Untitled record

Application filed June 18,1890. Serial No. 355,907. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Albert J. Fisher, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pontiac, in the county of Oakland and State of 5 Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Window-Dressers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of furniture which is used more especially in the winio dows of stores for the purpose of displaying goods and wares, termed “window-dressers,” and in which facility for new and novel changes to relieve from the sameness in effect frornday to day is desirable; and it especially 15 provides for such changes being made without the necessity for the removal or the derangement of the articles displayed thereby; and it consists in the arrangement and combination of a series of preferably curved 20 shelves supported by standards and so pivoted together as to permitof their arrangement with respect to each other and that the form of the dresser may be varied at will, in the manner and for the purposes more fully here25 inafter described.

In the figures similar letters refer to similar parts.

Figure 1 shows a skeleton elevation of the frame-work of my improved window-dresser. 30 Fig. 2 is a top view of it arranged in one form.

Fig. 3 is also a top view showing it arranged in another form, Figs. 2 and 3 being for the purpose of illustrating the facility with which the different portions may be so shifted so as 35 to form different styles and present new sides to the window in which the same is placed.

In the figures, A, B, C, A', B', and C' represent shelves, which may be made of wood, metal, or wire woven in the proper form, and 40 which are preferably curved more or less to suit the size and location of the dresser, and which may be, if desirable, covered with plush or upholstered in any form, manner, or color to suit the fancy of the user; or they may be supplied with auxiliary shelves or.baskets or 45 hooks for the reception of the articles to be displayed.

D andE are supporting-standards, preferably made round and of any suitable material and preferably made higher than the other 50 standards F, G, H, and I. The standards D and E pass through the shelves A, B, and C in such manner as to form pivots at d and e. They are also shown as supporting the shelf A' and two circular shelves at the top a a'. 55 Standards F, G, H,and I perform the office of supports for the curved shelves B and B' and C C', respectively. It is obvious that shelves B' and C' might be extended inwardly and engaged with the standards D and E in a simi- 60 lar manner to the curved shelves B a,nd C, and thus form pivots on the upper tier of shelves without departing from my invention. It is also obvious that any number of shelves may be supported and pivoted one above the 65 other in a similar way. Preferably the supporting-standards may be arranged upon casters, thus facilitating shifting in making the changes and the forms.