shown in Figure 3, at the sides
thereof. Figure 5 is a fragmentary view similar to Figure 4 illustrating such
an arrangement.
The devices represented in the figures above described are each adapted to
hold two articles or pairs or sets of articles, but it will be obvious that one only,
or three or more articles or pairs or sets of articles may be held by one device,
the size of the base and of the strips, and the number of slits, tongues or rivets
being varied according to the number of articles to be held.
In the construction illustrated in Figure 6 I employ a strip b secured to the
base a at its ends only, either by rivets a as shown at the right hand side of
the figure, or by being passed through slits al in the base as shown at the left
hand side of the figure. In combination with such a strip I employ a number
of strips d arranged lengthwise of the base or parallel to the laces or other
articles thereon and projecting at right angles to the base, thus forming partitions
separating the articles into pairs or other quantities. Each of these partition
strips & may be separate from the others; but where only short partitions are
required, as in tlie present instance, I prefer to employ a single strip folded upon
itself in the manner shown to form all the partitions. I secure this strip d in
place by rivets as shown at the right hand, or by slits a¹ in the base as showд
at the left hand side of the figure. At the ends of the articles to be retained on
the device I secure strips e projecting at right angles to the base and serving
as an additional means for keeping said articles in place. At the lower end of
Figure 6 I have shown a simple form of such a strip e secured by rivets. In
some cases however I provide the strip e with a flap or portion bent to lie
parallel with the base a and adapted to cover the ends or edges of the articles.
I have shown one form of such a stripe at the upper part of Figure 6, the
portion e¹ of which is bent to constitute the said flap. This flap has projecting
ends which are bent downwardly and secured to the base vz. In the construction
illustrated this strip and its flap are secured by being slipped under tongues (3
some of which have their free extremities pointing in the opposite direction to
those of the others for the purpose previously described. Obviously however
this strip may be secured by rivets if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
:
1. A device for holding and displaying articles, having cardboard holding
5 strips connected to the base by being passed through or behind portions of the

page_text: 2. A device for holding and displaying articles, constructed and arranged sub-
stantially as described with reference to any of the examples illustrated in the
accompanying drawings for the purposes specified.
Dated this 18th dow of August. 1899
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.