Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1389
Complete Specification Left, 4th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted. 6th Apr., 1889
I REGINALD PARKER of Rockingham House Westfield Road Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Secretary to a Public Company do hereby declare the nature of
this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in making hat coat and wardrobe hooks each from a single
piece or length of wire or rod of wrought iron or steel of any section substantially in.
the manner hereinafter described.
In making a hat coat or wardrobe hook according to my invention I take a
piece of wire or rod of the required length and diameter and by an upsetting
operation I form on each end of the piece of wire or rod a knob head or conical
expansion. I next flatten the piece of wire or rod near its middle by operating upon
it by means of tools worked in a stamp or press so as to form a flat expansion at that
part the said flattened and expanded portion constituting the plate or part by which
the hook is to be fixed to a door or other article. In the flattened and expanded part
or fixing plate described holes are drilled or pierced for the fixing screws to pass through.
Or instead of making a single flattened and expanded part of sufficient length for
two or more screw holes to be made in it two short flattened parts at a little distanco
apart may be formed each flattened part being drilled or pierced with a screw hole.
The piece of wire or rod thus operated upon while straight is next bent or fashioned.
into a hat coat or wardrobe hook by the action of bending tools worked in a
press or stamp or by the operation of levers. The upsetting flattening and bending
or fashioning operations may be performed upon the wire or rod in a heated or
cold state.
I do not limit myself to any particular shape of the hook nor to the use of any
particular kinds of tools for effecting the operations described as the essence of my
invention consists in making the fixing plate of the hook by flattening and expanding
and drilling or piercing a portion or portions of the piece of wire or rod from which
the body of the hook is made and forming the said body of the hook substantially as
before described.

page_text: I REGINALD PARKER of Rockingham House, Westfield Road, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Secretary to a Public Company do hereby declare the nature
of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists in making hat coat and wardrobe hooks each from a single
piece or length of wire or rod of wrought iron or steel or brass of any section
substantially in the manner hereinafter-described.
:
In making a hat coat or wardrobe hook according to my invention I take a piece of
wire or rod of the required length and diameter and by an upsetting operation I form
on each end of the piece of wire or rod a knob head or conical expansion. I next
flatten the piece of wire or rod near its middle by operating upon it by means of
tools worked in a stamp or press so as to form a flat expansion at that part, the said
flattened and expanded portion constituting the plate or part by which the hook is to
be fixed to a door or other article. In the flattened and expanded part or fixing plate
described, holes are drilled or pierced for the fixing screws to pass through. Or
instead of making a single flattened and expanded part of sufficient length for two
or more screw holes to be made in it, two short flattened parts at a little distance apart
may be formed each flattened part being drilled or pierced with a screw hole. The
piece of wire or rod thus operated upon while straight is next bent or fashioned into
a hat, coat or wardrobe hook by the action of bending tools worked in a press or
stamp or by the operation of levers.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents the cut off piece or length of
wire or rod of wrought iron or steel from which the hook is to be made and Figure 2
represents the same after a knob head or conical expansion a has been made on each
end by the upsetting operation.
Figure 3 represents the headed length of wire or rod Figure 2 after it has been
flattened near its middle to form two flat expansions b, b separated by the division c
which has the shape given to it represented in the Drawing. The flattening and
expanding of the parts b, b is effected by means of a pair of tools worked in a stamp
or press. The said flattened and expanded parts b, b constitute the plate or parts by
which the hook is fixed to a door or other article. By the flattening operation the
rod is slightly bent or curved of the form shown in the side elevation of Figure 3.
The expanded parts b b are next drilled or pierced with holes d, d for the fixing screws
to pass through as illustrated in Figure 4. The slightly bent, flattened and pierced or
drilled wire or rod is next operated upon by bending tools worked in a press or stamp,
or by levers so as to bend or fashion it into a hat coat or wardrobe hook as represented
in front elevation in Figure 5 and side elevation in Figure 6. The fashioning of the
hook is now complete and the said hook is finished in the ordinary way.

page_text: Figure 7 represents in side elevation and Figure 8 in front elevation a hat coat or
wardrobe hook provided with a single expanded and flattened part or fixing plate f
instead of the short separated parts 6, 6 as before described and represented. In the
said singlo expanded part or fixing plate f holes 9, are pierced or drilled for receiving
the fixing screws before the rod or piece of wire is subjected to the final shaping or
fashioning operation to form it into a hook.
The upsetting, flattening and bending or fashioning operations hereinbefore
described may be performed upon the iron or steel wire or rod in a heated or cold state.
I do not limit myself to any particular shape of the hook nor to the use of any
particular kinds of tools and appliances for effecting the operations described as the
said operations tools and appliances which I employ are similar in all essential respects
to those employed in the manufacture of like articles and constitute no part of my
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner of performing the same I declare that I claim as my Invention
of "Improvements in the manufacture of hat coat and wardrobe hooks :-
Making the fixing plate of the hook in one piece with the body of the hook by
flattening and expanding and drilling or piercing a portion or portions of a piece
or length of wire or rod of wrought iron or steel or brass of any sectional figure,
from which wire or rod the body of the hook is made, and forming the said fixing
plate and body of the hook substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing.
Dated the First day of March 1889