Improvements in Hat and Coat Hooks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 28th July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat and Coat Hooks.
We, JOHN TAYLOR and TOM GARDINER, trading as Taylor and Gardiner, of
40 Hill Street in the City of Birmingham, Hardware Merchants, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention pertains to improvements in hat and coat hooks principally used
by schools, cloak rooms of public buildings, hotels and the like, and relates to that
class of hooks which are supported by rail members formed alike unto rectangular
shaped frames or racks supported on legs or formed in blocks and with the rail
members directed tier-wise one above another and one behind the other.
These hat and coat racks with hooks as attachments are arranged in the
middle of, or away from the walls of, a room and the clothes are hung all round or
upon both sides of each rail, and by means of which, the clothes so hung are
perfectly ventilated, hence sanitation garment hanging racks.
Our invention has for one of its objects, a dual or double sided hook, and for
another of its objects, means of fixing of the said hooks to the supporting rod
members of the said racks.
In carrying out one form of our invention, we make a double-sided hat and coat
hook, that is, we connect two hat and coat hooks together by a bridge-shaped
saddle part, or by a semi-circular connection or union, having an inside diameter
suitable for taking and seating itself evenly upon or fitting crosswise over a rod or
tube forming one of the members of the rack.
Thus, this double-bodied or double hat and coat hook with a middle and concaved
seating takes over the rod or tube member, and is there affixed by a pin directed
vertically through the crown of the bridge connection, and through the tube or rod
as a diameter, and with the protruding end of a screw fitted with a nut, which,
when screwed home, firmly affixes the said two-sided hook in position.
We propose that a swell of metal should be left upon the outside crown and a
hole sunken from the top side therein for receiving the head of the pin or bolt.
Or instead of affixing the hook by a vertical pin, it may be affixed by a
horizontal one directed through the backs of the hooks at about the junction of
the hat part with the coat part.
In case such hooks get broken or damaged, they can easily be replaced by new
ones without any of the parts of the rack being disturbed.
Instead of the attachment part of the double hook being open upon the bottom,
the same may be open upon the side, with the bridge part forming the crown
support, so that the double hook is slipped into position over the rod or tube
member through a space, gap or opening coming between the coat and hat parts of
one of the hooks..
These hooks are secured upon the rod or tube members of the racks at suitable
distances apart, and preferably with the hooks upon one rod or tube coming
opposite the middles of the spaces between the hooks upon an upper or lower
nember.
We propose that each hook of the double hook should have a part or that part
at the junction of the hat with the coat hook expanded or broadened out, so as to
form a number or name plate upon which a number, name or letter is displayed by
anamelling or painting or br attached labels.

page_text: Or the said tablet or plate may be formed into a frame into which a loose
number or letter plate is or may be inserted.
Jesh J
Dennenban 1902
JOHN TAYLOR,
TOM GARDINER,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat and Coat Hooks.
We, JOHN TAYLOR and TOM GARDINER, trading as Taylor and Gardiner, of 1
40 Hill Street, in the City of Birmingham, Hardware Merchants, 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 pertains to improvements in hat and coat hooks principally used
by schools, and in the cloak rooms of public buildings, hotels and the like, and
relates to that class of hooks which are supported by rail members formed alike
unto rectangular shaped frames or racks supported on legs, or formed in blocks,
and with the rail members directed tier-wise one above another and one behind
the other.
These hat and coat racks, with hooks as attachments, are arranged in the middle
of, or away from the walls of, a room, and the clothes are hung all round or upon
both sides of each rail, and by means of which, the clothes so hung are perfectly
ventilated, hence sanitation garment-hanging racks.
Our invention has for one of its objects, a dual or double-sided hook, and for
another of its objects, means of fixing the said hooks to the supporting rod members
of the said racks.
In carrying out one form of our invention, we make a double-sided hat and coat
hook, that is, we connect two hat and coat hooks together by a bridge-shaped
saddle part, or by a semi-circular connection or union, having an inside diameter
suitable for taking and seating itself evenly upon, or fitting crosswise over, a rod
or tube forming one of the members of the rack.
