US1360856A

US1360856A - Rotary display-stand

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Publication number: US1360856A
Application number: US342900A
Authority: US
Inventors: Zander John
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-12-06
Filing date: 1919-12-06
Publication date: 1920-11-30
Anticipated expiration: 1937-11-30

Description

J. ZANDER.

ROTARY DISPLAY STAND.

APPLICATION man mzc.s,1919.

Patentd Nov. 30, 1920.

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J. ZANDER.

ROTARY DISPLAY STAND. APPLICATION FILED 05c. 6. 1919.

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PATENT orrlce.

'J'OHNZANDER, OE ROCK FALLS, ILLINOIS.

ROTARY DISPLAY-STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented N 30, 192() Application filed December 6, 1919. Serial No. 342,800.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, JOHN ZANDER, a c1t1- zen of the United States, residing at Rock Falls, in the county of Nhiteside and Eitate of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rotary Display-Stands, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present sole invention is the provision of a rotary display stand that is simple and inexpensive in construction, and is light in weight and complete in itself, and is therefore readily portable, in the sense that it is adapted to be conveniently moved as a unit from one part of a store to another.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, hereby made a part hereof: V

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the best practical embodiment of my invention that I have as yet devised.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail vertical section showing the socket at the upper end of the driven shaft of the stand for the re ception and connection of the superimposed display means.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, looking downwardly, to show the construction of the base frame of the stand.

Fig. 1 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 4-4 of Fig. 1, looking downwardly and illustrating the gearing for transmitting motion to, and re ducing the speed of rotation of, the said driven shaft.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The rotary display means 1 of my improvement may be of the construction illustrated for the display of hats, or may be of any other suitable construction; it being within the purview of my invention for the said display means 1 to be constructed in various manners according to the character of the goods to be displayed to advantage, incidental to the rotation of the said means. At its lower end, the said display means 1 is provided with a central pendent stem 2.

lower and upper bars of the member 1 and is fixedly connected thereto at the points of intersection.

J ournaled centrally in the frame 3, is an upright driven shaft 6 which extends through the upper bars of the frame members 5 and 4:, and is provided at its upper end with a socket 7, equipped with a setscrew 8. At a point between the lower bars and the upper bars of the

base frame mernbers

1 and 5, the driven shaft 6 is provided with a horizontally disposed circumferentially grooved pulley 9, fixed thereto.

Journaled between the upper and lower bars of the frame member 1, is an upright shaft 10, upon which is fixed a comparatively small circumferentially grooved pulley 11 that is connected through the medium of a belt 12 with the pulley 9 of the driven shaft 6. Also fixed on the shaft 10 is a comparatively large circumferentially grooved pulley 13.

Carried between the upper and lower bars of the base frame member 5 is an upright shaft 14 upon which are fixed a large. circumferentially grooved pulley 15 and a comparatively small circumferentially grooved pulley 16, the latter being connected through a belt 17 with the large pulley 13 of the shaft 10.

Carried by that end portion of the frame member 4 remote from the shaft 10, is a motor 18. This motor 18 is illustrated diagrammatically, inasmuch as it is within the purview of my invention for it to be of any type adapted for the driving of the shaft 6 and for the rotation of the display means 1 carried by the said shaft 6.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that when the motor 18 is put in motion, the display means 1 will be slowly rotated about its axis for the advantageous exhibition of the articles carried by the said display means.

The salient feature of my invention re sides in the adaptability of the stand being conveniently moved from place to place in a store by a single person and as a unit, and this notwithstanding the fact that the stand includes rotary display means, and motor driven means for rotating the said display means about its axis.

Having described my invention, what I' nected together, a central vertical shaft journaled in the intersecting portions of theframe members and 'provid'edwith a pulley,

a second upright shaft and pulleys of differcut sizes thereon mounted between the upper and lower bars of one frame member at one side 'of the other frame member,'a third upright shaft and pulleys of different diameters thereon arranged between the upper and lower bars of the other frame member, a motor carried at the end portion of the first named frame member at the side opposite to that of the first-named shaft withpulleys of different diameters thereon'and having a pulley on its armature shaft, a belt connecting said motor pulley and large pulley on the third-namedshaft, a belt connecting the small pulley on said shaft, and a large pulley on the second-named shaft, and a belt connecting the small pulley on the secondnamed shaft and the pulley on the central shaft.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 7

' JOHN 'ZANDER.