Improvements in Racks for Displaying Christmas Cards, Photographs, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Racks for Displaying Christmas Cards,
Photographs, and the like.
EYRE CROWE and LEWIS WYCHERLEY STONE Manufacturers Gatteridge
Street Banbury Oxon. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The object of our invention is to devise an improved method of displaying
christmas cards, photographs & the like, in shops, & this we carry out by means of
our improved rack which is constructed as follows.
The rack consists essentially of two upright side pieces, between which are
arranged on pivots a number of horizontal rails.
Two parallel grooves run from end to end of each rail. In one of these grooves
the lower ends of the cards are inserted and in the other tickets denoting the prices
of the adjacent cards.
To prevent the cards being easily displaced a strip of felt, indiarubber or other
suitable material is fixed along the top of the rail, one edge of the strip projects
over the groove, closing or almost closing it.
When the lower end of a card is pushed into the groove the felt clips it & holds
it firmly.
By means of struts the frame can be inclined at any suitable angle, and it may
be made either to stand on a counter or hang on a wall.
By turning the rails on their pivots the cards are made to stand at any desired
angle.
Dated this 7th day of January 1892.
EYRE CROWE.
LEWIS WYCHERLEY STONE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Racks for Displaying Christmas Cards,
Photographs, and the like.
EYRE CROWE & LEWIS WYCHERLEY STONE Manufacturers Gatteridge Street
Banbury Oxon., 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 our invention is to provide an improved method of displaying
Christmas cards, photographs & the like in shops whereby the cards etc. are so
arranged that they can be examined and the price noted by the customer. without
handling the cards. We carry this out by means of our improved rack or
stand the construction of which we will describe by means of the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1 shews a perspective view of the rack or stand with a few cards placed
in it &
Fig. 2 an enlarged section of one of the rails B.
The rack consists essentially of two upright side pieces A A. between which are
are arranged on pivots a number of horizontal rails B. The screws C hold the
rack together & also form pivots allowing the rails to be turned to any desired
angle. Two parallel grooves run from end to end of each rail.
The upper of these grooves D Fig. 2 takes the bottom of the cards to be
displayed & is made wide enough to take several cards one behind the other so that
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page_text: as a customer selects one another similar card is exposed to view, the bottom of the
groove may be made slanting the front card then projects higher than the others
and is easily taken out.
To prevent the cards being easily displaced a strip of felt, indiarubber or other
suitable material E is fixed along the edge of the rail & projects over the groove
closing or almost closing it. This strip clips the cards that are placed in the
groove.
The groove F is for the purpose of holding price tickets or descriptions of the
adjacent cards or photographs.
By means of the strut g the frame can be inclined at any angle & it may either
stand on a counter or hang on a wall by the rings H.
By turning the rails on their pivots Ċ the cards are made to stand at any desired
angle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is. to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
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1. The rails having two grooves one for cards & the other for price tickets.
2. The method of securing the cards by means of a strip of felt, indiarubber or
other suitable material projecting over the groove.
3. The rails pivotted at the ends so that they are adjustable to any angle.
4. The groove D having the slanting bottom as & for the purpose herein
described.
5. The card rack as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Signed this 6th day of Datahon 1902.
EYRE CROWE.
LEWIS W. STONE.