IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT AND COAT HOOKS AND IN ATTACHING KNOBS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Alfred Fussell, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF HAT AND COAT HOOKS AND IN ATTACHING KNOBS AND
Sealed the 10th May 1867, and dated the 12th March 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Alfred Fussell at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th March 1867.
I, JAMES ALFRED FUSSELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT AND COAT HOOKS AND IN ATTACHING KNOBS
AND ORNAMENTS TO VARIOUS ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates principally to hat and coat hooks, and consists of the
improvements berein-after described in attaching the terminal knobs or
ornaments to the said hat and coat hooks, the said improvements being also
applicable to the attaching of knobs and ornaments to other articles.
In
I will describe my Invention in connection with a hat and coat hook.
the ordinary manufacture of bat and coat hooks the terminal knobs are attached
by a collar or short tube, constituting or terminating the neck of the knob,

page_text: being serewed on the end of the hook. The said collars are attached to the
knobs either by being cemented thereto or by a serew passing through the
knob.
In attaching the said knobs to hat and coat hooks according to my Invention
I insert a piece of plain tubing in the end of the hat or coat hook, and fix
the said plain tubing therein by soldering, brazing, rivetting, or otherwise.
The knob has a hole in it of a size proper to fit the said plain tube. The
knob is placed upon the said piece of plain tube and fixed in its place either
by expanding or spreading out the end of the said plain tube, or by means of
a' screw screwed into the end of the tube, the head of the screw bearing on
the top of the knob and holding it firmly in its place. Before placing the
knob on the plain tubing an ornamental ring may be placed upon the
shoulder formed by the junction of the said plain tubing with the hook.
Knobs attached according to my Invention are more securely and more
economically attached than by the ordinary method. The improvements in
attaching knobs to hat and coat hooks may be applied to the attaching of
knobs and ornaments to various articles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Alfred Fussell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
ALFRED FUSSELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Iler heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Alfred Fussell, Her special licence that I, the said James Alfred
Fussell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the
said James Alfred Fussell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT AND COAT HOOKS AND IN. ATTACHING
KNOBS AND ORNAMENTS TO VARIOUS ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that I, the said James Alfred Fussell, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Alfred Fussell, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
.
My Invention relates principally to hat and coat hooks, and consists of the
improvements herein-after described in attaching the terminal knobs or
ornaments to the said hat and coat hooks, the said improvements being
applicable to the attaching of knobs and ornaments to other articles.
I will describe my Invention in connection with a hat and coat hook. In
the ordinary manufacture of hat and coat hooks the terminal knobs are
attached by a collar or short tube, constituting or terminating the neck of the
knob, being screwed on the end of the hook. The said collars are attached
to the knobs either by being cemented thereto or by a screw passing through
the knob.
In attaching the said knobs to hat and coat hooks according to my Invention
I insert a piece of plain tubing in the end of the bat and coat hook, and fix
the said plain tubing therein by soldering, brazing, livetting, or otherwise.
The knob has a hole in it of a size proper to fit the said plain tube. The
knob is placed upon the said piece of plain tubing, and fixed in its place
either by expanding or spreading out the end of the said plain tubing, or by
means of a screw screwed into the end of the tubing, the head of the screw
bearing on the top of the knob and holding it firmly in its plaee. Before
placing the knob on the plain tubing an ornamental ring may be placed upon
the shoulder formed by the junction of the said plain tubing with the hook.
Knobs attached according to my Invention are more securely and more
economically attached than by the ordinary method. The improvements in
attaching knobs to hat and coat hooks may be applied to the attaching of
knobs and ornaments to various articles.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to describe,'
with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in which the same
is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation (partly in section) a hat and coat
hook the terminal knobs or ornaments of which are attached according to my

