Improvements in Fittings or Attachments, such as Handles, Hinges, Brackets, Hat Pegs, and the like, to be Applied to Surfaces of . Wood.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1893-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fittings or Attachments, such as Handles, Hinges,
Brackets, Hat Pegs, and the like, to be Applied to Surfaces of
.
Wood.
I, MACKAY JOHN SCOBIE, Lieut. Col. 3rd Batn. Royal Scots, and of the Naval
and Military Club, Piccadilly, London, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
I make handles, hinges, brackets, hat pegs and the like with metal bases or
plates provided with claws which when the base or plate has been put into position
against the wooden surface are driven into the wood by blows with a hammer.
The claws are formed of a piece with the base or plate and are pointed and curved.
They are carried upon bent or curved stems which connect them with the plate.
In driving the claws their stems are straightened out flat whilst the claw itself
enters truly into the wood.
Such a base plate I make to carry a handle which may be in one piece with the
plate or fixed or jointed to it and the plate may be furnished with claws at the
ends or at the sides or both at the ends and sides. Hinges I make in a similar
manner with two plates furnished with claws as described and jointed together
either closely with a pin joint or loosely with interlocking rings. For brackets I
have two such plates formed or fixed together at right angles the one to the other
and each provided with claws as described so that one of the plates may be attached
by its claws to the wooden upright or partition and the other to the underside
of an horizontal wooden shelf which is to be carried by means of the brackets.
The angle of the bracket should be strengthened by a diagonal strut.
provided with claws as set forth may be used to strengthen boxes and the
like by binding together, side by side or end to end, the parts or pieces which
go to form the box or other article.
Plates
Hat pegs, coat hooks and like pegs and hooks I also make with base plates
provided with claws. For such purposes I often provide claws at one end and
about the centre respectively. These claws have no flexible stems.
The plate
rests against the upright or partition near one end which serves as a fulcrum whilst
the claws are driven.
The plate during the operation of driving will move or turn around the fulcrum
until it comes to its place in close contact with the upright or partition.
I also frequently attach the hook or peg by means of a flexible stem and claw
at the top and a curved nail about the centre of the plate or on the other hand as
described above using claws with flexible stems at each end of the base plate and
also at the sides.
Dated this 4th day of January 1893.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fittings or Attachments, such as Handles, Hinges,
Brackets, Hat Pegs, and the. like, to be Applied to Surfaces of
Wood.
I, MACKAY JOHN SCOBIE, Lieut. Col. 3rd Batn. Royal Scots, and of the Naval
and Military Club, Piccadilly, London, 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 :-
I make handles, hinges, brackets, hat pegs and the like with metal bases or plates
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page_text: provided with claws which when the base or plate has been put into position
against the wooden surface are driven into the wood by blows with a hammer. The
claws are formed of a piece with the base or plate and are pointed, and curved, they
are carried upon bent or curved stems which connect them with the plate. The
claws may be either plain or barbed.
In driving the claws their stems are straightened out flat whilst the claw itself
enters truly into the wood.
Such a base plate I make to carry a handle which may be in one piece with the
plate or fixed or jointed to it and the plate may be furnished with claws at the
ends or at the sides or both at the ends and sides.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is a front view and Figure 2 is a side view of
a handle suitable for a box, a drawer or the like. a is a base plate, either of
wrought or malleable cast iron; it has three pointed and curved claws a¹ a¹ a¹
carried at the extremities of bent stems a² a² a² which are to be straightened as the
claws are driven into the wood. b b are eyes rivetted into the base plate or it
might be cast with it. c is the hand piece its ends pass through the eyes and are
bent out at right angles to form stops which come to abut against the base plate
when the hand piece is raised to a horizontal position. Or the hand piece might
be rivetted directly to the base plate or cast with it.
Figure 3 is a front view and Figure 4 is a side view of a handle of another form
in which each end of the hand piece is separately held. The eyes to receive the
ends of the hand piece are in this case in one with the parts a a¹ and a² and are
produced by bending the metal strip.
