A New or Improved Picture Rod or Moulding Hook.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Picture Rod or Moulding Hook.
We EVERED AND COMPY LIMITED, of Barnet Works Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers and SAMUEL BAKER of No. 174 Handsworth
New Road Handsworth in the County of Stafford Commercial Clerk do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The picture rod or moulding hook, for suspending pictures and the like against
walls or other surfaces, to which the said invention has reference consists of a
double hook shaped metallic strip, the top hook of the said strip having a semi-
circular figure for taking on the picture rod or moulding, the bottom hook being of
a much smaller size than the top hook for receiving the cord or wire attached to
the picture. Picture rod or moulding hooks of this, the ordinary construction are
liable to accidental disengagement from the rod or moulding on which they are
hung; and the said invention has for its object to prevent the accidental disengage-
ment of the said hooks from the said rods or mouldings.
In constructing a picture rod or moulding hook according to the said invention,
we provide the semi-circular top hook with an additional strip or band of metal.
The said additional metallic strip or band is bent or curved so as to fit on the
semi-circular top hook and works in a guide or guides on or in the said semi-
circular top hook. The said bent strip is provided at its front end with a knob
or projection by which it may be advanced or withdrawn.
When the picture rod or moulding hook is not in use the said curved strip is
situated on the semi-circular top of the said hook the underside of the said hook
being open for placing it on a rod or moulding. But when the picture rod or
moulding hook is in use, that is, when its semi-circular top has been engaged with
a picture rod or moulding the sliding strip hereinbefore referred to is advanced
in its guide. The semi-circular top hook is thereby converted into a circular or
nearly circular loop completely encircling the picture rod, or into a deeper hook
so as to cause it to engage with the full depth of the moulding.
By the construction of the picture or moulding hook hereinbefore described the
danger hereinbefore referred to of the said hook becoming disengaged from the
picture rod or moulding is obviated.
Dated this 14th day of December 1893-
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Picture Rod or Moulding Hook.
We EVERED AND COMPY. LIMITED of Barnet Works, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers and SAMUEL BAKER of No. 174 Handsworth
New Road, Handsworth in the County of Stafford, Commercial Clerk, do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The picture rod or moulding hook for suspending pictures and the like against
walls or other surfaces, to which the said invention has reference consists of a

page_text: double hook shaped metallic strip, the top hook of the said strip having a semi-
circular figure for taking on the picture rod or moulding, the bottom hook being
of a much smaller size than the top hook for receiving the cord or wire attached
to the picture. Picture rod or moulding hooks of this, the ordinary, construction
are liable to accidental disengagement from the rod or moulding on which they
are hung; and the said invention has for its object to prevent the accidental
disengagement of the said hooks from the said rods or mouldings.
In constructing a picture rod or moulding hook according to the said invention
we provide the semi-circular top hook with an additional strip or band of metal.
The said additional metallic strip or band is bent or curved so as to fit on the
semi-circular top, hook and works in a guide or guides on or in the said semi-
circular top hook. The said bent strip is provided at its front end with a knob or
projection by which it may be advanced or withdrawn. The said knob or
projection also serves to prevent the bent strip passing completely through the
guide or guides and from becoming detached.
When the picture rod or moulding hook is not in use the said curved strip is
situated on the semi-circular top of the said hook the underside of the said hook
being open for placing it on a rod or moulding. But when the picture rod or
moulding hook is in use that is, when its semi-circular top has been engaged with
a picture rod or moulding, the sliding strip hereinbefore referred to is advanced in
its guide. The semi-circular top hook is thereby converted into a circular or
nearly circular loop completely encircling the picture rod, or into a deeper hook
so as to cause it to engage with the full depth of the moulding.
By the construction of the picture or moulding hook herein before described the
danger herein before referred to of the said hook becoming disengaged from the
picture rod or moulding is obviated.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation, Figure 2
in side elevation and Figure 3 in plan a picture rod or moulding hook constructed
according to the said invention in position on a picture rod before the part
constituting the said invention is engaged with the rod; Figure 4 represents the
same in side elevation after the part constituting the said invention has been
engaged with the said picture rod and Figures 5 and 6 represent the two parts of
the picture rod or moulding hook detached.
The same letters indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
a is the semi-circular top hook which rests or is hooked on the picture rod d in
the ordinary way and b is the bottom smaller hook for receiving the cord or wire
attached to the picture. Near the summit of the semi-circular top hook a we form
by piercing and bending the oblong shaped guiding loop a. On the top of the
semi-circular hook a and passing through the guiding loop a² is the nearly semi-
circular metallic strip e the front end of which is doubled upon itself as represented
so as to form a knob or projection by which the curved metallic strip c may be
moved upon the semi-circular top hook a.
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When the hook a has been placed upon the picture rod d as represented in
Figures 1, 2 and 3 the metallic strip c is advanced through its guiding loop a' so as
to engage with the underside of the picture rod as represented in Figure 4, thereby
preventing the accidental disengagement of the hook from the picture rod.
When the hook hereinbefore described and represented is used on a moulding
the metallic strip e engages with the full depth of the moulding.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention :-
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The new or improved picture rod or moulding hook hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing, that is to say, the combination with the
top hook of the picture rod or moulding hook of a guided curved metallic, strip
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page_text: resting and being capable of motion on the said top hook so as to completely
surround the picture rod or engage with the full depth of the moulding substantially
as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
Deted the First day of August 1894.
er pro EVERED & COMPY., LIMITED,
RICHARD GEORGE EVERED. Director.
SAMUEL BAKER.