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Invention; Figure 2 represents the hook before the terminal knobs or
ornaments are attached to it; and Figures 3, 4 and 5, are parts of the same.
Into the ends of the hat and coat hook a pieces of plain tubing b are inserted.
and fixed, the fixing of the said pieces of tubing being effected either by
soldering, brazing, rivetting, or otherwise. A hook in this stage of its
manufacture is represented in Figure 2; previous to inserting the pieces of
tubing 6 into the ends of the hook I tap or form a concave screw 6 in that
end of the piece of tubing which is to be outwards in the finished hook.
elevation and section of a piece of tubing b is represented separately in
Figure 3. Having fixed the pieces of tubing 6 in the ends of the hook a I
place upon the shoulder a³, formed at the junction of the tubing b with the
book a an ornamental ring c (shown. separately in Figure 5) I next place a
terminal knob or ornament d (shown separately in Figure 4) upon each of
the said pieces of tubing 6, the knob or ornament having a hole in its axis
of a size proper to fit the said tubing, and I fix the said knob or ornament in
its place by expanding or spreading out the end of the tubing 6 into a
depression in the top of the knob or ornament, as seen in Figure 1 where the
expanded end of the tubing is marked 63. In order to fill up the open end
of the tubing b and give a finish to the knob or ornament d, a screw e is
screwed into the tapped end 62 of the said tubing, the head of the said screw
bearing on the top of the knob or ornament d, and assisting in holding the
knob or ornament in its place. Instead of fixing the knob or ornament by
expanding or spreading out the end of the piece of tubing upon which it is
placed, the end of the piece of tubing may be left plain and the screw e alone
be employed to fix the said knob or ornament in its place, the head of the
screw bearing on the top of the knob or ornament. This arrangement of
my Invention is represented in section in Figure 6. Where the hook is made
of plain tubing the ends of the hook may be employed in the manner
described for attaching the terminal knobs or ornaments instead of
inserting and fixing separate pieces of tubing in the ends of the hook.
Figure 7 represents in longitudinal section, and Figure 8 in elevation, a door
knob, the china or earthenware part of which is attached according to my
Invention Figure 9 represents part of the same, and Figure 10 is a modi-
fication of the same. To the metal collar or disc f, constituting the front of
the neck of the knob, I attach by soldering, brazing, or otherwise a square
tube 9, in which the square spindle h of the knob fits, i is the metal, neck
and is the china or earthenware ornament or portion of the knob. The
necki and knob k have holes in them of a size proper to fit the square tube g.
The neck i and knob k being placed upon the tube 9 in the positions represented
;

page_text: the end g of the tube g is expanded or spread out into the depression k³ at
the top of the knob /, and the said knob thereby securely fixed in its place.
The shape of the expanded end of the tube g is best seen in Figure 8. The
knob k is finished by the ornamental screw being screwed into the screwed
end of the tube g, the head of the screw bearing on the top of the knob k.
Figure 10 represents in section another door knob in which the expanding
or spreading out of the end of the tube is dispensed with, and the fixing of
the knob or ornament effected by the screwing home of the terminal screw l.
Although I have only described and represented my Invention as applied
to hat and coat hooks and door knobs, yet my Invention is applicable to the
attaching of knobs and ornaments to various other articles.
My Invention is specially applicable to the attaching of non-metallic knobs
and ornaments to hat and coat hooks and other articles, but is also applicable
to the attaching of metallic knobs and ornaments to the said articles.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated in the Drawing,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention.
But I claim as my Invention the improvements in the manufacture of hat
and coat hooks and in attaching knobs and ornaments to various articles
herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is
to say, attaching terminal knobs or ornaments to hat and coat hooks and
attaching knobs and ornaments to other articles either by expanding or
spreading out the end of a piece of tubing on which the knob or ornament is
placed into or upon the said knob or ornament or by a terminal screw
screwed into the end of the piece of tubing, the head of the screw bearing on
the top of the knob or ornament or by the combination of the expanded end
of the said piece of tubing and terminal screw, substantially as described and
illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Alfred Fussell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JAMES ALFRED FUSSELL. (L.S.)