Improvements in the Manufacture of Screw, Cup, Hat, and Coat Hooks, and other similar Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Screw, Cup, Hat, and Coat
Hooks, and other similar Articles.
WILLIAM REUBEN LANE, of the firm of Winfields Limited, of Cambridge Street,
Birmingham Brassfounders, 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 the manufacture of screw hooks, cup hooks, screw eyes,
rod brackets or support hooks, hat, coat, wardrobe, or other similar hooks or articles,
and consists primarily of the formation upon the shank of such articles of a screw
thread or worm, or its equivalent, by means of a spiral wire coil, and after the manner
hereinafter described.
In order to more particularly explain this my invention, and in what manner the
same may be performed, I have appended hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings
upon which are figures and letters of reference in which:
Fig. 1, illustrates a rod of wire to form the hook &c., and also serve as a base or
body to receive the screw thread.
Fig. 2, shews the rod having a collar or boss, fixed in a given position ready for the
screw thread.
Fig. 3, shows the spiral coil of wire in an enlarged view which is to form the
screw thread upon the rod.
Fig. 4, shows the spiral coil fixed upon the rod.
Fig. 5, illustrates Fig. 4, bent to form a cup hook.
Fig. 6, illustrates.its application to a modified shape of hook.
Fig. 7, illustrates its application to a screw eye.
Fig. 8, shows its application to a rod bracket or support hook.
Fig. 9, shows how it may be applied to a hat and coat hook.
Fig. 10, shows its application to a picture ring.
Fig. 1.
I take a rod or wire a, (preferably of brass) and point the one end as seen in
I then provide by suitable tools a collar b, which may be shaped to any
desired form, and having a central hole, by which it is passed on to the rod
secured by tools under pressure, or by soldering.
a,
and

page_text: I now make a coil of wire c, in a spiral form as seen in Fig. 3.
This may be done singly, or, as I prefer, I may make a continuous coil, and then
cut it into short lengths corresponding to the length of the shank d, see Fig. 2.
One of these lengths is then passed on to the shank tightly up to and against the
collar b. Preferably I provide that at e, Fig. 4, there shall be a small recess in which
the end of the spiral wire shall lie, which thereby strengthens the connection of the
said wire to the rod a, and collar 6. The other end of the said wire coil is bent close
around the point of the shank.
The shank, and wire coil is now dipped into molten solder up as far as the back of
the collar b, whereby the said coil is now firmly secured or saldered to the shank d, and
to the collar b, the spiral coil of the wire now forming the screw thread upon the
shank d.
It will be readily observed that it will be easy to arrange a quicker or slower pitch
of screw thread, by arranging the pitch of coils in the piece c, Fig. 3.
The front portion of the rod a, may now (or at any preferable earlier stage of
manufacture) be bent into any of the forms illustrated, or other forms for similar
purposes.
In Fig. 9, the rod a, and the piece f, are secured together by means of a cast boss g,
the two said parts being placed in a mould for this purpose.
Preferably this wire coil would be made of steel or iron, and may be of a round,
triangular, or other sectional form.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is :-
Forming a scrow thread or worm upon the shank of screw hooks, cup hooks;
rod bracket or support hooks, bat, coat, wardrobe or other similar books or articles,
by the combination therewith of a spiral wire coil, constructed substantially as
herein-described & illustrated upon the drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1888.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12, Cherry Street, Birmingham
Applicant's Agent.