A New or Improved Rack with Sliding Hooks for Suspending Various Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 23rd Mar., 1892-Accepted, 14th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Rack with Sliding Hooks for Suspending
Various Articles.
1, HENRY AUGUSTUS WILLIAMS of 26 Arboretum Avenue, Lincoln, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
On two or more bars or rods of wood or metal I arrange a number of wire hooks
provided with loops through which the said bars or rods are passed. The loops of
the said hooks are furnished with shoulders or projections to give steadiness and
firmness. The said bars or rods are connected at their extremities, and also, when
necessary, at the centre or other parts, to cross-bars of like material, by pins or
pivots, at equal distances apart. Holes are furnished in the cross bars for fixing
with screws.
Where it is convenient that the screw for fixing should pass through
both the hook bar and the cross bar, they are connected with hollow pivots or
eyelets for that purpose. The pivots serve to enable the space between the rows
of hooks to be adjusted to convenient distances or to be closed for convenience of
carriage, and by means of the loops the space between the hooks can be increased
or diminished as required.
T1000
HENRY A. WILLIAMS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Rack with Sliding Hooks for Suspending
Various Articles.
1, HENRY AUGUSTUS WILLIAMS, of 26 Arboretum Avenue, Lincoln, Gentleman,
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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters
and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My invention relates to a new or improved rack having sliding hooks, for
suspending therefrom cups, mugs, wearing apparel, and other articles, and adapted
to be fitted either to the shelves of cupboards, closets, or wardrobes, or to walls,
or to other surfaces, whether horizontal or vertical.
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My improved rack consists of two or more longitudinal bars or rods of wood,
or metal, on which I arrange any convenient number of wire hooks formed with
loops through which the said bars or rods are passed. These bars or rods are
connected near their extremities, and also, when necessary, at the centre or other
parts, to transverse or cross bars of like material, by pins or pivots placed at
equal distances apart.
The hooks are, by preference, formed of one piece of wire, and the loops are so
bent as to constitute shoulders or projections to impart steadiness and firmness to
the hooks when on the bars or rods.
Holes are made in the cross bars for enabling the rack to be retained in place
by screws, but where it is convenient that the screws for fixing the rack to the
required surface should pass through both the hook bars and the cross bars, said
bars are connected together by hollow pivots or eyelets for that purpose.
The pivots serve to enable the rack to be adjusted to any desired width, so as
to adapt it to shelves of various widths, or to be closed up entirely for convenience
of packing and carriage; and by means of the loops the space between the hooks
can be increased or diminished, as required.
And in order that my invention may be readily understood and carried into
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page_text: effect, I proceed to describe the same fully with reference to the annexed drawings,
in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of my improved rack in its fully expanded condition.
Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line a,, of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is an edge view.
Figs. 4 and 5 show, in perspective, two constructions of the sliding hooks.
The dotted lines in Fig. 1 show the rack in a partially contracted condition, so
as to render it capable of adjustment to the under surface of a shelf of narrower
width than that to which it would be applied when in its fully expanded condition.
a, a, are the longitudinal bars or rods, and, b, the transverse or cross bars or
rods connected together at c, c, c, c*. These two sets of bars or rods constitute
the rack, and the transverse rods or bars act, at the same time, as distance pieces
to allow of the hooks d to be freely moved along the bars or rods a, a, as will be
clearly seen on reference to Fig. 3, where the shelf A is shown in dotted lines.
By preference, the connections at c*, ex, are formed as eyelets or hollow pivots to
enable a screw, or nail, to be passed through them in order to secure the rack to
a shelf, etc.
On the bars or rods a, a, are threaded the sliding hooks d, which are preferably
constructed of a single piece of wire bent as shown in Fig. 4, so that a loop di and
shoulder or projection 2, constituting a bearing surface, are formed, the loops
serving to thread the hooks onto the bars and the shoulders or projections to
steady them. These hooks can thus be brought nearer to, or removed further
from each other, as occasion may require.
It is of course obvious that any number of longitudinal bars may be employed
depending upon the width of the shelf to which the rack is to be applied. But
when using only two of such bars I prefer to drill a hole in the transverse bars
midwise between the connections, to receive the screws, or nails, for securing the
rack to the shelf, e I may however use a single bar or rod, as shown in Fig. 6,
in which case the transverse rods or bars would be very much shortened and form
pivotted blocks * which would serve, as in the previously described arrangement,
as distance pieces to allow the free sliding of the hooks along the bar or rod a.
When using the rack as a key rack, I may employ hooks of various sizes corre-
sponding to the mumber of longitudinal bars or rods composing the rack; thus for
instance in the arrangement shown in Fig. 1 three sizes of hooks would be employed,
one size for each bar or rod a. When the rack is to be applied to the back of a
cupboard, wardrobe, or other vertical surface, instead of to the shelves thereof, or
other horizontal surface, it would be fixed vertically and the sliding hooks employed
would be of the construction shown in Fig. 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is ·
1. The improved rack consisting of longitudinal and transverse bars or rods so
connected together as to be capable of adjustment to render the rack adaptable
to shelves or surfaces of varying width, and on which longitudinal bars or rods
adjustable sliding hooks are threaded, substantially as described and shown with
reference to the annexed drawings.
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2. The improved construction of sliding hooks, having loops and shoulders or
projections, as described and shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and for the purposes set
forth.
3. In a rack constructed as herein before specified, the combination therewith of
the eyelets or hollow pivots cx, as aud for the purposes described.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1892.
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant: