A Revoluble Apparatus Serviceable as a Show Stand, a Smokers' Hold-all, a Stick and Umbrella Stand, and other like use.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1899-Accepted, 9th Sent. 1800
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Revoluble Apparatus Serviceable as a Show Stand, a Smokers'
Hold-all, a Stick and Umbrella Stand, and other like use.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK HOFMANN, of Belmont Street, Prince of Wales Road,
Kentish Town, Surgical Instrument Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
is
This invention which relates to a revoluble apparatus serviceable as a show-
case, a smokers' hold-all, a stick and umbrella stand and other like uses,
hereinafter described with more particular reference to its use as an improved
smoker's rack or hold-all adapted for holding pipes, tobacco, cigars, cigar-holders,
cigarettes,cigarette-holders, cigar-cutter, matches, and ash tray, and other such
smokers' requisites, and is designed in all its applications to hold the articles
it carries in such a manner that any thereof can be easily and conveniently got
from any one position without necessitating the shifting of the apparatus by
lifting it.
With reference to its use as a smokers' hold all, the improved rack is made
with a series of compartments of any suitable number, divided, as regards the
height thereof, by one or more horizontal shelves, the same being adapted to
retain and support the aforesaid articles, and being rotatable about a central axis
so that any of such compartments can be easily and conveniently got at by
turning the rack body about such axis as hereinafter more particularly described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
On the drawings, Figure 1, represents a perspective view of the device showing
the manner in which it supports various of the stated smokers' requisites, but
with the tobacco container, ash container and match container removed there-
from, these latter containers being respectively illustrated in like view in
Figs. 1, 1, 1°.
Fig. 2, represents, on a smaller scale, a vertical section through the apparatus,
showing such containers in position.
And Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, are horizontal sections of Fig. 2, respectively on
the lines, 33, 44, 5-5, and 6-6.
The rack is made of three principal parts, respectively consisting of a base
or stand, the rack proper, and a top piece; the stand being extended as at, a,
and having a rod, b, adapted to act as the centre of rotation of the rack body;
the rack body having a tubular centre, c, adapted to fit about the axis, a, as
hereinafter more particularly described; and the top piece having a tubular
centre, d, being adapted to fit on the upper projecting end of the rod, b, or
on an extension of the rack body tube, c, and adapted to hold all together in
uch manner that the rack body together with, or, it may be, without, the top, can
be freely turned about the rack axis so as to bring any part of its circumference
o any desired position.
The rack body consists, as aforesaid, of a series of division plates or vanes, e,
f pyramidal form radiating from the tube, c, and forming compartments which
re open at their outer sides, and of a series of any required number of horizontal
helves, f, as represented. The lower series of these compartments being of the
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page_text: larger size, owing to the conical formation of the device, are more particularly
adapted for holding pipes, vide Fig. 1, which may be further held by bands, g,
and the upper series of such compartments are more particularly adapted for
holding cigars and cigar holders, as represented, and which may fit into holes, h,
in the shelf and be further secured by flexible holders, i. At one side of the
device, part of one of the dividing vanes may be omitted and the double space
may be horizontally divided by additional shelves, j, the shelves being adapted
to support removable containers, km, respectively for tobacco, tobacco ash,
and matches, vide Figs. 1º, 16, 1
The top piece is preferably made of an ornamental formation, as represented,
to give an elegant finish to the article, and is adapted to contain cigarettes
and cigarette holders, as represented, and is fitted with a cigar cutter, n, and
with a receptacle, o, for the cigar tips.
In the modification represented, the device is made of thin metal and the
vertical and horizontal divisions are respectively rivetted or may be brazed or
soldered together, or, the article may be made of wood or of any other suitable
material.
In a modification of the foregoing, in lieu of the receptacles, k, l, m, being
removable, they may form part of the rack body, or may be dispensed with, in
which latter event, the rack body will only be made with the vertical and
horizontal divisions and top and bottom plates and be adapted to serve more
particularly as a pipe and cigar holder together with or it may be without the
upper attachment of a cigarette holder and cigar-cutter.
In lieu of the said containers, k, l, m, being superposed, as represented, they
may be arranged around the base of the rack. body and be superposed by a
double or single tier of pipe and cigar holding compartments and the upper cigar
holder and the cutter.
Or, by appropriately fitting the device with hooks or the like, it may be adapted
to display articles of jewellery and other articles and may be placed on a revolving
stand in a shop window, or, by making it of suitable size, it may be rendered
serviceable as a stick and umbrella stand.
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. A revoluble apparatus serviceable for use as a show case; a smokers' hold-
all, a stick and umbrella stand and other like uses, characterized, by being made
with a base or stand, a partitioned body part, and a top piece, the stand being
adapted to act as a centre about which the body part can be turned, the top
piece being adapted to hold the parts together, and the body part being partitioned
and adapted to hold the articles to be displayed or supported and to rotate or
be rotated about the axis supporting it..
2. A smokers' rack or hold-all of a smokers' requisites, characterized by being
made with a base or stand, a partitioned rack and a top piece, the stand being
adapted to act as a centre about which the rack can be turned, the top-piece
being adapted to hold the parts together, and the rack being partitioned vertically
and horizontally into compartments and adapted to be rotatable about the axis
supporting it, as herein before described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
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DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.