Improvements in Outside Shop Fittings.
Year: 1889

page_text: VUMILELE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Outside Shop Fittings.
I, OSCAR ARTHUR THOMAS EARL of 14 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 construct fittings upon which goods may be
exposed outside a shop without fear of their being clandestinely removed or stolen.
The fittings constructed according to this invention each consist essentially of a
suitable pole or it may be a portion of the shop or house front provided with hooks or
equivalent upon which the goods may be hung or suspended and the points of which
hooks may be engaged with cover plates or guards or the like for preventing the
goods from being lifted off until by releasing a lock or catch the hooks and plates can
be disengaged.
In the accompanying drawings ;-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a side elevation of portion of a vertically
arranged fitting constructed according to this invention the two upper pairs of hooks
there illustrated being shown as engaged with the protecting plates, while the lowest
hooks are shown disengaged or ready for receiving goods to be suspended therefrom;
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section taken on the line ab of Fig. 1: Figs. 4 and 5
are respectively a front elevation and a plan of a horizontally arranged fitting con-
structed according to this invention the hook shown at the right hand end of each of
these figures being represented as engaged with its cover plate or guard while that at
the left hand end is disengaged therefrom; Fig. 6 is a transverse section of Fig. 4.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
Referring to figures 1, 2 and 3 A is the pole or portion of the shop or house front
such as a part of a window frame, and A¹ is a groove formed in the face or front of
such pole for receiving a bar B preferably of iron of which metal also the pole may be
constructed if desired and which bar is capable of being moved longitudinally in the
said groove wherein as shown in the drawing it is retained by means of the covering
plates C. Instead of employing the plates C for retaining the bar B in the groove A¹
the bar
may be formed of dovetail or equivalent section and the groove formed of
corresponding shape or other means may be employed for retaining the bar in or
against the pole A. D are the hooks or equivalent from which the goods are
suspended and which are screwed nto or otherwise firmly secured to the
pole A; these hooks in this arrangement are advantageously arranged in pairs
in the manner shown in Fig. 1; in Fig. 4 single hooks are shown. E are
the cover plates or guards which in the drawing stake the form of brackets
rivetted or otherwise suitably secured to or formed in part with the sliding
bar B and each of which is formed with two holes El for passing over the points
of the hooks D as shown. F is a lock mortised into the pole A and G is a
striking plate rivetted or otherwise secured to the back of or formed in part with
the bar B for receiving the bolt F' of the lock F; this lock may be replaced by
any other convenient form of catch or fastening.
When formed as a fitting independent of the shop front the pole A may be
provided with a plate A' or other suitable means such as a lock for securing it
to the outside of the shop.
When it is desired to use the before described fitting the bolt F1 by means of
the key F is withdrawn from the striking plate G and the bar B may then be
raised so that the cover plates or guards E will leave the points of the hooks D
fully exposed as represented in the lower portions of figures 1, 2 and 3.
goods may then be hung over the hooks in the usual manner after which the
The

page_text: bar B is lowered so that the cover plates or guards E pass over the ends of
the hooks D in the manner represented in the upper portions of figs. 1, 2 and 3,
and thus prevent the goods from being lifted off the said hooks until the bar is
again raised. When in its lowered position the key is turned so as to shoot
the bolt F forward into the striking plate G. the key being then removed. Until
the bolt F is again withdrawn-from the striking plate the bar cannot be raised
and consequently no goods can be, passed over the points of the hooks D the said
goods being thus secure against being stolen.
In the horizontal arrangement shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 the goods are adapted
to be suspended at right angles to the length of the pole A the hooks D for this
purpose being similarly disposed at right angles to the pole A and the cover
plates or guards E instead of. being provided with holes E for dropping vertically
on to the points of the hooks Das in the preceding example are formed with
recesses which are moved laterally on to the hook points. In this arrange-
ment means should be provided to prevent the hooks from being turned so as to
clear the guard plates this may be accomplished by forming each of the hooks
in part with a plate which may be secured to the pole A.
When goods are to be hung on the hooks D the bar B is moved towards the
left so as to leave the points of the hooks D fully exposed in the manner. repre-
sented at the left hand of Figs. 4 and 5. After the goods. have been placed in
the desired positions the bar is moved towards the right so that the hook points
will be received in the recesses E3 as indicated at the right hand end of Figs. 4
and 5. In this position the bar B may be secured by a suitable lock or equiva
lent fastening device as before described when referring to Figs 1, 2 and 3. and
thus prevent the removal of the goods from the books until the bar. B is again
moved to the left.
In some cases it may be found convenient especially where the fittings are
formed as part of the shop front to arrange them so that they can only be
released or unlocked from inside the shop.
The before described fittings may be modified in many ways without departing
from the spirit of this invention and among such modifications there may. he
mentioned an arrangement wherein the hooks D may be adapted to move towards.
the cover plates or guards E which would be stationary in place of the foregoing
arrangements wherein the hooks are stationary and the cover plates or guards are.
moved towards them, while under another modification the hooks may be secured.
to or formed in part with the bar B and the cover plates or guards secured to
or formed in part with the pole A. In the horizontal arrangement the recesses E²
in the cover plates or guards E can be dispensed with if the plates themselves
are arranged to come close over the points of the hooks.
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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. In apparatus such as described the combination with a hook on a stationary
part of a cover plate or guard on a movable part and adapted to engage with or
receive or be moved close against the point of the hook so as to prevent the
lifting off from such hook of the goods suspended therefrom until the said plate.
is again moved away from the hook substantially as herein described.
2. In apparatus such as described the combination with a book on a, niovable
part of a cover plate or guard on a stationary part and towards which the hook-
may be moved so that its point will engage with or be brought close against the
said plate so as to prevent goods being lifted off the hook until it is again movedi
away from the plate substantially as herein described.
3. A fitting such as described composed essentially of two parts one carrying a
hook and the other a plate one of the parts being movable so that at one time
the plate will bear such relation to the hook that goods may be freely removed or
suspended therefrom while at another time the plate will bear such relation to the

page_text: hook that the goods will be prevented from being lifted off the said hook sub-
stantially as herein described.
4. In apparatus such as described a pole such as A carrying hooks from which
goods may be suspended and which pole is provided with a lock such as F or
equivalent device and is recesse to receive a bar such as B carrying a cover
plate or guard such as E adapted to be moved so that it will engage with or
bear such relation to the point of the hook that the goods will be prevented from
being lifted off until the plate is again moved away from the hook substantially
as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated sun may or October 1009.
O. A. T. EARL.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.
O. A. T. EARL.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.