Improvements in Stands for Hats, Scarves, and like Wearing Apparel and Textile Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Hats, Scarves, and like Wearing
Apparel and Textile Articles.
I CHARLES FOTHERGILL of St. Johns Lane Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The common practice hitherto has been to use for displaying hats, bonnets,
scarves, and like articles of wearing apparel and textile materials, stands having
smooth carrying surfaces, with the objection that the articles thereon were readily
displaced. Stands having roughened or semi adherent surfaces have the advantage
of preventing such derangement, but they have hitherto been too expensive to come
into general use and have been costly to repair.
Now the object of my invention is to construct the said stands in a simple and
efficient manner.
The invention consists essentially in constructing the stand with a cap or table
over which roughened or semi adherent material such as corrugated or like india
rubber, plush or other suitable agent is stretched, and with a frame which rests on
the said material and is attached to the cap or table by studs, flexible clips, or like
devices.
D
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1001
Per pro J. T. KING,
W. B. Johnson,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Hats, Scarves, and like Wearing
Apparel and Textile Articles.
I, CHARLES FOTHERGILL of Hood Street, St. Johns Lane, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Merchant, 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 common practice hitherto has been to use for displaying hats, bonnets,
scarves, and like articles of wearing apparel and textile materials stands having
smooth carrying surfaces, with the objection that the articles thereon were readily
displaced. Stands having roughened or semi adherent surfaces have the advantage
of preventing such derangement but they have hitherto been too expensive to come
into general use and have been costly to repair.
Now the object of my invention is to construct the said stands in a simple and
effective manner.
The invention consists essentially in constructing the stand with a cap or table
over which roughened or semi adherent material, such as corrugated or like india
rubber, plush or other suitable agent is stretched and with a frame which rests on
the said material and is attached to the cap or table by studs, flexible clips or like
devices.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section and Fig. 2 a plan of one form of and according to
which I prefer to carry out my invention.

page_text: a is the cap or table, 6 the carrying surface or semi adherent covering, c, c¹, the
frame and clip, d the column of the stand.
The cap or table a I form "dome shaped" and with a flange a¹ of light sheet
metal over which I suitably stretch the carrying surface or semi adherent
material b, which may be corrugated or like india rubber, plush or other suitable
agent. The carrying surface or semi adherent material I fasten to the cap or
table a, by means of a frame c which I place onto the carrying surface or semi
adherent material b opposite the flange a¹, as shown in dotted lines, the part cl of
which frame c by a suitable tool, I then bend inward so as to form a clip, which
grips the underside of the flange a¹ and the carrying surface or semi adherent
material b firmly, as shown in full lines in Fig. 1.
In order to secure the cap or table a to the column d the former is internally
furnished with a screwed stud e which is screwed into the top of the column d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is-
"In stands for hats, scarves and like wearing apparel and textile articles."
1st. The cap or table a having stretched over it semi adherent material 6 as a
carrying surface, such as corrugated or like india rubber, plush or other suitable
agent, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. The frame and clip c, in combination with the cap or table a specified in the
preceding claim, fitted around the flange a¹ of the cap or table a and carrying
surface or semi adherent material b, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1892.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.