US548987A - Goods-exhibitor - Google Patents

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V G. L; 'HBYMAN GOODS EXHIBITOR.

10.548,987. Patented ont. 29, 1895; I'

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

Y GUSTAV L. HEYMAN, OF CARLISLE, KENTUCKY.

GOODS-EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 548,987, dated October 29, 1895. Application iiled January 25, 1895 Serial No. 5361242- CN'O model.)

.To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsrAv L. HEYMAN, residing at Carlisle, in the county of Nicholas and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Goods-Exhibitor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved exhibitor more especially adapted for supporting and exhibiting bolts of oil-cloth, particularly table oil-cloth, and it primarily has for its object to provide a device of this character of a very simple and inexpensive nature, which can be easily manipulated and which will effectively serve for its intended purposes.

The construction and operation of the apparatus are as hereinafter described.

Figure l is a perspective view of my im- Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of a part thereof, taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view of a bolt of oil-cloth with its internal stick of the same length as the bolt. Fig. 4 shows the bolt with the stick cut to render it capable of being used on the exhibitor, and Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating the manner in which the bolt is removed from or applied in position.

As before stated, my improved exhibitor is especially adapted for dis-playing table oilcloth, which, as is well known, is usually of a standard width, one anda quarter yards, and sold to the trade in bolts rolled on a central wooden stick of a length equal the width of the cloth.

My improved exhibitor comprises a suitable supporting or base member A, formed preferably of metal, mounted upon castersBBand provided with a central upwardly-extending post C.

D indicates the goods holder or carrier proper, which is mounted to revolve upon the post C, and for such purpose it has a centrally-disposed tubular post D', which connects at the ends with the circular top D2 and bottom disks D3, as shown. On the upper face the .bottom D3 has at its outer edge a series of circular projections cl,of any desired number, from which project upward central stems d', substantially of the diameter of the core or stick member of the oil-cloth bolt.

The top D2 of the exhibitor comprises a lower disk d3, provided with aseries of sockets terminating in contracted openings d4, whereby a stop-rim d5 is formed for a purpose presently described.

l lVithin the sockets d4 are held a series of stems d6, having head portions 17 to limit their downward movement, which stems carry a series of disk members d8, held in alignment with the circular portions on the bottom member D3, which disks d8 in practice are of a slightly-larger diameter than the oilclothbolt held under it.

It will be noticed by reference to Fig. 2 that the disks d8 are held normally pressed to their lowermost position by the coil-springs E, which are held compressed against the upper end of the stems d6 by the top disk member d". lt will also be observed that the relation ofthe upper disk members d8 when at their lowermost position and the lower circular or disk-like portions is such that they are spaced apart substantially the width of the oilclotl1 bolt, so that the lower extension dx of the stem d6 and thel upwardly-projecting members d will fit into the ends of the bolt ot' oil-cloth and form the pivot or journals on which it is held to turn. For this purpose in practice before the cloth bolts F are placed in position the stick f is removed and sawed off one inch, more or less, and then returned to its place in the bolt, such operation serving to form the ends of the bolt with socket-like portions f', as shown most clearly in Fig. 4. It will thus be seen that practically the oil-cloth bolt retains its rigid condition, as it retains its stick or core member, and yet itself is rotatable on the supporting devices, the arrangement shown providing a most simple means for supporting the bolt, so that it can freely rotate on its bearings.

It will also be observed that as the upper disks d8 are of a larger diameter than the cloth bolt, as also the lower disk-like portions of the base, it follows that the said bolt is squarely supported and is less liable to nnravel.

By making the upper disks yielding it is manifest that when it is desired to set in place or remove a bolt of oil-cloth the upper end (after the lower end has been fitted on the bottom stem) can be quickly withdrawn by simply pressing the disk d8 upward sufficient to free the stem portion dx from the bolt, and in like manner such upper end can be swung inward. '1

It will readily be understood from the draw ings that the support proper is rotatable on the main table or caster-equipped frame and each oil-cloth bolt is capable of independent rotation on the rotatable support.

The essential pointof advantage otl arranging the parts as described is that I am enabled to provide for supporting and rotating the cloth bolts without requiring a central support or other devices which must be removed or reset after each bolt has been disposed of.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I provide a simple arrangement whereby the table oil-cloth can be displayed in the smallest possible space, and whereby it can always be kept neatly rolled and at the same time show the patterns.

`coincident with the aforesaid stems on the base, of the disks d8 having downwardly eX tending stems d and upwardly extending stems having head portions ttingin the aforesaid sockets and the springs for forcing such disks and the stems downward all arranged substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

GUSTAV L. HEYMAN, Witnesses:

J. W. HARRISON, C. RAFFERTY.

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