Certain Improvements in Picture Suspending Hooks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in Picture Suspending Hooks.
We, FREDERICK CHARLES SMITH, of 8 Westminster Road, Handsworth,
Staffordshire, Commercial Traveller, and SAMUEL HENRY KEELING, of Goodman
Street Works, Goodman Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in those hooks
which are used for suspending pictures from mouldings or from picture rods or
from walls. By this invention the cord is prevented from rising off the hook when
the picture is lifted, the hook is prevented from cutting the picture cord, and the
picture can readily be adjusted so as to hang perpendicularly.
The said picture hooks are usually made from a sheet metal blank bent to the
required shape the upper part being bent into a hook to hook on to a picture moulding
or on to a picture rod; or the upper part of the picture hook is made flat to nail or
otherwise fix to a wall. The lower part of the picture hook is bent upwardly into
a hook for the picture cord.
In carrying out this invention we form the lower part of the hook so as to take
a metal eyelet which is threaded thereon and which serves as a double flanged roller
over which the picture cord passes thus preventing the hook cutting the cord.
That part of the hook which is within the roller is or may be rounded so as to
allow of the roller turning freely thereon and to enable the picture to be adjusted
to hang perpendicularly. Immediately above the roller there is a front projecting
part on the body of the hook (which may be formed by indenting the body of the
hook from the back) and the end of the bottom hook is bent backwardly over the
roller. This formation of the bottom hook keeps the said roller in position aud
prevents the cord rising out off the hook when the picture is lifted.
Dated this 24th day of January 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in Picture Suspending Hooks.
We, FREDERICK CHARLES SMITH, late of 8, Westminster Road, Handsworth,
Staffordshire, now residing at Hunton Road, Erdington, Warwickshire, Commercial
Traveller, and SAMUEL HENRY KEELING, of Goodman Street Works, Goodman
Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Manufacturer, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improvements in those hooks which
are used for suspending pictures from mouldings or from picture rods or from walls.
By this invention the cord is prevented from rising off the hook when the picture
is lifted, the hook is prevented from cutting the picture cord, and the picture can
readily be adjusted so as to hang perpendicularly.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying sheet of
drawings which represent three forms of picture suspending hooks constructed
according to this invention,
Figure 1 being a hook for suspending pictures from mouldings Figure 2 is a side
elevation of the same:

page_text: Fig. 3 is a hook for suspending pictures from picture rods and
Fig. 4 is a hook for suspending pictures from walls.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawing.
The said picture hooks are usually made from a sheet metal blank bent to the
required shape the upper part being bent into a hook as at a Figs: 1, 2 and 3 to
hook on to a picture moulding or on to a picture rod; or the upper part of the
picture hook is made flat as at 6 Fig. 4 to nail or otherwise fix to a wall. The
lower part of the picture hook to which our invention applies is bent upwardly into
a hook for the picture cord.
In carrying out this invention we form the lower part of the hook so as to take
the metal eyelet c which serves as a double flanged loose roller over which the
picture cord d passes as in Fig. 1 thus preventing the hook from cutting the cord.
That part e' of the hook e which is within the roller c is by preference rounded as
shewn so as to conform with the shape of the inside of the roller c and is made
wide enough to allow of the roller turning freely thereon and enable the picture to
be adjusted to hang perpendicularly. The shape of this lower part e¹ of the hook
is clearly shewn in Fig. 2. Immediately above the roller there is a front projecting
part on the body of the hook (which may be formed as shewn by indenting the
body of the hook from the back) and after the roller has been threaded on to the
hook e the upper end thereof is bent backwardly as shewn over the roller. This
formation of the bottom hook e keeps the roller c in position and also prevents the
cord rising out of the hook e when the picture is lifted slightly.
In conclusion we wish it to be understood that we do not claim broadly the use
of a roller for the cord as we are well aware that prior to this invention picture
hooks have been made with fixed rollers for the cord to pass over but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
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1. In picture suspending hooks the employment of a loose cord roller such as c
threaded on to the lower hook in combination with a projection such as
roller to keep the roller in place all substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
above the
2. In picture suspending hooks the employment of a cord roller such as c threaded
on to the lower hook in combination with a projection such as fabove the roller
and with the upper part of the lower hook bent over the roller to prevent the cord
from rising out of the lower hook when the picture is lifted slightly all substantially
as hereinbefore set forth.
3. Picture suspending hooks having their lower hooks shaped substantially as
hereinbefore set forth and shewn so as to thread through the cord roller such as c
and allow of the said roller turning freely thereon and also keep the roller in
position and prevent the cord rising out of the lower hook when the picture is lifted
slightly as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.