Improvements in, or Additions to Screw, Cup, Clothes and other Hanging and Supporting Hooks, Wall, Fixing-down, Screw, Fancy and other Pins and Nails, Picture and other like Supporting Rings and Articles of a like Manufacture.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1894-Accepted, 8th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in, or Additions to Screw, Cup, Clothes and other
Hanging and Supporting Hooks, Wall, Fixing-down, Screw,
Fancy and other Pins and Nails, Picture and other like
Supporting Rings and Articles of a like Manufacture.
I, ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD of Legge Lane, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in, or additions to hooks, pins and nails
or rings, such for example as screw, cup, clothes, hat and coat, wall, picture and
other hanging and supporting hooks; wall, fixing-down, screw, furniture, fancy,
name and other nails and pins; picture and like supporting rings and other articles
of a like manufacture and is an improvement upon or an amplification of a former
Letters Patent granted to me and bearing date the 30th day of June 1893
No. 12813.
In carrying out one form of my invention in connection with screw hooks, I
take a disc or blank of metal having pivots or trunnion centres upon its opposite
sides, and I suspend therefrom or fit or joint thereto, a loop or half ring which
forms a pull-out or lifter. Fitted to this lifter part, or made in one piece with it,
is a hook bar or a series of hooks or bars for supporting any article or articles as
may be desired. To the centre of the disc or blank which forms a bracket plate,.
I connect a screw by which the article is connected.
In another form of my invention in connection with a hook, I make the said
hook or series of hooks from a prolongation of the metal of the disc or carrying
plate, so that the pull-up or jointed loop by which the article is screwed home or
removed is independent of the suspension part.
Where a screw is not employed, I may use a pin, or the metal of the plate is
forced back into a prong or prongs which are used as securing means.
As a further form of my invention in connection with a hook, the jointed loop:
may be made to form the suspension means, the middle of its underside being.
preferably gapped for the stem of a nail, by which the hook is supported, to lie
within.
In wardrobe and like clothes hooks, I make the same alike unto the screw hook
as first described, but with the metal at the upper part of the disc or plate extended
upward into a branch or arm forming a hat-hook.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a picture hook, I provide the
disc or body part with a jointed loop from which a cord suspended, but I extend:
the body part or disc into a turned back hook, which is adapted to take over the
edge of a picture beading or over a picture rod or rail. If necessary the hook.
may be made into a socket eye or ring.
The application of my invention to rack and other hanging, suspending or:
supporting hooks differs in no essential respect from its application to the various
forms of hooks already described.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a fancy or other furniture nail.
or pin, I provide the same which may have either a screwed or plain stem, with a
pull-up or jointed loop, which preferably forms, when turned down, a continuation
of the border edge of the article, but when turned up, forms a means for taking
hold of the pin for its removal.
In fixing-down pins, such as drugget or wall pins, I prefer to make the same.
from a blank or disc of metal, semi-circularly pierced, the said piercing being

page_text: crossed at its ends by bars, over and around which the terminal ends of the pull-
out loop take and form the joint or hinge. When the pull-up loop is turned down,
then it lies within the semi-circular recess, flush with the head. The loop may have
a slightly turned-up lip to assist in lifting the same.
The application of my invention to screw, picture and other supporting rings
differs in no essential respect from its application to hooks and nails as herein
described.
Dated this 8th day of March 1894.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Screw, Cup, Clothes and other
Hanging and Supporting Hooks, Wall, Fixing-down, Screw,
Fancy and other Pins and Nails, Picture and other like
Supporting Rings and Articles of a like Manufacture.
I, ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD of Legge Lane, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in, or additions to, hooks, pins and nails,-
and rings, such for example as screw, cup, clothes, hat and coat, wall, picture and
other hanging and supporting hooks; wall, fixing-down, screw, furniture, fancy,
name and other nails and pins; picture and like supporting rings and other articles
of a like manufacture, and is an improvement upon or an amplification of a former
Letters Patent granted to me and bearing date the 30th day of June 1893
No. 12813.
In carrying out one form of my invention in connection with screw hooks, I'
take a disc or blank of metal having pivots or trunnion centres upon its opposite
sides, and I suspend therefrom or fit or joint thereto, a loop or half ring which
forms a pull-out or lifter. Attached to this lifter part, or made in one piece with
it, is, (or may be) a hook, or bar, or a series of hooks or bars for supporting any.
article or articles as may be desired. To the centre of the disc or blank which
forms a bracket plate, I connect a screw by which the article is connected.
In another form of my invention in connection with a hook, I make the said
hook or series of hooks from a prolongation of the metal of the disc or carrying
plate, so that the pull-up or jointed loop by which the article is screwed home or
removed is independent of the suspension part.
Where a screw is not employed, I may use a pin, or the metal of the plate is
forced back into a prong or prongs which are used as securing means.
In wardrobe and like clothes hooks, I make the same alike unto the screw hook
as first described, but with the metal at the upper part of the disc or plate extended
upward into a branch or arm forming a hat-hook.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a fancy or other furniture nail
or pin, I provide the same, which may have either a screwed or plain stem, with a
pull-up or jointed loop, which preferably forms, when turned-down, a continuation
of the border edge of the article, but when turned up, forms a means for taking
hold of the pin for its removal.
In fixing-down pins, such as drugget or wall pins, I prefer to make the same
from a blank or disc of metal, semi-circularly pierced, the said piercing being
crossed at its ends by bars, over and around which the terminal ends of the pull-out
loop take and form the joint or hinge. When the pull-up loop is turned down,

