Improvements in Apparatus for Attaching or Suspending Plaques and similar Articles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Attaching or Suspending Plaques
and similar Articles.
WO ADOLPH TUCK and GUSTAVE TUCK of 72 and 73 Coleman Street in the City
of London Fine Art Publishers do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING OR SUSPENDING PLAQUES AND SIMILAB
ARTICLES to be as follows 11
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Our Invention is intended to facilitate the suspension of plaques and the like; so
that they may be readily hung after the manner of pictures, but without frames, and
so that the upper part may if desired incline away from the wall so as to present a full
face to a Spectator at a slightly lower level, and so that the Apparatus may readily
fold into small compass for transit or storage.
Our Apparatus consists of two or more, generally three, pieces of wire or slips of
metal or similar material attached together at one end, and to another and shorter
piece having an eye or loop by which the whole is to be suspended, by means of a
central pin or rivet, or eyelet inserted to act as a rivet, and on which they are free to
turn as on a centre, so that they may either be placed in one direction for Storage or
Transit or may be made to radiate at convenient angles for the purpose of grasping
and supporting the plaque to be hung or the eye or loop by which the whole is to be
suspended may form part of one of the said Arms, the upper part of it being extended
upwards for this purpose. The free ends of these wires or slips we bend over to form
hooks so as to just reach over and grasp the edge of the plaque, or we form them of
such temper and texture that they may easily be cut off to any required length and be
bent over the edge of the plaque or to correspond with it.
To hang a plate, having provided a nail or hook in the wall where the plaque is to
be hung, one has only to spread out the arms and pass the hooks at the ends of them
over the edges of the plaque and then pass the eye or loop over the nail-or if the
hooks are not already turned or are not at the right distance from the centre, cut off
the arms to the right length and bend the ends over the edge of the plaque.
Dated this 15th day of September 1886.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants."

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Attaching or Suspending Plaques
and similar Articles.
We ADOLPH TUCK and GUSTAVE TUCK of 72 and 73 Coleman Street in the City of
London Fine Art Publishers do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING OR SUSPENDING PLAQUES AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES to be as follows:-
"
Our Invention is intended to facilitate the suspension of plaques and the like, so that
they may be readily hung after the manner of pictures, and so that the upper part may
if desired incline away from the wall so as to present a full face to a spectator at a
slightly lower level and is so arranged that the apparatus may readily fold into small
compass for transit or storage.
Our apparatus consists of two or more, generally three, pieces of wire or slips of
metal or similar material attached together at one end and to another and shorter piece
having an eye or loop by which the whole is to be suspended, by means of a central
pin or rivet, or eyelet inserted to act as a rivet, and on which they are free to turn as
on a centre, so that they may either be placed in one direction for storage or transit or
may be made to radiate at convenient angles for the purpose of grasping and support-
ing the plaque to be hung, or the eye or loop by which the whole is to be suspended
may form part of one of the said arms, the upper part of it being extended upwards for
this purpose. The free ends of those wires or slips we bend over to form hooks so as
to just reach over and grasp the edge of the plaque, or we form them of such temper
and texture that they may be easily cut off to any required length and be bent over
the edge of the plaque, or to correspond with it.
To hang a plaque, having provided a nail or hook in the wall where the plaque is to
be hung, one has only to spread out the arms and pass the hooks at the ends of them
over the edge of the plaque and then pass the eye or loop over the nail on which it is
to be hung or if the hooks are not already turned or are not at the right distance from.
the centre, cut off the arms to the right length and bend the ends over the edge of the
plaque.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Fig. 1 represents one form of our said
apparatus a a a are three arms preferably made of thin sheet brass bb bare the ends
of the arms bent over to form hooks for the purpose of grasping and supporting the
plaque to be suspended c is a separate but short arm of similar metal and is pierced
with an eye c¹ by which the whole is to be suspended and which may conveniently be
bent slightly backwards. d is an eyelet inserted through the four arms connecting
them together and serving as a centre on which they turn Fig. 2 is an elevation of the
same. Fig. 3 represents the same closed for storage or transit. Fig. 4 represents a
smaller form of the same having only two arms a a and intended for suspending smaller
and lighter articles bb are the hooks and c³ is part of one of the arms extended backwards
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page_text: beyond the centre to form an eye or loop by which to suspend the apparatus Fig. 5
represents the same closed for storage &c.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we wish it to be understood that we
do not limit our invention to arms formed of thin bars of sheet metal as the same
apparatus may obviously be made with wire arms &c., nor do we limit our claim to two
or three arms, as obviously it may be constructed with a greater number if desired but
we declare that what we claim is
Constructing the hereinbefore described apparatus for attaching or suspending
plaques and similar articles with two or more arms which may be brought into one
direction so as to lie, one over the other when required substantially as described and
set forth.