Improvements in Supporting and Adjusting Shaving Glasses, Mirrors, Easels, and Stands, Trays or Holders for Exhibiting Goods in Shop Windows and for other like purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 13th June, 1S91
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supporting and Adjusting Shaving Glasses, Mirrors,
Easels, and Stands, Trays or Holders for Exhibiting Goods in Shop
Windows and for other like purposes.
1 JOSEPH WESTWOOD CARR of Highfield Villas Alcester Road King's Heath
in the County of Worcester Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the construction and combination of parts hereinafter
described for supporting and adjusting shaving glasses mirrors easels and stands
trays or holders for exhibiting goods in shop windows and for other like
purposes.
The improvements constituting my invention are simple in construction and not
liable to get out of order.
I will describe my invention as used for supporting and adjusting a shaving glass
to which it is particularly applicable.
To the back of the frame of the shaving glass I fix a metal disc having at its
middle and perpendicular thereto a small fixed bracket one face of which cupped
or made into a concave seat. At the lower marginal edge of the said disc is a .
small perforated upright through which the clamping screw hereinafter described
works loosely. Crossing the said disc in the direction of a diameter is a sliding
clamp working upon the fixed seat its overhanging sides acting as guides to the
said clamp. On the ends of the said clamp are small uprights. One of these
uprights forms a second seat and is situated opposite the fixed sent on the disc and
the other upright carries a clamping screw which works through the perforated
upright on the disc. A milled screw nut works on the protruding end of the clamp
screw. By means of this screw nut the seat on the sliding clamp can be adjusted
the proper distance from the fixed seat on the disc for the purpose hereinafter
described.
I use with the clamping arrangement described at the back of the shaving glass
a horizontal supporting arm jointed or unjointed secured to a wall or other support.
On the outer end of this horizontal arm the shaving glass is supported and its
position or angle adjusted in the following manner.
The outer or free end of the said horizontal arm carries a ball or sphere which
is seated between the seat of the sliding clamp and that of the fixed disc. By
driving home the clamping screw nut on its screw the movable or adjustable seat
is made to approach the fixed seat and the sphere is gripped so tightly between
them as to cause them to work frictionally thereon so that while the seats have
freedom of motion about the said sphere for adjusting both horizontally and
vertically the position or angle of the shaving glass they firmly hold the glass in
the position in which it has been adjusted.
By relaxing the clamping screw nut the two seats can be separated and lifted
from the sphere when it is required to detach the shaving glass from the supporting
arm.
For the purpose of supporting candle sconces at the sides of the shaving glass I
place behind the sphere on the supporting arm a cross piece having a hole at each
end. In these holes the bent ends of the arms of the sconces are engaged and
turn. I apply my improvements to the supporting and adjusting of mirrors easels
stands trays or holders and the like substantially as hereinbefore described with
respect to a shaving glass.
Dated this 30th den of Aumuust 1800
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supporting and Adjusting Shaving Glasses, Mirrors,
Easels, and Stands, Trays or Holders for Exhibiting Goods in Shop
Windows and for other like purposes.
1 JOSEPH WESTWOOD CARR of Highfield Villas, Alcester Road, King's Heath
in the County of Worcester Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of
my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists of the construction and combination of parts hereinafter
described for supporting and adjusting shaving glasses, mirrors, ensels and stands
trays or holders for exhibiting goods in shop windows and for other like purposes.
The improvements constituting my invention are simple in construction and not
liable to get out of order.
I will describe my invention as used for supporting and adjusting a shaving glass
to which it is particularly applicable.
To the back of the frame of the shaving glass I fix a metal disc having at its
middle and perpendicular thereto a small fixed bracket, one face of which is
cupped or made into a conenve sent. Ai the lower marginal edge of the said dise
is a small perforated upright through which the clamping" screw hereinafter
described works loosely. "Crossing the said dise in the direction of a diameter is
a sliding clamp working upon the fixed seat, its overhanging sides acting as guides
to the said clamp. On the ends of the said clamp are small uprights. One of
these uprights forms a second sent and is situated opposite the fixel sent on the
disc and the other upright carries a clamping screw which works through the
perforated upright on the disc. A milled screw nut works on the protruding end
of the clamp screw. By means of this screw mut the seat on the sliding clamp can
he adjusted the proper distance from the fixed seat on the dise for the purpose
hereinafter described.
I use with the clamping arrangement described at the back of the shaving glass,
a horizontal supporting arm jointed or unjointed, secured to a wall or other
support. On the outer end of this horizontal arm the shaving glass is supported
and its position or angle adjusted in the following manner.
The outer or free end of the said horizontal arm carries a ball or sphere
which is seated between the seat of the sliding clamp and that of the fixed disc.
