An Improved Rack or Holder for Exhibiting Sash Tools and other Articles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 12th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 15th Nov., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Rack or Holder for Exhibiting Sash Tools and other
Articles.
I JOHN RICHARD RICHARDS of No. 45 Green End Street in Whitchurch in the
county of Salop, Ironmonger and Tinplate Worker do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :-
A Rack to be used as a shew-board, whereon is fixed tubes for the purpose of
holding sash tools and any other tools or articles intended for sale, arranged according
to size, in such a compact inanner as will facilitate a customer's selection of the article
required. The invention is a flat piece of tin, of any size, having fixed on its face
any number of tubes or ferules, of various sizes, in which articles may be displayed
for sale. The tubes are soldered on close together, in a sloping position, thus most
effectually shewing off the article placed therein, but I do not bind myself to any
"position" of the tubes.
The invention will commend itself from the following facts:
It will shew the sizes of the articles which the Vendor keeps in stock, thus saving
the Vendor a considerable portion of the time which would otherwise be taken up in
submitting his goods to the intending purchaser, in order to enable the latter to select
the exact article he requires. The purchaser will on examining the Shew-board, at
once see whether or not the Vendor has the Articles he requires, in stock, and the
Vendor, on the other hand, would more readily be able to see what sized stock, of the
kind, requires renewing.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Rack or Holder for Exhibiting Sash Tools and other
Articles.
I JOHN RICHARD RICHARDS of 45 Green End Street in Whitchurch in the county
of Salop Ironmonger 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 invention consists of a Tin plate surface with tubes of various sizes soldered to
in which may be placed sash tools and any other articles for the purpose of exhibiting
the same for sale. The invention is a simple yet a novel one.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
I declare that what I claim is
1st. That the invention affords to intended Customers a handy means of pointing
out the exact size of the article which they require, thus saving to both Vendor and
Purchaser a considerable amount of time which would otherwise be spent in searching
for such article.
2. The invention will also be invaluable to the Vendor, as, by glancing at the Rack
he can more readily recall to mind the sizes of the articles which are out of stock and
require renovating.
3rdly. The great feature of the invention is that the Rack can be manufactured on a
large or small scale and the tubes made round, oblong, square, conical, or in fact any
shape whatever which may be required to suit the article intended for exhibition, and
the articles for exhibition are not limited, but a wide scope is given by my said Invention
for exhibiting almost any article of merchandise, large or small.
Dated this 10th day of October 1887.
JOHN RICHARD RICHARDS.