De Secured to riars, roles, or other like Uprights.
Year: 1885

page_text: ΟΙ ΠΑΠΙ ΑΙΟΩΠΗ
De Secured to riars, roles, or other like
Uprights.
I WILLIAM DICKSON, of 14 Old Change, in the City of London, Quartermaster
24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHELVES, RACKS, BRACKETS AND OTHER
ARTICLES TO ENABLE THEM TO BE SECURED TO PILLARS, POLES OR OTHER LIKE
UPRIGHTS to be as follows:-
"
The object of my invention is to construct shelves, racks, brackets or other
articles in such manner that they can be readily secured to a pillar, pole or other
like upright at any desired height without permanently fixing any device to the
pillar, pole or upright and without marking or injuring it. The invention is
applicable to securing shelves or brackets to pillars in shops or in shop windows or
other places and for a variety of other purposes where articles have to be secured
to uprights among which I may specially mention the securing to tent poles of
racks for stacking rifles.
I construct the shelf, bracket, rack or other article with an aperture whose sides
are to embrace the pillar or pole and I line or cover the sides of this aperture with
india rubber, leather or other material which will allow them to be forced against
and grip the pillar or pole without injuring or marking it; and I also make the
shelf, rack or other article so that it can in some way be temporarily opened to
allow of its being slipped on to or removed from the pillar or pole.
In carrying out my invention I prefer to divide the shelf, rack or other article
centrally and vertically and to attach the two parts or halves together by a hinge;
the one half has one or more tenons or pins to enter recesses in the other half when
brought together and there is a suitable fastening to secure them in their closed
positions. When it is required to secure the shelf or rack to a pillar or pole the
halves are moved apart and then again closed with the pillar or pole within their
central aperture.
Instead of dividing the shelf or rack into halves as just described other ways
may be adopted to give passage to the pillar or pole; for example a piece of the
shelf or rack equal in width to the diameter of the pillar or pole and extending
from the central aperture to the periphery of the shelf or rack can be made either
to slide out altogether or to turn up or down on a hinge or hinges to give passage
to the pillar or pole and be then returned to place when the pillar or pole is within
the central aperture.
Dated this 27th day of March 1885

page_text: Improvements in Shelves, Racks, Brackets, and other Articles,
to Enable them to be Secured to Pillars, Poles, or other like
Uprights.
I WILLIAM DICKSON, of 14 Old Change, in the City of London, Quartermaster
24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers do hereby declare the nature of this
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 my invention is to construct shelves, 'racks, brackets or other
articles in such manner that they can be readily secured to a pillar, pole or other
like upright at any desired height without permanently fixing any device to the
pillar, pole or upright and without marking or injuring it. The invention is
applicable to securing shelves or brackets to pillars in shops or in shop windows or
other places and for a variety of other purposes where articles have to be secured
to uprights among which I may specially mention the securing to tent poles of
racks for stacking rifles.
I construct the shelf, bracket, rack or other article with an aperture whose sides
are to embrace the pillar or pole and I line or cover the sides of this aperture with
india rubber, leather or other material which will allow them to be forced against
and grip the pillar or pole without injuring or marking it, and I also make the
shelf, rack or other article so that it can in some way be temporarily opened to
allow of its being slipped on to or removed from the pillar or pole.
In carrying out my invention I prefer to divide the shelf, rack or other article
centrally and vertically and to attach the two parts or halves together by a hinge,
the one half has one or more tenons or pins to enter recesses in the other half when
brought together and there is a suitable fastening to secure them in their closed
positions. When it is required to secure the shelf or rack to a pillar or pole the
halves are moved apart and then again closed with the pillar or pole within their
central aperture.
Instead of dividing the shelf or rack into halves as just described other ways
may be adopted to give passage to the pillar or pole; for example a piece of the
shelf or rack equal in width to the diameter of the pillar or pole and extending
from the central aperture to the periphery of the shelf or rack can be made either
to slide out altogether or to turn up or down on a hinge or hinges to give passage
to the pillar or pole and be then returned to place when the pillar or pole is within
the central aperture.
Figures 1 to 4 of the accompanying drawings represent a rack for stacking rifles
constructed according to my invention. Figure 1 is a plan showing it in the
closed position and Figure 2 a plan showing it opened to enable it to be slipped on
to or removed from a tent pole. Figure 3 is a side view and Figure 4 a vertical
section. The rack is composed of the two parts or halves a, a hinged together at b
and which when closed, as in Figure 1, have a circular central aperture c the
diameter of which will depend upon that of the tent pole for which the rack is
intended; the sides of this aperture are lined or covered with vulcanized india
rubber d, or instead of vulcanized india rubber, I may use leather or other suitable

page_text: material which will yield sufficiently to give the necessary hold on the pole without
marking or injuring it. One of the halves a has a projecting piece e and the other
half a corresponding recess or mortise which this piece enters when the rack is
closed, and the parts are then secured by a pin ƒ passed through a hole in the one
half a and taking into a depression in the piece è of the other half; this piece is
preferably formed with several depressions for the pin f as seen in Figure 1 so that
the rack may accommodate itself to differences in the thickness of various poles.
The edge of the rack is formed with notches g, g like ordinary rifle racks to
receive the muzzles of the rifles; and a band of leather his fixed around the edge
as shown, the edge being grooved to receive it. The rack may be made of any
suitable material, but I prefer to form the halves a, a of wood with a metal frame j
in the centre, the hinge b-being in this frame.
Figure 5 represents in plan and Figure 6 in side view a shelf or bracket suitable
for being secured to a pillar or upright in a shop. This shelf, like the rack shown
in Figures 1 to 4, is formed of the hinged parts or halves a, a having a central
aperture c lined with india rubber d. There is a tenon e on one of the halves to
enter a corresponding recess in the other half. The fastening represented in these
figures consists of an angle piece i on each half a and of a screw to connect the
two pieces and draw them together sufficiently to clamp the shelf or bracket on
the pillar. 1, are hooks from which articles may be suspended.
The form of my shelves, racks, brackets or other like articles may be variously
modified according to the particular purposes for which they are intended provided
the essential feature of the invention be retained, viz:-the aperture whose sides
are to embrace the pillar or post and are lined or covered with vulcanized india
rubber or other suitable material which will allow the parts of which the shelf,
rack, bracket or article is composed to be forced against and grip the pillar or pole
without injuring or marking it, the said shelf, rack or article being capable of
being temporarily opened to allow of its being slipped on to or removed from the
pillar or pole. In the case of an arm shaped bracket the aperture c would be at
or near the inner end of the arm. The forin of the aperture will of course corre-
spond with the section of the pillar or upright to which the shelf, rack or bracket
is to be fixed.
The mode or means of securing the parts of the shelf, rack, or article in the
closed position may also be modified as thought fit.
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
1. Constructing shelves, racks, brackets or other articles with an aperture whose
sides are to embrace a pillar, pole or other like upright, the said sides being lined
or covered with vulcanized india rubber or other suitable material, and the shelf,
rack, bracket or article being capable of being temporarily opened, as and for the
purpose set forth. .
2. Constructing shelves, racks, brackets or other articles substantially as herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying drawings to enable them to
be secured to pillars, posts or other like uprights.