AN IMPROVED POCKET-HANGER FOR HATS AND COATS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for an invention of "AN IMPROVED
POCKET-HANGER FOR HATS AND COATS."-A communication from abroad by
Thomas McDonald, of Austin, in the County of Travis, and State of Texas,
United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1882.
"
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of 53 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
Patent Agent
"AN IMPROVED POCKET-HANGER FOR HATS AND COATS
[A communication from abroad by Thomas McDonald, of Austin, in the County
of Travis, and State of Texas, United States of America.]
The object of this invention is to provide a convenient and efficient pocket
device for hanging up overcoats and hats and similar garments and wrappings
against the wall or upon the backs of chairs or seats in theatres or church pews or
similar places.
This invention consists of a suitable body or stock provided with suitable hooks
which are adapted to close into the body or stock.
The body or stock .consists of two parallel plates connected at each end by a
rivet and the two hooks are pivoted upon said rivets and turned in opposite
directions and fold between the plates of the stock so that their points are
completely protected. One of the hooks should be of the best steel and made very
sharp and of such an angle at the front that when placed against the wall the
weight of the hat or coat or cloak, shawl, or other article placed upon the other
hook will cause it to be embedded in the wall sufficiently to support the article.
In case the device should not be intended for engagement with the wall or other
perpendicular object or support, but only for suspending the garment from some
object like an opera-chair or church pew neither of the hooks need be very sharp,
but only bent so as to hold the garment and catch over and upon the support.
By means of this device the annoyance of holding the hat or placing it on
the floor or wearing or sitting upon the overcoat, or providing and wearing
garments which cannot be soiled beyond recovery by such treatment is wholly
overcome.
The device when folded is small and compact and may be carried in the vest
pocket.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st August 1882.
"
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of 53 Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent "AN IMPROVED POCKET-HANGER FOR HATS AND COATS
A com-
munication from abroad by Thomas McDonald, of Austin, in the County of Travis,
and State of Texas, United States of America.
The object of this Invention is to provide a convenient and efficient pocket
device for hanging up hats overcoats and other garments and wrappers against
the wall or upon the backs of chairs or seats in theatres or church-pews or similar
places.
The Invention consists in a suitable body or stock provided with suitable hooks
which are adapted to close into the body or stock:
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a part sectional elevation of the
device with the hooks closed. Figure 2 is a side elevation with the hooks open
ready for use, and Figure 3 is an edge view also with the hooks open.
Similar latters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
A represents the body or stock which may be of any suitable material; and
B B¹ represent the hooks which in this instance, are hinged to the ends of the body
or stock, and are adapted to be folded within it, as shown in Figure 1. One of the
books B for instance, should be of the best steel and made very sharp and of such
an angle at the front that when placed against the wall the weight of the hat
or coat, cloak, shawl, or other article placed upon the other hook B will cause it
to be embedded in the wall sufficiently to support the article.
In case the device should not be intended for engagement with the wall or
other perpendicular object or support, but only for suspending the garment from
some object like an opera-chair or church-pew, neither of the hooks need be
very sharp, but only bent so as to hold the garment and catch over and upon the
support.
By means of this device the annoyance of holding the hat or placing it on
the floor, or wearing or sitting upon the overcoat, or providing and wearing
garments that cannot be soiled beyond recovery by such treatment, is wholly
overcome.
The device when folded is small and compact and be carried in the vest-
pocket.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is :-
As a new article of manufacture, a hat or coat holder consisting of the two
parallel plates A, connected at each end by a rivet, and the two hooks B B',
pivoted on said rivets and turned in opposite directions, as shown and described
In witness whereof I the said Alexander Melville Clark have hereunto set
my hand and seal this thirtieth day of August. A.D. 1882.