Improvements in Devices for Suspending Clothes and Preventing their Surreptitious Removal.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 21st Feb., 1891
COMPLETE STOTTUATION.
Improvements in Devices for Suspending Clothes and Preventing
their Surreptitious Removal.
We, ALEXANDER BRANDEIS, of Sukdol, near Prague, Farmer, and HEINRICH
SCHMOLKA, of Hybernergasse 4, Prague, Engineer, both in the Empire of Austria,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The device forming the subject of this invention consists of a chain fastened to
the garment in the usual way and whereby the same may be suspended on a hook
or peg, and of an adjustable lock which by being moved upwardly firmly tightens
the chain around the peg so that the opening n of the chain being smaller than the
head a of the peg the coat or the like to which such chain is attached cannot be
unhooked. To enable this to be done the sliding lock must first be lowered so as
to widen the loop of the chain which only a person possessed of a key can do the
slide being immovable while locked.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 shows the coat provided with the improved suspending and locking device
hung in position on the peg.
Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same arrangement on a larger scale when closed
the arm of the peg being in section.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the sliding lock.
Fig. 4 is a section on line a x of Fig. 5.
Fig. 5 is a section on line y y of Fig. 2.
Fig. 6 is a similar section to Fig. 5 but with the lock opened by means of a
key and
Fig. 7 is a section on line zz of Fig. 3.
The improved device as before stated mainly consists of a chain and a lock
adapted to slide thereon. This lock consists of a case open both at the top and
bottom and the inner space of which is by two vertical partitions divided into
three compartments. Through the two end compartments runs the suspending
chain while the central compartment is at its centre provided with an opening e
through which and through the back wall w of the case passes a pin z firmly riveted
to a small plate c situated behind the said wall w. In addition to this as shown in
Fig. 7 the pin z is connected with a spring falso firmly secured to the wall w of the
case so that both the pin and the plate e are controlled by the spring that is to
say when the said pin is pressed in the direction of the arrow I the plate c recedes
from the wall was in Fig. 6, while as soon as it is released from pressure the plate c
springs back against the wall w.
The plate e is also provided with two pins ss (Figs. 4, 5 and 6) which through
two corresponding perforations in the back wall w of the casing enter the com-
partments engaging at the same time the two chain links o which happen to be
opposite each other within the casing thus preventing the casing b from being moved
in either direction on the chain. Not till the plate c has been pushed back by
pressing upon the spring controlled pin z and thereby the two pins s s brought out
of engagement with the chain links does the locking case become capable again of
sliding up and down the chain.
In use the chain is first hung upon the hook in the usual way. Then the
case is moved up on the chain until it meets the hook and thereby tightens the
chain k around it so that it cannot be passed over the head a of the hook until
the case or slide 6 by being moved downwardly sufficiently widens the loop of the
chain.

page_text: A kevhole e is provided in the front wall u into which the rightful owner of the
garment when he wishes to effect the release of the slide inserts a key the ward or
stem i of which is made to coincide with and press upon the pin so as to push back
the plate c and the locking pins s and thus to release the chain.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. An arrangement for preventing the theft of clothes or the unauthorized
removal of the same from hooks or pegs mainly consisting of a sliding case or lock
such as band a suspending chain k the said case b being divided into three com-
partments through the two outer ones of which the chain is adapted to move until
arrested by two pins or stops such as s substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
2. For the purpose of unlocking or rendering the case or lock b movable on the
chain the arrangement behind the case of a plate such as c carrying a pin z passing
through the central compartment of the case and also the two pins or stops s
mentioned in the preceding claim which when pressed back through the medium of
the pin against the pressure of the spring freleases the chain links substantially
as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In a device for suspending clothes and preventing their surreptitious removal
the combination with a chain secured to the garment of a lock capable of being
adjusted and locked thereon substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
4. The complete device for suspending clothes and preventing their surreptitious
removal substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated 11
1000
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.