Improvements in Clip Hooks and Sail Hanks.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clip Hooks and Sail Hanks.
We JOHN WILLIAM BLAKE, and STANLEY JAMES BLAKE, Ironmongers, and
Manufacturers of 115 High Street, Gosport, and TOM STERLING WILLIAMS,
Ship Smith of Trinity Cottage, Haslur Street Gosport, both in the County of
Southampton, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
This invention for improvements in clip hooks and sail hanks relates to a hook
having an open body provided with a closing part consisting of another open link
hinged thereto, and consists essentially in providing on the body hook an automatic
spring catch adapted to hold the closing part in its closed position.
In one form of catch constructed according to this invention a bent spring having
its free end turned over is secured to the body part of the hook opposite to the
pivot of the closing part. The closing part first forces the turned over end of
the catch out of its path and when past the catch the said end springs forward
with its end behind the face of the closing part.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE, .
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Clip Hooks and Sail Hanks.
We JOHN WILLIAM BLAKE, and STANLEY JAMES BLAKE, Ironmongers and
Manufacturers, of 115 High Street, Gosport, and TOM STERLING WILLIAMS,
Ship Smith, of Trinity Cottage, Gosport, both in the County of Southampton, 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 for improvements in clip hooks and sail hanks relates to a hook
having an open body provided with a closing part consisting of another open link
hinged thereto, and consists essentially in providing on the body hook an automatic
spring catch adapted to hold the closing part in its closed position.
In one form of catch constructed according to this invention a bent spring having
its free end turned over is secured to the body part of the hook opposite to the
pivot of the closing part. The closing part first forces the turned over end of the
catch out of its path and when past the catch the said end springs forward with
its end behind the face of the closing part.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a front view of a hook constructed according to this invention showing
the hook closed and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 respectively showing the hook
open.
The body a of the hook is provided with an opening b so that a rope chain or
the like can easily be inserted. The closing part of the hook is hinged at

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to one end of the hook and is held at the other end by the spring catch e.
-closing part c is fitted to the body a so that when closed a complete link is formed
without any projections or recesses. The catch e consists of a bent plate spring
having its end riveted or otherwise secured in a recess in the end of the
hook and then bent back through the recess and so that its end projects over
the closing part c as clearly shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. In an open link provided with a closing part hinged thereto, a spring catch
to hold the closing part in its closed position.
2. The improvements in clip hooks and sail hanks, substantially as described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1896.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.