An Improved Rack for Sticks, Umbrellas, Tools, Handles, and analogous Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1900-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1900
An Improved Rack for Sticks, Umbrellas, Tools, Handles,
and analogous Articles.
I, RICHARD MELIUISH, of 84, Fetter Lane, London, E.C., Hardware and Tool
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
..
The object of my invention is to construct improved racks for holding sticks,
umbrellas, tools, handles, and analogous articles.
According to my invention I construct the rack of a single piece of sheet
metal. This metal is stamped and cut, by suitably formed stamping appliances,
in such a manner that parts thereof are capable of being bent into suitable
projecting clips for suspending sticks, umbrellas, tools, handles, and other
articles. Suitable holes are also formed therein or therethrough for use in
attaching the rack to a wall, pillar, or other suitable support by means of
screws, hooks or nails, the rack being sufficiently flexible to accommodate
itself to the structural form of the support. Hooks for hanging the rack to a
rod, bar, or analogous article may also be formed in one therewith.
TJ 001 T 1800
RICHARD MELHUISH.
By George Downing & Sons,
Chartered Patent Agents, 8, Quality Court, London, W.C.
An Improved Rack for Sticks, Umbrellas, Tools, Handles,
and analogous Articles.
I, RICHARD MELIUISH, of 84, Fetter Lane, 'London, E.C., Hardware and Tool
Merchant, 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:-
The object of my invention is to construct improved racks for holding sticks,
umbrellas, tools, handles, and analogous articles.
According to my invention I construct the rack of a single piece of sheet
metal. This metal is stamped and cut, by suitably formed stamping appliances,
in such a manner that parts thereof are capable of being bent into suitable
projecting clips for suspending sticks, umbrellas, tools, handles, and other
articles. Suitable holes are also formed therein or therethrough for use in
attaching the rack to a wall, pillar, or other suitable support by means of
screws, hooks, or nails, the rack being sufficiently flexible to accommode

page_text: itself to the structural form of the support. Hooks for hanging the rack to a
rod, bar, or analogous article may also be formed in one therewith.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings in which
similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan view of one of my improved racks.
6 is the plate of metal which is stamped and cut as shown in Fig. 1, so
as to be capable of having the free ends bb bent to suitable shapes, as shown
in Fig. 2. cc are holes for sustaining the plate upon screws; or hooks may
be stamped out of the plate for a similar purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
The improved construction of rack as and for the purposes herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings
Dated 23rd March 1900.
RICHARD MELHUISH.
By George Downing & Sons,
Chartered Patent Agents, S, Quality Court, London, W.C.