An Improved Wardrobe Hook.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1899-Accepted, 23rd June, 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Wardrobe Hook.
I, PETER JANSEN, of No. 39, Friedens Strasse, Düsseldorf, in the German
Empire, Head Clerk, 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 present invention relates to an improved wardrobe hook, the special pur-
pose of the invention being to attain utmost simplicity in construction and to
prevent opening of the wardrobe hook except by means of the proper key, thus
preventing unauthorized removal of the clothes suspended from the locked ward-
robe hook.
I will now proceed to describe my invention more fully, reference being bad
to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 shows my improved wardrobe hook in a longitudinal section,
Fig. 2 illustrates a somewhat modified construction of the wardrobe hook.
To the wall directly or to the base plate a is secured the hollow shaft b which
contains the movable bolt c. At the front end of the hollow shaft 6 is attached
the cloth's supporting hook d, the head portion of which faces the shaft b.
The side of this head portion e which faces the hollow shaft b is provided with a
recess the shape of which corresponds to the shape of the head of the bolt c.
A spring rests in a longitudinal groove provided in the bolt c and is rigidly
The rear end of
secured at its front end to the bolt by means of the screw m.
the spring, which presses against the interior wall of the shaft b, is provided
with teeth a, said teeth being situate above an opening o in the lower rear portion
of the hollow shaft b. This opening is surrounded by a key-hole casing p.
which casing is provided at both sides with a plurality of slots g radiating from
a common centre, the shape of which correspond to the shape and number of bits
which the keys to be employed are provided with.
The device operates in the following manner: In order to open the wardrobe
hook, shown closed in Fig. 1 it is necessary to introduce the key into the key
hole and then turn the key. In turning the key the bits engage the teeth n of
the spring simultaneously lifting the latter, so that a stud on the spring k
which normally rests in a hole in the inner wall of the shaft b is released
therefrom, whereupon, on further turning the key, the successive engagement of
its bits with the teeth n on the lower surface of the spring k causes the bolt c to
be moved backwards in the shaft 6 thus opening the hook d, so that cloths may
either be suspended or removed therefrom. On the return movement of the
bolt with its spring k, by turning the key in a reverse direction the pin i when
opposite the hole g, snaps into same, thus closing the hook d again by the bolt c
shooting into the recess in the head portion c of the hook d.
In Fig. 2 a somewhat modified construction of my improved wardrobe hook is
shown, the teeth n being provided directly on the bolt c. The bolt c¹ is under
the influence of a spiral spring, which is arranged inside the shaft b' and presses
A wardrobe hook constructed in this manner
on the rearward end of the bolt c'.
can only be opened by turning the key after its introduction in the key hole q
with sufficient force to overcome the counter influence of the spiral spring r.

page_text: 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:-
:-
1) An improved wardrobe hook, having a bolt e arranged inside a hollow shaft,
which bolt is adapted to shoot into and remain with its specially shaped front
end in a correspondingly shaped notch in the closing head of the hook d of the
hollow shaft until through the turning of a key, the bits of which penetrate
through a slot o in the lower side of the shaft and act on a toothed section n on
the rear end of the spring k, the pin i at the underside of the spring disengages
from the hole g in the lower side of the shaft, permitting the spring and with it
the bolt to be moved by the successive engagement of the bits with the teeth n,
substantially as described and shown and for the purpose mentioned.
2) An improved wardrobe hook, the whole arranged, constructed and adapted
to operate substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of Tuna 1900
B. REICHHOLD,
International Patent Office,
24, Luisen Strasse, Berlin, N.W., Germany,
Agent for the Applicant.