Wall Pegs or Hooks for Securing Articles of Dress and the like in a Locked Condition by Means of Coins.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1898-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1898
Wall Pegs or Hooks for Securing Articles of Dress and the like in a
Locked Condition by Means of Coins.
I, FRANZ AUSPITZ, of II Rembrandstrasse, No. 31, Vienna, Austria, Engineer,
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 follow-
ing statement ;-
This invention relates to wall hooks or pegs for securing articles of dress, sticks
umbrellas and the like, more particularly in public places which wall hooks
can either be used in the ordinary manner or they can be locked by the insertion
of a coin so as to securely retain the objects suspended therefrom and thus prevent
their unauthorised removal.
The opening of the locked hooks or pegs so as to liberate the articles can then
only be effected by means of a special key which is retained by the person using
the peg when this is locked, but which, when the peg has been unlocked is retained
in the key hole of the mechanism. The key and the hook are marked with the
same number so as to prevent confusion.
Furthermore, a counter device can be applied indicating the number of coins
that have been introduced and also an indicator for shewing the number of articles
that have been suspended upon the peg. The improved peg device is shewn on
the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 shews a front view of the device in the
locked position, Fig. 2 a side view partly in section on line 2-2 at Fig. 3. Fig. 3
is a back view with the peg in the locked position, some portions of the device being
removed.
Fig. 4 shews a back view of the hook in the open position with the cover plate
removed. Fig. shews a section on line 5-5 Fig. 2, Fig. 6 is a detail section.
Fig.
is a perspective view of the shoot E detached.
The peg device consists of the hook peg or support B fixed to the casing A which
is suitably attached to the wall, and of the looped holder B¹, pivotally connected
to the bracket a of the casing which holder, when in the closed and locked position,
fits with its front end close against the free end of the hook or peg B and also
fits with a forked arm B partly round the peg, so that when clothes &c. are hung
upon the peg while B₁ is locked in this position, they cannot be removed.
The inner end of the holder B¹ passes through a slot in the casing A and enters
an opening in a slide C working vertically in guides in the casing and acted upon
by a spring 6 which tends to move it downwards.
The spring b bears with its one end against the casing and with its other end
against a stud c on the slide C. When thus moved downwards, the slide conse-
quently raises the outer end of the holder B₁ into position shewn in dotted lines
at Figure 1, leaving the articles on B free to be removed.
When the holder B₁ is moved downward by hand into the closed position, it
raises the slide C, whereupon a lever e pivotted at its lower end to the slide, and
pressed forward by a spring d is caused to project with a beak e' on its upper end
over the upper end of a stop f on the casing, and thus to hold the slide in the raised
position.

page_text: If now it be desired to open the hook or peg by raising the holder B₁ the lever e
must first be pressed backward, which is done by means of a key D which is
passed through a key hole in the casing. The beak e' being thereby removed from
stopf, the spring 6 will now move the slide C down and raise the holder as
described.
The key is held in the key-hole when the slide is in the lowered position by a
pin 9
fixed to the latter, projecting through a hole or notch in the key as shewn
at Fig. 4, and consequently the key can only be removed when the holder B¹ is in
the lowered locked position and slide C is raised, as at Figs. 1 and 3.
The lowering and locking of the holder B¹ can however only be effected on the
insertion of a coin into the casing, by the following arrangement. To a partition h
in the casing A is pivotally suspended a shoot E having a projecting stud i which
in the normal position of the shoot E and open position of B' engages with a
notch in the slide C when this is in its lowest position, and thus prevents the
upward motion of the slide, and closing of the holder B¹. For liberating the slide,
the shoot E must therefore be swung backwards on its pivot so as to withdraw
pin from notch k. Such backward motion of the shoot is effected by the action
of a coin M inserted through the coin slot in the casing A; the coin slides down
the shoot E and bears at bottom on the one hand against a lateral projection m
on the slide and also against the inclined back wall of the shoot E.
By the pressure thus exercised by the weight of the coin the shoot is pushed
backward into the position shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 4 whereby the pin i is
withdrawn from notch k of the slide which is consequently free to be moved
upward by depressing holder B'; the shoot E remains in this position, still holding
the coin, until the holder B' has been pressed down and locked as above described,
whereupon the coin M having been liberated by the projection m of the slide c in
rising it can fall out of the shoot and this will then swing forward into its normal
position.
The coin falls onto the botton a¹ of the casing, which can be opened on a hinge
for its removal, and be then closed and locked.
The holder B having been closed and locked, the key D is liberated as before
described and can be removed and retained by the owner of the articles hung on
the peg B.
The key is prevented from being thrown out of the key hole by the spring of
lever e when it is released by finger g, by means of a lateral slot 3 on the key
engaging with a pin 1 on the guide 2 of the key hole.
Each peg device and its key bear a corresponding number, as shewn at Figure 1,
so that no confusion can occur where a number of these pegs are employed, and
it also facilitates the finding out the particular peg required.
For hanging up a stick or umbrella, a clamp G with spring blade G¹ is pivoted to
a projection a³ of the casing A, the projection being provided with a caoutchouc
facing y. The tail of the clamp extends through a slot in the casing and bears
with its angular end against a spring G that tends to hold it in either the open
or the closed position. The tail bears laterally against the slide C which is formed
with a wedge shaped lower end C, so that as the slide is raised into the locked
position, it pushes the tail of G outward as at Figure 3 and thus closes G and
secures it in the closed position, thus holding the stick or umbrella contained therein
between the spring G¹ and cushion y.
When the holder B is in the open position, the narrowed part C³ of slide C is
opposite the tail of G as at Figure 4 so that this can be opened for removing the
stick.
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For indicating the number of times the locking device has been used, and con-
consequently also the number of coins in the casing, a suitable counter device can
be provided in the lower part of the casing, of which the principal actuating
disc H is shewn at Figures 2 and 3. This has divisions marked 1 to 10 each of
which has a projecting pin n, on which acts an inclined pojection o on the notched
lower end of the slide Ċ when this is moved downward. At the same time a pro-

