An Improved Picture Hook, Hat Peg, or the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1891-Accepted, 4th July, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Picture Hook, Hat Peg, or the like.
I, FRIEDRICH LANGENBECK of Prettin in the Empire of Germany, Manų-
facturer, 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 a hook, peg for hats or clothes, nail or the like which is
composed of two parts, one of which constitutes a shank terminated like a stone boring
tool and formed with two grooves arranged at an angle one with the other, while
the other part terminates at one end with a hook, peg, holder or the like and at the
other with a projection or extension intended to be inserted in one of the grooves of
the shank.
The driving in or fixing of an iron hook, nail, or holder as heretofore made for
the suspension of pictures, articles of clothing and the like has been attended with
trouble or inconvenience as the hooks cannot always be driven direct into the stone,
and it is often necessary to form a hole in the stone with a chisel and to fill such
hole with a penetrable plaster or wooden plug through which the nail may be
driven. This mode of fixing has moreover the defect, that the wall paper is not
only injured in many cases by the action of the chisel, but is soiled by the insertion
of the plaster or other material. All these defects are fully remedied according to
this invention which is illustrated on the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 shewing the hook applied to a wall A,
Figure 2 shewing a side and an end view of one of its parts,
Figure 3 shewing a front view, a longitudinal section and a cross section on the
line of its other part.
Y, Y
The picture hook consists of a hollow stem or shank a and of a bolt 6 the closed
end of the shank a being formed as a stone boring bit a while in the open end a
groove all is made, this groove or slot not extending quite to the bottom of the
shank and having another slot or groove a* arranged at an angle to it and extending
round a quarter of the periphery of the slot a". The bolt is made with a hook b¹
at its outer end and near its rear end with a tongue in the same plane as the
hook, this tongue having the same cross-section as the longitudinal and cross
grooves or slots all and a* respectively. When applying the hook, the shank or
stem a, is driven or bored, by means of a holder or handle placed in the longitudinal
slot a", into the stone required to be pierced the drilling being terminated with the
slot a turned to the left hand side so that when the tongue 11 of the bolt b is
inserted up to the end of the longitudinal slot or groove a" and the bolt turned
until the tongue rests on the bottom of the cross slot or groove a*, the hook b¹
assumes a position for suspending therefrom a picture or other article.
The distance between the hook b' and the tongue 6" is regulated according to
the length of the slot or groove a" and to the relative position of the hook and of
the surface of the wall. The cross slot or groove a* may be made to extend round
a greater arc of the circumference of the slot or groove a" than above described
provided the hook shall when inserted assume the right position after the bolt b
has been turned. The tongue 6" instead of being rectangular as indicated may be
cylindrical or have any other shape to correspond with any desired cross section of
the transverse slot a*.
The bolt 6 instead of being connected to or formed integral with a hook may be
connected to any other form of device capable of holding or carrying articles as
for example it may have a round head or knob on the end of it and instead of the
form of catch 6 shewn at Figures 1 to 3 being used a hook such as shewn at c
Figure 5 or d Figure 6 may be substituted, or a perforated bar, to which knobs or

page_text: hooks may be attached, can be substituted as shewn at Figure 4, any of these
connections mentioned being inserted in the sleeve a in the manner hereinbefore set
forth and fixed to the wall so as to form a device which may be used to suspend or
hang any suitable articles.
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 :-
A picture hook, hat peg or the like composed of two parts and consisting of a
hollow shank a formed as a stone boring tool and provided with two meeting slots
or grooves all, ax and of a bolt b furnished with a tongue 6" and a hook, holder or
the like, substantially as set forth with reference to the drawings annexed.
Dated this Fifth day of May 1891.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.