A Hook for Retaining Boots and Shoes Displayed upon Inclined Shelves.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Hook for Retaining Boots and Shoes Displayed upon Inclined
Shelves.
I ERNEST GEORGE BURTWELL of 2 Carlton Villas, Barking Lane Ilford in the
County of Essex Shop Fitter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
Boots and shoes are usually displayed in shop windows upon inclined shelves of
glass or metal rails and are retained in position by means of a nail driven in the
boot or shoe to prevent slipping upon the inclined shelf intended to retain them.
I provide a hook having a curved end to overlap the shelf the other end being
bent into form to provide a series of spikes to grasp the straight wall of the boot or
shoe heel. For the purpose of dealing with boots and shoes of various sizes the
hook may be made in various suitable sizes or it may be made in two parts the one
to slide in guides formed upon the other and remain by frictional contact of the
parts at any convenient length assigned to it.
Dated this 6th day of February 1891.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Hook for Retaining Boots and Shoes Displayed upon Inclined
Shelves.
I ERNEST GEORGE BURTWELL of 2 Carlton Villas, Barking Lane, Ilford in
the County of Essex, Shop Fitter 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:-
Boots and shoesjare usually displayed in shop windows upon inclined shelves of
glass or of metal rails and are retained in position by means of a nail driven in the
heel of the boot or shoe to prevent slipping upon the inclined shelf intended to
retain them.
I provide for the purpose of retaining boots or shoes upon such inclined shelves a
special hook as hereinafter described by reference to the accompanying drawings in
which
Figure 1 is a front view of the hook made in two parts one of which slides upon
the other to regulate its length.
Figure 2 is a side view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a front view of a modified form of hook.
Figure 1 is a side view of Figure 2.
The hook is made with a curved end A. to overlap the shelf, the other end being
ent into form to provide a series of spikes B to grasp the straight wall of the boot
or shoe heel.
For the purpose of dealing with boots and shoes of various sizes the hook is made
n various suitable sizes or it may be made in two parts as shown in Figures 1 and 2
he part A being arranged to slide in guides A formed upon the other part C and
emain by frictional contact of the part at any convenient length assigned to it.
When the hook is made without the sliding arrangement for adjusting its length
single spike may be provided as shown at Figures 3 and 4 and the position of the
boot or shoe upon the shelf may be arranged by making a hole in the heel for the
pike to enter at various distances from the end of the boot or shoe.
.
The hook is made with a curved end A. to overlap the shelf, the other end being
ent into form to provide a series of spikes B to grasp the straight wall of the boot
or shoe heel.
For the purpose of dealing with boots and shoes of various sizes the hook is made
n various suitable sizes or it may be made in two parts as shown in Figures 1 and 2
he part A being arranged to slide in guides A formed upon the other part C and
emain by frictional contact of the part at any convenient length assigned to it.
When the hook is made without the sliding arrangement for adjusting its length
single spike may be provided as shown at Figures 3 and 4 and the position of the
boot or shoe upon the shelf may be arranged by making a hole in the heel for the
pike to enter at various distances from the end of the boot or shoe.

page_text: 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 :-
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1. A spike-hook substantially as and for the purpose described by reference to
Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
2. In a spike-hook for retaining boots and shoes displayed upon inclined shelves
the combination of the parts A and C arranged to slide one upon the other for
regulating the length of the hook substantially as described by reference to the
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of November 1891.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.