A Self-closing Spring-hook, or Peg and Clip, for Hanging Clothes, Hats, Bags, or other Articles upon or from.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left. 9th July, 1900 -Accepted, 12th Oct., 1900
Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left. 9th July, 1900-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Self-closing Spring-hook, or Peg and Clip, for Hanging Clothes,
Hats, Bags, or other Articles upon or from.
ELIZABETH RODWAY, Widow, G, Hulme Place, Salford, FREDERIC WILLIAM
MINSHALL, Dentist, 6, Hulme Place, Salford, Manchester, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A hook, or peg, and clip of a shape suitable to support clothes, hats etc. to be
used on the chairs benches, pews etc. in churches; theatres; lecture, concert,
music & public halls; the walls & sides of cabins, saloons and passages of vessels;
railway and other carriages; or other narrow or confined spaces.
The invention consists of one or more such hooks or clips, pivoted to a bed-
plate, and actuated by flat or coiled springs which close the hooks or clips against
or within the bed-plate when not in use; thus providing ample accomodation
without presenting any obstruction or danger to the free movements of persons
in the vicinity.
The bed-plate also serving as a name, or number, plate.
A Self-closing Spring-hook, or Peg and Clip, for Hanging Clothes,
Hats, Bags, or other articles upon or from.
ELIZABETH RODWAY, Widow, 6, Hulme Place, The Crescent, Salford, Man-
chester, and FREDERIC WILLIAM MINSHALL, Dentist, 6, Hulme Place, The Cres-
cent, Salford, Manchester, 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 invention consists of a suitably shaped hook, peg or clip, (A) hinged or
pivoted to a base plate, B, which hook, peg or clip, A is rendered self-closing
when not in use, by the action of one or more flat, coiled, or spiral springs, C or
the elasticity of an air-rubber or water-rubber pad or cushion, D.
The hook, peg or clip, A or the free end of the same, when closed, falls within
a slot or depression E, in the base plate, B.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1 shows the invention with a single hook or peg A in elevation,

page_text: Fig. 2, shows the invention in vertical section with the hook A closed illus-
trating the means by which the flat spring C causes the hook to remain closed.
Fig. 3, shows the invention in section with the hook A open in use.
Fig. 4, shows the invention in section in which a water rubber or air rubber
cushion or pad (D) furnishes the means of closing the hook.
Fig. 5, shows the invention in section in which a hook or peg (A) and clip A¹
are used, the closing of the hook or peg and the clip being caused by the action
of a spiral spring C, one end of which acts on the hook or peg A and the other
end on the clip A¹.
Fig. 6, shows the invention in section in which both the hook or peg A and
and the clip A¹ are used; the position occupied by the spiral spring, C, being
shown. The spiral spring is coiled round the pivot P and one terminal end
engages with a slot or lug within the axial portion of the hook or peg (A) and
the other end, in a similar manner, with the clip A¹.
Fig. 7, shows the pivot used in the invention which is screwed at the end. S
to facilitate removal.
Fig. 8 shows the spiral spring, marked C in Figs. 5 and 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said.
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The novelty of the method or methods whereby the hook, peg or clip is
caused to fold or close itself, immediately it is released from the weight of the
article suspended upon or from the same.
Dated this 9th day of October 1900.
MUIZABETH RODWAY.
FREDERIC WM. MINSHALL.