A New or Improved Suspender for Suspending or Hanging Pictures, Maps, and other Articles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 5th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 20th Jan., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Suspender for Suspending or Hanging Pictures,
Maps, and other Articles.
1 GEORGE EDWIN MEWIS of No. 35 Saint Paul's Square Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of a new or improved suspender for suspending or hanging
pictures maps and other articles the parts of which suspender are constructed and
arranged in the manner hereinafter described.
The base of the suspender consists of a plate of brass or other strong metal or alloy
which may have any desired ornamental figure. In the said plate 1 fix three pins or
axes perpendicularly to the said plate. The said pins have such a position on the said
plate that when the suspender is in use and the said plate hangs vertically two of them
are on the same level and at a short distance apart and the third at a lower level and
equidistant from the other two the three pins occupying the positions of the three
angles of an equilateral triangle. Each of the said pins carries a pulley or roller the
said pulleys having grooves of a size suitable to receive the cord of the picture or
article to be suspended. The picture or other cord passes under the lower pulley and
over the two higher pulleys. The base plate has at top a hook or ring when the
suspender is to be used with a picture rod the said hook or ring being of a size which
permits it to slide freely on the picture rod. When the suspender is to be fixed to a
wall or other surface or article it may be nailed thereto or it may have at top a
ring or loop or other attachment suitable for the particular use to which the suspender
is to be applied.
Instead of using movable bearings such as rollers or pulleys for the cord to work
under and over fixed bearings may be employed. In this case the three fixed bearings
may be made in one piece with the base plate carrying them.
Suspenders made according to my invention permit of the ready adjustment of the
picture or other article by a slight upward pressure on the picture frame or article
but retains the picture or article firmly in the position to which it has been adjusted
when the whole weight of the picture or article is allowed to bear on the suspender.
Dated this Fourteenth day of March 1887.
W. I. WHITEMAN,
Ageni for the Applicant.

page_text: A New or Improved Suspender for Suspending or Hanging Pictures,
Maps, and other Articles.
I GEORGE EDWIN MEWIS of No. 35 Saint Paul's Square Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention consists of a new or improved suspender for suspending or hanging
pictures maps and other articles the parts of which suspender are constructed and
arranged in the manner herein after described.
The base of the suspender consists of a plate of brass or other strong metal or alloy
which may have any desired ornamental figure.
The
In the said plate I fix three pins or axes perpendicularly to the said plate.
said pins have such a position on the said plate that when the suspender is in use and
the said plate hangs vertically two of them are on the same level and at a short
distance apari and the third at a lower level and equidistant from the other two, the
three pins occupying the positions of the three angles of an equilateral triangle. Each
of the said pins carries a pulley or roller the said pulleys having grooves of a size
suitable to receive the cord of the picture or article to be suspended. The picture or
other cord passes under the lower pulley and over the two higher pulleys. The base
plate has at top a hook or ring when the suspender is to be used with a picture rod
the said hook or ring being of a size which permits it to slide freely on the picture
rod. When the suspender is to be used with a moulding it has a hook. When the
suspender is to be fixed to a wall or other surface or article it may be mailed thereto
or it may have at top a ring or loop or other attachment suitable for the particular use
to which the suspender is to be applied.
Instead of using movable bearings such as rollers or pulleys for the cord to work
under and over fixed bearings may be employed. In this case the three fixed bearings
may be made in one piece with the base plate carrying them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation partly in
perspective and Figure 2 in side elevation, a picture suspender constructed according
to my invention connected to the picture rod by a ring.
a is the base plate of the suspender having riveted to it the headed pins or axes b, b, b
equi distantly arranged on the said plate in the positions represented, that is to say,
the said pins or axes occupy the positions of the three angles of an equilateral triangle
or nearly so.
On each of the headed pins or axes b, b, b is a grooved roller or pulley c for
receiving the cord d of the picture or other article to be suspended. It will be seen
by an examination of Figure 1 that the cord d passes under the lower pulley and over
the two higher pulleys arranged at the same level. On the top of the plate a of the
suspender is a ring e by which the suspender is connected to the picture rod by
sliding the said ring upon the said rod. Or instead of the ring e the top of the base

page_text: plate a of the suspender may be furnished with a hook for hooking the suspender to
the picture rod or moulding.
Figure 3 represents in front elevation a suspender which is connected to the wall
or other vertical surface by means of nails or screws passed through holes in the base
plate a the nail or screw passed through the larger or principal hole in the base plate
bearing the weight while the nails or screws passed through the smaller holes preserve
the proper position of the suspender.
Figure 4 represents in front elevation and side elevation a suspender for light
pictures or articles. It consists of a sheet metal base a nailed or screwed to the wall
or other vertical surface, the said sheet metal base having headed pins or axes b, b
riveted to it. The said pins or axes b, carry tubular rollers con which the cord
takes a bearing the said cord being passed over and under the tubular rollers in the
manner described with respect to the pulleys represented in Figures 1. 2 and 3.
Instead of employing pulleys or tubular rollers on the axes or pins 6b in the several
arrangements represented, the said pulleys or rollers may be omitted and the picture
or other cord be passed around the pins or axes themselves which constitute Sixed
bearings for the cord in the same manner as the cord is represented passed around the
rollers or pulleys. But I prefer to combine with the axes or pins pulleys or rollers
for the cord to bear upon.
Suspenders made according to my invention permit of the ready adjustment of the
picture or other article by a slight upward pressure on the picture frame or article
but retains the picture or article firmly in the position to which it has been adjusted
when the whole weight of the picture or article is allowed to bear on the suspender.
The base plate of the suspender may have any ornamental figure given to it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed declare that I
claim as my invention;—
A new or improved suspender for suspending or hanging pictures maps and other
articles consisting essentially of a base plate hung to a picture or other rod or
moulding or fixed to a wall or other vertical surface in the manner described the said
base plate being provided with three pins or axes fixed perpendicularly thereto and
occupying the positions on the said plate of the three angles of an equilateral triangle or
nearly so, two of the said pins or axes being at the same level and the third at a lower
level and equidistant or nearly so from the other two, the picture or other cord being
passed under and over pulleys or rollers on the said pins or axes or under and over
the pins or axes themselves without pulleys or rollers substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing,
Dated this Third day of December 1887.
GEORGE EDWIN MEWIS.