Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat, Coat, and Wardrobe Hooks.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 25th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th Apr., 1887
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat, Coat, and Wardrobe
Hooks.
I, FREDERIC ARTHUR HARRISON, of Legge Lane, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature the nature of this invention
Lo be as follows:-
The ordinary method of Manufacturing Hat, Coat, and Wardrobe hooks, is by
the process of casting. In making. improved hooks according to my invention, I
take a piece of wire of brass or other metal, or alloy and form a head or knob on one
or both ends of the wire by means of dies or tools operated by pressure, which forces
the ends of the wire to swell out into a suitably formed recess provided within the
dies or tools and so forms the head or knob of the hooks. I then by other dies or
tools operated in the same way, flatten one end or an intermediate part of the wire.
through which I pierce countersunk holes suitable for screws and so form that part of
the hook intended for fixing the hook to Hat and Coat panels, Wardrobes etc. The
hook is then bent or turned to any desired shape or design. Under a modification of
this invention, instead of forming the head or knob in the manner described I attach
instead thereof a separate knob of brass or other metal or of china and of any desired
form, by means of a screw.
Dated this Thirtieth day of July 1886.

page_text: I, FREDERIC ARTHUR HARRISON of Legge Lane, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, 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 :—
The ordinary method of Manufacturing Hat, Coat and Wardrobe hooks is by the
process of casting.
In making improved hooks according to my invention, I take a piece of wire of
brass or other metal or alloy and form a head or knob on one or both ends of the wire
by means of dies or tools operated by pressure, which forces the ends of the wire to
swell out into a suitably formed recess provided within the dies or tools and so forms
the head or knob of the hooks. I then by other dies or tools, operated in the same
way, flatten one end or an intermediate part of the wire through which I pierce
countersunk holes suitable for screws and so form that part of the hook intended for
fixing the hook to hat and coat panels, wardrobes etc., the hook is then bent to any
desired shape or design.
In order to give strength to the hook, that part of the hook intended for fixing to
hat and coat panels, wardrobes etc., may be encased with a short piece of tube of brass
or other metal or alloy and a tube may be used in lieu of the wire hereinbefore
described.
Under a modification of this invention, instead of forming the knob in the manner
described I attach instead thereof a knob of brass or other metal or of china and of
any desired form.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a piece of wire of brass or other
metal or alloy.
Figure 2 represents Figure 1 with head or knob formed on one end and Figure 3
represents Figure 1 with head or knob formed on both ends by means of dies or tools
operated by pressure, which forces the ends of the wire to swell out into a suitably
formed recess provided within the dies or tools.
Figure 4 represents the wire of brass or other metal or alloy with one end flattened
to form that part of the hook intended for fixing the hook to hat and coat panels,
wardrobes etc., by means of attaching screws passing through countersunk holes a.
Figure 5 represents in side elevation Figure 4 bent to form a hook for ward-
robes etc.
Figure 6 represents Figure 3 with an intermediate part flattened and countersunk
holes a pierced for affixing to hat and coat panels by screws.
Figure 7 represents a wire of brass or other metal or alloy with an intermediate
part encased by a short pieco of tube b of brass or other metal or alloy in order to give
strength to that part intended to be flattened.

page_text: Figure 8 represents Figure 6 bent so as to form a hat and coat hook.
I do not limit myself to the shapes represented, either of the knob, the flattened
part or the bending of the hook as other shapes may be given to the said knob,
flattened part or bend of the said hook.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is of "Improvements in the manufacture of Hat, Coat and Wardrobe hooks."
First Forming a head or knob on one or both ends as herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawing.
Secondly Flattening one end or any intermediate part, substantially as herein
before described and illustrated in Figures 4, 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawing.
Thirdly Strengthening the part to be flattened by encasing with a short piece of
tube, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 7 and 8 of the
accompanying drawing.
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