AN IMPROVED HOOK FOR SUSPENDING COATS, HATS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED HOOK FOR SUSPENDING COATS, HATS, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
A communication from abroad by Charles Galusha Cole, of the
City and County of Bennington, State of Vermont, United States
of America.
Sealed the 4th August 1874, and dated the 17th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 17th March 1874.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
5 County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED HOOK FOR SUSPENDING COATS, HATS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new hook, either single or double, for
clothes or other articles, which is made of one single piece of wire or

page_text: band of metal, and which has fastening points formed at its ends, so
that it can be secured in wood without any other fastening device.
The hook is made of bent wire or strap metal, and has its ends formed
into prongs or sharp points, by which prongs or points it is held in the
wood or substance to which the hook is attached, being driven into 5
same.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, :
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special
licence that I, the said Alexander. Melville Clark, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Melville
Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED HOOK FOR SUSPENDING COATS, HATS, AND OTHER ARTICLES,"
a communication to me from abroad by Charles Galusha Cole, of
the City and County of Bennington, State of Vermont, United States of
America, úpon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander
Melville. Clark, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
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page_text: turned in opposite directions, and provided with sharp prongs, as and
for the purpose, described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
HARRY SWALES,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)