An Improved Detachable Bracket for Shop Windows.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Detachable Bracket for Shop Windows.
I, JAMES ISAIAH THOMAS, of No. 238, Castle Road, Cardiff in the County of
Glamorgan, Outfitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
The object of this invention is to provide a new and improved form of bracket
to be used for the display of goods in shop windows. This bracket is capable of
sliding vertically on an upright pillar and of revolving around the same for the
convenience of the assistant in placing the goods upon the bracket as well as for
displaying the goods at any angle desired, as far as is possible by revolving the
bracket around the central pillar. A set-screw in the back of the bracket or the
socket portion thereof is applied for keeping the same in position.
The bracket consists essentially of two or more parts, one part being in the form
of a socket for sliding on and revolving around the upright pillar; and the other, a
projecting arm with a dove-tail projection at its back end fitting into a corre-
sponding groove in the socket, a stop being formed on the top part of the dove-tail
to prevent its falling through. At the outer end of the arm, another socket is
formed with a central hole bored horizontally through which passes a rod of any
convenient length. A set. pin in the socket keeps this rod firm in any desired
position, so that the rod may project, if necessary, all in one direction or each way
according to the nature of the goods to be displayed.
Other sockets may be formed if required at suitable distances along the projecting
arm of the bracket and horizontal rods may be used as before described.
Referring to the socket sliding on the upright pillar, a horizontal hole is bored
at the back of the dove-tailed face and between the same and the vertical pillar.
Through this hole, passes another rod similar to that described in connection with
the projecting arm of the bracket, a suitable set pin being screwed into the socket
for holding the rod secure.
The advantage of this form of bracket is that the projecting arm can be taken
away without interfering with the moveable socket and its horizontal rod, as well
as its capability of being used simply on account of the horizontal rods being rigid
and firm.
Dated this 15th day of February 1894.
I, JAMES ISAIAH THOMAS of No. 238 Castle Road, Cardiff, in the County of
Glamorgan, Outfitter, 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 the present invention is an improved detachable bracket for
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page_text: exhibiting goods in shop windows and the invention itself consists principally in a
novel combination of bracket-socket and socket-support.
In the case of bracket-sockets made to slide up and down a round vertical rod, it
has been the custom to provide for them being held to the said rod by a set screw
working in and through the socket at right angles with the axis of the rod. As a
result, a socket so fitted could not be turned about the vertical rod at the level at
which it was fixed thereto, without, first, loosening the set screw and, second,
steadying and then supporting the socket and all that was hanging from it, until it
had been fixed to the rod again by the set screw. According to the present
invention, I provide an adjustable socket-support to be fixed to the vertical rod.
When so fixed, the bracket-socket stands upon it and is free to be moved upon it
about the rod together with the brackets, as many as there may be, and the goods
hanging from them. A second part of my invention relates to an improvement in
the ends of the brackets and of the sockets proper into which they fit.
Referring to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of this
Specification and read therewith :
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of a vertical rod, a bracket-socket, a socket-
support, three brackets, and two horizontal rods-the latter in section.
Figure 2 is a sectional plan corresponding with the full lines of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a sectional side elevation.
Figure 4 is a sectional plan corresponding with Figure 3, but omitting the
bracket.
Figure 5 is a plan of the outer end of a bracket with part of the horizontal rod
carried by it.
Figure 6 is a plan of a bracket-socket having sockets equidistantly around its
perimeter.
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Figure 7 is a sectional side elevation of the same bracket-socket and the socket-
support.
Figure 8 is a side elevation of a bracket and a vertically adjustable dish or tray
support.
A is the well known round vertical rod. It is not a part of the present invention
and, for that reason, does not require any detailed description.
B is an improved bracket-socket adapted to carry two brackets C, C, one on
each of two opposite sides of the rod A. The number of brackets which any
bracket-support is adapted to carry as well, as their relative position thereon, may
be varied. B' (Figures 3 and 4) is an improved bracket-socket adapted to carry
only one bracket. B² (Figures 6 and 7) is an improved bracket-socket adapted to
carry eight brackets at equal angles with each other. is a set screw for holding
the bracket-socket to the rod A in the same way as heretofore.
D is the improved socket-support. It consists of a ring or collar capable of
being fixed upon and to the rod A at any desired height by a set screw d' working
in and through it in the well known way. This improved support may be flat on
the top and of the same diameter as the bottom of the bracket-socket as illustrated
in Figures 1 and 3, or it may have an annular channel cut in it to receive such
bottom, as illustrated in Figure 7.
Heretofore it has been the practice to make the sockets proper b₁ of the bracket-
sockets and the downwardly bent ends c of the brackets C that fit into them, round
in cross section. This section is inconvenient when it is required to turn the
bracket-socket about the rod A, because the brackets, especially when they are
loaded with goods, fail to partake of the motion of the said socket and lag behind.
To prevent the brackets lagging behind under the circumstances specified, I make
the sockets proper 6' triangular in cross section as shewn in Figure 4. Instead of
being triangular, they may be dovetailed or trapezoidal and consequently open to
the front, as illustrated in Figures 6 and 7. The two shapes illustrated-triangular
and dovetail may be varied, provided that there is angularlity enough to prevent
the bracket swinging on the axis of its bent down end or tenon c, and that the
sockets proper are sufficiently undercut to prevent the said end or tenon being

page_text: pulled out of its socket by a direct pull from the front as distinguished from a lift.
The said ends or tenons c are of the same cross section as the respective sockets.
proper b¹.
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E is a horizontal socket incorporated with the bracket-socket. Its object is to
receive, and e, a set screw to hold therein, a horizontal rod e. E' is a similar
socket on the outer end of the bracket C, e the respective horizontal rod and e³,
the screw to hold the same therein. Other sockets may be incorporated at intervals.
in the length of the bracket, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 1. When,.
as in the construction illustrated in Figure 8, the rod f to be held in and to the-
socket, is vertical, the socket itself, F, is necessarily vertical also.
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 I
claim is :-
1. The combination of the hereinbefore described bracket-socket with the socket-
support, as set forth.
2. The combination of the hereinbefore described bracket-socket with the
angular or equivalently shaped socket or sockets proper and the socket-support, as.
set forth.
Dated this 15th day of Novemba 100+
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,.
Agents for the Applicant.