Improvements in Dress, Jacket, and other like Stands.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1890
Complete Spécification Left, 22nd Aug., 1890-Accepted, 11th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress, Jacket, and other like Stands.
I, THOMAS HOLDER of 51 and 53 Tib Street, Manchester, Cage and Wire Worker
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a dress, jacket or other stand say for
exposing such articles of dress in shop windows for fitting on and other analogous
purposes, of an improved construction which shall possess advantages over the stands
hitherto used and consists in making the same of sheet india-rubber or other air tight
material, suitably gored, fitted and cemented together so as to be capable of being
inflated and of assuming the desired extended form at will corresponding to the
ordinary stands or of being packed into the smallest compass.
By introducing an iron or heavy plate at the bottom my improved dress stand is.
rendered steady and self-supporting and impossible to be upset by accident.
It possesses the further advantages of being light, portable, easily packed or stowed
away and of being patched, mended and kept in repair. Being of a smooth outer
surface it affords better facilities than the wicker and wire stands hitherto used for
putting on and taking off the dress, robe or other article of attire and having no
points to catch on or lay hold of the fabric there is no fear of tearing or catching by
its use.
By mounting my improved stand upon my improved regulating pedestal, the
subject of Letters Patent No. 14263 and dated 10th September 1889 I am enabled
to produce a dress stand which can be adjusted in height to the greatest nicety.
Dated this 14th day of July 1890.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress, Jacket, and other like Stands.
I, THOMAS HOLDER of 51 and 53 Tib Street, Manchester, Cage and Wire Worker
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of this invention is to provide a dress, jacket or other stand say for
exposing such articles of dress in shop windows, for fitting on and other analogous
purposes, of an improved construction which shall possess advantages over the stands
hitherto used and consists in making the same of sheet india-rubber or other air-tight
material, suitably gored, fitted and cemented together so as to be capable of being
inflated and of assuming the desired extended form at will corresponding to the
ordinary stands or of being packed into the smallest compass.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a side view of my improved
dress stand shewing the same in its air inflated state and Fig. 2. shews the same stand
in its collapsed or emptied state.
In constructing my improved dress stand I employ a wooden metal or other suitable
base board a to or around which are affixed the bottoms of the several gores of water
proof or india rubber coated fabric 6 constituting the inflatable portion of my
improved dress stand. These gores b b are cemented together at their adjoining edges
in the same manner as is employed in making waterproof or air tight cushions or
other like india rubber goods and at the top these gores are secured to the edges of
a waist board c.

page_text: d is the usual screwed cap or mouth piece by opening which the article can be
inflated with air say by bellows or other inflating apparatus.
It will be apparent that the outward configuration of my improved inflated
dress,stands may be modified to suit the form of dress, jacket or other like stand
required.
By introducing an iron or other heavy plate at the bottom my improved dress or
other stand is rendered still more steady and self-supporting and impossible to be
upset by accident.
This improved dress stand possesses the further advantages of being light, portable,
easily packed or stowed away and capable of being patched, mended and kept in
repair. Being of a smooth outer surface it affords better facilities than the wicker
and wire stands hitherto used for putting on and taking off the dress, robe or other
article of attire and having no points to catch on or lay hold of the fabric there is no
fear of tearing or catching by its use.
By mounting my improved stand upon my regulating pedestal, the subject of Letters
Patent No. 14263 and dated 10th September 1889 I am able to produce a dress
stand which can be adjusted in height to the greatest Dicety.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1st. The improved air inflatable stand substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
2nd. In a dress jacket or other like stand constructing the same to the required
shape of gores of water proof fabric and so capable of being inflated or packed into
the smallest compass at will substantially as herein before described and illustrated on
the accompanying drawing.
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JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.