Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat and Coat Hooks.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat and Coat Hooks.
I JOHN WHITEHEAD of 28 George Street Lozells, Aston near Birmingham in
the County of Stafford Art Metal Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of hat and coat hooks,
and consists in making such hooks from sheet metal, cut, stamped and formed after
the manner hereinafter described.
I will describe it for instance as applied to the making of an ordinary form of
hook, wherein the upper (long) part is used as the hat hook and the lower (short)
part, as a coat hook.
I take a piece of sheet metal, and cut or stamp therefrom a blank of a suitable
shape to produce the desired hook, such blank having also thereon ears or plates in
which are pierced screw down holes. That part of the blank from which is to be
formed the upper part of the hook, is preferably made of a taper shape, its narrow
part being at the outer end.
This blank is then placed in suitable tools in a press, and stamped or closed over
into a hollow circular or part circular sectional form; the seam or joint preferably
being upon the upper side, and thus hidden from view.
In this manner
am enabled to produce a correct form for strength, that is, it
may be symmetrically much thicker and stronger at its base than at its point,
which also very much improves its ornamental appearance. The lower part of the
hook is formed in a similar manner, except that generally, it is folded or closed
downwards, that is, its sean or open part is upon the underside.
The ears or plates in which are provided the screw down holes, are turned up at an
angle to the body of the hook, and thus provide a ready means of attachment to
the wall &c.
The outer ends of the hooks may be provided with glass, china, metal or other
ornamental terminals according to taste or design and secured thereto by soldering,
rivetting, or the closing thereon of the ends of the metal of the said hook, or the
metal of the said hook, part may be shaped to form such terminal.
Dated this 4th day of July 1890.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat and Coat Hooks.
I, JOHN WHITEHEAD of 28 George Street, Lozells, Birmingham, in the
County of Stafford, Art Metal Worker 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 relates to, and to the manufacture of, hat and coat hooks, and
consists in making the same from thin sheet metal, fashioned by means of dies and
pressure, and cutting out, and shaping tools.
The sheet metal hooks consist of a semi-circular troughed body part, and semi-
tubular or troughed peg or hook parts; or in other words, in a combined coat
and hat hook, the middle part of which (which is of an inverted trough figure)
has attachment plates, and proceeding upwards from the said body part, is a

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semi-tubular and upwardly curved peg or hook, with the upper part formed into a
tube, with an open or closed joint, upon which a knob is fitted, while the lower part
is hook shaped, and of the cross section of an inverted trough.
The said hook is raised from sheet metal by dies and pressure, and then cut out
and fashioned by suitable tools.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in front elevation, a com-
bined hat and coat hook, made from sheet metal, and according to one form of my
invention. The upper part of the said combined article, which constitutes the hat
peg, is semi-tubular at its connection with the body part, which is provided with
plate attachments, for the securing of the said combined article to a door or other
object by screws passing through holes or piercings, made within the middles of
them. The lower part of the said article, is made hook form, alike unto an
inverted trough, or channel, hence strength and rigidity.
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Figure 2 represents a side view of the said Figure 1, with the knoh partly in
section.
Figure 3 represents a back elevation of Figure 2, showing the tubular and semi-
tubular formation of the upper part, and the inverted trough figure of the lower or
hook part.
Figure 4 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the said combined hook or
article, showing its semi-tubular formation.
Figure 5 is a cross section of the combined article, upon the dotted lines, A B
Figure 1.
Figure 6 is a transverse section on the dotted lines CD Figure 3, looking
towards the knob or terminal.
Figure 7 is a front and edge view of a sheet of thin metal, from, which the com-
bined article is to be fashioned by subsequent raising, shaping, clipping and cutting
out, and bending.
Figure 8 shows the first process of raising by dies and pressure.
Figure 9 is a longitudinal section of Figure 8.
Figure 10 shows a section of the combined article, with the edges of the same
clipped, and the body part with attachment plates cut out, and the coat hook part
turned up.
Figure 11 represents a front elevation of Figure 10, with the metal of the upper
or peg part, partly gathered in at its back.
Figure 12 represents a back elevation of Figure 11, with the said upper part
closed semi-tubular at the one part, and tubular at the other.
a is the body of the combined hook, of the cross section represented in Figure 5,
and with opposite attachment plates a', with holes or piercings a³, for the attach-
ment of the said article by small screws a*. b is the upper part, semi-tubular at b²,
and tubular at 6, which latter is screwed at 6, and upon which, a terminal mount c
is screwed. The lower part d, is of the shape of an inverted trough or channel,
terminated outwardly by a lip d'.
In making a combined hat and coat hook Figure 1, I take a thin sheet metal
blank Figure 7, and by means of dies and pressure, raise upwardly the metal into
the general figure of the hook viz. the inverted trough body part, the semi-
tubular stem or peg part, and also the inverted channel hook part. This partly
raised blank Figure 8, is then clipped around the boundary, edgings, of the raised
parts, and cut out by dies at the middle part to the shapes of the attachment plates.
This blank, which is of the approximate section Figure (less the webs), has its
lower part bent hookwise into the figure represented at Figure 10, the parts of
which are marked a, a, b, 62, and d. The upper portion of the part b, is then
gathered into a complete circle at ³, and wormed, for the taking of the mount.
The partly-formed combined hook Figure 12, has, the attachment, plates then
pierced, as represented in Figure 1, thus making a complete hook from thin sheet
metal.
Hooks made according to my invention, have all the appearance, of being solid,
while the same are light, strong and cheaply produced.

page_text: Figure 13 represents a back elevation of a hat hook or peg only, constructed and
made alike unto the combined hook Figure 1, but without the coat hook.
a is the body part, a³ the attachment plates, b, the stem or peg, b³ the semi-
tubular part, and the tubular termination.
Figure 14 represents a coat hook made alike unto the coat hook of the combined
hook Figure 1 aforesaid. a is the semi-tubular body part, a' the attachment plates
and d the inverted trough-shaped hook.
If desired, one or both of the upper and lower branches of the hook, may be
made tubular in cross section, instead of being open at the back as represented.
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 :-
First A hat and coat hook, or a combined hat and coat hook, made from sheet
metal, consisting of an open back body part, having attachment plates or ears, and
semi-tubular upper and lower branched parts, or semi-tubular and tubular upper
branched parts, with semi-tubular or inverted troughed lower parts, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 5.
Secondly-In hat and coat hooks, or in hat and coat hooks made from sheet
metal, consisting of an open and semi-tubular troughed back body part, with
flanged attachment plates, and semi-tubular stems or hook parts, substantially as
set forth in Figures 13 and 14.
Thirdly Making hat and coat hooks, of the kind herein described and
represented, from sheet metal, by the means and combination of processes herein
described and set forth.
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