Improvements in Garment Suspending Devices.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Garment Suspending Devices.
I, WILLIAM HENRY FOSTER, of 2, Holmewood Road, Brixton Hill, London, S.W.,
Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in garment suspending devices, and
has for its object to provide improved means whereby a coat-peg, hat-peg or the
like can be readily attached upon a door in such a manner as to be readily
removable therefrom while at the same time no nails, screws or equivalent
extraneous fastening means are required for securing such garment-suspending
device upon a door, thereby effectually preventing damage to the latter.
peg,
In carrying my invention into practice I provide an ordinary coat suspender or
which is fastened to a rectangular or other plate by screws or their equivalent.
The upper end of the said plate is bent or other wise fashioned into clamp form,
that is to say a portion of the said upper end of the plate is carried rearwardly
at a right angle to the main portion of the plate, the extremity of the horizontal
portion being bent or otherwise fashioned at right angles to said horizontal
portion so as to be parallel with the main portion of the plate and thereby con-
stitute a flange.
In operation, the device is attached to the door by passing the angular end of
the plate over the top of such door from whence it will be suspended in a
perfectly secure manner.
In lieu of forming the plate at the angular end integral, I may form such
angular end independently of the said plate and rivet or otherwise secure the two
parts together.
In any case I prefer to fashion the angular end of thinner material than
the vertical plate in order that the horizontal part of such angular end may pass
freely beneath the top of the door frame when the door is closed.
Dated this 28th day of August 1899.

page_text: manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:
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This invention relates to improvements in garment suspending devices, and
has for its object to provide improved means whereby a coat-peg, hat-peg or the
like can be readily attached upon a door in such a manner as to be readily
removable therefrom while at the same time no nails, screws or equivalent
extraneous fastening means are required for securing such garment-suspending
device upon a door, thereby effectually preventing damage to the latter.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrated drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a coat-suspender with my invention applied
thereto, and
Fig. 2 a similar view of the coat-suspender attached upon a door.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate correspond-
ing parts wherever occurring in both figures, a represents an ordinary coat-
suspender or peg, which is fastened to a rectangular or other plate 6 by screws c
or their equivalent.
The upper end of the plate 6 is bent or otherwise fashioned into clamp form,
that is to say, a portion of the said upper end of the plate is carried rearwardly
at a right angle to the main portion of the plate, as shewn at b', the extremity *
of the horizontal portion 6' being bent or otherwise fashioned at right angles to
said horizontal portion, so as to be parallel with the main portion of the plate b
and constitute a flange.
In operation, the device is attached to the door d by passing the angular
end of the plate b over the top of such door, (as shewn by Fig. 2), from
whence it will be suspended in a perfectly secure manner.
In lieu of forming the plate 6 and the angular end 61 63 integral, I may form
such angular end independently of the said plate and rivet or otherwise secure
the two parts together.
In any case I prefer to fashion the angular end 61 62 of thinner material than
the vertical plate b, in order that the horizontal part of such angular end may
pass freely beneath the top of the door frame e, when the door is closed.
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 improvements in garment-suspending devices, consisting in a plate to which
is fixed the garment suspending peg or hook, said plate having a horizontal
portion reduced in thickness at its upper end at right angles to the main portion,
and a turned-down flange at the extremity of said horizontal portion, said flange
being in a parallel position with the main portion of the plate, substantially as
described and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 4th day of May 1900.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.
Agents.