US488757A

US488757A - Show-fixture

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Publication number: US488757A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-12-27
Anticipated expiration: 1909-12-27

Description

(No Model.) QSheets-Sheet 1. B. .PRIENDLIGH.

SHOW FIXTURE. No. 488,757. I Patented Dec. 27, 1-892.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

E. FRIENDLIOH.

snow FIXTURE.

No. 488,757. Patented Dec. 27, 1892.

fiA f/ i I NITE "rn'rns ATENT rF SHOW-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,757, dated December 2'7, 1892.

Application filed April 26, 1892. Serial No. 430,671. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMANUEL FRIENDLIOH, of Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Show-Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to appliances for displaying merchandise in the windows and other parts of stores, and the objects of my invention are to produceashow-fixture which shall be simple, strong, durable, and inexpensivein construction, and capableof being readily put together and taken apart, and which shall also possess great capacity forholdin g the merchandise or goods, and which, furthermore, shall be adapted for effective location 1, but showing certain modified features of construction. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 5 is a detached perspective View of one of the devices for connecting the ends of the supporting-chains. Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view of one of the skeleton-links shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 7 is a detached perspective View of amodified form of the attaching-device shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is a detached plan view of a modified form of supporting-link. Fig. 9 is a detached perspective view of a further modification of the attaching devices for the supporting-chains.

Fig. 10 is a detached perspective view of astill further modification of the attaching device. Fig. 11 shows apeculiar form of screw, used in attaching the nuts to a suitable support.

In Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4., let 1 designate the bottom and 2 the top of the show-window; these parts being so indicated simply for purposes of illustration, and it being understood that the part 1 may be a counter or shelf, or other suitable support, while the part 2 may be a ceiling, or any structure located above the part 1. Into the part 2 is driven vertically a screw 3, the outer portion of which, adjacent to the head, is formed angular, as shown at 4, for the purpose of receiving a wrench or spanner for turning the screw so as .to force the same into the part 2 or so as to wholly or partially withdraw the same from said part, as desired.

Between the outer terminus of the angular port-ion 40f the screw 3 and the head of said screw is interposed a plain cylindrical portion, 5, for a purpose to be hereinafter explained, and from the opposite end of'this angular portion 4 extends the externally screwthreaded stem 6 of the screw. As shown, two of these screws 3 are driven into the part 2 so as to depend downward therefrom, and two other and precisely similar screws 3 are driven into the part 1, so as to project vertically upward therefrom. The outer end of each of these screws is embraced by a nut 7, which is shown as of quadrangular form, but which may be of octagonahor any other polygonal form, as desired. Each of these nuts is formed with a central vertical bore 8 one end of which is formed with an enlarged countersink 9 to receive the head of the screw 3.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 5, l0 designates a U- shaped bail which is formed preferably of stout wire, and the ends of which embrace opposite sides of the nut 7; the extremities of the arms loosely surrounding two screws 11 which are inserted into opposite sides of the nut 7. It is to be observed that each of the two lower nuts 7 are located perpendicularly below each of the upper nuts 7 and that the bail 10 of the lower nuts are inverted, while the bail 10 of the upper nuts are reverted.

Between each pair of nuts 7 is interposeda the outer ends of the connecting-piece.

In Figs. 1 and 2, the said vertical flexible supports 12 are shown as composed of a number of skeleton links 14:, one of which is shown detached in Fig. 6. Each of these links 14 is formed of a single piece of stout wire which is so bent as to form two vertical parallel arms 15 the upper ends of which terminate in hooks 16. The lower ends of these two arms 15 are bent upwardly, as at 17, so as to form two inner parallel vertical arms18. The upper ends of the arms 18 are bent upon themselves one or more times to form an opening or eye 19, into which one end of the corresponding supporting rod or bar 13 is inserted.

