Improvements in Means for the Secure Hanging or Fastening of Curtains, Pictures, and other Articles to Walls and Ceilings.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 19th Feb.,
1898
Improvements in Means for the Secure Hanging or Fastening of
Curtains, Pictures, and other Articles to Walls and Ceilings.
I, GUSTAV PFLAUMER, of 2, Bahnhof Strasse, Gera, in the German Empire,
Merchant, 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 object of the present invention has regard to the secure fastening or hanging
up of curtains pictures and other articles anú refers more precisely to the secure
and safe fastening of hooks, screws and like devices in the wall without necessi-
tating the damaging of the walls by driving in the respective fastening hook or
device. It consists in inserting in the wall at the place where it is intended to
hang up any desired article of furniture a key of metal into which the fastening
book or device is secured so that the latter will not come into contact with the wall
itself.
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The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1, shews the improved key with a fastening hook inserted therein, in
side view and partly in section.
Figure 2, shews the front view of the improved key as inserted in the wall with-
out the fastening hook, and
Figure 3, illustrates the improved key in cross section.
The key (a) of any suitable or desired metal may be cast or forged and is pro-
vided at its front end with a screw threaded hole (b). This screw thread does not
extend through the whole length of the key. In Figure 1 the key is shewn to be
of a square section and its surface can be provided with grooves such as (c) or with
projections such as (d) as shewn in Figure 2. The screw thread (f) of the hook
to be inserted in the key corresponds with the screw thread in the key (a). If
it is intended to fasten rosettes or the like to the wall or ceiling both ends of the
hook may be provided with screw threads to one of which the rosette or the like is
fastened. It is obvious that the key as well as the fastening hook may be of any
desired size and shape and may be varied according to desire.
A modification of the improved key is illustrated in Figure 3 of the accompany-
ing drawings in which the key (a) is of an annular shape which is strengthened
by providing lateral square projections (g).
The improved key (a) is inserted in the wall at the place of its destination and
secured in the wall by mortar, cement or other suitable material in such a way
that the front of the key which shews the screw threaded hole (b) will be on a
level with the surface of the wall so that in the papering or painting of the walls
or the distempering or painting of the ceilings only the hole will be left visible.
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:
An improved key of any suitable metal and of square or round cross section for
securing a safe hanging up of curtains, pictures and like articles, which is inserted

page_text: in the wall or ceiling and provided with projections or grooves to secure a firm and
safe fastening to the wall by means of mortar, cement and like material; the
front of the key being provided with a screw threaded hole extending over about
half the length of the key for the reception of correspondingly screw threaded
hooks and like fastening and hanging up devices substantially as and for the pur-
poses herein described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
41
T
1000
W. D. ROWLINGSON,
7, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.