Improvements in Means for Hanging or Suspending Pictures and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Hanging or Suspending Pictures and
the like.
I, CHARLES ALDERSLADE of 9 Lower St. James's Street, Newport, Isle of
Wight, Picture Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention which relates to means for hanging or suspending pictures and the like
has for its object to reduce to a minimum the friction on the picture cord or wire, and
to effect the horizontal adjustment of the picture more easily than by the means at
present in use. Pictures and the like hung in accordance with this invention, will,
when their weight is evenly balanced, tend to adjust themselves in a horizontal
position.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide the picture nail with a rotatable
head having a circumferential groove therein so that the rotatable head serves as a
small pulley over which the picture cord or wire runs.
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In the case of picture hooks to be threaded on a rod, hung upon a picture
moulding, or pinned, screwed, or otherwise secured to the wall, a spindle carrying
small pulley is secured in the hook in a position to carry the picture cord or wire.
The spindle may rotate in bearings in the hook and the pulley keyed fast to the
spindle, or the spindle may be fast and the pulley rotatable thereon.
Dated this 4th day of December 1891.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Hanging or Suspending Pictures and
the like.
I, CHARLES ALDERSLADE of 9 Lower St. James's Street, Newport, Isle of
Wight, Picture Dealer, 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 which relates to means for hanging or suspending pictures and the
like has for its object to reduce to a minimum the friction on the picture cord or wire,
and to effect the horizontal adjustment of the picture more easily than by the means
at present in use. Pictures and the like hung in accordance with this invention,
will, when their weight is evenly balanced, tend to adjust themselves in a horizontal
position.
In carrying my invention into effect, I provide the picture nail with a rotatable
head having a circumferential groove therein so that the rotatable head serves as a
small pulley over which the picture cord or wire runs.
In the case of picture hooks to be threaded on a rod, hung upon a picture
moulding, or pinned, screwed or otherwise secured to the wall, a spindle carrying a
small pulley is secured in the hook in a position to carry the picture cord or wire.
The spindle may rotate in bearings in the hook and the pulley be keyed fast to the
spindle, or the spindle may be fast and the pulley rotatable thereon.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a picture nail A,
having a rotatable head B, with a circumferential groove C therein; Figure 2
shews the same partially embedded in a wall or other place. The shank of this
nail is made with a flange or collar D which keeps the rotatable head B from

page_text: passing too far down the shank. The top of the nail is passed through a central
hole in the rotatable pulley head B and the two parts are secured by burring over
the top of the nail on the outside of the pulley as shewn. Other methods of
attaching the rotatable pulley head to the shank may be adapted; for example, the
collar on the shank may be dispensed with by making the fancy boss E of the head
detachable from the pulley. In this case the three parts are secured together as
follows The pulley is passed on to the shank, the top of which is then burred
over; the fancy boss E is then secured to the pulley by bending its edges over so that
they clip into the groove C. Figure 3 is a side elevation of a picture hook adapted
for hanging upon a picture moulding or other projection. F is the pulley which is
preferably loose on the spindle G whose ends are rivetted at H and J on the back
and front of the book. Figure 4 shews a side elevation of a picture hook adapted
for being threaded or loosely slipped or passed on to a picture rod, and Figure 5
shews a perspective view of a hook adapted to be secured to a wall or other place
by pins, or screws passed through the holes K in the back plate L. In Figures 4
and 5 the pulley F is secured so as to be capable of rotation. Figure 6 shews a
front elevation; and Figure 7 a side view of a back plate M to which a rotatable
pulley N is secured, the plate being secured to the wall by pins or screws passed
through the holes K. The spindle P is passed through a central aperture in the
pulley N, and is burred over; the fancy head or boss O is then put on and secured
by turning its edges O2 inwards over the contiguous edges of the pulley.
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
For hanging or suspending pictures and the like, a nail, hook, or other supporting
device provided with a rotatable head circumferentially grooved substantially as
described.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.