Improvements in the Mode of and Means or Appliances for Hanging and Exhibiting Boot and Shoe Laces and such like Goods.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1889-Accepted, 20th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of and Means or Appliances for Hanging
and Exhibiting Boot and Shoe Laces and such like Goods.
I, JAMES PATON, of Johnstone Mill, Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My Invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved mode of, and
special means or appliances for hanging or carrying and conveniently exhibiting in
bundles for sale, boot and shoe laces, and textile materials, such as braids, cotton, silk
or woollen yarn or thread, and such like goods, which are made up into small hanks
or "skeens," and made convenient for taking off and selling the hanks individually,
and advantageously displaying them in windows for retail.
The nature and novelty of the invention or improvements consist all as follows:-
In forming a hanger of such a construction as to carry a great number or bundle of
hanks individually by the bow or loop at their upper ends close together, each hank
being free to be threaded on, and removed individually as required for sale. One
convenient construction of this novel hanger consists in forming it of wire, with a
hanging bow or loop in the centre, and undulating the two ends of the wire from this
central bow horizontally in parallel directions brander-ways, either in a rectangular,
round, oval, scroll or other equivalent form, having the two ends of the wire bent up
at the outer extremity to allow the loops of the hanks to pass over this and be
threaded on over the whole length of the wire, or be removed. as required for sale, and
prevent them from falling off and allow the bundle to be balanced by its central
carrying bow. When made in the form of a scroll bundle, the bunch of banks might
be carried by one loop at the inner central end of the scroll, and have only one end for
putting on and taking off the hanks by.
When various qualities or colours of the hanks were desired to be carried in the
same bundle, the whole might be hung by a loop in the centre of one cross wire, all
the other wires carrying the hanks being secured crossways or brander-ways to this
central wire, having kueed-up bends at their outer ends, for hooking on and removing
the hanks from the outer end of each wire; or these wires might project out radially
from the centre carrying hook or eye, instead of at right angles. In any case this
hanger is so arranged that the bundle of hanks would hang in a nearly balanced
manner from the centre hook or eye, which by a further improvement might have a
small descriptive or trade mark plate or other ticket connected to it at top, forming a
hanging link, with a loop of cord or other equivalent attached to this for hanging the
whole by.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of and Means or Appliances for Hanging
and Exhibiting Boot and Shoe Laces and such like Goods.
I, JAMES PATON, of Johnstone Mill, Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved mode of, and

page_text: special means or appliances for hanging or carrying and conveniently exhibiting in
bundles for sale, boot and shoe laces, and textile materials, such as braids, cotton, silk
or woollen yarn or thread, and such like goods, which are made up into small hanks,
pairs or skeins and made convenient for taking off and selling the banks individually,
and advantageously displaying them in windows for retail.
The nature and novelty of the invention or improvements consist all as follows:-
In forming a hanger of such a construction as to carry a great number or bundle of
hanks individually by a central bow or loop at their upper ends close together, each
hank being free to be threaded on, and removed individually as required for sale.
And in order to enable others skilled in the art to which this. invention relates
to understand and put the same into practice, I have hereunto appended an
explanatory sheet of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to
indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of one construction of my new or improved
hanger, made in the form of an undulating brander coil of spiral wire A A', and with
a central hanging loop A¹, and showing it filled with bundles or pairs of boot and
shoe laces, hanging vertically and ready for removal off the ends A" of the
wire A A. Figure 2 is a plan view of the hanging device shown in Figure 1, but to
a large scale and with the laces removed. Figure 3 is a plan view of the wire
hanging device somewhat modified from that shown in Figures and 2 and which
consists of a series of straight wires A A", bound or tied together by a central
transverse wire A with the hanging loop A¹ in this case formed on the wire A².
Figure 4 shows a plan view of the new hanging device made in the form of radial
wires A A projecting out from a fixed central loop A¹. And Figure 5 is a plan
view showing the new banging device made in the form of a duplex scroll of
wire A A on to which the bundles of laces or articles are threaded on or off the
outer ends A¹¹.
Referring to these Drawings, one convenient construction of this novel hanger
consists in forming it of wire, with a hanging bow or loop A¹ in the centre, and
undulating the two ends A", A", of the wire A, from this central bow A', horizontally
in parallel directions brander-ways, on opposite sides as shown in Figure 2 to balance
each other, with a raised rounded outer end A" on each side to allow the loops of the
hanks to pass over this and be threaded on over the whole length of the wire A on
either side, or be removed singly as required for sale, and prevent them from falling
off and allow the bundle to be balanced by its central carrying bow Al as shown in
Figure 1. These carrying wires A A¹, may be made in various straight or coiled
forms as rectangular, round, oval, scroll or other equivalent forms. When various
qualities or colours of the hanks were desired to be carried in the same bundle, the
whole might be hung by a loop A¹ in the centre of one cross wire A2, all the other
wires A carrying the banks being secured crossways or brander-ways to this central
wire A having the kneed-up rounded end A" on each wire A for hooking on and
removing the hanks from the outer ends A¹¹ of each wire A all as shown in Figure 3.
Or these wires A, A¹ might be made to project out radially from their centre carrying
hook or eye A!, instead of at right angles as shown in Figure 4. When the hanging
wire A is made' in the form of a scroll as shown in Figure 5 it would preferably be
made duplex as a double scroll with the ends A" at opposite sides, and with the
hanging loop A in the centre, and the bunch of hanks might be carried on these double
scroll wires A, A, by the loop A' at the inner central ends of the scroll, the banks or
pairs of laces or articles being threaded on or off at the opposite ends A" of the two
scroll wires. In any of these arrangements the improved hanger A A, is so arranged
that the bundle Lof hanks shown in Figure 1 will hang on the wires A, in a nearly
balanced manner from the centre hook or eye A', so that they can be put on or
removed. singly, for sale or otherwise as required; and by a further improvement this
hanger. A might have a small descriptive or trade mark plate or other ticket B
connected to it at top forming a hanging link, with a loop of cord, wire, or other
equivalent b attached to this, for hanging the whole by.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.―
First. The herein described mode of hanging and exhibiting boot and shoe laces
and such like goods in bundles I, of lanks consisting in banging them vertically in
removable hanks on retaining wires or rods A A', substantially as set forth.
Second. The herein described appliances for hanging and exhibiting boot and shoo
laces and such like goods in bundles L of hanks consisting of wiges or rods A A¹,
arranged to carry the hanks 1, so that they may be threaded singly on or off from the
ends A as required, substantially as set forth.
Third. The combination of a device A A', for hanging and exhibiting boot and shoe
laces and such like goods in bundles L of hanks, with a descriptive or trade mark
plate or ticket B, b, forming a hanging link, substantially as set forth.
Duted thin 10th J...
10011
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.