Improvements relating to Grips attached to Brackets for Displaying Hats, Boots, and Fancy Goods in Shop Windows and other Places.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 15th Oct. 1897-Accepted. 30th Oct.
1897
Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 15th Oct.. 1897-Accepted 30th Oct.
1897
DI MUITIVATION.
Improvements relating to Grips attached to Brackets for Displaying
Hats, Boots, and Fancy Goods in Shop Windows and other Places.
SAMUEL PERCY MING 6 Frost Street Needham Road Liverpool Hatter, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a Grip to be attached to Brackets for displaying Hats,
Boots and Fancy Goods in Shop Windows and other places and is made and fixed
as follows: instead of using the ordinary sliding socket on tube uprights, I attach
a Grip to the Brackets which is locked on to the upright tube by forming the grip
as follows-at the end of the Bracket that grips the upright tube, attached to same
is a forked wire spring, fixed to same is a piece of wire on the angle with a book
at end, the forked spring is pressed on to the upright tube, at the same time the
wire with the hook is gripped on the same, which supports the forked spring, to
prevent it from coming off, when the goods are put on the brackets.
Dated this 9th day of February 1897.
SAMUEL PERCY MING.
Improvements relating to Grips attached to Brackets for Displaying
Hats, Boots, and Fancy Goods in Shop Windows and other Places.
I, SAMUEL PERCY MING, of 6, Frost Street, Needham Road, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, 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:-
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This invention relates to shop window fittings for displaying hats, boots and
fancy goods in shop windows and other places, and has for its object a cheap and
simple arrangement for fastening the bracket to the tubular upright or pillar,
while enabling it to be adjusted into any required position.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawing, which shows a general view of the invention
applied by way of example to a boot bracket.
In this drawing A is the tubular upright or pillar, B the bracket for displaying
the boots and shoes. The bracket B is connected to the upright A in an adjust-
able manner by means of a gripping device instead of the ordinary sliding socket
hitherto used. This gripping device consists in forming on, or attaching securely
to, the end of the bracket a forked spring C preferably of wire, and adapted to
grasp the pillar A, and an arm D also preferably of wire with a hook d at the end,

page_text: adapted to hook on to the pillar. This hook d is some little distance above the
spring fork and is adapted to grasp the pillar on the opposite side to that against
which the spring fork abuts. E is an arm also attached to the bracket below the
spring fork, and it abuts against the pillar on the opposite side to the hook at
the end of the armi D.
In action the forked spring is pressed against the tubular upright A, the arms
springing momentarily aside, allowing the upright to pass in between them, and
they then spring back gripping the upright. Almost simultaneously the arm E
and hooked end d are made to abut against the pillar on opposite sides thus
supporting the bracket and preventing it coming off. Any reasonable weight can
be put on the top of the bracket, and the greater the weight the tighter will be
the grip on the upright. The bracket can be very easily and instantaneously
adjusted into any required position.
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 shop window fittings, the arrangement for attaching the bracket to the
upright or pillar, which consists in forming or providing the end of the bracket
with a fork spring sufficiently large to hold and grip the pillar, and with an arm
having a hook at the end so arranged as to grasp the pillar above the spring fork,
but at the opposite side to that of the bracket, whereby the greater the amount
of weight put on the bracket the tighter will be the grip on the upright substan-
tially as described.
2. In shop window fittings, a device for connecting or joining the bracket to
the tubular upright, in which there are two gripping devices one a spring fork
attached to the bracket the arms of which are adapted to clip the upright, and the
other an arm having a hook at the end located at a higher plane than the spring
fork, the two gripping devices being adapted to grasp or abut against the pillar
at opposite sides thereof substantially as described.
3. The combination with a device set forth in Claim 2 of an arm E attached to
the bracket, and adapted to abut against the pillar below the spring clip, and on
the opposite side to that against which the hook clips substantially as set forth.
Dated this 14th day of October 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London, Patent Agents.