IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOKS OR PEGS FOR HANGING OR SUPPORTING GARMENTS AND OTHER ARTICLES AND IN SECURING OR FIXING SUCH HOOKS OR PEGS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Allison of Glasgow in the County of Lanark
North Britain for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOKS OR PEGS FOR
HANGING OR SUPPORTING GARMENTS AND OTHER ARTICLES AND IN SECURING
OR FIXING SUCH HOOKS OR PEGS
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Allison at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th June 1883.
WALTER ALLISON of Glasgow in the County of Lanark. North Britain.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOKS OR PEGS FOR HANGING OR SUPPORTING GARMENTS AND
OTHER ARTICLES, AND IN SECURING OR FIXING SUCH HOOKS OR PEGS
This Invention, which relates to improvements in hooks or pegs for hanging coats
hats and other garments on, and which improvements are also applicable to hooks or
pegs for hanging or supporting other articles has for its object to enable such hooks
or pegs to be secured or held in position without the use of screw or other nails
as hitherto and also to enable the position of the hook or peg to be shifted when
desired.
The hook or peg as constructed in accordance with this Invention is formed with a
Tor other shaped projection at its rear end and also with a flat palm or sole in
front of and slightly below the stem of the said projection. The wood or other
surface to which the hook or peg is to be secured is formed with a longitudinal
slot or groove in it corresponding in shape to the T or other shaped projection
before mentioned, and the said projection is inserted in the slot or groove and so
that the flat palm or sole shall rest and press upon the solid face of the wood or
other surface below the groove.
By this means the use of screw or other nails is dispensed with and the position
of the hook or peg is rendered capable of adjustment.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Walter Allison in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th December 1883.
WALTER ALLISON of Glasgow in the County of Lanark, North Britain
IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOKS OR PEGS FOR HANGING OR SUPPORTING GARMENTS AND
OTHER ARTICLES, AND IN SECURING OR FIXING SUCHI HOOкS OR PEGS
My said Invention, which relates to improvements in hooks or pegs for hanging
hats, coats, and other garments or articles on, has for its object, to enable such
hooks or pegs to be secured or held in position without the use of screw or other
nails, and also to enable the position of the hook or peg to be shifted or altered
when desired.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings with reference to which I
now proceed more particularly to describe the systein, mode, or manner in or under
which it is or may be used or carried out in practice
Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation, and figure 2, a back end elevation,
of a double hook or peg, that is to say, of a hook or peg with two horns or
branches a, b, whilst figure 3 is a side elevation and figure 4, a back end elevation
of a hook or peg with one horn or branch. The said Invention is equally
applicable to hooks or pegs with any other number of horns or branches, and it
consists in forming at the back of the sole or palm c, through which the screw or
other nails are ordinarily passed a stem d, preferably square or rectangular in
transverse section, and on the said stem d, parallel with the sole or palm c, another
sole or palm e, is made or secured and which in back elevation may be of the form
seen at figures 2 and 4, or of the form shewn at figure 5, or of any other equivalent
shape. As shewn in front elevation at figure 6 and in transverse section at
figure 7, the wooden batten or other holder h, by which the hook or peg is to be
supported is formed with a longitudinal groove or slot f corresponding in shape to
the tee headed projection on the back of the hook or peg, the neck or stem d,
resting in the part f1, and the sole or palm e, in the part f, whilst the ordinary sole
or palm c, which projects below and if wished also above the palm e, affords
additional support by pressing against the front of the batten or holder h.
By this means the use of screw or other nails to hold the hook or peg is
obviated and the position of the hook or peg is rendered capable of adjustment
horizontally as desired.
To prevent the hooks or pegs from being stolen or removed from the groove or
slot a cap may be placed at each end of the batten so as to cover the ends of the
groove or slot f, as indicated in elevation at figure 8, and in plan at figure 9, of
the drawings; which cap may be screwed or otherwise fixed in position.
The groove in the batten or holder, especially when the latter is made of wood
may be slotted out of a solid strip, or it may be built up by securing the front
portions to the back part /.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the System, mode or manner in or under which the same is or
may be used or carried out in practice I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider to novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein before, in part recited, Letters Patent is :-
The tee or other shaped piece projecting rearwards from the ordinary sole or
palm of hooks or pegs, for hanging garments and other articles, in combination
with a correspondingly shaped groove or slot in the batten or holder, substantially

page_text: as and for the purposes herein before set forth with reference to the drawings
annexed.
In Witness Whereof I the said Walter Allison have hereunto set my hand
and Seal this twenty seventh day of December, One thousand eight hundred and
eighty three
Witness
GEO. M. CRUIKSHANK
Fel. Inst. P.A.
135 Buchanan St Glasgow
WALTER ALLISON (L.S.)