Improved Device for Attaching Clothes Hooks or other objects to Wood, Stone, Leather and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr., 1897.
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Attaching Clothes Hooks or other objects to
Wood, Stone, Leather and the like.
I, CARL BÖTTCHER, of No. 4. Schellinerstrasse, Stargard, in the Kingdom of
Prussia, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a device for connecting together various objects, and
consists of a counter-hook and a U-shaped spring, the former of which is fitted to
one and the latter to the other object. The legs or shanks of the U-shaped spring
are provided with holes or slots which receive the counter hooks for the purpose of
connecting the two objects together. For example in applying my invention to a
clothes hook, I provide the said hook at its rear with a counter hook which is
passed into a hole in the door or other part to which it is to be applied, and the
beforementioned U-shaped spring rivetted to a small plate or rose is passed into
the same hole from the opposite side of the door for example in such manner that
the counter hook at the rear of the clothes hook enters and is retained in place in the
beforementioned holes or slots in the legs or shanks of the U-shaped spring.
The loosening or turning of the clothes hook is prevented by the employment of
pins on the plate or rose of the U-shaped spring and on the flange of the clothes
hook which pins take into recesses in the object to which the hook is fastened.
In fastening the clothes hook to wood an indiarubber ring is preferably inserted
between the wood and the plate or rose of the U-shaped spring and the flange of
the clothes hook which indiarubber rings may lie in grooves formed in the said
plate or rose, and flange.
An eye may be furnished at the rear end of the U-shaped spring to serve for
hanging the hooks of clothes holders and so forth.
My improved device may be employed for fastening objects to stone, wood,
leather, paste-board and the like, and when employed for fixing an object to
masonry the U-shaped spring is preferably fastened with plaster of Paris or
cement.
Dated this 29th day of April 1897.
Improved Device for Attaching Clothes Hooks or other objects to
Wood, Stone, Leather and the like.
I, Carl BöttchER, of No. 4 Schellinerstrasse, Stargard, in the Kingdom of
Prussia, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
[Price 8d.]

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a device for connecting together various objects, the
said device consists of a counter hook and a U-shaped spring, the former of which
is fitted to one and the latter to the other object. The legs or shanks of the
U-shaped spring are provided with holes or slots which receive the counter-hook
for the purpose of connecting the two objects together. The device is especially
applicable for the fastening of various objects to stone, wood, leather paste-board
and the like, and is illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Figures 1 and 2 show the device applied to the fixing of a clothes hook to a door
Figure 1 being a sectional elevation, and Figure 2 a sectional plan. Figure 3
shows a plan of a slightly modified arrangement.
The U-shaped bent spring a has formed in each of its legs or shanks 6 a hole or
slot c, it is rivetted to a plate d provided with a pin d', and is let into the opening ell
made through the door e¹. The clothes hook f, intended to be fixed has at its rear
end a counter hook g, and its flange his provided with a pin h¹.
In order to fasten the hook f in place its rear end is pushed into the opening e
from one side of the door e¹ and the legs or shanks 6 of the spring a into the same
opening from the other side of the door, so that the points of the counter hook g
take into the slots c of the said legs or shanks, and the hook f is thereby held
securely in place. The loosening or turning of the clothes hook is prevented by
the pins d¹ and h¹ in the plate d and flange respectively, taking into holes in
the door.
In fastening the clothes hook to wood an india-rubber washer k is preferably
interposed between the wood and the flange h, such washer preferably lying in a
groove formed in the said flange.
In order to fix an object to masonry, the spring a is preferably fastened therein
with plaster of Paris or cement.
The spring a may be furnished at its rear end with an eye or loop i (see Figure 3)
so that when the hook f is fixed in a clothes rack, for example, such eye or loop
may be used to hang the clothes rack to a hook or nail in the wall or other point
of support.
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:-
First. A device for connecting objects together, which consists of a counter
hook g connected with one of the said objects, and a U-shaped spring a connected
with the other of the said objects, the legs or shanks of the said spring being
slotted and adapted to receive the aforesaid counter hook, substantially as described.
Second. The modification of the device forming the subject matter of the first
claiming clause, hereof, in which the spring a is provided at its hinder end, with
an eye or loop i for the purpose of facilitating the suspension of the objects when
connected together, substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of January 1898.