An Improved Dress Stand and Draping Pad.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress Stand and Draping Pad.
I ERNEST HARRISON LEDGER, Draper 5 & 6 Castle Street Shrewsbury in the
County of Shropshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The improved dress stand and draping pad is composed of sheet iron, steel, tin,
copper, brass or any other metal and cut so as to represent the end of a piece of
dress fabric or cloth, with flanges on each side.
These flanges are so bent, as to clip the piece of fabric and make the same stand
upright for exhibition.
When used as a draping pad, one should be used at each end, the first as above
described, and the second on the top, over which the fabric may be draped, thus
making a short length of fabric or cloth appear like a whole piece.
The improved dress stand and draping pad may also be made of wood, with
metal clips attached so as to clip the material as before described.
Dated this 24th day of June 1892.
ERNEST HARRISON LEDGER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress Stand and Draping Pad.
I ERNEST HARRISON LEDGER, of 5 Castle Street, Shrewsbury Draper 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 improved dress stand and draping pad is made of steel, iron, tin, copper,
brass or any other suitable metal, and is cut to represent the end of a piece of dress
fabric or cloth, with flanges on each side, such flanges being bent so as to clip the
piece of fabric and make the same to stand upright for exhibition. When used as a
draping pad, one should be used at each end, the lower one as above described and
the second at the top, over which the fabric or cloth may be draped; thus making
a short length of fabric appear like a whole piece.
In order to more fully explain this my invention, I have appended hereunto an
illustrative drawing upon which are figures and numbers of reference, similar
nuinbers referring throughout the several views to the same thing or part.
Fig. 1, is a plan view of the blank or piece of metal from which my invention is
made.
Fig. 2, is an end view, and Fig. 3, a side view, and Fig. 4, a plan view of my
invention when bent and formed into its finished shape.
Fig. 5, shows my invention as applied to each end (externally) of a piece of
cloth or other fabric.
Fig. 6, illustrates its use at the upper end of a stand, over which the fabric &c.
may be draped.
1, is a piece of metal of a springy character, having side pieces 2, 2, while its
mid portion 3, forms a base plate, which may be cut to any desired shape, but
preferably to an oblong shape similar to the end of a roll of cloth &c. These side
pieces are now bent and shaped into the spring clips, as seen at 4, 4, Figs. 2, 3,
4 & 5.
In applying this my invention to a thin roll of cloth &c., or if a short piece of
cloth is wrapped around a piece of wood, one of these my improved stand fittings

page_text: is used at each end as seen in Fig. 5, where the springs are made to clip upon the
outside of the thin roll, or the imitation roll.
In other cases any suitable, stand of wood &c., may be made, and one of these my
improved fittings attached to the top, when the drapery may be thrown over as
seen in Fig. 6.
I am aware that various kinds of fittings. have from time to time been used for
this purpose, having removable tops of divers shapes, and therefore I do not claim
broadly a removable fitting for displaying goods, but:
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The new or improved fitting herein described and illustrated upon the drawings,
consisting of the base plate 3, having in one piece therewith the spring clips 4, 4,
as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1893
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.