In setting up the fixture, after the nuts 7 and their bail 10 are placed in position, a V- shaped connecting-piece 20 is first attached to each bail 10; the bend of said connectingpiece embracing the horizontal arm of the bail,and a transverse pin 21 extendingthrough A second connecting-piece 22, having turned ends 23, is connected to the corresponding pin. 21, by bending one of its bends 23 around the pin,and the opposite bend 23 of said second connecting-piece 22 is then caused to surround either the upper or lower horizontal arm of the loop 19 of the corresponding link 14, according as said link isat the upper or lower end of the flexible support 12. The hooks 16 of one link are engaged with the bends 11 of the succeedinglink, until the'desired length has been given to the flexible support 12.

It will be seen that in setting up thefixture above described, the screws 3 are free to be turned in the nuts '7, either by'a suitable wrench or spanner applied to the angular portions 40f the screws, or by a screw-driver applied to the nicks in the headset the screws, and that after the screws have been properly inserted, the fixture is retained stronglyin its required position, so as to properly support the goods to be displayed; such goods being placed upon the bars or rods 13.

In Fig. 7 I have shown a slightly modified form of the bail for the nut 7; the bail 24 being, in this instance also of stout wire, and having a skeleton hook 25 formed in its middle. The hooks 25 engage the upper or lower arms of the loops 19, according as the bails are at the upper or lower ends of the flexible Supports 12.

in Figs. 3, 4:, and 8,1 have shown a modified form of the links which compose the flexible supports. Each link 26, is, in this instance, formed of a strip of suitable flexible sheetmetal; the body-portion of the blank from which the link is formed being thus of elongated rectangular form, as shown in Fig.8. At each'end of the body-portion of the blank is formed areduced portion or neck 27 at the outer end of which is formed a transverse skeleton enlargement or head 28. An opening or eye 29 is formed through each end of the body-portion of the blank, as shown, and when the link is completed its blank is doubled upon itself, at the point indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 8, so as to receive the end of the corresponding supporting bar or rod 13. In this instance, no second connecting-piece 22 is necessary; the bend of each link passing through the skeleton heads 28 of the succeeding link, and the'bends of the upper and lower links embracing the pins 21 ot the upper and lower V-shaped connecting-pieces 20. In Fig. 9 I have shown a further modification of the construction of the attaching devices which are carried by the nut 7. In thls instance two arms 30 are employed, instead of the

bails

10 and 24, said arms being of straight form and each at one end loosely embracing the screw 11, and also at the1r opposite ends similarly embracing the ends ot: a pair of studs 31 which project from opposite sides of a disk 32. At opposite points of the disk 32, and intermediately-of the studs31 project outwardly two studs 33 which. are-embraced loosely by two cars 34 which are formed at oppositeends ofthe lower margin of a connecting-piece 35. The upper margin of this connecting-piece 35 is formed with a hooked bend 36, which is designed to engagethecorresponding pin 21. It will thus be seen that universal movement is permitted to the connecting-piece 35, so as to enable said connecting-piece to adapt itself to the'requirement-s of a great variety of situations.

I In Fig. 10 1 haveshown a still furthermodi- :fication of the attachments carried by the nuts 7; whereby the device is adapted. to be'placed i ncorners andother similarly secluded places. In this instance, two arms 37 are secured, by two screws 11, to each side of the nut,.and the upper ends of these arms unite in tegrallywi-th a rectangular frame-piece-38. Four connecting-pieces 39 are connected to the four arms of the frame 38, by hooked lower margins -40 :which loosely embrace the arms of said framelpiece. Theupper ends of these connecting- ;pieces 39 are formed withsimilarhooked-portions '40 which are designed ,to engage'the 'pins'21 of the connecting-pieces 20.

From the-above description, it will be'seen that I have produced ashow-fixture which-is simple, strong, durable, and inexpensive in construction, capable of being :placed inwa great variety of situations, and of properly displaying a great variety of goods, and which can :be readily setup and taken down,-as:de-.

attaching-screws passing through the nutsand into the upper and lower parts of anadjacent structure, substantially as set forth.

2. A show-fixture, comprising a number of flexible supports composed of a number of inported at theirends in said oppositely disposed eyes, With swiveled nuts or fastenings located at each end of each chain through the medium of pivotal ball connections, substantially as described. o

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EMANUEL FRIENDLIOH.

Witnesses:

JNo. L. CONDRON, H. E. PRICE.