Hinges I make in a similar manner with two plates furnished with claws as
described and jointed together either closely with a pin joint or loosely with
interlocking rings.
Figure 5 is a plan and Figure 6 is a side elevation of a hinge in accordance with
my invention. dd are the two flaps of the hinge closely jointed together with an
ordinary hinge joint at d. The flaps each terminate in a curved stem and ; a claw
adapted to be driven into the woodwork whilst the stem is straightened. ee are
other stem pieces with claws rivetted on to the bases, pieces or flaps of the hinge.
Figures 7 and 8 illustrate a modification in which the pieces ee are dispensed with
and in their place claws d² d² are formed by perforating the flaps or base pieces and
bending and shaping the tongues of metal so produced. The joint may be formed
with rings interlocking as in Figures 8 & 8B or otherwise.
For brackets I have two base pieces or plates formed or fixed together at right
angles the one to the other and each provided with claws as described so that one
of the plates may be attached by its claws to the wooden upright or partition and
the other to the underside of an horizontal wooden shelf which is to be carried by
means of the brackets. The angle of the bracket should be strengthened by a
diagonal strut.
my
invention.
Figure 9 is a side view of a shelf bracket in accordance with
Figure 10 is a front view of the same. ff are the two plates meeting in an angle
and furnished with claws; they may be formed or cast in one piece. g is a diagonal
strut which fortifies the angle.
.. Plates provided with claws as set forth may be used to strengthen boxes and the
like by binding together, side by side or end to end, the parts or pieces which go
to form the box or other article.
Figures 11 and 12 show such a plate with its curved stems and claws at either
end.
Hat pegs, coat hooks and like pegs and hooks I also make with base plates
provided with claws. For such purposes I often provide claws at one end and
about the centre respectively. These claws may or may not have flexible stems.
The plate rests against the upright or partition near one end which serves as a
fulcrum whilst the claws are driven.
The plate during the operation of driving will move or turn around the fulcrum
until it comes to its place in close contact with the upright or partition.

page_text: Figure 13 shows a coat hook of this construction; it has two claws and i each
pointed and curved about a fulcrum point at k. In fixing this hook the fulcrum
point bears continuously whilst the claws penetrate by a circular movement about
this fulcrum. In this case the stem of the claw does not change its form in the
operation of driving.
I also frequently attach the hook or peg by means of a flexible stem and claw at
the top and a curved nail nearer to the centre of the plate.
Figure 14 illustrates this method of construction. The claw h which is nearer to
the fulcrum k is driven as before by causing the base to rock or turn about the
fulcrum but in this case the claw i has a curved and flexible stem and the driving
of the claw does not commence until the claw h is driven home and is then
performed by straightening the stem of the claw i. These hooks are also made with
sharp points for use by butchers and others.
Figure 15 is a side view and Figure 16 is a front view and Figure 17 is a
transverse section of a hat peg which is fixed in the way previously described in
respect to other fittings or attachments; that is to say it has a base armed with
claws m m carried by flexible stems n n which are straightened whilst driving the
claws.
Other fittings or attachments may be similarly arranged; thus Figures 18 and 19
show the fittings or attachments for a gate latch. Figure 20 the socket for a door
bolt or a fixing for a pipe or rod and Figures 21, 22 and 23 show supports for the
pivots of a roller blind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Fittings or attachments such as are herein described and represented by the
annexed drawings.
2. Fittings or attachments substantially as described to be applied to surfaces
of wood, the same being carried by a base or plate armed with claws having
flexible stems which are straightened as the claws are driven into the wood.
3. Fittings or attachments substantially as described to be applied to surfaces
of wood and having a fulcrum (such as in Figure 13) and two or more curved
claws at different distances from the fulcrum and curved about it.
4. Fittings or attachınents substantially as described to be applied to surfaces
of wood and having a fulcrum and a claw rigid upon the base and another claw on
a stem extending from the base and flexible so that it may be straightened as the
claw which it carries is driven.
Dated this 30th day of September 1893.
MACKAY J. SCOBIE,
The Homestead, Duffield, Derbyshire.