US807857A - Display-fixture. - Google Patents

Description

No. 807,857. PATBNTED DBG. 19, 1905."

. E. T. PALMBNBBRG.

DISPLAY FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY o, 1905.

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DISPLAY-FIXTURE.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application iled July 6,1905. Serial No. 268,369.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL T. PALMENBERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Display-Fixture, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to display-fixtures, such as shown and described in the Letters Patent of the United States No. 7 73,97 3, granted to me November 1, 1904.

The object of the presentinvention is to provide a new and improved display-fixture having a supporting member adapted to be conveniently moved into a desired position for properlyT supporting the goods to be displayed.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the movable ball-seat.

A holder A, of any approved construction for supporting the goods to be displayed, is screwed o'r otherwise secured to the outer end of an arm B, provided at its inner end with a ball B', contained within a casing C and resting or seated with its outer portion on a reduced portion or seat C, formed on the outer end of the said casing C. The inner portion of the ball B is seated on a seat D 1n the form of a ring and held loosely or movably in the casing C, and the said seatD is pressed on by a spring E, preferably in the form of two dished disks abutting at their middle, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2.

The spring E abuts or rests against a disk F, screwing on the interior screw-thread C2,

formed in the rear end of the casing C, and from the said disk F extends a screw-rod G, screwing in a nut H, formed on a clamp H, adapted to engage a post or other support I, the latter being also engaged by the free end of the screw-rod G to securely fasten the clamp H in position on the post I; as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. l.

By the arrangement described the ball B is practically seated on two seats, of which the seat C forms part of the casing C, while the seat D is pressed on by the spring E, the tension'of which can be regulated by screwing the disk F farther in or out, and hence more or less pressure can be exerted by the spring E against the seat D, and consequently the ball B.

By the arrangement described the arm B can be readily swung into any desired position by the operator and when released remains firmly in this position owing to the friction between the spring-pressed seat D and the seat C' on the ball B'. The clamp H can be moved to any desired position along the support I and extended therefrom in any desired direction and then fastened in place by the operator turning the casing' C and with which thedisk F and its screw-rod G, so that the latter securely fastens the clamp H in place on the support I.

The disk F is preferably provided with openings F for engagement by a Spanner-wrench to screw the disk F inward or outward for properly regulating the tension of the spring E.

Vhen the clamp H is fastened in the desired position on the support I, then the arm Bean be swung into any desired direction up, down, or sidewise, so as to bring the arm in such position that the holder A extends in the desired direction for displaying the goods to the best advantage, it being understood that after the arm B is in the desired position it remains therein by the action of the spring-pressed seat D, as previously explained.

It will be seen that by the arrangement described the clamp H can be readily secured to the support I, whether the latter is in a vertical position, as shown, or in a horizontal or inclined position, and the clamp H can be moved lengthwise on the support I to any desired place, turned on the support, and then fastened in position to extend the casing C and with it the arm B in the desired direction. In addition to this adjustment the arm B can be swung into any desired position for the holder A to display the goods to the best advantage; as previously explained.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-f A display-fixture comprising a casing having one end reduced and the other end interiorly threaded, an arm having a ball within the said casing and seated with its outer portion on the said reduced portion, a seat movable in the casing and on which the inner por- IOO IIO

tion of the said ball is seated, a spring com- In testimony whereofI have signed my name prising a pair of oppositely-arranged dished to this speeication in the presence of two subdisks pressing the said seat, a disk screwing on seribing witnesses.

the said threaded portion of the easing and V EMIL T. PALMENBERG. 5 abutting against the said disk-spring, a clamp- Witnesses:

ing member, and a screw-rod on the said disk C. E. HoLsKE,

screwing in the said clamping member. l EVERARD B. MARSHALL.

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