Improvements in Clips for Hanging or Suspending Clothes and other Articles to Tent Poles and other Poles or Rods.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left. 17th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Hanging or Suspending Clothes and
other Articles to Tent Poles and other Poles or Rods.
I CHARLES HAROLD AVERY of Headless Cross near Redditch in the County of
Worcester Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
Clips made according to my invention are specially useful for hanging or sus-
pending clothes and other articles to the poles of tents but may also be used for
hanging or suspending clothes and other articles to rods in shops and shop windows
and other places.
According to my invention I make the clips in either of the following ways and
combine with them a series of hooks or light arms of the kind herein after described
on which hooks the clothes or other articles are hung or suspended.
In making an elastic clip according to my invention I take a strip of sheet steel or
other elastic sheet metal or alloy and bend it into a nearly circular figure open at one
side. From the ends of the clip at the open side two parallel flanges are made by
doubling or folding the metal at the said ends. By drawing together the said flanges
by means of a thumb screw working in a screwed hole in one of the flanges and
passing through a plain hole in the other flange the elastic sides of the clip can be
closed upon and made to firmly grip the tent pole and attach the clip to the said
pole.
Or instead of making the clip in one piece it may be made in two nearly semi-circular
halves hinged together at one end and having flanges of the kind herein before
described at the other end for the fixing thumb screw to pass through. By drawing
the flanges together by means of the thumb screw the hinged halves of the clip can
be closed upon and firmly attached to the tent pole.
I apply to the outside and near the lower edges of the clips made in either of the
ways described a series of hooks on which clothes or other articles may be hung or
suspended.
These hooks may be rivetted to the said clips or they may be so jointed to the
clips that they can be turned by a side motion upon the clip or turned upwards when
not in use.
In the former case I cause the stem of the hook to swivel in a small socket so that
the hook can be turned outwards for use or turned aside against the clip when not in
use and for storage. In the latter case a hole is made in the clip and the hook is
jointed to the hole by an eye at the end of the stem. This hook is capable of being
turned down so that its hooked end is situated below the lower edge of the clip or the
said hook can be turned upwards so that its hooked end is situated within the clip.
Or in place of hooks light arms may be applied to the clips. These arms are especially
useful when the clips are used in shops or shop windows. These arms may either be
connected to the clip by being dropped into sockets on the clip or they may be so
hinged to the clip that when not in use they can be turned down parallel with
the pole or rod.
Dated this 26th day of July 1889.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Hanging or Suspending Clothes and
other Articles to Tent Poles and other Poles or Rods.
I, CHARLES HAROLD AVERY of Headless Cross near Redditch in the County of
Worcester, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Clips made according to my invention are specially useful for hanging or suspending
clothes and other articles to the poles of tents, but may also be used for hanging or
suspending clothes and other articles to rods in shops and shop windows and other
places.
According to my invention I make the clips in either of the following ways and
combine with them a series of hooks or light arms of the kinds hereinafter described on
which hooks the clothes or other articles are hung or suspended.
In making an elastic clip according to my invention I take a strip of sheet steel or
other elastic sheet metal or alloy and bend it into a nearly circular figure open
at one side. From the ends of the clip, at the open side, two parallel flanges are
made by doubling or folding the metal at the said ends, or rivetting pieces on the
ends of the clip. By drawing together the said flanges by means of a thumb screw
working in a screwed hole in one of the flanges and passing through a plain hole in
the other flange the elastic sides of the clip can be closed upon and made to
firmly grip the tent pole and attach the clip to the said pole.
Or instead of making the clip in one piece it may be made in two nearly semicircular
halves hinged together at one end and having flanges of the kind hereinbefore
described at the other end for the fixing thumb screw to pass through. By drawing
the flanges together by means of the thumb screw the hinged halves of the clip can be
closed upon and firmly attached to the tent pole.
I apply to the outside and near the lower edges of the clips, made in either of
the ways described a series of hooks on which clothes or other articles may be hung,
or suspended.
These hooks may be rivetted to the said clips; or they may be so jointed to the clips
that they can be turned by a side motion upon the clip or turned upwards or within
the clip when not in use. In the former case I cause the stem of the hook to swivel
in a small socket so that the hook can be turned outwards for use or turned aside
against the clip or under the clip when not in use and for storage. In the latter case
a hole is made in the clip and the hook is jointed to the hole by an eye at the end of
the stom. This hook is capable of being turned down so that its booked end is
situated below the lower edge of the clip; or the said hook can be turned upwards so
that its hooked end is situated within the clip.
