US673158A - Hood or protector for display-forms. - Google Patents

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N0. 673,|58. I Patented Apr. 30, 190i.

R. A. DAY.

HOOD OR PROTECTOR FOR DI SPLAY FORMS. (Application filed Jan. 3, 1591.

(No Model.)

Witweom ical hood A. The hood is formed in any well UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH A. DAY, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNClR TO 0. G. PRINGLE, OF SAME PLACE.

HOOD OR PROTECTOR SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673,158, dated April 30, 1901.

Application filed January 3, 1901.

To all whom it may concern;

Beit known that I, RALPH A. DAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a Hood or Protector for Display-Forms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention is a hood for that class of display-forms which are used to display coats and waists in store-windows and upon storecounters. These forms are constructed with a wooden or nickel knob at their upper ends for convenience in moving and handling, and this knob detracts from the appearance of the goods displayed on the form. To overcome this disadvantage, it is the usual practice to cover the knob with tissue-paper or a handkerchief but the paper or handkerchief soon loses its shape and it is necessary to frequently change the covering. My invention provides a device which will not only hold its shape, but will add to the attractiveness of the display and improve the set or fit of the coat or waist on the form. The invention consists in a certain novel hood, which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and hereinafter first fully described and then particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings referred to, Figure 1 is a view of a display-form with the hood in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the hood.

In carrying out my invention I employ some stiff light flexible material, such as celluloid or thin cardboard, and form therefrom a conknown manner by hand or on a mandrel, and its meeting edges are fastened by a series of fasteners B, as shown. At the base of the hood, in the apex thereof, and in the seam formed by the meeting edges I secure the Serial No. 41,962- (No model.)

eyelets 0, through which small tacks may be driven into the form, if necessary, to hold the hood firmly in its proper position. These eyelets also permit the hoods to be strung together when not in use, so as to avoid the liability to loss.

The manner of using the hood will be readily understood, it is thought, from the foregoing description and the annexed drawings. The device is slipped over the knob and rests on the shoulders of the form. The base of the hood will fit under the collar of the coat, and thereby prevent the sagging of the same, holding it out and improving the set of the displayed garment. Furthermore, the use of the hood overcomes the necessity of using a waist on the form when it is desired to display only a coat. Heretofore it has been necessary to use a waist in order to hide the vacant space between theknob and the top of the coat. The hood is made in material of various colors and adds greatly to the attractiveness of a window-display.

It will be observed upon reference to Fig. 2 that the base of the hood is so shaped that it extends downward and forward from the seam, so as to fit the shape of the form.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is A new article of manufacture consisting of a light hollow hood adapted to fit over the knob of a coat-displayin g form and having its lower edge extendeddownward and forward so as to fit the shape of the form and rest on the shoulders of the same.

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

RALPH A. DAY.

Witnesses:

G. G. PRINGLE, LAURIE MAGUIRE.

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