Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 31st Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Mar., 1887
RESERV
I SAMUEL BOTT, of 4 Bloomsbury Street Birmingham, in the county of Warwick,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of metal hooks, for
hanging pictures, coats, cups, and other articles upon, and has for its object their
manufacture out of, or, with parts, but fixed together as one piece ready for use, and
consists in forming out of sheet metal a hook, having in the plate part of such hook,
one or more holes perforated.
I then provide a headed nail or screw, the size of the shank of which is slightly
larger than the perforated hole or holes in the plate of the hook.
I then by suitable tools force the said nail or screw, into the said hole or holes right.
home to the head, and there firmly secure it, so that the nail, or screw, and the sheet
metal hook become practically one piece.
When such hooks are driven into a structure, they are driven right home, so that
the weight of the suspended article is carried from close against such structure, which
gives them great strength; they are practically of one piece, and produced much
cheaper than the articles for similar purposes are, at the present.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I SAMUEL BOTT of 4 Bloomsbury Street Birmingham in the county of Warwick
Manufacturer 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 improvements in the manufacture of metal hooks,
for hanging pictures, coats, cups, and other articles upon, and has for its object their
manufacture out of, or, with parts, but fixed together as one piece ready for use; and
consists in forming out of sheet metal a hook, having in the plate part of such hook,
one or more holes perforated.
I then provide a headed nail or screw, the size of the shank of which, is slightly
larger than the perforated hole or holes in the plate of the hook.
I then by suitable tools force the said nail or screw into the said hole or holes right
home to the head, and there firmly secure it, so that the nail, or screw, and the sheet
metal hook become practically one piece.
When such hooks are driven into a structure, they are driven right home, so that
the weight of the suspended article is carried from close against such structure, which
gives them great strength, they are practically of one piece, and produced much
cheaper than the articles for similar purposes, now in present use.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the manner in which my invention is
carried out.
Figure 1 represents a plain hook..
Figure 2 represents a hook ornamented at the top.
Figure 3 represents an S hook.
Figure 4 represents a hook formed tubular with three cord bearings.
Figure 5 represents a hook with three cord bearings formed into a hollow trough.
Figure 6 represents a book with the central piece A punched out to form a protector
for the cord.
The nail B figures 1, 2, 3 and 6 is driven through the hole provided in each hook
similar to C figures 4 and 5. The hole C in each of the hooks, figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and 6 being made slightly smaller than the nails B, the said nails B are driven tightly
into the holes C and thereby become consolidated with the hooks as represented at
figures 1, 2, 3 and 6.
One of the advantages of my invention is that I can secure the hook to a wall for
the purpose of hanging pictures thereto, by holding the lower portion D-in one hand,
while I strike the nail B with the other hand. The picture cord would rest in the
hollow trough E, or through the tubular bent part F or in the grooved wheel H.

page_text: In some cases the picture cord would pass into the trough G as represented at
figure 6, where it would be kept in position by the protector A, or it may be passed
into the lower trough E shewn in figure 6, which corresponds with E figure 2.
It will be observed that the cord trough formed in the wheel H, or at E figures 4,
5 and 6, is to answer the same purpose as the cord trough formed at E figure 2.
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
The invention as illustrated and described for the purpose of securing to a wall, or
elsewhere on which to hang pictures or other articles.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.