IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR DISPLAYING HATS, BOOTS, OR OTHER GOODS, IN SHOP WINDOWS, SHOW ROOMS, AND THE LIKE
Year: 1884

page_text: I FELIX MC ILVENNA, of the firm of Mc Ilvenna & Co., 1 Hilton Street, Manchester,
in the county of Lancaster, and 79 Wood Street, London, Shop fitting manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS
FOR DISPLAYING HATS, BOOTS, OR OTHER GOODS, IN SHOP WINDOWS, SHOW ROOMS,
AND THE LIKE," to be as follows:-
When selling Messrs Mo Ilvenna & Co's patent fittings for displaying hats, boots,
umbrellas, and other goods, I have heard. serious complaints that the jaws or rests
are apt to scratch the goods, and thus injure their saleable value. To avoid this I
make fittings with the surfaces against which the goods rest of india-rubber.
The wire stand for shewing the hat lying on its side consists of two naked
arched wires with curled ends, and a third similar wire arched in the opposite
direction standing on them at right angles and attached to them by two lugs and
solder. In this case I cover the upper wire with rubber tube, cutting two holes
for the lugs, and then solder the leg wires on to said lugs.
The suspension bracket consists of a hooked wire with a turn near the top, and
its coiled end encircling another straight wire so that it can be slid up and down.
This wire is bent round to encircle the hat rim and form a loop in the hat for the
latter to rest upon. This loop is unsoldered, and the india-rubber tubing passed
over the end of the wire till the entire loop and bend is covered with the rubber.
With umbrella clips, reaching tongs, stick displayers, and the like, in which thin
rod metal or wire clips hold the article as in a pair of tongs or wire vice, I stretch
india-rubber tubing over the jaws and arms where they touch or grasp the stick,
umbrella, or other goods, and this principle of stretching rubber tubing so as to
cover the parts that come against the goods I apply to the following of my firm's
fittings to which it is applicable to protect the goods from wear, namely the hat-
stand top patented July 9th N° 2821 of 1880, Fig 1, and to wire dress-improvers
where the wires are brought against the dress and used to expand it out at any
point. These are made in endless variety, and altered from season to season as the
fashions change, but are skeleton wire frames used attached to busts to expand out
the dress in such positions as the fashion of the day dictates.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, FELIX MC ILVENNA, of the firm of Mc Ilvenna and Co. 1, Hilton Street,
Manchester, Lancashire and 79 Wood Street, London, Shop Fitting Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS
FOR DISPLAYING HATS, BOOTS, OR OTHER GOODS IN SHOP WINDOWS SHOW ROOMS AND
THE LIKE " and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :--
When selling Messrs M° Ilvenna & Co's patent fittings for displaying hats, boots,
umbrellas and other goods, I have heard serious complaints that the jaws or rests
are apt to scratch the goods and thus injure their saleable value. To avoid this I
make fittings with the surfaces against which the goods rest of india rubber.
The wire stand for showing the hat lying on its side is set forth in the accom-
panying drawings Figure 1, and consists of two naked arched wires AA with
curled ends, and a third similar wire B arched in the opposite direction standing
on them at right angles and attached to them by two lugs and solder or other
Buitable means. In this case I cover the upper wire with rubber tube cutting two
holes for the lugs, and then solder the leg wires on to said lugs. It can however be
sold naked if desired.
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The suspension bracket is set forth in Figure 2 and consists of a booked wire C
with a turn near the top d, and its coiled end D encircling another straight wire E,
so that it can be slid up and down, or in place of forming the socket of a coil, one
of the two parts can be cast hollow and the other slid into it and held with a set
screw as shown in Figure 3. The lower wire is bent round as shown in Figure 3
to encircle the hat rim and form a loop F in the hat for the latter to rest upon.
This loop is unsoldered and the india rubber tubing passed over the end of the
wire till the entire loop and bend is covered with the rubber, it can however
be sold naked if desired. The top part is formed with a hook as in Figure
clip and set screw as in Figure 3 for suspension purposes. With umbrella clips,
reaching tongs, stick displayers and the like, I stretch india rubber tubing over the
jaws and arms where they touch or grasp the stick and umbrella or other goods,
and this principle of stretching rubber tubing so as to cover the parts that come
against the goods I apply to all my firms' fittings to which it is applicable to protect
the goods from wear.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1st. The manufacture of shop fittings having those parts of the wires, clips, or
other thin parts thereof which abut against or come into contact with the goods
encased with india rubber, substantially as described.
2nd. The apparatus for showing a hat lying on its side, substantially as herein
described.
3rd. The suspension bracket for hats or other goods, substantially as herein
described and shown in Figures 2 and 3.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1884.