AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR HANGING PICTURES, CLOTHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND WHICH MAY ALSO SERVE AS A KNOB OR HANDLE FOR FURNITURE, AND FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st May 1880. A communication
from abroad by Spencer C. Cary, of Brooklyn, New York, United States of
America.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR HANGING PICTURES,
CLOTHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND WHICH MAY ALSO SERVE AS A KNOB OR
HANDLE FOR FURNITURE, AND FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES." [A communication
from abroad by Spencer C. Cary, of Brooklyn, New York, United States of
America.]
The object of this Invention is to provide an article to be used in suspending
picture frames, and when desired, by the use of a body hereinafter described, to
form a clothes hook; it may also be used as a drawer pull or the like, the whole
being made in such a manner that the person using tho article may without
employing tools secure the same in any desired position in a better and more
satisfactory manner than has been heretofore known.
In carrying the said Invention into practice I provide a nail or screw with an
ornamental head and body, and I'employ wood and metal or metal alone in such
a manner that the head or bar may be used as a lever to turn the screw into the
wall or other object. I make the screw of any suitable metal, and by any of the
usual methods; and an eye part is formed by bending or casting in the usual
manner. The head and the wooden body are turned in the accustomed manner
by lathe or hollow mandrel, being made of suitable sizes and lengths, and they
may be polished, oiled, or finished by any of the known methods for finishing
wood. The shape and style may be varied to suit all tastes, the wood body being
made in any desired ornamental form. The wood bar or head is secured in the
ring or eye of the screw by compressing the diameter of the ring upon the wood
at the centre, making an indention sufficiently deep to prevent slipping of the
wood in case of contraction of the same in seasoning. Furrows may be turned at
the centre for the ring to be be embedded in, if preferred. The ends of the bar or
head may be made ornamental by turning or by covering the same with metallic
caps. These caps may be of any desired configuration, and may be cast or made
by the usual means of sheet metal. Where a long shank to the screw is used I
attach a washer at the upper part of the screw.

page_text: If preferred the whole device may be of metal, in which case the bar, body, and
eye may be made or cast separately, or cast together in one piece, the screw being
then cast in the lower part of the body.
The employment of wood is advantageous for ease and cheapness of manufacture,
and for the various pleasing shades of the same. When polished or otherwise
finished, and the metallic ring surrounding the wood, when the ring is plated or
otherwise finished, contrasts with the wood, and a very ornamental device is
obtained.
When desired the said Invention may with slight changes be made to serve the
purpose of a drawer pull and the like.