Improvements in Sockets and Brackets for Attachment to Pillars for Displaying Goods, and for like purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1.95-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sockets and Brackets for Attachment to Pillars
for Displaying Goods, and for like purposes.
We, JOHN ROBERT FULLER FLEMMING, of 113 Adderley Road, Saltley,
Builder, HENRY CHECKETTS of 60 Church Road Saltley, Manufacturer, both in
the City of Birmingham and THOMAS HISLOP, of 333 Arthur Street, Small
Heath, in the County of Warwick, Wire-worker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manner in which we construct a bracket and
a socket for attachment to a pillar or support in such a manner as to obviate the
necessity for any independent clipping device or for any screw or fastening for
securing a socket to the rod, and at the same time providing that the socket may
be readily attached and detached from its support.
Another part of our invention has reference to the manner in which we form
the brackets supports for carrying the different stems required for displaying goods
or other articles, whereby we are enabled to form a number of independent
supporting stem holders upon one common or single carrying stem which
may be a part of the clipping socket or may be independently attached to the
stem.
In carrying our invention into effect in constructing our improved socket for
attachment to a circular column or pillar, we make the socket end in the form of a
double embracing wire clip, the first part of the clip passing from the projecting
stem of the socket around the back of the supporting pillar so as to embrace it for
half its circumference, the other portion or opposite embracing semi-clipping
device we form from, the same continued portion of the wire, only separated at a
distance from the back loop by a straight stem piece, which acts as the tie between
the front clip and the back clip of our wire socket.
We make our socket of any ordinary wire, or from metal cast with a plain semi-
circular loop continued from the projecting portion of the socket stem, and then
carry the inner end of the embracing semi-clip down the columu front or side, and
bend or carry round the end of the wire or metal in the reverse and opposite
manner to that of the upper or first clip, so that the tube or pillar is embraced at
the upper end upon the back and at the lower end of the socket upon the front, by
our self-contained or continuous metal clip socket.
We make the end or stem portion of our socket of any particular configuration
that may be required to suit the article which is to be displayed or which is to be
carried, sometimes forming it when made from wire iato a number of independent
coiled stem socket pieces, suitable for the reception of separate independent stems
of brackets which are to be attached thereto for any particular purpose, the stems
being introduced into the sockets formed upon our continuous wire, fashioned as a
spiral barrel to receive each particular stem.
We e provide any number of these separate stem carrying spiral barrels, upon the
one loop or end of wire projecting from the stem of our double clipping socket
piece, or we make our bracket with its several independent barrels having a free
end or stem for attachment to any ordinary stem or socket which may be employed
upon existing brackets or sockets.
We do not limit the application of our improvements herein before described to
any particular form of socket, but we vary the shape of the stem and the number

page_text: of coils which may be formed upon the end of the stem to suit any particular
requirement. Similarly we make our brackets with the various stem barrels
independently of our embracing clip when so required, and we make our double
purchase or double grip embracing clip without the combination stem pieces when
so desired.
We may make our bracket of cast metal and the ends or the double purchase
clipping sockets also of cast metal, instead of from wire, when it required to
produce a bracket of a stronger form than would be possible with ordinary
wire.
We employ our brackets and sockets for carrying goods and displaying articles
of any description or for forming a book rest, varying the shape and arrangement
of the ends to suit the particular requirement of the article to be carried or
displayed.
Dated this 28th day of March 1895
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Sockets and Brackets for Attachment to Pillars
for Displaying Goods, and for like purposes.
We, JOHN ROBERT FULLER FLEMMING, of 113 Adderley Road, Saltley,
Builder, HENRY CHECKETTS, of 60 Church Road, Saltley, Manufacturer, both
in the City of Birmingham, and THOMAS HISLOP, of 333 Arthur Street, Small
Heath, in the County of Warwick, Wire Worker, 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 :-
This invention has reference to the manner in which we construct a bracket and
a socket for attachment to a pillar or support in such a manner as to obviate the
necessity for any independent clipping device or for any screw or fastening for
securing a socket to the rod, and at the same time providing that the socket may
be readily attached and detached from its support.
Another part of our invention has reference to the manner in which we form the
bracket supports for carrying the different stems required for displaying goods or
other articles, whereby we are enabled to form a number of independent supporting
stem holders upon one common or single carrying stem which may be a part of the
clipping socket or may be independently attached to the stem.
In the two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings,
Figure 1 shows a side elevation, and Figure 2 a plan of our bracket "socket" in
position upon a supporting rod.
Figure 3 is a perspective elevation showing one form of our multiple stem
carrying bracket.
Figure 4 is another form of our multiple stem carrier.
Figure 5 is a perspective elevation showing our bracket with its end formed
into a special shelf like rest for displaying articles requiring length of support;
and
Figure 6 is a special form of our bracket when arranged for displaying boots.
In carrying our invention into effect in constructing our improved socket for
attachment to a circular column or pillar, we make the socket end in the form of
a double embracing wire clip A A', the first part of the clip A passing from the
projecting stem B of the socket around the back of the supporting pillar P so
as to embrace it for half its circumference; the other portion or opposite
embracing semi-clipping device A¹ we form from the same continued portion of
the wire, only separated at a distance from the back loop by a straight stem

page_text: piece C, which acts as the tie between the front clip A' and the back clip A. of
our wire socket.
We make our socket A A¹ from any ordinary wire, or from metal cast with a
plain semi-circular loop continued from the projecting portion of the socket stem,
and then carry the inner end of the embracing semi-elip down the column front
or side, and bend or carry round the end of the wire or metal in the reverse
aud opposite manner to that of the upper or first clip, so that the tube or
pillar is embraced at the upper end upon the back P¹ and at the lower end of
the socket upon the front P2, by our self-contained or continuous metal clip
socket.
We make the end or stem portion B of our socket of any particular configuration
that may be required to suit the article which is to be displayed, or which is to be
carried, sometimes forming it when made from wire into a number of independent
coiled loops or stem socket pieces D, suitable for the reception, of separate
independent stems or brackets which are to be attached for any particular
purpose. Instead of forming coils or loops upon the wire stem we sometimes
attach separate coils or holders E as shown in Figure 3, so that the stems F
may be introduced into the loops or sockets E formed upon our continuous
wire, or fashioned as independent spiral barrels for receiving each particular
stem.
We provide any number of these separate stem carrying spiral barrels E or D,
upon the one loop or piece of wire projecting from the stem of our double
clipping socket piece.
We may make our brackets of cast metal and the ends or the double purchase
clipping sockets also of cast metal instead of from wire, when it is required to
produce a bracket of a stronger form than would be possible with ordinary wire.
We employ our brackets and sockets for carrying goods and displaying articles
of any description, or for forming a book rest H, Figure 5, or a boot rest K
Figure 6, varying the shape and arrangement of the ends to suit the particular
requirement of the article to be carried or displayed.
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-
1. In a sliding bracket for attachment to a supporting column or pillar, the
arrangement of a double semi-embracing clipping end having the upper and lower
clipping or semi-embracing portions A A¹ separated from each other by a straight
bar, or lever distance piece C substantially as herein before described and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The improvements in sliding clipping brackets for displaying articles upon
different stems or carriers substantially as herein before described and as illustrated
in Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of December 1895
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.