IMPROVEMENTS IN ADHE- SIVE HOOKS AND BRACKETS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Manuel Leopold Jonas Lavater, of No. 11, Passage Saulnier,
in the City of Paris, France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADHE-
SIVE HOOKS AND BRACKETS."
aled the 15th November 1878, and dated the 12th June 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Manuel Leopold Jonas
Lavater at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th June 1878.
MANUEL LEOPOLD JONAS LAVATER, of No. 11, Passage Saulnier, in the City of
Paris, France. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADHESIVE HOOKS AND BRACKETS."
Heretofore adhesive hooks and brackets have been made of discs of rigid material
carrying a hook or bracket, and the rigid discs have been fixed wherever required
by wafers gummed on both sides.
If the rigid disc is of wood, the wood is liable to become warped from moisture
absorbed from the gummed wafer applied to it. If the disc is of earthenware,
the rigidity of the material is prejudicial.
According to this Invention, the rigid disc is done away with and a fabric stretched
across the back and held at the periphery of a shell, similar to the shell of a button,
is substituted for it, and the outer face only of the fabric is coated with gum or
other adhesive material. Cotton wool, felt, or other elastic material is placed
behind the fabric to press it outwards. To the front portion of the shell of the
button is secured by an eyelet or otherwise a hook or socket, to receive a hook or
supporting bracket.
By constructing the adhesive hook or support in the above manner, the flexibility
necessary for the requisite security of holding is obtained.
Flexible adhesive hooks or supports I also form from a disc of skin, parchment, or
Price 6d1

page_text: fabric, by attaching to it on one side at its centre a hook, ring, or socket by means
of a metallic eyelet, and by coating the opposite side with gum or adhesive
material. Adhesive hooks or supports thus formed can be applied to curved or
angular surfaces.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Manuel Leopold Jonas Lavater in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th December 1878.
MANUEL LEOPOLD JONAS LAVATER, of No. 11, Passage Saulnier, in the City of
Paris, France. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADHESIVE HOOкS AND BRACKETS."
Heretofore adhesive hooks and brackets have been made of discs of rigid material,
carrying a hook or bracket, and the rigid discs have been fixed wherever required
by wafers gummed on both sides.
If the rigid disc is of wood, the wood is liable to become warped from moisture
absorbed from the gummed wafer applied to it. If the disc is of earthenware, the
rigidity of the material is prejudicial.
According to this Invention, the rigid disc is done away with and a fabric stretched
across the back and held at the periphery of a shell, similar to the shell of a button,
is substituted for it, and the outer face only of the fabric is coated with gum or
other adhesive material. Cotton wool, felt, or other clastic material is placed
behind the fabric to press it outwards. To the front portion of the shell of the
button is secured by an eyelet or otherwise a hook or socket to receive a hook or
supporting bracket.
By constructing the adhesive hook or support in the above manner, the flexibility
necessary for the requisite security of holding is obtained.
Flexible adhesive hooks or supports I also form from a disc of skin, parchment, or
fabric, by attaching to it on one side at its centre a hook, ring, or socket by means
of a metallic eyelet, and by coating the opposite side with gum or adhesive
material. Adhesive hooks or supports thus formed can be applied to curved or
angular surfaces.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect, I have in the Drawings hereunto annexed shewn examples of adhesive
hooks and brackets constructed according to my Invention.
Figure 1 is a side view, and Figure 2 a front view of one form of adhesive
hook or bracket; Figure 3 is a transverse section of the same on a larger scale.
a is a fabric stretched across the back of a metal disc b, forming part of a metallic
shell similar to the shell of a button. The disc has a large hole formed through its
centre, in order to allow the elastic packing c of cotton wool of such like elastic mate-
rial contained in the interior of the shell to bear against the fabric a; d is a disc of
papier maché which supports the elastic material; and e, a disc of fabric interposed

page_text: between d and the elastic material c; f is the front portion of the metallic shell;
it carries a socket g secured to it in the manner shewn at Figure 3. The edges of
the fabric a are held between the parts b and f of the metallic shell in the manner
shewn by the Drawing, as will be readily understood by those acquainted with the
manufacture of covered buttons, the fabric and parts of the shell being put together
by the aid of dies just in the same way as covered buttons are now made. Into
the socket g of the adhesive bracket may be dropped a stem h, having a rod i
standing out from it, upon which any articles that it is desired to suspend may bo
hung; or instead of this, the stem h may carry a hook or other desired form of
support.
Figure 4 shews a section of a similar construction of adhesive hook. In this
construction a hook is secured to the front portion of the shell by an ordinary metal
eyelet, and in place of interposing cotton wool or such like loose elastic padding
between the fabric a and the disc d, one or more discs c of soft flannel are interposed
between them. In other respects the construction of the button is the same as that
shewn in Figures 1, 2, and 3.
The outer surface of the fabric a of the adhesive hooks or brackets is coated with
gum or such like adhesive material, and to attach them, say, to the window of a
shop front, or to a wall or other surface, it is only necessary to moisten the gummed
surface of the fabric a, and to press it against the surface to which it is to be caused
to adhere.
Figures 5 shew in section and front view the other construction of adhesive hook
formed from a disc of skin, parchment, or fabric a, having a hook, or it might be a
ring or socket b, secured to it on one side at its centre by means of an ordinary
metallic eyelet, whilst the opposite side of the disc a is coated with gum or such
like adhesive material. The gum or adhesive material is by preference applied on
both sides of a fabric separate from the skin or fabric forming the face. The gummed
fabric is caused to adhere to the back of the skin or fabric forming the face before
the hook is secured to it by an eyelet, as shown.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I claim,-
First. The construction of adhesive hooks and brackets, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the Drawing
annexed.
Second. The construction of adhesive hooks and brackets, substantially as herein.
before described and illustrated by Figures 5 of the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Manuel Leopold Jonas Lavater have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
MANUEL LEOPOLD JONAS LAVATER. (L.S.)