Thus, this double-bodied or double hat and coat hook with a middle and concaved
seating takes over the rod or tube member, and is there affixed by a pin directed
vertically through the crown of the bridge connection, and through the tube or
rod as a diameter, and with the protruding end of a screw fitted with a nut,
which, when screwed home, firmly affixes the said two-sided hook in position.
A swell of metal may be left upon the outside crown and a hole sunken from the
topside therein for receiving the head of the pin or bolt.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents, partly in vertical section,
aud partly in elevation, a double hook, or a double-sided hat and coat hook,
constructed, fitted and affixed in position according to one form of our invention.
Figure 2 represents a front elevation, with one of them in section, of two such.
hooks, affixed to a rail member.
a, a, and b, b, are combined hat and coat hooks, united together by a bridge,
saddle or web c, through the crown of which is a square hole c, wherethrough the
bolt d, passes, and wherein the square shank, of it lies.
The middle underside part of the hook is gapped at e, and has a semi-circular
inside crown seating e', for taking upon a tube supporting member, through
lignable holes f, f, of which, the bolt d, passes, and secures the double hook to
the rail member on a nut g, being screwed up to an interposed washer g¹.
By the shank d³, of the bolt or screw pin taking into a like-shaped hole c³, the
bolt, on being tightened up by the screwing home of the nut, is secured in position.
We propose that each hook of the double hook should have a part, or that part

page_text: at the junction of the hat with the coat hook, expanded or broadened out, so as to
form a number or name plate upon which a number, name or letter is displayed by
enamelling or painting, or by attached labels.
Figure 3 represents a front elevation of such a numbered hat and coat as last
described, whilst Figure 4 is a side view of the same, with the supporting rod
member in section.
Or the said tablet or plate may be formed into a frame into which a loose
number or letter plate is or may be inserted as represented in Figure 5, in
which a, b, are the hooks, and are the loose name plates, fitted into undercut
recesses a, formed out of the checks or sides at the junction of the hat parts of the
hooks with the coat parts.
Instead of affixing the hook by a vertical pin, it may be affixed by a horizontal one,
directed through the backs of the hooks at about the junction of the hat parts with
the coat parts, as represented partly in elevation and partly in section in Figure 6.
a, are the hat and coat hooks, e is the bridge, e the gap upon the underside,
the semi-circular seating thereof, and e³ the opposite sides, through holes e³, in
which, and like lignable holes f1, f, in the supporting tube member, the horizontal
bolt d, passes. The bolt is drawn up by a nut g, and is prevented from rotation
by its squared shank d¹, taking into the like-shaped hole c, in one of the sides of
the look.
Instead of the attachment part of the double hook being open upon the bottom,
the same may be open upon the side, with the bridge part forming the crown
support, so that the double hook is slipped into position over the rod or tube
member through a space, gap or opening coming between the coat and hat parts of
one of the hooks.
These hooks are secured upon the rod or tube members of the racks at suitable
distances apart, and preferably with the hooks upon one rod or tube coming
opposite the middles of the spaces between the hooks upon an upper or lower
member.
Figure 7 represents such a hook, in which a, b are the hat and coat hooks, e the
gap, the supporting member and d the securing bolt.
Figure 8 represents a perspective view of a hat and coat rack fitted with hooks
provided with our improvements and affixed according to our invention.
In case such hooks as herein described get broken or damaged, they can easily
be replaced by new ones without any of the parts of the rack being disturbed, and
it is understood that instead of a double hook for both hats and coats, we may
employ only single hooks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:―
First. A double, or a double-sided, hook, or hat and coat hook, having a clearance
gap and rest-seating formed or sunken within the middle of its underside, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth in Figures
to 6.
Secondly. A double, or double-sided, hook, or hat and coat hook, having a
clearance gap and rest-seating formed within the middle of one of its sides,
substantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth in Figure 7.
Thirdly. In hooks, or combined hat and coat hooks, the means herein described
for affixing the said hooks to theirail members of tier or rail blocks, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 8.
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