FOLDING AND ADJUSTABLE SHOP WINDOW STANDS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM MESSENT 5 Sandford Road-Moseley near Birmingham in the County
of Worcester Brassfounder do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
FOLDING AND ADJUSTABLE SHOP WINDOW STANDS to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to so construct folding and adjustable window
stands for the use of Drapers Hatters, Milliners, Bootmakers and others that when
in use only two sizes are required to fix an article at any desired height from a
few inches to five feet and when not in use the whole can be stowed away in a
small compass.
The invention consists in making the window stand in two or more parts so
that the foot or pedestal can be detached from the pillar. The foot consists of two
bars of brass or other metal united in the centre by a pivot which when extended
gives a firm foundation the form of a cross.
The pillar is made of metal tubing of various sizes working one within the other
like a telescope the smaller one retaining its position in the next one larger by
means of a sawn alot which gives a spring that can be adjusted to any strength
and the pillar is attached to the foot by a screw working in the hollow pivot...
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page_text: I, WILLIAM MESSENT Sandford Road, Moseley Birmingham in the county of
Worcester brassfounder do hereby declare the nature of my invention for FOLDING
AND ADJUSTABLE SHOP WINDOW STANDS and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
I The object of my invention is to construct adjustable sliding and folding
stands to be used in the windows and shew rooms of Drapers Hatters Milliners
Bootmakers and others and for any other purpose where adjustment as to height is
required.
II The stands can be made in various sizes and heights and when not in use
may be taken apart and folded in a very small compass.
III The foot or pedestal of the stand is made in two or more parts held together
by a pivot so as to form three or four feet as shewn in figures A and B in drawings,
these parts may be made of any suitable metal or material and of any pattern or
size; they may be folded when not in use; the centre pivot receives the screw at
the base of the pillar C in drawing.
IV The pillar is formed of hollow metal tubes which slide into each other in the
form of a telescope, and which are rendered adjustable as to height by means of a
sawn slot in the incerted tube, which being slightly expanded acts as a spring
against the outer tube; The strength of this spring may be increased as required;
the nature of this arrangement is shewn in figure C D in drawing. The parts of
the pillar are held together by a screw cap as shew at letter E.
.
VA screw at the base of the pillar fixes it to the foot or pedestal by being
turned into the centre pivot at F.
VI The pillar will have any kind of head or rest attached to it at the top G
according to the use to which it is applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
That when the foot or pedestal of the stand is detached from the pillar it may be
folded into a very compact compass.
That the tubes of which the pillar is constructed slide into each other in the form
of a telescope and are rendered adjustable as to height by means of a sawn slot in
the incerted tube which when slightly expanded acts as a spring against the outside
tubes and that the pillar may be easily detached from the foot and packed away in
a small space.
Dated this twentieth day of April Eighteen hundred and eighty five.