US1380534A - Display-holder - Google Patents

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L-. H. DALTON.

DISPLAY HOLDER;

APPLICATION FILED OCT 15.1919.

Patented June 7, 1921.

LLOYD HENRY DALTON, 0F GOFFEYVILLE, KANSAS.

DISPLAY-HOLDER.

Application filed October 15, 1919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LLOYD H. DALTON, citizen of the United States, residing at Coffe ville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved display holder particularly adapted for use in displaying neck ties, socks, and the like, and has as one of its principal objects to provide a device of this character adapted to hold and retain in a neat pile, a number of the articles to be displayed.

The invention has as a further object to provide a device of this character adapted to grip the pile of articles held thereby for preventing accidental disarrangement of the articles but wherein the gripping action of the holder upon the pile of articles will not be such as to muss or wrinkle the several articles of the pile.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a display holder which will be characterized by extreme simplicity and which may be produced at moderate cost.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter. In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing in dotted lines, a pile of neck ties in place within my improved holder,

Fig. 2-is a plan view of the device, this view showing in dotted lines, the manner in which the jaws of the holder are adapted to be spread,

Fig. 8 is an end elevation of. the device, anc

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the device in detail.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, it will be seen that the body of my improved holder is formed preferably from a single length of suitable resilient wire bent at a point substantially midway between its ends to form a loop 10 having slightly diverging side portions 11. At the free ends of these side portions the strands of the wire are bowed upwardly to form upstanding retaining posts 12 normally lying substantially parallel to each other and from said posts the strands of the wire are then continued to provide crossed spring arms 18. As will be observed upon reference to Fig. 1, the lowermost of these arms lies in a plane with the loop 10 so that the Specification of Letters Patent.

lateral movement within the holder.

Patented June *7, 1921.

Serial No. 330,749.

device will rest fiat upon a shelf or display case. At the outer ends of the arms 13 the strands of the wire are bent upwardly at substantially right angles to form upstanding jaws 14 disposed in substantially parallel relation and, as shown in Fig. 3, normally lying within the lines of the posts 12. At the upper ends of said jaws the end portions of the strands are bent inwardly to provide terminal loops 15 having their free end portions sloping inwardly toward the inner sides of the jaws and providing downwardly diverging inclined shoulders 16 lying between the jaws. Thus, it will be seen that the device is of particularly simple construction and may be readily formed. The device is, as previously intimated, primarily intended for use as a display holder for neck ties, socks, or the like, although, of course, the holder may be employed for displaying other objects. However, in the drawings 1 have, in dotted lines, shown the manner in which the holder is adapted to retain a pile of neck ties. The

neck ties are first preferably folded, as suggested, and are then placed one upon the other when the pile of neck ties may be grasped by one hand at the folded ends thereof and placed within the holder. To accomplish this it is simply necessary to grasp the posts 12 between the fingers of the other hand and press inwardly thereon for spreading the jaws 14: when the pile of neck ties may be disposed within the holder extendingbetween the posts and between the jaws. Consequently, upon the release of the posts, the arms 13 will move to slightly clamp the pile of neck ties between the jaws, it being observed in this connection that the shoulders 16 at the upper ends of the jaws will coincidently ride against the pile of neck ties for slightly compressing the neck ties of the pile at the adjacent end portions of the ties. Thus, as will be appreciated, the pile of neck ties will be yieldably gripped sufficiently to prevent accidental displacement of the neck ties from the holder or disarrangement of the neck ties in the pile, the posts 12 serving to hold the wider end portions of the neck ties against The pile of neck ties will consequently always present a neat appearance while, at the same time, the aws 14: and shoulders 16 will not bear against or grip the ties in such degree as to cause mussing or wrinkling thereof.

As will, of course, be understood, the pile of ties may be readily displaced from the holder by simplycompressing the posts 12 or any one ofvthe ties may be removed without compressing the posts by simply pulling upon the loose ends of the tie.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A display holder for neckties or other articles of merchandise piled one upon another consisting of a single strand of wire formed into a spring coil at its center, arms diverging from said coil, upstanding posts at the ends of said arms, crossed arms extending from said posts, jaws rising from the free ends of said crossed arms, and lateral shoulders on the inn-er sides of said jaws at the upper terminals of the same the coil, the diverging arms and the crossed arms forming a base upon which the pile of articles may rest, the posts and jaws restraining the articles in the pile from displacement, and the shoulders on the jaws bearing upon the pile to yieldaloly hold the articles against withdrawal therefron'l.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

LLOYD naNRY DALTON. [Ls]

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