A New or Improved Device for Attaching Articles to Lath and Plaster Walls and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1894-Accepted. 14th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Attaching Articles to Lath and
Plaster Walls and the like.
I, CHRISTOPHER VIVIAN JENKIN Rose Cottage Perranwell Station, Inventor
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to a device for attaching articles to lath & plaster walls
and the like, the object being to provide a more secure fastening and the same is
carried out in the following manner.
I provide a central bolt, to one end of which two or more arms or prongs are
pivoted. These arms or prongs are connected to tongue pieces or rods which slide
in grooves formed in the central bolt. The other end of this bolt is screw threaded
for receiving a cap.
The operation is as follows; The arms or prongs are set in line with the central
bolt and are then passed through the material to which the device is to be
attached such as a lath and plaster wall, by operating the tongues or rods, the
arms or prongs are now set at right angles to the central bolt and the cap
screwed upon the end of same; this cap retains the tongue pieces or rods in
position. The cap may have a hook attached to it for suspending pictures or
such like or the cap may be so shaped that the desired object may be attached
to the cap.
Dated this 18th day of October 1893.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
A New or Improved Device for Attaching Articles to Lath and
Plaster Walls and the like.
I, CHRISTOPHER VIVIAN JENKIN Rose Cottage Perranwell Station Inventor
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 a device for attacbing articles to lath and plaster walls,
and the like, the object being to provide a more secure fastening and the same is
carried out in the following manner; reference being had to the annexed drawings
in which
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of my invention in position.
Figure 2 plan view of my invention its closed position, ready for
a wall.
inserting into
a is the central bolt to which two or more arms are pivoted at c.
These arms b
are connected at d to tongue pieces or rods e, which slide in grooves formed in the
central bolt a. This bolt a has a screw thread fupon which a screw cap g or the
like screws.
The operation is as follows. The arms bare set in line with the bolt a, and are
passed through the material to which the device is to be attached such as the lath
and plaster wall h, Figure 1. The arms 6 may not be set at right angles to the
bolt and the cap g being screwed upon the thread f maintains the arms 6 in
a,

page_text: position. The cap g may be formed of any desired shape such as a hook or the
like for attaching or hanging desired objects on same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination, & arrangement of the various parts, substantially as
.described.
2. In a device for attaching to lath & plaster walls a central bolt having two
or more arms pivoted thereto & connected to and operated by rods passing along
grooves in said bolt, a cap engaging on the end of said bolt for the purpose of
maintaining the parts in position, substantially as described & illustrated herein.
Dated this 7th day of March 1894.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.