Or in place of hooks light arms may be applied to the clips. These arms are
especially useful when the clips are used in shops or shop windows. These arms
may either be connected to the clips by being dropped into sockets on the clips,
or they may be so hinged to the clips that when not in use they can be turned down
parallel with the pole or rod.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in plan, an elastic clip con-
structed according to my invention applied to a tent or other pole or rod.
a is the elastic clip having a nearly circular figure and open at the side b, the
said open side being provided with two flanges c, c. The said elastic clip is made
from a strip of sheet steel or other elastic metal or alloy the parallel flanges c, c being
formed by doubling or folding the metal at the ends of the clip as represented so

page_text: as to obtain a double thickness of metal at the said flanges. Or the double thickness.
of metal may be obtained by rivetting pieces to the bent ends of the clip.
In one of the flanges c a large hole d is made and in the other flange a screwed
hole e is made for the thumb screw f to work in. On the outside of the said elastic
clip a series of radial hooks g, g is arranged, the said hooks being fixed to the
clip by rivetting. On these hooks, when the clip is fixed to the pole or rod, clothes or
other articles may be hung or suspended. Or jointed hooks or light hooked arms of
the kinds hereinafter described may be combined with the elastic clip.
In order to fix the clip to the pole (or rod) h the clip is expanded by opening its
elastic sides sufficiently far to allow the clip to be passed onto the pole. The thumb--
screw is then passed through the large hole d in one of the flanges and its
screwed stem screwed into the screwed hole e in the other flange. By the action.
of the thumb screw f the elastic sides of the clip a are closed upon and made to-
firmly grip the tent pole h and attach the clip to the said pole as represented in the
drawing.
Figure 3 represents in elevation and Figure 4 in plan, a clip made in two
semi-circular halves and k hinged together at 1. The free ends of the semi-.
circular halves i, k of the clip are furnished with flanges 12, ² formed by
doubling or folding the ends of the metal of which the said semi-circular halves
of the clip are made or rivetting pieces to the said ends as described with.
respect to the elastic clip. The two flanges 2, ² are drawn together to fix.
the jointed clip upon the pole h by the thumb screw passed through a plain
hole in one of the flanges and working in a screwed hole in the other flange. The
clip is provided with a series of jointed or swivelling hooks m, m, that is, the tops of
the stems of the hooks are made capable of swivelling in the sockets n, n rivetted to
the said clip so that the said hooks can either be turned outwards for use as illustrated
in Figures 3 and 4 or turned aside against the clip as indicated in dotted lines at m²
Figure 4, when the hooks are not in use; or turned within the clip as indicated in
dotted lines at m³ Figure 4 when the clips are to be stored so as to diminish their
bulk.
Or instead of connecting the hook to the clip by a swivelling joint of the kind last.
described, a hole may be made in the clip and the hook be jointed to the hole by an
eye at the end of the hook stem. By this last kind of jointing the hook can be
turned down for use or turned aside or upwards when out of use.
Fixed hooks
instead of jointed hooks may be combined with the clip Figures 3 and 4.
Figure represents in side elevation and Figure 6 in plan a jointed clip in which
a series of moveable light arms p having hooks at their ends, is used. These arms are
connected to the clip i, k by their inner ends being dropped into sockets 7 on the clip
as represented; or the light arms may be hinged to the clip so that they can be turned
down against the pole or rod.
Figure 7 represents in side elevation and Figure 8 in plan, a jointed clip in which
each jointed half of the clip is made in two pieces for the purpose of adjusting the size
of the clip to poles or rods of different diameters.
2°
u in the
In this modified clip each jointed half consists of two pieces and ² the pieces","
being jointed together at and the other pieces ², being loose and capable of
sliding upon and being fixed or clamped to the said jointed pieces r, ".
The inner
ends of the sliding pieces,, have rivetted to them bearing pieces s, 5 and screw
pegs t, t on the said sliding pieces work in guide and limiting slots
jointed parts', 1'. By means of the binding or clamping knobs or heads 31,
screwing on the pegs t, t, the two parts of each half of the clip, after
adjustment, may be bound together. When the sliding parts are moved
outwards to their full extent as represented in Figures 7 and 8 the clip can be fitted
to a pole or rod of large size and when the sliding pieces 1, 2 are moved inwards
as indicated in dotted lines the clip can be used with a pole or rod of smaller
size.

page_text: Fixed hooks or jointed hooks or light rods may be used with the modified clip
represented in Figures 7 and 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention ;-
First. Constructing an elastic clip for hanging or suspending clothes and other
articles to tent poles and other poles or rods substantially as herein before described
and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. Constructing a jointed or hinged clip for hanging or suspending
clothes and other articles to tent and other poles or rods substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the accompanying
Drawings.
Dated this 13th day of January 1890.
CHARLES HAROLD AVERY.