IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STANDS OR SUPPORTS OF DRAPERS AND OTHER BUSTS FORMS OR HOLDERS FOR EXHIBITING WEARING APPAREL OR OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: We ARTHUR WILLIAM CHILD and GEORGE BINSTED CHILDS both of 21 St John's
Square Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex Drapers Bust Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
STANDS OR SUPPORTS OF DRAPERS AND OTHER BUSTS FORMS OR HOLDERS FOR
EXHIBITING WEARING APPAREL OR OTHER ARTICLES to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improved methods or mechanical contrivances
for adjusting the position or height of drapers and other busts or holders upon the
pole or upright of the stand which supports the same.
The contrivances at present employed for the above purpose are expensive in
construction and are troublesome to actuate and the object of our improvements is
to simplify the construction and method of adjustment.
For this purpose the pole or upright of the stand is formed with a series of
notches or saw cuts into one of which the edge of a plate fixed on the inside of
the bust form or holder enters to support it at any desired height upon the pole
or upright.
The bust is retained in position by means of a spring one end of which is fixed
to the inside of the bust whilst its free end presses against the opposite side of the
pole or upright to that on which the plate which enters a notch is fixed.
In order to adjust the height of the bust or holder upon the pole it is only
necessary to push the bust bodily in order to force the edge of the plate out of the
notch when the bust can be readily raised or lowered and fixed in position again
by allowing the spring to press the edge of the fixed plate into another notch.
Another method of adjusting the position of the bust or holder upon the pole or
upright of the stand in accordance with our improvements consists in forming the
pole or standard with a vertical slot and recesses into which a pin fixed on the
bust enters to retain it at any desired height. The pinis pressed into the recess by

page_text: a spring which acts to hold the bust in position as in the arrangement first herein
before described.
The position of the bust is adjusted by pushing it bodily in order to force the pin
out of the recess so that the bust can be raised or lowered and the pin pressed into
another recess to adjust its position.
We, ARTHUR WILLIAM CHILD and GEORGE BINSTED CHILDS both of 21 St John's
Square Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex Drapers Bust Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
STANDS OR SUPPORTS OF DRAPERS AND OTHER BUSTS FORMS OR HOLDERS FOR
EXHIBITING WEARING APPAREL OR OTHER ARTICLES" and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following Statement :-
This Invention has for its object improved methods or mechanical contrivances
for adjusting the position or height of drapers and other busts or holders upon the
pole or upright of the stand which supports the same.
The contrivances at present employed for the above purpose are expensive in
construction and are troublesome to actuato and the object of our improvements is
to simplify the construction and method of adjustment.
And in order that our improvements may be clearly understood we will proceed
to describe the drawings hereto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a drapers bust and stand arranged so as to bo
adjusted in accordance with our improvements.
The pole or upright a of the stand is formed with a series of notches or saw
cuts a into one of which the edge of a plate b fixed on the inside or other part of
the bust form or holder c enters to support it at any desired height upon the pole
or upright.
The bust c is retained in position by means of a spring d one end of which is
fixed to the inside of the bust c whilst its free end presses against the opposite side
of the pole or upright a to that on which the plate b which enters a notch a¹ in the
pole a is fixed.
In order to adjust the height of the bust or holder c upon the pole a it is only
necessary to push the bust c bodily in order to force the edge of the plate or pin b
out of the notch when the bust c can be readily raised or lowered and fixed in
position again by allowing the spring d to press the edge of the fixed plate into
another notch in the pole,

page_text: Another method of adjusting the position of the bust or holder upon the pole or
upright a of the stand in accordance with our improvements consists in forming
the pole or standard a with a vertical slot and recesses al as represented in
Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings into which a pin 6 fixed on the bust centers to
retain it at any desired height. The pin bis pressed into the recess by a spring d
which acts to hold the bust o in position as in the arrangement first hereinbefore
described.
The position of the bust c is adjusted by pushing it bodily in order to force the
pin 6 out of the recess so that the bust c can be raised or lowered and the pin
pressed into another recess to adjust its position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
The improved arrangement and construction of the stands or supports of drapers
and other busts forms or holders so that the height of the bust or holder c may be
readily adjusted upon the pole or stand substantially in the manner herein before
described.