Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat, Coat, and Wardrobe Hooks, and other like Hooks.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat, Coat, and Wardrobe
Hooks, and other like Hooks.
We, EVERED AND COMPY. LIMITED of Barnet Works, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturers, and GEORGE CLARKE, Works Manager at
Barnet Works, Birmingham aforesaid do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The said invention has reference principally to the fixing plates of hat coat and
wardrobe hooks and other like hooks that is to say the parts by which the said
books are attached to the door or rail or other article and the said invention
consists of the improvements hereinafter described in manufacturing the said fixing
plates and attaching them to the bodies of the hooks.
The said invention consists further in changing the configuration of that part of
the body of the hook which passes through the fixing plate by the method
of attachment constituting part of the said invention.
In making the fixing plates according to the said invention we take a cylindrical
tube of brass or other ductile metal or alloy and by a series of drawing operations
upon mandrils we flatten the greater part of the said tube leaving along the middle
of one of the faces of the partly flattened tube a tubular socket or tubula: projection
of a size and shape proper to receive the tubular. body of the hook to be made.
It is preferred to make the tubular socket of an arched form but we do not limit
ourselves to that form. By the drawing process to which the cylindrical tube is
subjected the sides of the nearly flat strip, that is, the parts on either side the
nearly tubular socket, have a double thickness of metal caused by the flattening of
the tube at those parts, the flattened parts being pressed so closely into contact as
to virtually form them into a solid plate. The long strip thus made is cut, trans-
versely into short lengths, each length forming a partially made fixing plate. The
sides or wings of double thickness of metal of the said plates are provided with
countersunk screw holes for the attaching screws to pass through.
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In attaching the fixing plate to the body of the hook the straight tube, from
which the body is to be made, is passed through the tubular socket of the fixing
plate and by a pressing or stamping operation the said tubular socket and that part
of the body tube within it are flattened and expanded so as to fix the two parts
securely together. After the fixing plate has been thus secured to the body of the
hook the hook is finished in the usual way, that is, the parts of the body tube
above and below the fixing plate of the hook are bent into the required forms and
the ends of the bent parts are furnished with the usual terminal knobs.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of June 1896.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hat, Coat, and Wardrobe
Hooks, and other like Hooks.
We, EVERED AND COMPY. LIMITED of Barnet Works, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers, and GEORGE CLARKE, Works Manager at
Barnet Works, Birmingham, aforesaid, 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 :-
The said invention has reference principally to the fixing plates of hat, coat, and
wardrobe hooks, and other like hooks, that is to say the parts by which the said
hooks are attached to the door or rail or other article; and the said invention
consists of the improvements hereinafter described in manufacturing the said fixing
plates and attaching them to the bodies of the hooks.
The said invention consists further in changing the configuration of that part of
the body of the hook which passes through the fixing plate by the method
of attachment constituting part of the said invention.
In making the fixing plates according to the said invention we take a cylindrical
tube of brass or other ductile metal or alloy and by a series of drawing operations
upon mandrils we flatten the greater part of the said tube leaving along the middle
of one of the faces of the partly flattened tube, a tubular socket or tubular projection
of a size and shape proper to receive the tubular body of the hook to be made.
It is preferred to make the tubular socket of an arched form but we do not limit
ourselves to that form. By the drawing process to which the cylindrical tube is
subjected the sides of the nearly flat strip, that is, the parts on either side of the
nearly tubular socket, have a double thickness of metal caused by the flattening of
the tube at those parts, the flattened parts being pressed so closely into contact as
to virtually form them into a solid plate. The long strip thus made is cut trans-
versely into short lengths, each length forming a partially made fixing plate.
In attaching the fixing plate to the body of the hook the straight tube or rod
from which the body is to be made, is passed through the tubular socket of the
fixing plate and by a pressing or stamping operation the said tubular socket and
that part of the body tube or rod within it are flattened and expanded so as to fix
the two parts securely together. After the fixing plate has been thus secured to
the body of the hook, the hook is finished in the usual way; that is, the sides or
wings of double thickness of metal of the said fixing plate on each side of the body
part of the hook are provided with countersunk holes for the attaching screws to
pass through and the parts of the body tube or rod above and below the fixing
plate of the hook are bent into the required forms the ends of the bent parts being
furnished when desired with the usual terminal knobs.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing represent respectively in side and
front elevation, a hat and coat hook manufactured according to the said invention
and Figures 3 to 12 both inclusive represent the series of steps or stages in the
manufacture of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
In manufacturing hat, coat and wardrobe hooks and other like hooks according
to the said invention we make the fixing plates separate from the body part of the
hook and connect the said separate fixing plate and body part together in the
manner hereinafter described.
We make the fixing plates from a brass or other metallic tube, preferably a
cylindrical tube, as represented in Figures 3 and 4. By a drawing through

page_text: operation or a series of drawing through operations upon mandrels we convert the
said cylindrical tube into a tube of the kind represented in Figures 5 and 6; that
is to say, we flatten one of the sides of the said tube and also flatten the other side.
excepting along its middle which part, marked a, is left convex or of an arched
figure the space between the said arched part a and the flattened side being of a
size proper to admit of the introduction into it of the rod or tube Figure 9 from
which rod or tube the body part of the hook is to be made.
The long shaped tube Figures 5 and 6 is divided at the dotted lines into a series
of tubes of a length equal to that which the fixing plates of the hooks to be made
are to have. Figures 7 and 8 represent one of the said short tubes produced by
the dividing of the long tube Figures 5 and 6.
The short tube Figures 7 and 8 is passed into the proper position on the rod b
Figure 9, the arched part a fitting the said rod so tightly that the flattened parts
or wings a², a² are symmetrically disposed on either side of the rod. The rod with
the fixing plate in position is introduced into a stamp or press by the action of
which the side parts or wings a², a² of the fixing plate are completely flattened and
virtually formed into a solid plate as is seen in Figures 10 and 12 and the middle-
or arched part a of the said fixing plate is crushed with such force on to the said
rod b as to firmly and permanently fix the two parts together. By the stamping or
pressing operation described the sectional figure of the cylindrical rod b is so changed.
(see Figures 11 and 12) that it is impossible for the fixing plate to turn or have
motion on the said rod b.
Countersunk holes are drilled in the side parts or wings a², a² of the fixing plate
(as seen in the finished hook Figure 2) and the parts of the rod 6 projecting from
the ends of the fixing plate are bent into the shape required to form the finished
hat and coat hook as seen in Figures 1 and 2. The ends of the hook are preferably
provided with the knobs or terminals c, c.
Although we have represented the body part of the hook as formed froin a brass
cased rod we wish it to be understood that it may be made from an uncased rod or
from a tube.
And although we have only represented the said invention in connection with
the manufacture of a hat and coat hook, that is, a double hook, yet we wish it to be
understood that it is equally applicable to the manufacture of single hooks, that is,
hooks such as would be produced by cutting away at the top of the fixing plate the
upper or hat hook of the hat and coat hook Figures 1 and 2, as well as to the
manufacture of wardrobe hooks and other like hooks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim.
as the said invention ;-
The improvements in the manufacture of hat, coat and wardrobe hooks and other
like hooks herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the
said improvements consisting in making the fixing plates of the said hooks from.
short flattened and preferably arched shaped tubes capable of being passed by a
longitudinal motion on to the body rods or tubes from which the hooks proper are
to be made and finishing or perfecting the figure of the said fixing plates and at
the same time connecting or fixing them to the body rods or tubes of the hooks by
a pressing or stamping operation substantially as herein before described and.
illustrated.
Dated the Sixteenth day of February 1897.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants