Improvements in Shop Lines or Rods, and Window Rods or Fittings, for Displaying Goods.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shop Lines or Rods, and Window Rods or Fittings,
for Displaying Goods.
I, JOHN DAVIES, of Thorpe Brothers and Co., Limited, Tyrrel Street, Bradford,
in the County of York, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
1
This invention relates to improvements in shop lines or rods and window rods
or fittings for displaying goods in shops and shop windows and the like.
For this purpose I employ zig-zag lines or rods that is to say rods bent horizon-
tally in and out in a waved or zig-zag manner. The rods are preferably so
arranged that the curves or zig-zag bends are the reverse to or in the opposite
direction to the curves or bends of the rod immediately above or below. The
lines or rods may be held in or attached to sockets or their equivalent which may
be adjustably fixed upon vertical rods or the like.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
Improvements in Shop Lines or Rods, and Window Rods or Fittings,
for Displaying Goods.
I, JOHN DAVIES, of 61, Kirkgate, Bradford, in the County of York, and late of
Thorpe Brothers and Co., Limited, Tyrrel Street, Bradford, aforesaid, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to improvements in shop lines or rods and window rods
or fittings for displaying goods in shops and shop windows and the like.
For this purpose I employ zig-zag lines or rods that is to say rods bent horizon-
tally in and out in a waved or zig-zag manner. The rods are preferably so
arranged that the curves or zig-zag bends are the reverse to or in the opposite
direction to the curves or bends, of the rods immediately above or below. The
lines or rods may be held in or attached to sockets or their equivalent which may
be adjustably fixed upon vertical rods or the like.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.

page_text: Figure 1, represents a plan view of two shop lines or rods.
Figure 2, is an elevation of the same.
Figure 3, is an end view of the same.
The rods A are made with a series of zig-zag bends preferably at about right
angles to each other and are supported at intervals in sockets B adjustably fixed
on the vertical supports C. The supports C may be either pendant rods, standards,
or any equivalent device adapted to support the rods. The rods may be made in
sections jointed or connected together by or within the sockets B.
I find that generally speaking the zig-zag form of lines lends itself far more to
effectively and gracefully display draper's, milliner's, and similar goods either in
shops, show rooms, or windows, than the ordinary straight rods.
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:-
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1. A shop line or rod of waved or zig-zag form, substantially as herein shown
and described and for the purpose specified.
2. The combination of two or more waved or zig-zag shop lines in which the
curves or bends of each rod projects in the reverse direction to the curves or
bends of the rod immediately above or below, substantially as herein shown and
described and for the purpose specified.
Datod this fith day of December 1808
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.