page_text: then it lies within the semi-circular recess, flush with the head. The loop may
have a slightly turned-up lip to assist in lifting the same.
.
The application of my invention to screw, picture and other supporting rings
differs in no essential respect from its application to hooks and nails as herein
described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in front elevation, and
Figure 2 in edge view, a fixing-down pin, having a screw and with the pull-up or
handle part being provided with a hook or hooks.
a is the head or body part and b is a spike. c is a pull-up or handle, jointed at c¹,
to pivots a³, made from the same metal as the head a, and are the hooks, from
which articles are or may be suspended.
Figure 3 represents in plan and Figure 4 in edge view a like wall or other
hanger as in Figures 1 and 2, but with the same affixed by spikes or prongs formed
from out of the edge of the metal of the body part. Thus, a is the body part,
c is the pull-up, c² a hooked part, and are the joint or looped ends, taking over
the trunnions a¹, of the body part, thereby forming the joint, whilst a' are the
prongs or affixing-spikes.
Figure 5 represents another form of hanger, in which the prongs or spikes a³,
are formed from out of the middle of the body a, which has a hook or turned-up
lip a³, formed integral with it, whilst the pull up c, is jointed to the trunnion ends a³,
by the looped terminals c³.
Figure 6 represents in front elevation and Figure 7 partly in section and partly
in elevation, a fixing-down pin, with a recessed head or body part adapted to receive
a label, ticket or tally.
This pin is particularly useful for numbering boxes and other articles and
goods.
Instead of a screw, a plain middle spike; or a prong or prongs formed out of the
metal of the head, may be employed.
Figure 7 represents in section and elevation a further form of number or
label pin.
Figure 7B is a plan and Figure 7 an edge view of the loose sprung-on cap.
a is the body of the pin, and e is a loose cap, with a hole or piercing e, in its
middle, which when sprung onto the head, affixes the label f, in position.
Figure 8 represents in front elevation, and Figure 9 in edge view an affixing-down
pin, with a pull-up or handle, and having a screw, instead of a plain spike, as in my
said former Patent.
a is the head, a² the pivots or centres, b the screw, and c the pull-up or lifter,
jointed at, to the said pivots.
Figure 10 represents a hanger pipe rack, provided with a pull-up or lifter, and
affixed either by a spike or screw.
Figure 11 represents another form of fixing down pin, in which the pull-up
or lifter lies within a piercing cut out of the metal of the head.
Figure 12 is the blauk of the head, and Figure 13 is the blank of the pull-up
or lifter, which, when placed in position, has its inner ends turned around the
slightly set-down bars a³, as the joints.
Figure 14 represents an edge view of Figure 11, having a screw.
Figure 15 represents an edge view of the pin Figure 11, having a spike.
Figure 16 represents a front elevation, and Figure 17 an edge view, of a hat
and coat or wardrobe hook, provided with improvenients in accordance with my
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
First. In hangers or suspension pins, the combination with the pull-ups or lifters
having a hook or hooks, of an affixing-down screw, substantially as described and
set forth in Figures 1 and 2.

page_text: Secondly. In hangers or suspension pins, affixing the same by prongs cut out
from the metal at the edges or middle of the head or body part, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 3, 4 and 5.
Thirdly. A label or number pin, constructed as described, and represented in
Figures 6, 7, 7ª, 7B and 7°.
Fourthly. An affixing down or holding-down pin, having a pull-up handle, and
a screw, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 7 and 8.
Fifthly. A pipe or other like rack, constructed and provided substantially as
-described and set forth in Figure 10.,
Sixthly. In affixing-down and carrying pins, letting the pull-up or handle part
lie within a piercing cut out of the head or body part, substantially as described
and set forth in Figures 11 to 15.
Seventhly. A hat and coat or wardrobe hook, constructed and provided substan-
tially as described and set forth in Figure 16.
Dated this 18th day of July 1894.
ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.