Improvements in or relating to Show or Dress Stands.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Show or Dress Stands.
I, JAMES GOODWIN Drapers' Stand Maker of 36 Hosier Lane, Smithfield in
the City of London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In show stands in place of the usual telescopic adjustment by screws, spring-
clips, or spring catches the substitution of a pivotted lever moved by means of a
handle penetrating the neck of bust or body.
All show or dress stands are composed of a wood or metal foot and upright
attached to a bust or body, and it is necessary that this bust be capable of adjust-
ment to different heights for the better display of the garments thereon and any
contrivance whereby this may be instantly effected is of great advantage.
and
In the present invention it is sought to compass this object by making the
upright or stem of stand in the form of a grooved stick fitting into a tubo contained
in the bust, the tube having on its outer surface a lever pivotted near the apex
terminating in handle at the top and a jaw shaped piece at the bottoin of a suitable
nature to engage with the grooves of upright, and being retained in position
preferably by a stout india rubber ring.
Thus by grasping the handle at top of bust and pressing it outwards the jaw of
lever is instantly removed from the groove and the bust can be raised at the saine
moment to desired position and by releasing handle it springs back again into
another groove.
Dated this Dist dow of November 1893
JAMES GOODWIN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in or relating to Show or Dress Stands.
I, JAMES GOODWIN. Drapers' Stand Maker of 36 Hosier Lane, Smithfield, in
the County of Middlesex, 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 which relates to busts, show stands and the like will be best
understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which :-
Figure 1 is a vertical section through a bust and stand constructed according to
this invention,
Figure 2 being an inverted plau upon the line 2-2 of Figure 1.
Like letters represent like parts in both figures.
Show or dress stands of this description consist of a suitable stand with a bust
or body to fit on to it, the arrangement being such that the bust can be turned upon
the stand so as to face in any direction and can also be adjusted in height according
to requirement; the invention relates to the adjustment in height.
In carrying out the invention I employ any suitable stand A having a vertical
standard or rod B with circumferential grooves B' at suitable intervals upon it.
This standard B fits into a tube C fixed in the bust or body D so that the tube may
slide upon the standard as required. In the bust is a lever E pivotted at a suitable
part F to the bust D or preferably to the tube C in any suitable manner say by
means of a bracket F screwed to the tube and having a jaw or fork F' through
ED

page_text: which and a hole in the lever E passes a pin F. The lever E passes out at the
top of the bust at the back terminating in a projection or handle E' and also
passes out of the bust at the lower end where it terminates in a fork E' adapted to
fit into the grooves B' of the standard B as clearly shown in Figure 2. The fork E'
is kept in engagement with the grooves B' by any convenient spring or weight
arrangement conveniently by a rubber ring G passing round the tube C and the
lever E, a notch E' in which may be formed so as to hold the ring; any other
convenient arrangement of spring may however be adopted. The lever need not
extend beyond the bust at the lower end unless desired and if preferred may be
entirely enclosed at that end and also if desired at the other end where a button
or equivalent may project at the back of the bust and be covered or not with
the covering material of the bust and adapted to be pressed in instead of the
handle E showing.
The operatiou will be easily understood. The fork E2 engages with any one of
the grooves B¹ according to the height at which it is desired to set the bust D as
indicated in full lines in Figure 1; when it is desired to alter the position of the
bust the handle E' is moved into the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 1
thus withdrawing the fork E' from the groove B' and the bust can then be moved
up and down the standard B as required and can then be fixed by allowing the
fork E to engage with the appropriate groove B'.
It will be observed that the same effect can be obtained by providing the
standard B with a number of holes and the lever E with a point adapted to fit into
those holes the objection however to this arrangement would be that the bust
could not be turned upon the stand, to face in any direction, as it can with the
present arrangement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood
that I make no claim to the grooved standard B B₁ or tube C except in
combination with other parts. What 1 claim is;-
1. In a dress or show stand of the nature described the combination with a
standard B having grooves such as B' of a bust or body D having a fork lever such
as E E substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
2. In a dress or show stand of the nature described a forked lever such as E
extending through an opening at the neck of the bust substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In a dress or show stand of the nature described a pivotted lever such
as E E E substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
4. The complete dress or show stand substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of July 1804
JAMES
GOODWIN.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.