Year: 1885

page_text: I JOSIAH REDDIE MARTIN MALLETT of 4 City Buildings Moor Lane in the City
of London Fine Art Publisher do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
.
The object of my invention is to construct a device for securing clothes to ropes
or "lines" which while being considerably smaller than an ordinary clothes peg
will hold the clothes more securely and be more easily applied.
My device is composed of a kind of crook to slip on to the rope or line this crook
having teeth or projections on its inner periphery to enable it to bite the rope; on
the stem of the crook which hangs vertically below the rope are fixed or formed one
or more, preferably two, hook-shaped pins. When it is required to hang up an
article to dry it is attached to two or more of my devices at a suitable distance
apart by means of the pins, and the devices are then slipped on to the rope or line.
Articles hung to lines by means of my devices cannot be blown off or pulled off
or slip off.
Another advantage is that instead of being obliged to first put the
corners or other part of an article over the line and to then secure same by means
of a peg, thus necessitating the use of both hands (and often the exertion of
reaching high) my devices enable the article to be hooked securely before slipping
them on the line which operation requires the use of only one hand. My devices
are especially useful for hanging small articles such as collars, cuffs, handkerchiefs
and towels.

page_text: I JOSIAH REDDIE MARTIN MALLETT, of 4 City Buildings, Moor Lane, in the
City of London, Fine Art Publisher 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:-
The object of my invention is to construct a device for securing clothes to ropes
or "lines," which while being considerably smaller than an ordinary clothes peg
will hold the clothes more securely, and be more easily applied.
My device is composed of a kind of crook to slip on to the rope or line, this
crook having teeth or projections on its inner periphery to enable it to bite the
rope; on the stem of the crook are fixed or formed one or more hook-shaped pins.
When it is required to hang up an article to dry, it is attached to two or more of
my devices at a suitable distance apart by means of the pins, and the devices are
then slipped on to the rope or line.
The annexed drawings illustrate several forms or modifications of my improved
device.
Figure 1 is a side view, and Figure 2 a front view (slightly perspective) of one
form. u represents the rope or line. b is the crook of the device having teeth or
projections on its inner periphery, as shown, to enable it to bite the rope. On the
lower end of the stem c of the crook is a hook or hook-shaped pin e. In manu-
facturing this device I prefer for the sake of economy to stamp it out of one piece
of metal in the form shown. The hook e may afterwards be turned round at right
angles to the crook, but I consider it better not to do this before sale so that the
devices may occupy less room when packed. el represents in dots another hook
which may be stamped out at the same time when two hooks are required.
Figure 3 is a side view of a modification in which the hook or hooks e, e¹ are
somewhat longer than those shown in Figures 1 and 2 and are turned up some-
what differently. As with the modification shown in Figures 1 and 2 the hooks
may after the stamping be turned round at right angles to the crook. Figure 4
represents a modification in which the crook is extended equally on each side and
has a hook on each end. In this modification also the hooks may before use be
turned round so as to be in the line of the rope, or approximately so.
It is obvious that my device is capable of various other modifications; the
essential feature is that a kind of crook has teeth or projections to bite the rope
and carries one or more hooks or hook-shaped pins for the clothes to be attached to.
Articles hung to lines by means of my devices are not liable to be blown off, or
pulled off, or slip off. Another advantage is that instead of being obliged to first
put the corners or other part of an article over the line and to then secure same by
means of a peg, thus necessitating the use of both hands (and often the exertion of
reaching high), my devices enable the article to be hooked securely before slipping
them on the line, which operation requires the use of only one hand. My devices
are especially useful for hanging small articles, such as collars, cuffs, handkerchiefs
and towels.

page_text: 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 :-
A crook-like device having teeth or projections on its inner periphery and
carrying one or more hooks or hook-shaped pins, substantially as and for the
purpose described.