Improvements in Hat and Coat or other Garment Hooks and Pegs.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat and Coat or other Garment Hooks and Pegs.
We, ALFRED BROWN and HENRY CLARKE PRUCE, trading as A. Brown and Com-
pany, of Smallbrook Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers and Mer-
chants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to hat and coat or other garment hooks or pegs, and
consists in a means of connecting or securing the attachment plate, or the com-
bined number or name and attachment plate, to the hook or peg part proper.
or the com-
In carrying out one form of our invention in connection with a hat and coat
hook made from stout wire or metal rod fashioned into the desired double hook
shape, we provide the middle or straight parts of the rods forming the junction
between the hat hook and the coat hook with a supplementary carrier or
clip consisting of a strip of metal of suitable width, with the opposite ends or
sides bent into tubular sleeves embracing the separated members or rods of the
straight part of the hook, and separated but connected by a flat web, the top and
bottom of which are pierced with holes for the purpose hereinafter described.
This clip or hook carrier is placed at the back of the attachment plate,
bined number and attachment plate of the hook, the flanged edges of which are
preferably gapped with seatings to suit the sleeves of the carrier, so as to admit
of the backs of the said carrier and attachment plate lying flush with one another,
whilst the said carrier is secured by ears on the top and bottom back edges of the
said plate being clenched or turned over upon the back of the web or flat part of
the carrier and preferably being turned into the before mentioned holes at the
top and bottom of the said connecting web, or one edge of the carrier may be
passed under a turned back hook on the carrier and the other edge is secured by
à turned over cleat or ear.
Instead of forming the supplementary carrier from a straight strip, it may be
fashioned from a double-headed T-shaped blank, the head parts of which are
made to constitute short sleeves for encircling the bars or rods or equivalent parts
of the hook.
Or instead of cleats, the carrier may be secured by one or more rivets on the
one part passing through a coincident hole or holes in the other part.
We do not limit ourselves to the precise details of the construction or form
of the supplementary carrier and the means of attaching the securing plate there-
to herein described, which may be varied without departing from the nature of
our invention, the application of which to other garment hooks and pegs differs
in no essential respect from the herein described application of the same to wire
hat and coat hooks.
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ALFRED BROWN.
HENRY CLARKE PRUCE.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: improvements in Hat and Coat or other Garment Hooks and Pegs.
We, ALFRED BROWN and HENRY CLARKE PRUCE, trading as A. Brown and Com-
pany, of Smallbrook Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers and Mer-
chants, 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 relates to hat and coat or other garment hooks or pegs, and
consists in a means of connecting or securing the attachment plate, or the com-
bined number or name and attachment plate, to the hook or peg part proper.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a front elevation of a hat
and coat hook, provided with a combined attachment and number or name plate
secured thereto according to our invention.
Figure 2 is a back elevation of Figure 1 and Figure 3 is a complete vertical
section of the said hook with number plate, taken upon the dotted line, Figure 2,
whilst Figure 4 is a transverse section of the same figure upon the dotted line æ¹.
Figure 5 represents vertical sections, as in Figure 3, of the hook and number
plate parts separated, and Figure 6 is a horizontal section, as in Figure 4, of the
same, showing the appearance of the said parts before being closed together.
Figure 7 is a back elevation of the number plate separately and in the same
conditions as represented in Figures 5 and 6, viz., ready for connection to the hook.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
In carrying out this form of our invention as represented in the drawing in
connection with a hat and coat hook a, made from stout wire or metal rod fashioned
into the desire shape, and comprising a hat hook a¹, and a coat hook a², we
provide the middle or straight parts a³, of the rods forming the junction between
the said hat hook and the coat hook portions with a supplementary carrier or
clip b, consisting of a strip of metal of suitable width, with the opposite edges or
sides b, bent into tubular sleeves 63, embracing the separated members or rods
of the said straight part 3 of the hook, and separated but connected by a web 20,
the bottom of which is pierced with a hole b³, for the purpose hereinafter described.
This clip or hook carrier is placed at the back of the attachment plate, or the
combined number and attachment plate e, of the hook, the top and bottom flanged
edges c', of which are preferably gapped with seatings ², to suit the sleeves of
the carrier, so as to admit of the backs of the said carrier and attachment plate
lying flush with one another, the one part being secured to the other by ears or
tongues 3, 4, formed on the top and bottom back edges respectively of the said
plate between the seatings 2, with the upper ear c³, being clenched down over
the top edge on the back of the web or flat part 62, of the carrier, whilst the other
ear or cleat c, is passed through the aforesaid hole 63, in the said carrier strap
and then also clenched down, or one edge of the carrier strap may be passed under
a turned back or overhanging hook on the attachment plate and the other edge
be secured by turning a cleat or ear thereover.
Instead of forming the supplementary carrier from a straight strip, it may be
fashioned from a double-headed T-shaped blank, the head parts of which are
made to constitute short sleeves for encircling the bars or rods or equivalent parts
of the hook.
Figure 8 represents another modification of our invention, in which the carrier
strap is dispensed with, and the hook a, is secured to the attachment plate c, by
two pairs of ears or cleats c, formed upon the flanged upper and lower edges

page_text: thereof and which are respectively slightly closed over the straight parts of the
hook as represented by the dotted lines in the said Figure 8.
The application of our improvements to hat hooks, coat hooks and other gar-
ment hooks and pegs differs in no essential respect from its application to combined
hat and coat hooks as herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: -
First Securing hat and coat hooks and other garment hooks and pegs to
their attachment plates by ears, cleats or like parts upon the attachment plate
being turned over or engaged with the hook, or with a supplementary carrier or
strap secured upon the said hook, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly: The method of securing garment hooks and pegs to their attach-
ment plates by clenching ears or equivalent parts of the said plate directly over
the hook, substantially as described and set forth in Figure 8.
Daten
this with day or January 1898.
ALFRED BROWN.
HENRY CLARKE PRUCE.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.