Improvements in Hanging Brackets for Carrying Shelves, Curtain Poles, and other articles
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 2nd Jan., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hanging Brackets for Carrying Shelves, Curtain
Poles, and other articles."
1 JOSEPH DERUDDER of 5 Rue Mazagran, Paris, in the Republic of France, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
Hanging brackets constructed according to this invention may be used to obviate
the employment of the squares, columns, and ladders, generally used for supporting
shelves and pigeon-holes, and will allow of the height of the same being adjusted as
required. The brackets may be also used for carrying curtain rods, and also as
bat-pegs, and for other purposes.
The construction of the bracket allows of its supporting enormous weights
without strain, and it may be economically manufactured. The bracket, of cast or
wrought iron, or other suitable metal, is formed, at its base, with two projections,
one of which extends upwards and the other downwards.
The upper projection is inserted in one of several suitably shaped holes in a
vertical channel iron, secured in any convenient manner to the wall, and bears
against the inner wall of the channel iron, while the lower projection will, by the
weight of the bracket, bear against the outer wall of the channel iron, thus
supporting the bracket. The channel irons will be placed at intervals according to
the length of shelf to be supported.
When the weight to be carried is not excessive, the base of the bracket may be
made with the downward projection only; in this case, the projection will be
divided by a slot to hook over the thickness of the channel iron, the back of the
base bearing on the inside of the channel iron, and the front portion bearing on the
outside of the same.
In order to prevent side play of the bracket, blocks of wood are placed between
the channel iron and the wall, and provided with recesses into which the base of
the brackets fit.
The channel irons may be replaced by ordinary iron bars, or plates with suitable
openings and recesses to suit various forms of bracket.
To prevent the bracket turning when in place, a small feather may be cast on
the base of the bracket, behind the downward projection, which will drop into a
notch made in the front wall of the channel iron or plate. The base of the bracket
may also take the form of a T, to fit into a T shaped recess in a support screwed.
to the wall. When used for supporting glass plates, the outer end of the bracket
is formed with a stop. For use as a hat rack &c., the brackets are made of
suitable shape, and when used for curtains, they may be provided with pullies for
curtain cords.
Dated thin and do of Anvil 1909
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hanging Brackets for Carrying Shelves, Curtain
Poles, and other articles.
I JOSEPH DERUDDER of 5 Rue Mazagran, Paris, in the Republic of France,
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
6 statement :-
Hanging brackets constructed according to this invention are designed to obviate

page_text: the use of angle irons, pillars, and intermediate staging, used to support shelves in
book cases and similar articles of furniture, and at the same time to facilitate the
shifting of the shelves to increase or decrease the height of the divisions, as may be
required; thus this bracket or support can be used to carry curtain poles, shelves,
and other pieces for similar purposes, and when made in suitable form, can be
employed as hat and coat pegs.
The bracket or support, by reason of its particular formation, which consists of
one or more claws and counter claws, with appropriate recesses to receive them, is
capable of supporting enormous weights without difficulty, and can be manufactured
at a low price.
In order to better understand the invention, I have represented it on the annexed
sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 shows in side view the bracket with a single claw and counterclaw put in
place, and locked in a channel-iron socket.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.
Fig. 3 shows the same bracket locked into a channel-iron socket backed with
wood.
Fig. 4 shews a bracket made of iron having a T section, with a portion of the
web cut away, and the head turned up to form a claw.
Fig. 5 is a bracket for glass shelves in shop windows.
Figs. 6, 7, and 8, show a bracket arranged to drop into a notch.
Fig. 9 shows a bracket or support arranged to receive a curtain rod.
Fig. 10 shows the application of the invention to a mantle and hat peg.
Figs. 11 and 12 show different forms of sockets, with different shaped slots.
In all the variations of supports and sockets mentioned above, the principle,
which is absolutely the same, is based upon the use of claws and counterclaws with
sockets of appropriate forms.
In the figures, the same letters of reference refer to the corresponding parts.
The supports and their sockets represented therein, are suitable for fixing against
walls.
The supports B, which can be made in cast or wrought iron, carry at the
extremity a claw D and a counterclaw E, both of a form subordinate to their
application.
When the weight to be supported is not excessive, I give to the counter-claw E
the form indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Or better still, I employ a small
Tiron, like Fig. 4, the extremity of which is cut away at h, to form an abutment
against the wall 6 of the socket, while the counterclaw is formed by turning up the
the part m.
A is a piece of channel iron serving as a socket, and is affixed to the wall before
receiving the supports. These sockets are fixed in a suitable way, and have
suitable openings, as at a, to receive the counterclaw E of the support.
To rectify the inequalities that there may be in the place where the iron A ought
to be fixed, I employ blocks of wood F, the thickness of which can be increased or
lessened, or the form altered to suit requirements.
The irons A can be replaced either by flat bands or plates of iron M (see Fig. 9),
or by simple sockets N N¹ with openings n n' of appropriate form to take the claws
and counterclaws of the support employed.
As seen in the drawing, the fixing of my support is excessively easy;
it suffices
to insert the counter claw E in the slot a, and the support, by its own weight, jams
the claw D against the outside 6 of the iron A or the flat band M, and the counter
claw E against the inside d.
To prevent the support turning, when in place, I cast a lug 1, which grips into
the notch n³.
The support thus fixed up, possesses a rigidity equal to any proof, and can
support without fear of breaking a great weight.
I may make my support like Figs. 6, 7 and 8, to adapt it to enter a slot in the
socket K, in order to get the shelf flush with the top of the block ki.

page_text: When my support is used for glass shelves, I turn up the end at a³ (Fig. 5).
When intended to carry curtain rods, it is straight, like Fig. 9, or bent according
to demand, and with or without pulleys.
To serve as hat peg. etc., Fig. 10, it will be of appropriate form.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The new construction of bracket serving to carry shelves etc. and curtain poles,
also for use as hat and coat pegs, in combination with special socket for receiving
the said bracket, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purposes
set forth.
1000
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.