Improvements in Stands for Hats, Bonnets, Coats, and other articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application. 21st Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Le!t. 18th Oct.. 1892-Accepted, 19th Nov.; 1392
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Hats, Bonnets, Coats, and other
articles.
I, SARAH SYMONS of 12 Smith Street, Guernsey, Milliner do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To the sides of a column or stem by preference square, triangular or polygonal
I affix at their lower ends curved branching or spreading holders made of flat steel
ribbon or other flexible material which serve to support a hat, bonnet, coat or other
article for show in a shop window or otherwise and I provide in connection with
such feathering branches regulating slides capable of being pushed up and down for
the purpose of drawing the upper ends of such branching holders towards the stem
or for allowing them to spread out from the stem respectively and thus adapt
themselves to the hat or other article to be placed thereon.
In one form I use a square stem and four feathering branches, cach affixed at its
lower end to one side of the steni. Each two opposite branches are somewhat
above their lower fixed ends provided with a sliding ring which when raised serves
to pull their upper ends together and when lowered allows them to spread to the
desired extent. The sliding rings work one above the other so that they do not
interfere with each other.
In another form I use a square stem with two rigid branches on two opposite
sides and two feathering branches with regulating sliding ring on the two other
sides.
Sometimes I use one adjustable feathering branch and one or more rigid ones.
If the stem is made hollow I may form the branch parts with a slot for a stud to
slide up and down in which at each end is fixed in a plate.
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JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Hats, Bonnets, Coats, and other
articles.
1, SARAH SYMONS of 7 Smith Street, Guernsey, Milliner 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 :-
To the sides of a column or stem by preference square, triangular or polygonal I
affix at their lower ends branching or spreading holders made of flat steel ribbon or
other flexible material which serve to support a hat, bonnet, coat, mantle, jacket or
other article for show in a shop window or otherwise and provide in connection
with such feathering branches slides capable of being pushed up and down for the
purpose of drawing the upper ends of such branching holders towards the stem or
for allowing them to spread out from the stem respectively and thus adapt them-
selves to the hat or other article to be placed thereon.
I shall now proceed to describe some forms in which my invention can be carried
into effect.
Figure is a side view of a stand. A is a foot of wood or other suitable
material in the recessed upper end of which the square stem B can be raised or
lowered as required and fixed by the setscrew A. The stem B may be hollow.
To it, are affixed by rivetting, the lower ends of four flat steel branches C upon

page_text: which the sliding sleeve D can be slided up or down thus drawing the branches
together or allowing them to spread as desired or required for adapting themselves
to the hat or other article to be placed thereon. The outer or upper ends of the
branches are provided each with a-spoon shaped piece or enlargement. C' shewn
also in the detail views Figures 2 and 3 being respectively-plan and cross section.
In this enlargement C¹ is placed a soft pad E covered with velvet or the like and
held in place by the tongue C² which is clinched down upon the pad.
Figure 4 is a side view of a somewhat similar stand but where the stem Bis
adapted to be slided along a horizontal square bar F and fixed in position by the
set screw B. The bar is continued down into an upright stem F which is placed
in a foot or holder of any suitable. form and may be adapted to be raised, lowered
and turned round therein.
Figure 5 is a part side view and Figure 6 a cross section of a modification in
which two and two opposite feathering branches C are made adjustable together,
two of them by a slide D. D and the other two by a slide Di D. Each slide
consists of a stud Dx and a plate or bead at each end the studs sliding in slots C*
in, the feathering. branches and in the stem B. The slides work one above the
other so that they do not interfere with one another.
Sometimes I use a triangular, square or polygonal stem with one or more rigid
branches and one or two feathering branches with regulating slide on the other side
or sides. The slide may be a ring as firstly described or a stud sliding, in slots as
lastly described or of any other suitable form.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is
1. A stand for hats bonnets and other articles consisting of a stem to which are
fixed the lower ends of one or more feathering branches the upper ends of which
are capable of being brought towards the stem by means of a slide working
thereon or of spreading out, and one or more rigid branches substantially as set
forth.
2. A. stand for hats, bonnets, and other articles consisting of a stein to which are
fixed the lower ends of two or more feathering branches the upper ends of which
are capable of being brought towards the stem by means of a slide working thereon
or of spreading out in combination or not with one or more rigid branches sub-
stantially as set forth.
3. The construction of stand described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 18th day of October 1899
October 1899
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, WC., Patent Agents..