Improved Hooks for Coats, Hats, and other Articles of Dress.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1895-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Hooks for Coats, Hats, and other Articles of Dress.
1, ERNEST RALPH SHORT, Draughtsman, 23 Coleman Street, London, E.C.
England, a communication from Heinrich Prinz, Manufacturer of Holthausen,
by Plettenberg, Province of Westphalia Germany, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
In carrying out my invention I employ two mouldings or strips of wood or other
material fastened together at convenient distance by screws or pins. Between
these mouldings or strips which are secured to a wall or to the interior of a
The hooks are attached to
wardrobe, I place hooks for holding hats, coats, etc.
the strips or mouldings by their ends being inserted in holes on top of lower
moulding and on bottom of upper one respectively, and they are thus capable of
being turned so us to lie flat against the wall when not in use.
Dated this 10th day of February 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.
Improved Hooks for Coats, Hats, and other Articles of Dress.
I, ERNEST RALPH SHORT, Draughtsman, 23 Coleman Street, London, E.C.
(a communication from Heinrich Priuz, Manufacturer of Holthausen, by Pletten-
berg, Province of Westphalia, Germany), 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 :-
My improvements in holders for coats, hats, and other articles of dress consists
in making them of one piece of material held together by a two eyed connecting
piece, the ends of the vertical parts of the hooks turning in holes in the edges of
upper and lower rails, made of wood or other suitable material which are kept at
the proper distance apart, by a rod or rods passing through the two rails, the rods
being screwed into the bottom rail, and being provided at the top with ring-eyes to
keep the rails from moving asunder.
In order to more clearly indicate the nature of my invention, I refer to the
drawings on the accompanying sheet in which are shown two modes of carrying
out my invention.
Fig. 1 shows a wardrobe hook, with the supporting rails in section, and showing
also the rod for retaining the two rails apart. Fig. 2 shows the hook in
perspective, and Fig. 3 a modified form of hook.
The hooks are held between two pieces of wood or other material'a and ↳
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, which are kept at the proper distance apart by two or more
rods f. These rods screw into 6 and are screwed up so that the eye at the top of
each presses down the upper rail a and keeps the hooks supported between that
and the bottom rail b.
The hooks can be formed in various ways, from one piece of wire or other
material. For instance, c, c, c², c², c³, Fig. 2 show one form of hook made from a

page_text: continuous piece of wire. Fig. 3 shows at i, i, 1, 2, another way of bending the
wire; in both instances the wire is in one length, and the upper and lower parts of
the hook are held together by the connecting piece d Fig. 2, or k Fig. 3, provided
with eyes at each end as shown in the drawings. The loop c¹ in Fig. 2 is bent up
a little, and the bottom loop is shorter, and turned up more, than c¹.
Fig. 3 shows the hooks made in one piece also, but so that the wire remains in
-one plane. The wire in this case is bent out from the upper end i at or at about a
right angle, then turned up as shown at i¹ from which point it is carried downwards
and backwards, then formed into the hook 3, and from thence bent backwards and
finally downwards, the ends i, i having a coincident axis.
The wardrobe hooks made in accordance with my invention are easily constructed
and consequently can be sold cheaper than the ordinary kind, and are easily mounted
without departing from a graceful shape.
I do not confine myself to the precise shapes as herein shown, as they, and the
other details may be varied without departing from my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
-claim is :-
The combination of upper and lower rails, with hooks constructed in accordance
with this invention, the ends of the said hooks turning in the said rails and the said
rails being kept at the proper distance apart by the connecting rod f, the whole
substantially as described in the above Specification and exemplified in the
-accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.