By driving home the clamping screw nut on its screw the movable or adjustable
sent is made to approach the fixed seat and the sphere is gripped so tightly
between them as to cause them to work frictionally thereon so that while the
seats have freedom of motion about the said sphere for adjusting, both horizontally
and vertically, the position or angle of the shaving glass they firmly hold the
glass in the position in which it has been adjusted. By relaxing the clamping
screw mut the two sents enn be separated and lifted from the sphere when it is
required to detach the shaving glass from the supporting arm.
will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings
the manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elovation and Figure 2 in side elevation a shaving
glass supported and adjusted by the construction and combination of parts con-
stituting my invention;
Figure 3 represents in side elevation; Figure 4 in back elevation and Figure 5
in plan a portion of the shaving glass, together with the supporting and adjusting
apparatus, drawn to a larger scale.
Figure 6 represents in vertical section; Figure 7 in back elevation and Figure 8
in cross section the clamping apparatus detached, drawn to the same scale as
Figures 3, 4 and 5.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.

page_text: a is the shaving glass to the back of the frame of which the metal disc b is
fixed by screws.
At the middle of the said disc b is a fixed bracket c having a
cupped face or concave seat and at the bottom edge of the disc b is a perforated
upright for the clamping screw to pass through; e is the sliding clamp crossing
the disc in the manner shown in Figures 4 and 7 and working upon the fixed
seate the overhanging sides of which guide the said clamp in its motion (see the
cross section Figure 8). The ends of the sliding clamp e carry the two uprights e², e³.
The upright e forms a second scat and is situated opposite the fixed seat c on the
disc and the other upright carries the clamping screw which works through
the perforated upright on the disc (see Figure 6); 9 is a milled screw nut
working on the clamping screw f for fixing and adjusting the seat on the sliding
clamp e with respect to the fixed seat c; h is the horizontal jointed supporting arm
of the shaving glass, the inner end of which arm is secured to the pateras fixed
on the wall or other support . The outer end of the supporting arm / carries the
ball or sphere which is seated and clamped between the fixed seat c on the disc b
and the movable seat e' on the sliding clamp e.
In order to attach the arm to the clamping device, the clamping screw nuty is
withdrawn from the bracket and the sliding clamp e then moved upon the fixed
scat c so as to separate the movable seat e³ on the clamp from the fixed seat c. The
ball or sphere on the arm h being placed between the separated scats c, e the
clamping screw nut is driven home upon the screw until it bears against
the bracket when the further rotation of the screw nut causes the movable or
adjustable seate to approach the fixed seat c. The sphere is thereby gripped tightly
between the two seats e and c as illustrated in Figures 2, 3, 4 and 5. The said
sphere is gripped so tightly between the two seats e, c that while the said seats
have freedom of motion about the said sphere for adjusting, both horizontally and
vertically, the position or angle of the sharing glass they work with sufficient
friction upon the sphere to hold the glass in the position to which it has been
adjusted.
I have indicated in dotted lines in Figures 2, 3 and 5 some of the positions in
which the shaving glass may be adjusted. In the elevations Figures 2 and 3 the
glass a is indicated at a² adjusted in a vertical plane; and in the plan Figure 5 and
in the elevation Figure 2 the glass is indicated at a³, a adjusted in a horizontal plane,
the glass at a in Figure 5 having been moved through an angle of about 45 degrees
and the glass at a in Figure 2 having been moved through an angle of about
90 degrees. When the glass is required to be adjusted vertically at a greater
angle than that indicated at a2, Figures 2 and 3, the glass is bodily turned on the
sphere 7 through such an angle as will bring the two seats e³, c vertical, when the
glass can be moved vertically through an angle of 90 degrees in either direction,
or other intermediate angle in either direction.
When it is required to detach the shaving glass a from the supporting arm h for
packing or transit, the clamping screw nut 9 is relaxed when the two seats e² c may
be separated and the sphere I lifted from between them.
l
For the purpose of supporting candle sconces at the shaving glass a, I place
behind the sphere on the supporting arm h a cross piece m having a hole at each
end. In these holes the bent cuds of the arins of the sconces n, n are engaged and
turn as represented in Figures 1 and 2.
I apply my improvements to the supporting and adjusting of mirrors, easels,
stands, trays or holders and the like substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated with respect to a shaving glass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention of "Improvements in supporting and adjusting shaving
glasses mirrors easels and stands trays or holders for exhibiting goods in shop
windows and for other like purposes
"
The employment at the back of the shaving glass or other article to be supported

page_text: and adjusted of the clamping arrangement or device herein before described
and represented and the combination therewith of a ball or sphere on the end of
the supporting arm of the shaving glass or article, the sphere being gripped so
tightly between the movable and fixed seats of the clamping device that while the
said seats have freedom of motion about the said sphere for adjusting the position
or angle of the shaving glass or article they work so tightly or frictionally thereon
as to firmly hold the shaving glass or article in the position or angle to which it
has been adjusted substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated the 24th day of April 1891.