IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OF OR APPLIANCES FOR EXHIBITING OR DISPLAYING GOODS, FANCY ARTICLES, PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, AND SO FORTH IN SHOP-WINDOWS, ON COUNTERS, AND ELSEWHERE."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Moritz Beral Bertram, of 21, Myddleton Square,
Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEANS OF OR APPLIANCES FOR EXHIBITING OR DISPLAYING GOODS, FANCY
ARTICLES, PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, AND SO FORTH IN SHOP-WINDOWS, ON
COUNTERS, AND ELSEWHERE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Moritz Beral
Bertram at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd September
1880.
FREDERICK MORITZ BERAL, BERTRAM, of 21, Myddleton Square, Clerkenwell, in
the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OF OR APPLIANCES FOR
EXHIBITING OR DISPLAYING GOODS, FANCY ARTICLES, PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, AND
SO FORTH IN SHOP-WINDOWS, ON COUNTERS, AND ELSEWHERE."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in means of or appliances for
exhibiting or displaying goods, such as gloves, handkerchiefs, ties, fancy articles,
photographs, cards, and so forth in shop windows, on counters, and elsewhere, as may
be desired, and the object is to provide frames with clipping or holding devices and
bars for the ready adjustment thereof and support of such articles.
In carrying the Invention into practice wires or metal frames are provided of
oblong, square, triangular, pyramid, star, circular, domed, or other skeleton form,
and upon the face of the wire or bars forming the said frames are soldered or
otherwise attached at the centres or sides thereof metal clips, which said clips are
made of wire, round or flat, and with the ends bent round to form broader portions,
and by the spring of the wire to hold the articles between the flattened portions
of the ends. Across the longitudinal wires of the frames at intervals cross bars are
soldered or affixed by forming such cross bars with bent ends to clip on to the
wires of the frame, and so can be slid up and down, a perforated back rack or holed
bar being in some cases provided for further support.
The ends of the square or oblong frames are, when of wire, bent round and down
so that the bent part forms a hanging device or portion which will be capable of
use for hanging upon a bar or the lower bar of another frame, but, as before stated,
the clips upon the wires are supplied for holding purposes. The construction will
allow of almost infinite variation in arrangement of the frames in relation to each
other, as, for instance, in length, across, or down a window case or wall, or to hold
a number of articles at certain height and display same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick Moritz Beral Bertram in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd March 1881.
FREDERICK MORITZ BERAL BERTRAM, of 21, Myddleton Square, Clerkenwell, in
the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OF OR APPLIANCES FOR
EXHIBITING OR DISPLAYING GOODS, FANCY ARTICLES, PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, AND
SO FORTH IN SHOP WINDOWS, ON COUNTERS, AND ELSEWHERE."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in means of or appliances for
exhibiting or displaying goods, such as gloves, handkerchiefs, fancy articles, photo-
graphs, cards, and so forth in shop windows, on counters, and elsewhere, as may be
desired, and the object is to provide frames with clipping or holding devices, and bars
for the ready adjustment thereof and support of each article.
:
In carrying the Invention into practice, wires or metal frames are provided of
oblong, square, triangular, pyramid, star, circular, domed, or other skeleton form,
and upon the face of the wire or bars forming the said frame are soldered or
otherwise attached at the centres or sides thereof metal clips; said clips are made of
wire, round or flat, and with the ends bent round to form broader portions, and by
the spring of the wire to hold the articles between the flattened portions of the
ends. Across the longitudinal wires of the frames at intervals cross bars are soldered
or affixed by forming such cross bars with bent ends to slip into the wires of the
frame, and so these cross bars can be slid up or down, a perforated back rack
or hold bar being in some cases provided for further support.
'
The ends of the square or oblong frames are, when of wire, bent round and down
so that the bent part forms a hanging device or portion, which will be capable of
use for hanging upon a bar on the lower bar of another frame, but, as before stated,
the clips upon the wires are supplied for holding purposes. The construction will
allow of almost infinite variation in arrangement of the frames in relation to each
other, as, for instance, in length, across, or down a window case or wall, or to hold a
number of articles at certain height to display same.
My Invention will be clearly understood by the annexed Sheet of Drawings, in
which I also show a few adaptations of it for displaying articles in shop windows,
on counters, or elsewhere.
