Improvements in Folding and Adjustable Dress Stands and Fittings therefor.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan.. 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 16th Mar., 1889
Improvements in Folding and Adjustable Dress Stands and Fittings
therefor.
ROBERT RAFFETY 40 Cheapside London Middlesex Lace Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The object of this Invention is to construct the ordinary wire, card board, papier-
mache or other model busts in two or more segments or pieces, so arranged to fit one
inside the other for convenience of packing and carriage, each segment or section has
suitably formed plates secured to same and may be arranged to swivel or fit into
metal or other clips, or may be secured with small button headed screws and fly-nuts
or thumb-screws, when the bust is being rebuilt, by this means the original form is
maintained at the same time giving strength to the model.
In place of the usual adjusting rings and set screws fitted to the pedestal or
standard of the dress stand for fixing the frame work in position. I prefer forming
the outer hollow tube at the lower end with a suitably formed collar or boss piece,
fitted with a pointed thumb screw, by this means the stand may be further shortened,
at the same time entirely obviates the mislaying or losing of any of the adjusting screws
and rings.
Dated thin Menu fourth do Otak 1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding and Adjustable Dress Stands and Fittings
therefor.
I, ROBERT RAFFETY, of No. 40 Cheapside London, E.C. Lace Manufacturer 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, reference being also had to the accompanying drawings :-
The object of this invention is to effect certain improvements in the construction
of the ordinary wire, card-board, papier mache, and other hollow model busts.
My said invention consists in forming the bust in two or more segments or sections,
so arranged to fit one inside the other for convenience of packing and carriage.
Each segment or section has suitably formed plates or straps A, Figure 1 secured by
eyelets or rivets a to one section or segment of the bust, which may be arranged to
swivel as shown by the dotted lines in Figure 1, and which may be secured in position
on the adjacent section or segment by small button headed screws B and fly-nuts C or
other thumb screws Figure 2; or, the sections or segments of the bust may be secured
when being rebuilt by elastic bands or other pliable straps and ordinary buttons; again,
as an alternative method, each segment or section may be formed along the jointing
edges with eyelets, and laced securely together with pliable laces of any suitable
material, under which latter method the metal plates, screws, and fly nuts would be
dispensed with; in either case however, the original form of the bust is maintained,
whilst, at the same time, additional strength is imparted to the bust model.
Referring to the accompanying drawings the isometrical perspective elevational view
Figure 1 represents a model bust according to my invention cut in four segments or
sections with plates screws or eyelets at A serving to secure the segments or sections
aforesaid in position by the employment of the fastening device shewn to enlarged
scale at Figure 2, and consisting of the split screw or screw bolt B and fly
nut C.
In attaching the bust to the dress stand and with the object in view of dispensing
with the tapes at present in use, I provide suitable eyelets a' formed in the lower
portion of the bust; the button headed screws B Figure 2 being allowed to pass over
or through the frame work of the dress stand and secured in position by flynuts Cor
thumb screws. The button headed screws B are formed with long slots & for fitting
over the wire frame work of the dress stand. In the case of some dress stands I prefer
securing the busts with metal clips B1 Figures 3 and 4 arranged to fit over the
frame work and secured in position by the button headed screws B and flynuts C
or small thumb screws.
The centre rod pedestal or standard Figure 5 for carrying the dress stand I prefe
to form in two or more pieces, (thereby reducing the height for convenience of packing
and carriage) and which may be arranged with male and female screwed ends D, E
or formed simply with a taper socket piece fitting into a similar taper, and secured by
a thumb screw or other approved means.

page_text: Instead of the adjusting sliding rings and set screws as at present in use and which
are fitted to the pedestal or standard of dress stands for raising and lowering the bust,
I prefer to form the outer hollow tube of the pedestal or standard Figure 6 at the
lower end with a suitably formed collar G' and boss piece G fitted with a pointed
thumb screw, or equivalent H; by this means, the stand may be further shortened,
and thus liability to mislay or lose any of the adjusting screws or rings above referred
to would be entirely obviated.
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 :-
First: The improvement of constructing all hollow model busts in two, or
more parts, segments, or sections, substantially as and for the purposes herein set
forth.
Second-The uses of small metal strips or plates secured by eyelets and button
headed screws or screw bolts substantially as herein described and shown.
Third: The uses of pliable straps secured by any ordinary buttons or by an elastic
band or other pliable straps as already described.
Fourth-The uses of eyelets and laces arranged along each segment piece for the
purposes herein set fourth.
:-
Fifth The uses and employment of a special form of button headed screw, formed
with a long slot, and flynut substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
Sixth The uses and employment of a metal clip to pass over the wires or ribs
of the frame work, and secured in position by the button headed screw and fly nut
herein described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Seventh-The arrangement of constructing the pedestal or standard of dress stands
in two or more pieces, secured by male or female screws or taper sockets substantially
as herein described and shown and for the purposes specified.
Eighth-The uses of a collar formed at the lower end of the adjusting hollow tube
Figure 6 and boss secured by a thumb screw instead of a sliding ring and screw
substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
Ninth The improvements in folding and adjustable dress stands and fittings
therefor, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated the 23rd day of January 1889.