Improved Collapsible Bust or Dress Stand.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th. Mar., 1897-Accepted, 24th Apr., 1897
Improved Collapsible Bust or Dress Stand.
I, LOUIS GOLDBERG, of 7, Gerhardstrasse, Berlin in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, 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 :--
This invention relates to a bust stand which can be adjusted to any desired size
of bust and can be also collapsed into a small space.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figures 1-4 are various elevations of the arrangement as an example ;
Figure 5 is a detail view.
A bar or pole h, Figure 1, which if desired may be made to be taken to pieces,
carries at the head end a disc c and lower down a second disc d. These and any
other discs on the pole may be provided with a suitable number of notches p,
Figure 5, as is usual with top notches for umbrellas, and also a groove x.
In using this form of construction, the points of rotation for the link bars may
be arranged in this groove x and for this object a wire for instance may be
employed in such a way that the link bars are not only movable thereon but are at
the same time thereby fastened in the slits p of the discs c d and e. Between the
discs and d, link bars a b, Figures 1-4, are arranged which, according to
requirements in each case, may be of suitably equal or unequal length and suitable
shape (such as straight or curved). The link bars ab are pivotally connected at i
and with the discs c and d and at n, Figure 2, with one another. Bars y may
also be linked or loosely attached to the discs d, Figure 1, or to a special disc d',
Figure 3, simultaneously with the link bars (in the same or another notch p).
The bars g are held by links f and are pivotally connected with these latter at m,
Figures 1-3. The links fare again flexibly connected at with another disc e.
The connection of the link bars ab with the disc d, Figure 1, may if desired be
effected by the use of a third link b¹, Figure 4, and in that case a ring d² is further
arranged under the disc d against which ring the bars 6' will rest. The mobility
and adjustability of the bust or dress-stand is apparent from Figures 1 and 2.
Any suitable means may be adopted for fastening the discs c d e d' d², etcetera, on
the pole . The discs may be fixed on the pole / by means of nuts screwed on the
same, or by means of spring or clamp rings or screws or in the manner of umbrella
fastenings, by means of springs, spring catches or the like, more or less firmly
according to requirements.
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 :-
An arrangement of bust or dress-stand of the kind hereinbefore described and
shown in the accompanying drawings, characterised by movable bars (abgf b³) of
suitable form which are flexibly connected with one another and with discs or the
like (c d e d¹) mounted on a pole (h), a ring (d) being also if necessary employed,
in such a way that by the movement of the discs, rings or the like adjustably
arranged on the pole (h) which may if desired be made to be taken to pieces, the
position of the bars may be adjusted, any suitable clamping or fastening means
Paino 17

page_text: between the discs, rings, bars and pole being selected for fixing the discs, rings or
the like on the pole, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 19th day of March 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.