Figure 1 is a face view; Figure 2, a side view; and Figure 3, a perspective of
one form of appliance for exhibiting carte visites, cabinet portraits, tickets of prices.
said appliance being formed with a loop A by which it can be suspended from a rail,
wire, or string stretched across, say, the inside of a shop window.
The appliance consists of two legs B, C, of such lengths that one end D is caused
to overlap the other E, and is so tempered that the two ends press against each
other to hold any light article between them; the two legs B, C, are formed from a
straight piece of wire, but the back portion has preferably a curl or twist F as
indicated to produce a springyness of the back portion, that one of the parts,
preferably the upper one G, can be used as an additional support for another card
or ticket if so desired when the appliance is soldered to a stand or support, and as
will be understood by the description hereafter given.
The extreme ends D, E, of the legs B, C, are shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3, are of
ring form, but one of them, as in Figure 4, or both of them, as in Figure 5, may be
split open or forked, or they may be flattened, as in Figure 6, or may be otherwise
formed as found convenient.

page_text: Figure 7 represents an appliance with the pressure of the legs reversed to..that
shown in the previously described Figures, to enable cards or tickets to be hung or
suspended from the legs B, C, the nip or pinch being obtained by a sliding ring H,
which holds itself in the desired position upon the upper leg B by notches formed in the
front or in the back upper portion, or it may be by notches both on the front upper
leg B and the back upper portion G, as indicated at Figure 8, the upper part being
made wavy or corrugated for retaining the ring H in the desired position. Figure 9
represents an appliance of my Invention provided with a screw pin J and nut K, to
produce the nip or pinch of the two ends D, E.
Sometimes I dispense with the back coil or twist F, and kink the wire at that
part, as is represented at Figure 10, the object being as before stated with reference
to the previous Figures Figure 11 shows a back quite plain, the extreme ends
D, E, of the legs B, C, being formed with balls or knobs L.
There are many ways of fitting these appliances to other frames or supports
which can be utilized for the display of light articles of wearing apparel, in hosiers'
shop windows, in cases, and on the counters, for exposing jewelry, stationery, or
other goods in various positions. In Figure 12 I show two of my appliances soldered
to the legs of a jointed frame M suitable for supporting, say, a cabinet portrait behind
the upper portions G, G, and a ticket beneath within the ends D, E, showing the
price of same. I regulate the angle at which the frame may be set by a wavy or
corrugated strip N, taking over the back bar P; the upper ends Q, Q, of the jointed
frame may have other appliances affixed if desired.
Figure 13 represents a frame M arranged to be slid up or down another frame R
with a rail S, in from which a necktie, or other suitable article, could be
suspended, the price or other ticket being held over it by the appliance. The
frame R is formed at its upper part to hang from a cord or from another similar
frame which may be above it, the bottom bar T being available for the upper part
of another one.
Figure 14 represents a support for a counter, and upon which several articles
could be displayed; Figure 15 shows a series of straight wires U, each provided
with appliances. The wires are mounted upon a central pivot pin V to enable
them to be moved upon it into star pattern as shown, or to any other suitable
device. The pivot pin may be connected to a stand, or it may be formed with a loop
from which it may be suspended, or the frame may be suspended from one of the
eyes Z.
The straight wires U may be connected loosely to a rod W, and when of different
lengths they can be arranged like a fan, as shown at Figure 10, the rod being shaped
to suit the desired angle at which the goods shall be exposed, or the outer end may
be provided with feet or movable prongs X to set that end at the desired height or
angle.
The sliding frame shown at Figure 13 may have a back pin to engage into
perforations of a back upright, to prevent the slide frame shifting from any position
at which it may be necessary to be held, but the same result can be obtained by
slightly bending the back upright upon which the ferrule Y moves.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that claim, --
The appliance shown at Figures 1, 2, 3 of the annexed Drawings and herein
before described, also the modifications shown in Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11,
or other modifications thereof, for holding and exhibiting or displaying goods,
fancy articles, photographs, cards, and so forth, in shop windows, on counters, and
elsewhere.
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Secondly, I claim. The adaptation of one or any number of my appliances (fixed
or movable) to frames or supports, or to inovable frames or other frames or supports
whether in the manner described with reference to Figures 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16,

page_text: or in, on, or to other kinds of frames or supports, for the purpose or purposes
herein before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Moritz, Beral Bertram, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent,
40, Fleet Street,
London.
FREDERICK M. B. BERTRAM. (L.S.)