Improvements in Hooks for Supporting Pipes, Spouting, and for other Purposes, and in the Manufacture of the same.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 188
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks for Supporting Pipes, Spouting, and for
other Purposes, and in the Manufacture of the same.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM SANDLAND, of 372, Heath Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Commercial Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to what are known as "gas-hooks" and "line-hooks"
for supporting iron, compo and other pipes, and to those hooks known as "spouting-
brackets" for supporting spouting, and the said invention can also be applied to other
kinds of hooks from which articles are suspended or hung.
I will first describe my invention as applied more particularly to the manufacture of
gas-hooks.
In making a gas-hook according to my invention I make the shank of the hook
which is driven into the wall or other place separate and distinct from the part which
clips the pipe. That part which clips the pipe is by preference stamped or pierced
from sheet metal and the shank is in the form of a headed nail. The lower end of the
clip part has a hole through which the shank is threaded and the clip part is passed
right up to the nail head of the shank part where it is secured by clenching pressing
or by other means so as to form a complete pipe hook. The nail head of the shank
thus forms a strong shoulder which can be struck in driving the hook.
Instead of employing a headed shank as above described the head may be dispensed
with and the shank reduced in size or shouldered down where it passes through the
hole in the clip and this is more particularly applicable to spouting hooks or brackets.
In fixing the shank and clip part of this hook together the reduced end of the shank is
passed through the hole in the clip and then rivetted over, a washer being by pre-
ference first threaded on to the end of the shank so as to fix the clip part more securely
thereto.
The shanks of the improved hooks or brackets above described may either be of flat,
square, round, oval or other convenient shape in cross section, and the clip parts may
either be flat, or halfround in cross section or of an ornamental character or of any
other form; and in some cases I provide fancy or ornamental heads to the shank
parts.
Other kinds of hooks for suspending or hanging articles from can be formed
similarly as above described with reference to gas hooks and spouting brackets.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1888.
CHARLES BUSWORTH KEILEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks for Supporting Pipes, Spouting, and for
other Purposes, and in the Manufacture of the same.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM SANDLAND, of 372, Heath Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Commercial Clerk, 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 :-
This invention has reference to what are known as "gas-hooks" and "line-hooks"
for supporting iron, compo and other pipes, and to those hooks known as "spouting-
brackets" for supporting spouting.
I will first describe my invention as applied more particularly to the manufacture

page_text: In making a gas hook according to my invention I make the shank of the hook
which is driven into the wall or other place separate and distinct from the part which
clips the pipe. That part which clips the pipe is by preference stamped or pierced
from sheet metal and the shank is in the form of a headed nail. The lower end of the
clip part has a hole through which the shank is threaded and the clip part is passed
right up to the nail head of the shank part where it is secured by clenching pressing
or by other means so as to form a complete pipe hook. The nail head of the shank-
thus forms a strong shoulder which can be struck in driving the hook.
Instead of employing a headed shank as above described the head may be dispensed
with and the shank reduced in size or shouldered down where it passes through the
hole in the clip and this is more particularly applicable to spouting hooks or brackets.
In fixing the shank and clip part of this hook together the reduced end of the shank
is passed through the hole in the clip and then riveted over, a washer being by pre-
ference first threaded on to the end of the shank so as to fix the clip part more securely
thereto.
The shanks of the improved hooks or brackets above described may either be of flat,
square, round, oval or other convenient shape in cross section, and the clip parts may
either be flat, or halfround in cross section or of an ornamental character or of any
other form; and in some cases I provide fancy or ornamental heads to the shank
parts.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents in front and end elevations a gas-
hook constructed according to this invention in which the shank is made in the form
of a headed nail; Fig. 2 shews the clip part, and Fig. 3 the shank part of the saine
separately; Fig. 4 shews a modified form of shank part for the same; Figs. 5, 6 and 7
represent a larger sized pipe hook and illustrate another method of securing the clip
and headed shank parts together; Fig. 7* shews a further modification of the same;
Figs. 8 and 8 illustrate a further modification; Fig. 9 shews in front elevation and
Fig. 10 in inverted plan a spouting bracket constructed according to this invention in
which the head on the shank is dispensed with and Figs. 11 and 12 shew parts of the
same separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the
drawing.
b
a is that part of the gas-hook, pipe-hook or spouting bracket which clips the pipe or
spouting, or on which the same rests, and b is the shank part of the same.
The clip a
and the shank part 6 are made separate and distinct from each other, the clip part a
being by preference stamped or pierced from sheet metal in the small sizes, and made
. from strips of rectangular or other suitable section in the large sizes, as may be most
convenient; the lower part a¹ being bent down and pierced by a hole c for its attach-
ment to the shank part b, which may be effected in various ways such for instance as
that illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 in which the shank 6 is provided with a head bl
which is wanting on the upper side; (or the upper side of the head may be turned
back to support the clip a as shewn in Fig. 1*) the clip a is threaded on to the shank b
and passed right up to the head 6' where, in this example, it is secured by that part 62
of the shank immediately in front of the clip a¹ being bulged outwardly so as to press
the clip a¹ against the head : this can readily be done by holding the shank bin a
vice a short distance from the clip a' and then delivering a blow upon the head 61.
Or the shank b can be attached to the clip part a by the former having small grooves b³
at each side under the head as shewn by Fig. 4 into which the part a² of the clip a is
pressed after it has been threaded on to the shank b. Or part of the shank b and its
head 6 can be cut away at 6* on the upper side as shewn by Figs. 5, 6, and 7, 7, 8,
and 8*, so as to bring the upper side of the shank level with the inside of the clip
part a. In these examples the clip part a is threaded on to the pointed end of the
shank b, as in the example above described, and when pressed up against the head the
body of the clip part a is moved into the notch 61; the lower part of the hole C, which
will now not be filled by the shank, can be filled up by having a peg or pin d driven
into it, or by a collar d' as shewn by Figs. 8 and 8* which is pressed on to the shank b

page_text: so as to firmly secure the shank and clip a together. Instead of or in addition to the
pin d the inside of the shank may be bulged outwardly as shewn by Fig. 7* by being
indented underneath at e so as to press the clip a against the head b¹.
When the shank b is made without a head, as in the example iliustrated by Figs. 9,
10, 11 and 12, the shank is reduced in size or shouldered down at 6 where it passes
through the hole c in the clip a'. The washer is then threaded on to the end of the
fore part which latter is riveted over so as to firmly secure the parts a and b
together; or the washer may be dispensed with.
In conclusion I wish it to bo understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
details herein described and illustrated as the same may be varied without departing
from the nature of my invention, but,
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:
1. In gas-hooks and other pipe-hooks, spouting brackets and the like, making the
shank part in the form of a headed nail or spike, separate from the part a which
clips or supports the pipe or spouting, and securing the clip part a to the shank
part in either of the several ways substantially as described and illustrated by
Figs. 1 to 8x both inclusive of the accompanying drawing.
2. In gas-hooks and other pipe-hooks, spouting brackets and the like, making
the shank part in the form of a spike or nail with a reduced fore part 6,
separate from the part a which clips or supports the pipe or spouting, and securing
the clip part a to the shank part in the manner substantially as described and
illustrated by Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1889
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.