Improvements in Dress, Jacket, and such like Stands.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in Dress, Jacket, and such like Stands.
I, THOMAS GRIFFITHS, of 17 Dale End, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to manufacture improved stands for dresses, jackets,
and analogous articles.
In carrying out my invention, I fit to the lower part of the stand, a vertical slotted
tube, one side of the slot having notches formed therein. The upper part of the stand
is fitted with a rod which fits the lower tube and slides freely therein. A pin is
attached to this rod about two inches from the lower end.
When placed in the split tube the rod may be raised or lowered to any required
position, and fixed in such position by turning the upper part sufficiently to cause the
pin to enter one of the notches in the lower tube, thus securing the stand at any
required height, without disarranging the dress, costume, jacket or other article.
Obvious modifications may be made in the above arrangement. The rod may be
fixed to the lower part of the stand, and the tube to the upper part; or a flat plate
of notched metal may be fitted instead of a tube, so as to utilise the ordinary
wooden rod.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress, Jacket, and such like Stands.
1, THOMAS GRIFFITHS, of 17 Dale End, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 my invention is to manufacture improved stands for dresses, jackets,
and analogous articles.
Instead of forming stands for the purposes aforesaid with a screw in the stem for
raising or lowering, L.make use of a tube, having one longitudinal slot, and a number
of transverse slots or notches opening into such longitudinal slot. A rod or bar
having a peg or pin for engaging in the slots, is employed in combination therewith,
whereby the stem of the stand can be increased or reduced in length, as desired. The
tube may be fitted to the lower part of the stand, and the rod to the upper part, or
the rod may be fitted to the lower part and the tube to the upper part.
And in order that my said, invention may he particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawing, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is an elevation (partly in section) showing the arrangement in which the
tube is fitted to the lower part of the stand; the röd being fitted to the upper part,
as shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the arrangement in which the rod is fitted to the
lower part of the stand, the tube being fitted to the upper part, as shown in
Fig. 4.
Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate other methods of fitting.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, a is the lower part of the stand, is a tube fitted to
the same, is a longitudinal slot formed in the tube, and d d are transverse slots

page_text: e is a rod fitted to the upper part of the stand, and is a pin or stud, which
sustains the upper part, when resting in one of the transverse slots in the tube b.
In Fig. 3 the rod e is shown fitted to the stand a and the tube b is shown in Fig. 4
fitted to the upper part of the stand.
The tube is capable of sliding freely upon the rod e and the slots d d may be made
as bayonet slots as shown in Fig. 1, or curved upwards, as shown in Fig. 4; or of
any other suitable form.
"When the two parts of the stand are placed in position, the upper part is adjusted
by slightly raising and then turning the bust sufficiently to remove the pög from
one of the slots d to the longitudinal slot cafter which it is adjusted to the required
height, and fixed by turning the pin into the slot found to be suitable. The stand is
thus readily adjusted without disarranging the dress, costume, jacket, or other article
displayed thereon.
Fig. 5 is a transverse section, showing another mode of construction. The tube b,
or its equivalent, may be formed of wood or other suitable material. J. is a flat plate
worked into the tube and having slots d formed therein. e is the rod and is the
pin. By turning the rod or the tube to the position shown in Fig. 5 the pin is free
of the plate g, and the position can be altered; the adjustment being made by turning
either the rod or the tube to the position shown in Fig. 6, in which the plate g.is
shown curved, to receive the pin in the slots. No longitudinal slot is required in
the arrangements shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
A toothed rack may be substituted for the plate g.
Other obvious arrangements may be made in the tubes or plates, so as to adjust and
secure the relative positions of the working parts, and tubes may be used instead of
the rods e e if preferred.
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. In the construction of dress, jacket, and such like stands, the application and use
of a toothed rack and pin or tooth, fitted to or forming parts of the telescopic action,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The general construction, arrangement, and combination of the several and
respective parts, together forming my invention of improvements in dress, jacket,
and such like stands, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
drawings.
Dated 26th June 1890
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.