page_text: jection p on C presses the spring 9 out of engagement with the notches on the
periphery of H, so as to allow the incline o to readily turn the disc one division by
the pin n as described. The transmission of the motion of disc H to a counter
mechanism can be effected in any known manner.
For enabling the device to indicate the number of articles that are hung upon
the peg, there is provided in the upper part of the casing A a sliding barr pro-
vided with numbered discs as at Figures 1 and 3, which bar has a button L pro-
jecting through a slot in the casing by which it can be slid up and down.
The bar has lateral notches, with which engages a spring catch , which, when
the slide C is raised into the locked position, is secured by an incline t on the slide
so that the bar is also locked in the position into which it has been slid by hand.
The above described locking peg is operated as follows.
The holder of the peg is usually in the open position, with the key D retained
in the casing A.
The articles of dress having been hung upon the peg B and the stick &c. inserted
in the clamp G, the owner inserts a coin in the slot M, whereby the shoot E is
made to release the slide C as described; he then depresses the holder thereby
raising the slide which is locked by the spring beak e¹, and thus also locks the
holder, while the clamp G is locked by the incline C₁ of the slide. The key D is
then withdrawn and retained by the owner.
Before closing the holder B₁ as described he can raise the bar so as to indicate
the number of articles on the peg, and this is then also locked in position as
described.
For removing the articles from the peg, the owner pushes in the key so as to
release the slide and allow spring b to open the holder, the key being at the same
time secured in the casing.
If a counter is used, the disc H thereof will be turned one division at each
downward motion of the slide C, the resulting change of number of the indicating
disc being visible through a hole in the casing, as at Figure 1.
As will be seen from the above, the improved locking wall peg or hook is of
simple construction, and manipulation, and affords effectual security against the
unauthorised removal of the articles of dress.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A wall peg or hook for securing articles of dress and the like in a locked
condition, consisting of a spring slide C contained in a casing A and actuating
by its motion both a pivoted locking holder B₁ and a clamp G, the said spring
slide being locked in its raised position by a spring catch e e¹ and in its lowered
position, or the open position of the holder D', by means of a pivotally suspended
coin shoot E while the releasing of the slide so as to enable it to move upward
and bring the holder 13 into the locked position, is effected by a coin introduced
into the shoot, such coin being made to press the shoot backward, so as to release
the slide, substianially as described.
2. A locking wall peg or hook such as is referred to in the first claim wherein
the pivotally suspended coin shoot E is provided with a pin i that takes into a
notch K of the slide so as to lock it in the lowered position substantially as described.
3. A locking wall hook or peg of the kind referred to in the first claim, in which
the slide C carries an abutment in against which the coin in the shoot E presses,
and which moves away from the coin on the upward motion of the slide so that
the coin can then fall out and allow the coin shoot E to assume its normal position,
substantially as described.
4. A locking wall hook or peg such as is referred to in the first claim, in which
the slide C has a projection g which, in the position corresponding to the open
position of the holder B' engages with the key D so as to prevent this from being
withdrawn except when the holder B¹ is closed.

page_text: 5. A locking wall hook or peg such as is referred to in the first claim, in which
-the locking of the clamp G is effected by an incline on the lower end of the slide (
bearing against a tail of the clamp when in the raised position, but which releases
the tail and clamp when the slide moves downward for unlocking the holder B¹
of the peg, substantially as described.
6. A locking wall hook or peg such as is referred to in the first claim in which
the lower end of the slide C is notched and has an incline o which at the down-
ward motion of the slide acts upon a pin n of a counter disc H so as to turn this
one division, substantially as and for the purposes described.
7. Controlling the motion of the counter disc H referred to in the sixth claim
by means of a spring q which on the downward motion of the slide C is pressed
out of engagement with disc H by a projection p on the slide substantially as
described.
8. A locking wall hook or peg such as is referred to in the first claim, in which
a sliding bar r, provided with numbers for indicating the number of articles placed
on the peg, is locked in the position into which it has been raised by means of
a projection t on the slide C pressing a spring catch vin engagement with the barr
substantially as described.