IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE BRACKETS OR SUPPORTS FOR SUPPORTING RODS SHELVES. AND OTHER ARTICLES IN SHOP WINDOWS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1885

page_text: owner Purposes.
We WILLIAM LEA of the Firm of William Lea & Company of Bloomsbury
Foundry Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Brass Founders and JOSEPH
BEECH of the Bloomsbury Foundry Wolverhampton aforesaid Foreman in the
employment of the said Firm do hereby declare the nature of our invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE BRACKETS OR SUPPORTS FOR SUPPORTING RODS
SHELVES. AND OTHER ARTICLES IN SHOP WINDOWS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, to
be as follows:-
The object of the invention is to produce an adjustable bracket or support
adapted for use in shop windows or other situations for the purpose of supporting
rods shelves and other articles of improved construction and greater utility.
For this purpose we construct the socket or means of attachment of the base or
foundation or swing plate to the rod wall window-frame or other place much as
has been customary for this description of appliance of ordinary form but the
hinge or joint between the supporting arm and its support we form as follows.
The arm of the bracket or supporting arm for the rods or other supported parts
has its joint end formed as a part of a circle bioken by the arm itself and having
around it recesses holes or projections and this circular end is centred in a slotted
or recessed standard or support in which slides a pin or catch to engage with the
recesses or projections on the circular part of the arm and hold it as adjusted for
use. We prefer that the weight of the pin or catch keep it engaged and that it be
released for readjustment as springs are liable to derangement.
The arrangement of the parts for locking or fixing the joint as adjusted may be
reversed.
By these means we are enabled to obtain a definite locking not liable to
accidental derangement in dressing the window or by other slight pressure and we
are also enabled to arrange the brackets so that they may be close to the glass or
wall of the shop or other place.

page_text: Improvements in Adjustable Brackets or Supports for Supporting
Rods, Shelves, and other Articles in Shop Windows, and for
other Purposes.
We WILLIAM LEA of the firm of William Lea & Company of Bloomsbury
Foundry Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Brass Founders and JOSEPH
BEECH of Bloomsbury Foundry Wolverhampton aforesaid Foreman in the employ-
ment of the said firm 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 5
and by the following statement :-
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The object of the invention is to produce an adjustable bracket or support
adapted for use in shop windows or other situations for the purpose of supporting
rods shelves and other articles of improved construction and greater utility.
For this purpose we construct the socket or means of attachment of the base or 1
foundation or swing plate to the rod wall window frame or other place much as
has been customary for this description of appliance of ordinary form but the hinge
or joint between the supporting arm and its support we form as follows.
The arm of the bracket or supporting arm for the rods or other supported parts
has its joint end formed as a part of a circle broken by the arm itself and having 1
around it recesses holes or projections and this circular end is centred in a slotted
or recessed standard or support in which slides a pin or catch to engage with the
recesses or projections in the circular part of the arm and hold it as adjusted for
use.
We prefer that the weight of the pin or catch keep it engaged and that it be
released for readjustment as springs are liable to derangement.
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page_text: The stem as may be raised by the thumb and finger from one hole and adjusted
into another but from its form it is not liable to be released by an accidental touch
or-knock.
The arrangement of the parts for locking or fixing the joint as adjusted may be
reversed and recesses on the stop may engage projections on the circular part.
By these means we are enabled to obtain a definite locking not liable to
accidental derangement in dressing the window or by other slight pressure and we
are also enabled to arrange the brackets so that they may be close to the glass or
walls of the shop or other place.
We are aware that ratchet teeth around a circular ended joint of an adjustable
bracket taken into by a click or catch have been proposed but such an arrange-
ment possesses amongst other disadvantages the liability to accidental release and
derangement of the supported articles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The adjustable bracket or support for supporting rods shelves or other articles
in shop windows and other places substantially as set forth.
Dated this 19th day of December 1885.
W
BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
. Agents for the said William Lea and Joseph Beech.