Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1989
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb.. 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 188
I, OSCAR ARTHUR THOMAS EARL, of Wellington Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, Boot
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to prevent the snatching of goods exposed outside
shops and in carrying it into effect I prefer to proceed as follows.
A suitable pole or portion of the shop or house front is arranged with grooves
recesses hooks or other equivalent device in or upon which can be placed the wire
string or. other means by which the goods are hung or secured, and within or in
connection with the pole or equivalent is arranged a sliding rod provided with
hooks or lock bolts which when in position lock the wire hangers in their recesses
so that they cannot be removed until the lock bolts are removed. Each lock bolt can
be made independent if preferred, but it is convenient to connect them together so
that all can be locked or released by one handle which is preferably placed out of
One or
reach of the passers by or may be locked or secured in any desired manner.
more electrical signals may be used in connection with this device if desired. The
hangers would preferably be made of steel or iron wire but usually it is sufficient
to let the would be thief find that the thing he covets is fastened even if not very
securely to cause him to relinquish it.
If the poles are used they may with advantage be made a considerable height and
the operating handle or equivalent be placed at the top; they should be removable,
though of course securely fixed while in use, and can be taken with their goods attached
bodily into the shop at nights.
1 1
of Janua1889

page_text: Improvements in Outside Shop Fittings..
1, OSCAR ARTHUR THOMAS EARL, of Wellington Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, Boot
Manufacturer, 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 :-
:-
The object of this invention is to prevent the snatching of goods exposed outside
shops and in carrying it into effect I prefer to proceed as follows.
A suitable pole or portion of the shop or house front is arranged with grooves
recesses hooks or other equivalent device in or upon which can be placed the wire
string or other means by which the goods are hung or secured, and within or in
connnection with the pole or equivalent is arranged a sliding rod provided with hooks
or lock bolts which when in position lock the wire hangers in their recesses so that
they cannot be removed until the lock bolts are removed. Each lock bolt can be made
independent if preferred but it is convenient to connect them together so that all can
be locked or released by one handle which is preferably placed out of reach of the
passers by or may be locked or secured in any desired manner. One or more
electrical signals may be used in connection with this device if desired. The
hangers would preferably be made of steel or iron wire but usually it is sufficient
to let the would be thief find that the thing he covets is fastened even if not very securely
to cause him to relinquish it.
If the poles are used they may with advantage be made a considerable height and
the operating handle or equivalent be placed at the top; they should be removable,
though of course securely fixed while in use, and can be taken with their goods attached
bodily into the shop at nights.
In the accompanying drawings
Figs. Land 2 are respectively a front and a side elevation of apparatus constructed
according to my invention and Fig. 3 is one of the wire hangers or supports preferably
used in conjunction therewith.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A is the pole or it may be a portion of the shop front for instance a part of the
window frame, but for the purposes of enabling the invention to be easily understood it
will be herein described as a pole independent of the shop front and capable of
being hung up at any desired part by means of a bracket plate A¹. A2 are inclined
grooves or recesses of which there may be one or a number formed in fhe pole A so as
to form one or a series of hooks. The pole A is formed with a longitudinal perferably
T-shaped passage to admit of the bar B and the lock-bolts or hooks B₁ fixed
therein being moved longitudinally in the said pole. The hooks B¹ correspond in
number to the recesses A and are arranged in such location relatively to the said
recesses that when they (the books) are in their lowest position they extend across
the .recesses as indicated in, dot-and-dash lines in figure 2 and when in their
highest position they are clear of the recesses as shown in full lines in figure 2.
At the back of the pole A is a slot at each side of which is secured a plate A
which is provided with two holes A and A and between these plates the snug B
secured to the bar B is free to be moved up and down. This snug B2 is perforated
so that when its perforation registers with either the perforations A or A" the

page_text: hasp of a padlock or other fastening device may be passed through for locking the
bar B in either its raised or lowered position. Other means than the plates A¹
and snug B may however be employed for enabling the locking together of the
parts to be effected, for instance when the apparatus is provided with a locking
bar the inverse of that shown in the drawings that is to say with the points of
the hooks directed upwards then by forming a hole in a suitable position in the
upper end of the said hook bar and securing the whole apparatus in position by
passing the hole over a fixed staple and a padlock hasp through the staple the goods
or hangers placed in the recesses A² could not be removed without first detaching the
whole from the fixed staple.
Besides this however there are obviously many ways of
varying the construction and as another example there may be mentioned that of a
tubular construction in which two tubes are employed one sliding telescopically
within the other the outer one formed with say downwardly and the inner one with
say upwardly inclined. recesses (the equivalent of the hooks B¹) suitable means being
provided for locking the two tubes together when they are in such position that the
recesses on one intersect the recesses of the other tube.
The apparatus hereinbefore described may now be regarded in any of the forms
described as complete, for various kinds of articles may be secured to it without
special means of fixing, for example a pair of boots may be secured in the apparatus
by passing the piece of cord by which they are usually secured together down one of
the recesses A2 when the bar B is in its raised position and then moving the said bar B
down so that one of the hooks B' will pass down in front of the said cord and prevent
it again being withdrawn until the bar B is again raised; I however prefer to secure
goods to the pole A by means of wire hangers C such as is shown most clearly in
figure 3 of the drawings. Each of these fangers consists of a piece of wire bent
preferably to the form shown in figure 3 and pointed at its two ends when
applied to the pole A the hanger is introduced into one of the recesses A so
that the pointed ends will be at the bottom of the recess and when the bar B is
lowered the hook B' corresponding to the particular recess employed will be lowered
in front of the part of the hanger as shown clearly in figure 2 and thus
prevent the goods suspended on such hanger from being surreptitiously removed.
The before described apparatus may be so arranged that by the tampering with
or removal of one of the hangers Can electric signal will be given inside the shop.
Although I prefer to employ the apparatus as herein before described yet 1 may
dispense with the locking bar B and its connected hooks and provide in place
thereof some other means for securing the goods or hangers C in the recesses A².
The term "pole" herein used is to be understood as applying to the part A
whether it be formed of wood, metal or other material and whether it be formed with
one or a number of recesses A².
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 1
claim is ;-
:
1. In apparatus such as described the combination with a "pole "such as described
having one or more grooves recesses or the like such as A2 of a bar having a corre-
sponding number of lock-bolts or hooks such as B¹ substantially as and for the purpose
herein described.
3:
2. The combination with a grooved or recessed" pole' such as A and hook
carrying bar such as B of hangers such as C substantially as and for the purpose
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of January 1889.
OSCAR ARTHUR THOMAS EARL.