Improvements in Means for Fixing Metal Furniture Fittings, such as Coat Hooks, Brackets, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
Improvements in Means for Fixing Metal Furniture Fittings, such
as Coat Hooks, Brackets, and the like.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM LLOYD WHITE Junior of 46 Hatherly Street, Princes
Road Liverpool, Joiner 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 an improved means for fixing brass and other metal
furniture fittings, to the walls and other parts to which such fittings are applied,
the object being to allow articles of that description to be removed easily when
desired for cleaning or other purposes.
The invention is especially applicable to the various brass fittings employed
on passenger steamships, which require frequent cleaning, but can be applied to
fittings for hotels and private houses. With the present arrangement the fittings
have to be cleaned while in place, the surrounding paint or polish, thus getting
dirty.
The device consists of a plate, screwed or otherwise fixed to the wall, door, or
other part. This plate is formed with a groove or recess having bevelled edges and
tapering towards its lower end. The hook or other fitting is fixed to this back
plate by means of a plate on the hook formed with a projecting part or dovetail
piece tapering towards the lower end, and formed with bevelled edges, fitting the
groove in the back of the plate and allowing the hook to be firmly attached. The
groove may instead be formed on the hook plate and the dovetail piece on the back
plate, the method of fixing being the same.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front and Fig. 2 a Bide
elevation of a coat-book fixed in the improved manner, Fig. 3 is a plan with the
plates in section, Fig. 4 a front view of the back plate, Fig. 5 a section of the
plates fitted together, and Fig. 6 shows a door knob with my improved fixing.
A is the hook formed with the plate B of suitable size.
This plate is provided on its back face with the dovetail piece & tapering towards
its lower end. The back plate C is formed with the groove or socket c of shape
corresponding to the dovetail piece, allowing the latter to be slipped into it as
shown in Figs. 3, 5, & 6. The groove is slightly longer than the dovetail piece,
allowing the hook or other article to be fixed tightly in place. A slight blow will
raise the article from its socket and allow it to be removed. The door knob A¹
shown in Fig. 6 is suitable for cupboards or drawers and is fastened in the same
manner.
This fastening is applicable to many other articles employed in houses or on
board vessels, such as curtain rod and other brackets, drawer and other handles,
bolts and hooks for doors and the like.
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 :-
(1.) A means for fixing brackets, book, and other like fittings, consisting of a
fixed plate with dovetailed groove or socket and a correspondingly shaped projec-
tion on the article to be fixed, fitting into the socket, substantially as described and
for the purposes specified.
(2.) A means for fixing brackets, hooks and other like fittings, consisting of a

page_text: fixed plate with a dovetail piece tapering towards the top, and a corresponding
recess on the rear of the article to be fixed, allowing it to be dovetailed to the
fixed plate, substantially as described and shown.
(3.) A means for fixing brackets, hooks and the like, consisting of two plates,
one fixed to the wall or other part, and the other on the back of the article to be
fitted, one formed with a dovetail groove or socket tapering towards one end, and
the other with a correspondingly shaped projection, fitting into the said socket,
substantially as and for the purposes specified.
(4.) The improved means for fixing brackets, hooks, door knobs and like
articles, substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying sheet of
drawings and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 25th day of April 1894.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant..