IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOOKS TO BE USED FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Nicklin, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF HOOKS TO BE USED FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS, AND
VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 24th January 1865, and dated the 29th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Nicklin, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th July 1864.
I, JOSEPH NICKLIN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOOKS TO BE USED FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS, AND
VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in combining in various new and useful ways the
principle of the hook and the safety pin, or the spring pin with protected
point.
The annexed Drawings represent a few of the forms this Invention will
assume; some of the exhibits therein shewn depending upon their formation
from a single wire, others having the addition of sheaths, protectors, or clips
formed of sheet metal, others again being formed of two wires..
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, represent the forms made from a single wire.
Figures 6 and 7, shew those to which sheet metal protectors are attached.

page_text: Figures 9 and 10 shew the forms made of two pieces of wire, and Figures
8 and 11, shew the forms made of a single wire, the neck of the hook being
kept in position by a sheet metal clip.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Nicklin, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL (COME, I, JOSEPH
NICKLIN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Nicklin, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Nicklin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Joseph Nicklin, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOOKS TO BE USED FOR
THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition,
amongst others, that I, the said Joseph Nicklin, by an instrument in
writing, under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Nicklin, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-,
This Invention consists in combining in various new and useful ways the
principle of the hook, the loop or the ring with the safety pin, or the spring
in with protected point.

page_text: The annexed Drawings represent a few of the forms this Invention will
assume; some of the exhibits, therein shewn depending solely upon their.
formation from a single wire, others having the addition of sheaths, pro-
tectors, or clips, formed of sheet metal, others again being formed of two wires.
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 12, represent some of the forms of hook
made from a single wire.
In producing the form seen at (Figure 1), the beak (a) having been bent
up and round to form a hook, the wire is next thrown out as at (6), to form a
shield or protector. The wire is then produced to any desired length in the
direction of (c) where it is coiled to form a spring for the pin (d) shewn (as
it would appear when disengaged in dotted lines) the point of which is
received behind, and thus protected by the shield (b) when in use.
The modification shewn in (Figure 2), varies only from the last described
by the protector (b) being formed of one bend of the wire instead of two.
In Figure (3), the beak of the hook (a) and the protector (b) are both
formed of double wire, by closing or clipping one end of the wire round the
stem as at (c), and then forming the requisite bends in the directions shewn in
that Drawing.
In (Figure 4) the beak (a) of the hook only is formed of double wire, the
remainder being single, one end forming the shield or protector (b) and the
other the pin point.
In (Figure 5) no shield is used, a spring pin (a) is combined with a hook
(b) the point of the pin being partly protected by its contiguity to the bend
of the hook.
(Figure 7) is a modified form of the hook seen in (Figure 1), only that the
shield (6) is not in the same plane as the pin, but in a plane at right angles
with that of the pin.
Figure 12 shews a modification of the form seen at Figure (3) the wire at
the middle of the stem being turned into a ring or loop as at (a).
Figure 6 represents the hook and pin, furnished with a protector or shield
(a) of thin metal clipped to the neck of the hook at (6), and turned up at its
other end (c) to form the catch for the point of the pin (d).
Figures 9, 10, and 13, represent the forms made of two pieces of wire.
In (Figure 9) the stem (a) is looped in its middle as at (6) and from the
loop is suspended a free book (c), one end of the pin wire being shaped into
a double-beaked shield (d) and the other forming the pin point. (Figure
10) is similar to (Figure 9), but with a single-beaked shield (a), and the loop
or ring (6) bent into the plane of the remainder of the pin. (Figure 13)

page_text: varies only from (Figure 10) in the substitution of a free ring (a) for the
hook seen in Figure 10.
Figures 8 and 11 represent forms of pin and hook made from a single wire,
but with the necks of the hooks which are double secured from opening out
by clipping them with thin metal clips as at (a); in all other respects these
shapes resemble others that have already been more particularly specified.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim the several improve-
ments in the manufacture of hooks to be used for the suspension of curtains
and various other purposes substantially in manner herein more fully set forth
and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Nicklin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JOSEPH NICKLIN. (L.B.)