An Improved Picture-suspending Device
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Picture-suspending Device.
ARTHUR ERNEST STICKINGS, 1, Vine Terrace, Ore, Hastings, Sussex, Clerk,.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To carry my invention into effect I utilise any kind of metal. The invention
varying in size according to weight of picture, for example take a flat piece of
metal about 16 of an inch in thickness, and about 3 inches long (Fig. 1.) the
body of it A to B, and C to D, being 1½ inches in length the width A to C and B
to 1 being of an inch, the two ends E and F being each an inch long and 1, an.
inch in width. Cut from the body a circle G, large enough to admit the brass
head of a nail, and cut out as H, a space sufficiently large, as to let the stem of
the nail slip up. Fig. 2 (side view) curve both ends as in illustration, and the
invention is ready. Fig. 3, front view.
Dated this 13th day of July 1899.
ARTHUR ERNEST STICKINGS,
1, Vine Terrace, Ore, Hastings, Sussex.
An Improved Picture-suspending Device.
ARTHUR ERNEST STICKINGS, 1, Vine Terrace, Ore, Hastings, in the County of
Sussex, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved picture-suspending device, and is designed
with the object of providing a simple and inexpensive device which will be
capable of suspending a picture from a wall or the like, in any desired position
without the aid of extraneous adjusting or tilting means, the device at the same
time providing for the ready hanging and removal of the picture, while further-
more, the weight of the picture will be properly distributed over the suspending
device and the suspending cord will be rendered invisible when the picture is
hung in position.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a view of the device in that stage of its manufacture known as the
66 blank."

page_text: Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the device also shewn independently.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view shewing the device in actual use, while Fig. 5 is a
side elevational view thereof.
In the annexed drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts wherever occurring throughout the several figures, a represents a
rectangular metal plate of suitable size and thickness, which plate is stamped
or otherwise fashioned so as to have two diminished ends b. c represents a
circular opening which is formed in the plate a, nearer one end than the other,
and equidistant from the sides of the plate which also has a slot d formed therein
in a longitudinal position such slot d communicating at one end with the circular
opening c.
The diminished ends are given a rolled form as shewn more particularly in
Figs. 2 & 3, one of the said ends being turned up as at e while the other is turned
down as at f.
In hanging a picture in position, four ordinary picture-rings g are provided
one at or near corner of the picture h, and the cord i then passed through such
rings and joined at its ends, such cord being sufficiently loose to enable the
bottom and top parts to be drawn toward the centre into the form of two loops,
which are then placed under the rolls or loop e and f respectively.
The suspending device is placed upon a nail, driven nearly flush into the wall,
the head of such nail being passed through the circular opening c in the plate <
and the plate then pushed downward until the shank of the nail is in position at
the upper end of the shank d.
From the foregoing description, read in conjunction with the drawings, it will
be readily understood that a picture can be hung from the suspending device in
any desired position, either flat against the wall, or by pulling the top of the
picture forward, it can be made to hang almost at a right angle to said wall in a
perfectly secure manner.
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) The improved picture-suspending device, consisting in a plate having
diminished and rolled ends and a lengthwise slot terminating at one end in a
circular opening, substantially as described and shewn.
(2) The improved picture-suspending device, consisting in a metal rectangular
blank having diminished ends which are given a rolled or looped form, the
upper end being turned downward and outward and the lower end upward and
inward, said blank having a lengthwise slot formed in same which slot terminates at
its lower end in a circular opening, said opening being nearer one end of the blank
than the other and equidistant from the sides thereof, all substantially as and for
the purpose described and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated the 27th day of November 1899.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.