An Improved Suspending Device.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspending Device.
I, KARL LIERSCH of Nürnberg, Germany, Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved suspending device, designed to serve for
the suspension of an article or articles upon the same nail or support as that upon
which other articles are similarly suspended and to enable any of such articles to be
taken down or removed singly as required, without disturbing the remaining article
or articles.
A suspending device constructed according to this invention can by simply
drawing it downward be disengaged from the hook, nail or other support on which
it is placed.
In the accompanying drawings;
Fig. 1 is a perspective view; and
Figs. 2 and 3 are elevations from directions at right angles to each other, of a
suspending device according to this invention.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing three of the improved devices in use for
suspending books or price lists. '
The improved device is formed of a single piece of elastic or metal wire strip or
ribbon bent approximately to the form shown so that the central portion forming
the lower, oval or rectangular part 6 is at right angles to the plane containing
the two end portions which are bent to the shape shewn to form two leaf springs
which cross each other at the point c and between which a space d is left. These
two portions a press against each other near the bent over ends a these ends
forming together a spring loop by which the device can be suspended from a nail
or other support.
The lower part of the suspending device may be of any desired form to serve
for the reception of the article or articles to be suspended. In placing books,
garments or other articles in a row or rows, one end a of the spring is first
passed through a hole in the article or into a hook attached to the same, and
the article or hook is pushed down until it rests upon the lower cross piece of
the part b. Then the suspending device is placed upon the nail or other support
either by moving it so that the support passes through the opening d formed
between the two springs a; or by pressing the bent ends a' of the suspending
device against the support from below, so that the two spring ends are caused to
move apart and slip over the support upon which they afterwards rest. To
disengage the suspending device it is sufficient to exert a pull on the suspended
article whereby the spring ends are caused to move apart and to leave the support.
The thickness of the material metal wire, strip or ribbon of which the suspending
device is made, is determined according to the weight of the article or articles
to be suspended.
K. LIERSCH,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspending Device.
5 I, KARL LIERSCH of Nürnberg, Germany, Merchant, 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 an improved suspending device, designed to serve for
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page_text: the suspension of an article or articles upon the same nail or support as that upon
which other articles are similarly suspended, and. to enable any of such articles to
be taken down or removed singly as required, without disturbing the remaining
article' or articles.
A suspending device. constructed according to this invention can by simply
drawing it downward be. disengaged from-the hook,,nail or other support on which
it is placed.
In the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view; and
Figs. 2 and 3 are elevations from directions at right angles to each other of a
suspending device according to this invention.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view shewing three of the improved devices in use for
suspending books or price lists.
The improved device is formed of a single piece of elastic or metal wire strip or
ribbon bent approximately to the form shewn so that the central portion forming
the lower, oval or rectangular part 6 is at right angles to the plane containing the
two end portions which are bent to the shape shewn to form two leaf springs which
cross each other at the point c and between which a space d is left. These two
portions a press against each other near the bent over ends a' these ends forming
together a spring loop by which the device can be suspended from a nail or other
support.
The lower parts 6 of the suspending device may be of any desired form to serve
for the reception of the article or articles to be suspended. In placing books,
garments or other articles in a row or rows, one end a of the spring is first passed
through a hole in the article or into a hook attached to the same, and the article or
hook is pushed down until it rests upon the lower cross piece of the part h. Then
the suspending device is placed upon the nail or other support either by moving it
so that the support passes through the opening d formed between the two springs a;
or by pressing the bent ends a' of the suspending device against the support from
below, so that the two spring ends are caused to move apart and slip over the
support upon which they afterwards rest. To disengage the suspending device it
is sufficient to exert a pull on the suspended article whereby the spring ends are
caused to move apart and to leave the support. The thickness of the material,
metal wire, strip or ribbon of which the suspending device is made, is determined
according to the weight of the article or articles to be suspended.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
Lion and in what manner the same is be performed I declare that, what I
claim is :-
:
For suspending an article from a nai or support from which other articles are
suspended so that the said article can be placed in position or removed without
removing the other articles, a suspending device made of spring metal bent approxi-
mately to the form shewn in the drawings annexed and comprising upper spring
ends a bent to form a spring loop capable of being pushed endways over or removed
from a nail or other support, and a lower bent part 6 of any suitable form for the
reception of the article or articles to be suspended, this part being in a plane at
right angles to that containing the spring. ends as set forth.
Dated this 8th day of October 1891.