An Improved Clip or Bracket for Displaying Goods in Shop-windows, or for similar purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1895
.COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip or Bracket for Displaying Goods in Shop-windows,
or for similar purposes.
I JAMES WILLIAM ASKWITH, of No. 255, High Street, West, Sunderland, in
the County of Durham, Hatter, 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 :-
This invention relates to a simple and inexpensively constructed clip or bracket
for displaying goods, which is capable of being readily affixed to, or detached from,
a vertical or other display-stand employed in a shop-window, upon a counter or in
a similar situation, without disturbing the goods arranged upon such display-stand
or upon the said clip or bracket.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings in
which :-
:-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the clip or bracket, and
Fig. 2 an elevation of a vertical display-stand with the clip or bracket applied
thereto.
In carrying the invention into practice, I fashion the clip or bracket of a suitable
resilient material which is also capable of being bent, such material preferably
taking the form of copper or other wire of suitable thickness.
In the form of device shewn by the drawing, I bend or otherwise fashion a
length of wire into a loop a at one extremity, at a right angle to a vertical
portion a', which is again bent to the horizontal at a and then given an upward
and a downward turn and brought back, to form a jaw a³, the wire then being
formed into a coiled spring at which is situated between the jaw a³ and a similar
jaw a, the free end of which is extended somewhat towards the front of the device
to form a handle or thumb-piece aº.
The free end of this handle or thumb-piece a' is turned downwards and given a
rearward inclination near the extremity, such extremity being bent into a loop a³ at
right angles to the portion a'.
In operation, the handle or thumb-piece a and the horizontal portion a³ are
pressed towards one another, which opens the jaws as a of the clip arrangement
and allows of the display-stand b or similar object being placed between then, the
action of the coil-spring, when the handle or thumb-piece a and the horizontal
portion a³ are released, causing the jaws a³ a³, to firmly clip the interposed object
between them, as will be readily understood.
The extremity a is adapted to bear against the display-stand 6 or the like, and
maintain the clip or bracket in position when an article is placed upon the forward
end a.
I wish it to be distinctly understood, that I do not confine myself to the precise
form of the device as shewn and described, but may modify same as desirable or
convenient.
Having now 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:-
1. A clip or bracket for attachment to a vertical or other display-stand or the
like, substantially as described and illustrated.

page_text: 2. A display clip or bracket formed by bending a length of wire in such
manner, as to form a coiled spring between two gripping jaws, and a downward
extension acting as a support or stay, substantially as and for the purpose specified
and as illustrated.
Dated thio 2nd dor of Tule 1805
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.