An Improved Hook Appliance for Hanging Picture and other like Frames, Suitable also for Retaining Cords in Fixed Positions Generally.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1887
Complete Left, 30th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 30th Dec., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hook Appliance for Hanging Picture and other like
Frames, Suitable also for Retaining Cords in Fixed Positions
Generally.
I, WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON, of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a novel construction or arrangement of three hooks on or
from a back plate. Two of said hooks look upwards and one downwards and from a
different level to the two hooks.
The line or cord is first passed over one of the upper hooks then under the lower
hook thence over the other upper hook, the kink put into the cord by said lacing
being sufficient to fix the cord.
For hanging pictures this appliance prevents the cord shifting and as a clothes line
holder, the cord becomes fixed and cannot drag out, or otherwise clear itself.
Dated thin 97th dox of October 1887
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. S. Simpson.

page_text: An Improved Hook Appliance for Hanging Picture and other like
Frames, Suitable also for Retaining Cords in Fixed Positions
Generally.
1 WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey, Civil Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said 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 novel construction or arrangement of three hooks on or
from a back plate; two of said hooks looking upwards and one downwards and from
a different level to the two hooks.
The line or cord is first passed over one of the upper hooks then under the lower
hook, thence over the other upper hook, the kink put into the cord by said lacing,
being sufficient to fix the cord.
For hanging pictures this appliance prevents the cord shifting and as a clothes line
holder the cord becomes fixed and cannot drag out, or otherwise clear itself.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings represents my triple hook plate A provided with
holes to enable it to be nailed to a wall for suspending a picture such as at Figure 2
which indicates the position of the cord B it being first passed over and into the
hook and under and into the hook D and over and into the hook E the kink or
lacing given to the cord B by the three hooks fixing it firmly in position against slip
should one end of the cord B break from any cause.
Figure 3 represents the triple hook appliance applied to a clothes post one end of
the cord being free the other part taking the strain and weight of the clothes that
may be hanging upon it.
The figures shown, only show two applications of my triple hook for holding cord
but it is applicable for holding cord in fixed positions generally.
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
The appliance consisting of three hooks, two looking upwards and one looking
downwards, as shown on the annexed drawing Figure 1 as and for the purposes
described.