Improvements in Movable Socket Brackets for Displaying Goods.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1895
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1000 Accented
26th Sent
1806
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Movable Socket Brackets for Displaying Goods.
1, WILLIAM WILLIS MITCHELL, of Fernlea, Gillott Road, Edgbaston, in the
City of Birmingham, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of brackets usually
employed in shop windows for the displaying of goods, which said brackets are
movably secured upon rods or pillars at any desired point, and which are further
made with socket formations to receive rods or arms, or the like, upon or from
which, the various goods may be carried. Generally such brackets are affixed to
vertical pillars or rods, and so made that the socket part, or parts are cast solid
therewith, and secured to the pillar or rod by means of a set pin or pinching
screw.
In this invention however the body and the socket or sockets are made from
one strip of wrought metal, bent and shaped so as to form the body and the
sockets, or if desired two of such strips may be hinged or clipped together or
bound together, so that each part may form one half or thereabouts of the
bracket, and thus facilitate attachment. The two parts of the bracket are then
brought together by means of a pin or bolt or similar device so that the bracket.
is firmly gripped or bound upon the pillar, without damage as in the usual manner,
and without disturbing the pillar or other fittings thereon.
Dated this 26th day of November 1895.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Movable Sосket Brackets for Displaying GUN.
I WILLIAM WILLIS MITCHELL, of Fernlea, Gillott Road, Edgbaston, in the
City of Birmingham, Commercial Traveller, 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 relates to improvements in the manufacture of brackets usually
employed in shop windows for the displaying of goods, which said brackets are
movably secured upon rods or pillars at any desired point, and which are further
made with socket formations to receive rods or arms, or the like, upon or from
which the various goods may be carried. Generally such brackets are affixed to
vertical pillars or rods, and so made that the socket part or parts are cast solid
therewith, and secured to the pillar or rod by means of a set pin or pinching
screw.
In this invention however the body and the socket or sockets are made from
one strip of wrought metal, bent and shaped so as to form the body and the
sockets, or if desired two of such strips may be hinged or clipped together or
bound together, so that each part may form one half or thereabouts of the bracket,
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page_text: and thus facilitate attachment. The two parts of the bracket are then brought
together by means of a pin or bolt or similar device so that the bracket is firmly
gripped or bound upon the pillar without damage as in the usual manner, and
without disturbing the pillar or other fittings thereon.
In order to more clearly explain this my invention I have appended hereunto
an illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures and numbers of
reference similar numbers referring throughout the several views to the same
thing or part.
Fig. 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a plan view of this my invention.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank or strip of metal from which the bracket is
made.
A strip of metal is cut out of the shape (or similar thereto) as seen in Fig. 3
having the ears 7, 7 and holes 8, 8 at each end. The narrower parts at 9, 9 are
now bent into shape to form the sockets 10, 10, when the strip is further bent
around so as embrace the pillar 11. The ears 7, 7 are bent. at right angles to
the main part of the strip so that when embracing the pillar, they lie parallel to
each other and are drawn together by the screw pin 12 and fly nut 13.
If desired I may make the strip 6 in two parts, such two parts being connected
to each other by a hinge joint 14 see Fig. 4. This will enable me to attach the
brackets to the pillar at any point without sliding them along from the end.
Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of this my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture from strip metal of socket brackets having sockets 10
ears 7, 7 and binding screw 12 and nut 13 with or without the hinge joint 14 all
substantially as set forth and illustrated.
Dated th: 10th
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1000
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.