Improvements in Means for Securing Electric Insulators, Hooks, Rollers, and the like to Walls, Girders, Poles, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Securing Electric Insulators, Hooks,
Rollers, and the like to Walls, Girders, Poles, and the like.
I, ADAM BEAUJEAN, of 10 Vincens Street, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, Lock-
smith 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in a lath with adjustable knobs destined
to bear wires for electrotechnical purposes in which lath the wedge-iron slide
blocks bearing the knobs are displaced at will and fixed by means of a screw
penetrating the knob and the slide-block and, when turned towards the bottom of
the lath, pressing the oblique edges of the slide-blocks towards the obliquely
turned up flanks of the lath that form a wedge-shaped groove; and the objects of
my improvement are, first, to have a lath in which more or less knobs may be
arranged at will; and, second, to afford facilities for the proper adjustment of the
knobs independently of each other; and, third, to fasten the adjustable knobs in
the best manner.
I attain these objects by the lath illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in
which
Fig. 1 is a side-view of the lath provided with knobs; Fig. 2 a top-view and
Fig. 3 a cross-section of the same;
Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the lath provided with an adjustable double-hook to
set the lath in the wall;
Fig. 5 shows how to apply the lath for arranging books, Figs. 6 and 7 how to
arrange rollera in it and finally
Fig. 8 represents the cross-section of the lath in which the knob and the slide-.
block pieceless are arranged.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
In order to form a wedge-shaped groove, the sides of the lath are obliquely
turned up. In this groove the wedge-shaped quadrangular slide-blocks b may be
displaced and fixed by means of the screw s in the following manner. The slide-
blocks bear the knobs d and the screws passes through the knob and the slide-block,
said screw touching with its outmost end the bottom of the groove. By screwing
the said screw, its outmost end presses on the bottom of the lath and the slide-block
is driven upwardly so that its oblique edges are pressed towards the oblique sides of
the lath as shown by the arrows indicated in Fig. 3. In this way the knob may
easily be disengaged by loosening the screw and fixed in a moment by screwing
the screw.
In order to set the lath in the wall, the lath is provided with an adjustable
double-hook h (Fig. 4), the two parts of which that are to be walled in an hole of
the wall, are bent on their upper ends according to the circuit of the lath and are
united together by means of the screw t. After having loosened this screw I can
alacken the hook and displace it so that I need not make a second hole if the first
is not made on the just place.
When the lath shall be provided with pretty many knobs and consequently the
lath must be pretty long, there may be arranged two or several hooks h.
When the lath is to be arranged on girders, poles, or the like, there is disposed