Improvements in "Rise and Fall" Brackets for Shop-window Fittings.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
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AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in "Rise and Fall" Brackets for Shop-window Fittings.
I ERNEST GEORGE BURTWELL of No. 18 Medway Road, Roman Road, Old Ford
in the County of Middlesex, Shop Fitter 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 "rise and fall" brackets which are employed in suitable
numbers to support usually brass tubular rods forming shelves upon which articles may
be displayed in shop windows.
Ordinarily such "rise and fall" brackets are made in the form of racks capable of
retaining the rods at various distances apart according to requirements for the various
articles to be placed thereon; the rise and fall to vary the inclination of the shelves
being controlled by means of a set screw provided in each bracket near a point at
which a hinged joint is provided. They are also arranged to swing horizontally about
a vertical pin by which they engage with sliding sockets capable of being clamped at
any required point upon vertical rods fixed in shop windows at convenient points for
the purpose.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 represents a "rise and fall" bracket of improved construction hereinafter

page_text: Figure 2 is a fitting to be applied to one of the teeth of an ordinary “rise and fall
bracket.
Figure 3 is a fitting to be applied to one of the teeth of an ordinary "rise and fall"
bracket for the purpose of securing a guard rod in one fixed position.
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Figure 4 is a fitting to be applied to one of the rods secured in a rise and fall"
bracket to form a shelf.
Figure 5 is a fitting to be applied when the "rise and fall" bracket supports a
glass shelf and
Figure 6 is a side view of Figure 3.
My invention consists in making the rack A of the "rise and fall" bracket in two
parts jointed by the pin B near the end of the rack A removed from that end upon
which the set screw C operates to perform the rise and fall movement.
The two parts of which I form the rack may be set in position to produce a long
rack bracket of the usual kind or a shorter bracket with the extremity more or less
turned up as shown in dotted lines in Figure 1 so as to retain the articles upon the
shelf when it requires to be much inclined downward to display the goods placed thereon
to advantage. To attain this result one guard rod rested in one or other of the openings
in the upturned end of the rack A will be sufficient The upturned end of the rack A
is maintained in position by means of the thumb-screw D engaging in a screw hole in
the rack A and passing through the hole E in the upturned end.
F is the pin upon
which the "rise and fall" bracket swings horizontally in the usual manner.
In order to carry a guard rod to retain articles upon the shelves of ordinary
"rise and fall" brackets when much inclined 1 make detachable fittings or pieces
capable of being attached to any of the teeth of the racks or to the rods or to a glass
shelf carried by the "rise and fall" bracket by means of set screws and in which the
upturned or guard rod is secured.
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These detachable fittings or pieces are represented separately by Figures 2, 3, and 5.
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. In a
"rise and fall" bracket the formation of the rack in two parts hinged
together so as to be capable of assuming a straight form or of being turned upward
near one end substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The application to ordinary" rise and fall" brackets of fittings or pieces repre-
sented in Figures 2, 3, 4 and 5 to provide a guard rod for retaining articles to be
displayed upon the rods or shelf carried by the rise and fall brackets when the latter are
much inclined downward substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of September 1890.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.