An Improved Device for Attaching Hooks, Pegs, or other Articles to Walls.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 5th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Attaching Hooks, Pegs, or other Articles
to Walls.
A communication to me from abroad by OSCAR ADOLPHE PLATENIUS, of Anvers, in
the Kingdom of Belgium.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention has for its object an improved device, which being built into a wall
in the position desired, affords convenient means for readily attaching a hook, peg,
or other articles.
It consists of a truncated pyramid of four, six, or eight sides, or a truncated cone,
of brass, iron, or other metal, which is built or firmly fixed into the wall, its
edges being provided with rough notches or projections, by which it is more firmly
secured.
The outer or larger end is provided with a central hole screwed with a screw
thread so that the hook, peg, or other articles, can be quickly and easily screwed
into or unscrewed from it, or held by a separate screw screwed into it.
Or, instead of a screw thread, a spring clip may be used by which the article is held
as described.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Attaching Hooks, Pegs, or other Articles
to Walls.
A communication to me from abroad by OSCAR ADOLPHE PLATENIUS, of Anvers, in
the Kingdom of Belgium.
I EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex
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 and accompanying drawing, (that is to say) :-
This invention has for its object an improved device, which being built into a wall
in the position desired, affords convenient means for readily attaching a hook, peg, or
other article.
It consists of a truncated pyramid of four, six, or eight sides, or a truncated cone,
of brass, iron, or other metal, which is built or firmly fixed into the wall, its
edges being provided with rough notches or projections, by which it is more
firmly secured. The outer or larger end is provided with a central hole screwed
with a screw thread so that the hook, peg, or other articles, can be quickly and easily
screwed into or unscrewed from it, or held by a separate screw screwed into it.
Or, instead of a screw thread, a spring clip may be used by which the article is held
s described.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of the invention, a is a trun-
cated pyramid-shaped piece of metal, having its edges notched at b, and a hole at its
uter end into which a piece c is fixed, upon the outer end of which a book, peg, pin,

page_text: or other article, can be screwed, or a hook, peg, pin, or other article can itself be
screwed into a, or the piece c.
The size and shape of the metal piece a may be varied more or less as above
described.
Having now particularly described the nature of the said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
The metal piece a, which' is built into or firmly fixed in a wall, and is provided at
its outer end with a hole into which a hook, peg, or other article can be screwed or
fixed, substantially as described and shewn.
1800
EDWARDS & Co.,
Agents for the Patentee.