Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat and Coat Hooks.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left; 10th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat and Coat Hooks.
We, WILLIAM HENRY WYNN and HAROLD WILLIAM SOUTHALL, trading as
Burt Bros., of Crescent Copper Works, Edward Street, Parade, in the City of
Birmingham, Coppersmiths and Brassfounders, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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Hat and coat hooks according to this invention are made from a metal blank
of suitable shape which is cut out and pressed up to form the branches of the
hook of a tubular construction and the attachment plate flat or slightly concave,
or part flat and part corrugated, for strength.
In the production of a hat hook according to this invention a metal blank
is taken somewhat of the shape of a spoon, the bowl part to form the attachment
plate and the handle part the branch. This blank is in the flat curved to the
side figure of the hook, resembling somewhat an O-G form. The handle part of
the blank is next by suitable tools cupped and rolled up into a tube to form the
projecting branch of the hook, whilst at the same time, or by a subsequent
operation, the junction between the branch and the attachment plate is corrugated
or bulged out at a point to strengthen it, so that it will not bend when any
weight is supported by the branch. The attachment plate part of the shaped
blank is then pierced to form screw holes for the hook's attachment, and the
tip of the branch is screwed and fitted with a terminal or knob.
In forming a hat or coat hook according to this invention the blank would
comprise branches both sides of the attachment plate part, which would be shaped
and curved up tubular into the form well known.
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W. P. THOMPSON & Co.;
11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicants.
We, WILLIAM HENRY WYNN and HAROLD WILLIAM SOUTHALL, trading as
Burt Bros., of Crescent Copper Works, Edward Street, Parade, in the City of
Birmingham, Coppersmiths and Brassfounders, 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:-
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its object an improved manufacture whereby such hooks and pegs can be very
cheaply produced.
Hat and coat hooks according to this invention are made from a metal blank
of suitable size, which is cut out and shaped up to form the branches of the
hook or peg of a tubular construction, and the attachment plate part flat, or
slightly concaved, or partly flat and partly corrugated...
A hat and coat hook manufactured according to this invention is set forth in
the accompanying sheet of drawings by Figs. 1 and 2, and the manner in which
the same is produced from a blank in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6. In Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10,
and 11 a hat hook or peg; or a hook having only a single branch, constructed
according to this invention is shown produced from a blank..
In the formation of the hook, Figs. I and 2, a thin flat metal blank a (Fig. 3) of
the requisite size and having an enlarged portion a3 at its middle to form the
attachment plate part g of the hook, is first taken, and the branches a³, as, thereof
are operated upon by suitable press tools to give them a trough or U-sectional
figure, thereby fashioning the said blank to the form shown by Fig. 4. These
U-sectioned branches are subsequently operated upon to close or roll over the
edges, so that 'the said branches become tubular as in Fig. 5, the attachment
plate part of the blank being subsequently shaped to the section g², Fig. 2.
The tubular branches, Fig. 5, are by a separate process curved up in the manner
shown by Fig. 6, and terminals h, h2, (Fig. 1) are fitted over their extremities.
It will be seen from Figs. 1 and 2 that the hook is, tubular in cross section on
the dotted line A, of a trough section on the dotted line B, and slightly concaved
in cross section on the dotted line C, the latter being taken through the attach-
ment plate part.
In the production of a hat hook, Figs. 7 to 11, a metal blank c, Fig. 7, is taken
somewhat of the shape of a spoon, the bowl-shaped part 2 to form the attachment
plate, and the handle-part the hook's branch. This blank is first curved into
the form shown in Fig. 8, after which its handle-part and part of its bowl, e², is
cupped up by suitable tools-to the U-section, Fig. 9, and subsequently its handle
part is rolled over into a tube, Fig. 10, leaving the bowl portion c², which forms
the attachment plate to the hook, bulged out or corrugated as shown by . The
attachment plate part is then pierced to form holes for the passage of screws
for the hook's affixment, and the curved tip of the branch is fitted with a
terminal or knob similar to the one has shown in Fig. 1.
The corrugating or bulging of the hooks at the attachment plate parts gives
to them considerable strength.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
First. A hat and coat hook or a hat hook manufactured from a flat metal
blank by shaping the branches of the said blank tubular and the attachment
plate part concaved or corrugated, and curving the said blank into the side
shape desired; and fitting to its tips terminals, substantially as described.
Second. In the formation of hooks as claimed in the proceeding claim, the
particular methods described and illustrated for shaping them up from flat metal
blanks.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicants.