Improvements in Stands for Hats, Coats, Military and other Accoutrements, and other articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 11th Mar., 1893-4ccepted, 29th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Hats, Coats, Military and other
Accoutrements, and other articles.
I JOIN SUTTON NETTLEFOLD, of Castle Works Tydu, near Newport, in the
County of Monmouth Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
My invention has reference to stands for hats, coats, military and other accoutre-
nents and other articles for use in places where it is important to economise room.
My said invention is especially suited for military and other tents and I will describe
ny invention in connection with a tent.
I fix on the pole of the tent at a convenient height a tubular ring to which
I affix a series of combined hat and coat hooks. The hooks I employ are made of
strong wire preferably of iron or mild steel. The upper end of each compound
hook has a loop for the reception of the body of a headed screw by which the hook
is attached to the tubular ring. The lower part of each hook is plain and when
the hook is fixed by the screw passed through the loop at its top the lower plain end
of the hook enters a hole in the tubular ring. But I do not limit myself to the use
of any particular kind of hook.
The tubular ring is provided near its top with a series of screwed holes into
which the fixing screws of the hooks take and near its bottom with a series of plain
holes for the reception of the plain lower ends of the hooks. The hooks thus
attached to the tubular ring on the pole project from it radially and form convenient
supports for hats, coats, military and other accoutrements and other articles. One
or two arms for carrying candles may be substituted for one or two of the hooks
and in like manner a looking glass or other article may be attached to the ring.
The position of the tubular ring on the tent pole may be determined by a wedge
driven from below up between the pole and the ring into a groove made in the ring
for its reception.
Although I have described my invention only in connection with a tent, my said
invention may be adapted for use in other places by substituting a vertical pillar
on a stand or foot for the tent pole described.
Dated this 19th day of July 1892.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Hats, Coats, Military and other
Accoutrements, and other articles.
1 JOHN SUTTON NETTLEFOLD, of Castle Works Tydu, near Newport in the
County of Monmouth, Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to stands for hats coats, military and other accoutre-
ments and other articles for use in places where it is important to economise room.
My said invention is especially suited for military and other tents, and I will
describe my invention in connection with a tent.
I fix on the pole of the tent at a convenient height a tubular ring to which
I affix a series of combined hat and coat hooks. The hooks I employ are made of

page_text: strong wire preferably of iron or mild steel. The upper end of each compound
hook has a loop for the reception of the body of a headed screw by which the hook
is attached to the tubular ring. The lower part of each hook is plain and when
the hook is fixed by the screw passed through the loop at its top the lower plain
end of the hook enters a hole in the tubular ring. But I do not limit myself to the
use of any particular kind of hook.
The tubular ring is provided near its top with a series of screwed holes into which
the fixing screws of the hooks take and near its bottom with a series of plain holes
for the reception of the plain lower ends of the hooks. The hooks thus attached
to the tubular ring on the pole project from it radially and form convenient supports
for hats, coats, military and other accoutrements and other articles.
One or two arms for carrying candles may be substituted for one or two of the
hocks and in like manner a looking glass or other article may be attached to the
ring.
The position of the tubular ring on the tent pole may be determined by a wedge
driven from below up between the pole and the ring into a groove made in the ring
for its reception.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation; Figure 2 in plan;
Figure 3 in vertical section and Figure 4 in horizontal section, taken through the
screwed holes of the tubular ring, a tent pole stand constructed according to my
invention for supporting hats, coats, military and other accoutrements and other
articles;
Figure 5 represents in vertical section a portion of the stand drawn to a larger
scale, the said Figure 5 exhibiting the fixing of one of the combined hat and
coat hooks to the tubular ring of the stand.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
4 is the tubular ring fixed to the tent pole b, the said ring a carrying a series of
radial combined bat and coat hooks c, e, the said ring attached to the pole and the
appliances carried by it, constituting a stand for hats, coats and other articles.
The tubular ring a is strengthened where the combined hat and coat hooks are to
be affixed to it by a series of equi-distant nearly vertical strengthening pieces or
ribs as seen in the drawing. At the upper part of each strengthening piece or rib
of the tubular ring a is a screwed hole and at the lower part of each strengthening
piece or rib is a plain hole e. Each of the combined hat and coat hooks c has a
loop at top for the reception of the fixing screw pin by which the hook is
attached to the tubular ring. After the plain lower part of each hook has been
passed into the plain hole e in the tubular ring, the fixing screw is passed through
the loop cat the top of the hook into the screwed hole d in the tubular ring. The
series of hooks thus attached to the tubular ring on the tent pole project from it
radially as represented in Figures 2 and 4 and form convenient supports for hats,
coats, military and other accoutrements and other articles.
Hooks of other kinds may be substituted for those represented, but the kind of
hook I have represented I have found to answer well in use.
The tubular ring a is fixed at the desired height on the tent pole b by means of
a wedge g driven from below into the groove h made for its reception between the
pole and an enlargement of the ring a as best seen in Figures 3 and 4. To
prevent the loss of the fixing wedge it may be attached to the ring a by a
chain i.
When the stand is required to support candles or a looking glass'or other articles,
arms for supporting the said article or articles are substituted for some of the hooks
represented, the said arms being fixed to the tubular ring a substantially in the
manner described and represented with respect to the hat and coat hooks.
Although I have described and represented my invention only in connection with
a tent, my said invention may be adapted for use in other places by substituting a
vertical pillar on a stand or foot for the tent pole described and represented.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention of "Improvements in stands for hats, coats, military and other
accoutrements and other articles" :-
The combination with a tent pole, or with a vertical pillar on a stand or foot, of
a tubular ring having fixed to it substantially in the manner described and illus-
trated, a series of combined hat and coat hooks for supporting hats, coats, military
and other accoutrements and other articles, the said combined hat and coat hooks
being used alone or in conjunction with one or more arms for supporting a candle
or candles or a looking glass or other article, the several parts constituting the
stand being constructed and arranged substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the Seventh day of March 1893.
JOHN SUTTON NETTLEFOLD.