A New or Improved Gripping Device or Appliance for Gripping Picture Cords and for other purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL. SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Gripping Device or Appliance for Gripping
Picture Cords and for other purposes.
We FREDERICK JOSEPH ONSLOW SMITH, Gentleman of 9 Acton Lane and
CHARLES WILLIAM DAVIES, Architect of 8 High Street both in Harlesden in
the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to a device or appliance for gripping cords or ropes or the
like and for the sake of example we will describe our present invention as applied
for the purpose of gripping the cords by which pictures are hung so that at any
desired point such cord etcetera may be gripped and retained in position without the
necessity of tying a knot or knots while at the same time such cord etcetera can be
readily released again when desired. Our said appliance consists of two main
parts riz. a fixed part and a moveable part one part being fixed by screws or other-
wise to the picture frame and such fixed part carries a lug or block thereon having
a taper hole formed therethrough which hole for the sake of brevity we will term
the female conc.
Within this female cone the second or moveable part operates and consists of a
sort of male cone divided into two parts and having a hole formed centrally therein
such hole or hore when the two paris are closed together being of such a diameter
as to tightly grip and hold the cord therein between.
The top of this male cone (and also the bottom thereof if desired) has a shoulder
or flange thereon to prevent same dropping through the fixed block when not
in use.
The operation is as follows:-
The end of the picture cord is drawn through the central hole or bore in the
male cone until the picture is adjusted to the required height or position and then
the two parts of the male cone are pushed up into the female cone whereupon the
taper sides of the male cone will ride up the correspondingly internally tapered
side wall of the female cone and thus the two parts of the male cone will be forced
together and so tightly grip and retain the cord and thus remain tightly jammed in
the female cone the weight of the picture on the cord continually keeping the two
parts thus jammed together.
This 10th day of duil 1801
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the latentees.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Gripping Device or Appliance for Gripping
Picture Cords and for other purposes.
We, FREDERICK JOSEPH ONSLOW SMITII, Gentleman, of 9 Acton Lane, and
CHARLES WILLIAM DAVIES, Architect, of 8 High Street, both in Harlesden, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a device or appliance for gripping cords or ropes or the
like and for the sake of example we will describe our present invention as applied
for the purpose of gripping the cords by which pictures are hung-so that at any

page_text: purposes consisting of the combination of parts such as a, d, e, and arranged and
acting substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described and
illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
2. A cord or the like gripping device or appliance having a split male cone or
part consisting of two pieces grooved on their opposing faces to receive the cord
etcetera in such groove and coned on their outer surfaces so as to ride up corre-
sponding coned surfaces formed on the inside surface of a female cone so as to act
to jamm or grip said cord etcetera substantially in the manner and for the purposes
hereinbefore described and set forth.
Dated this 13th dor of August 1891
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, Agents for the Patentees.