IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCREW HOOKS, SPIKE HOOKS, SCREW EYES, PICTURE SCREW RINGS, SCREW KNOBS, VENETIAN BLIND CORD HOLDERS, WARDROBE HOOKS, CORNICE POLE BRACKETS AND MUSIC HOLDERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, EPHRAIM PHILLIPS, of 54, Bissell Street,. Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCREW HOOKS, SPIKE HOOKS, SCREW EYES,
PICTURE SCREW RINGS, SCREW KNOBS, VENETIAN BLIND CORD HOLDERS, WARDROBE
HOOKS, CORNICE POLE BRACKETS AND MUSIC HOLDERS" and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My Invention relates to Improvements in the manufacture of screw hooks, spike
hooks, screw eyes, picture screw rings, screw. knobs, venetian blind cord holders,
wardrobe hooks, cornice pole brackets and music bolders and has for its object to
cheapen and improve the manufacture of such articles by dispensing with the
operations of soldering, casting, dressing, finishing or filing as now usually employed
in their production. In carrying my Invention into practice for the manufacture
for instance of screw hooks I proceed as follows:-
I prepare from brass or other soft metal wire, or from a rod; a flanged or headed
collar of suitable size and I drill through it centrally a suitable hole. I prefer to
prepare the said collar by means of an ordinary heading machine such as is used
for machiue made rivets or nails or similar.articles. I take a piece of wire of
suitable length either straight or previously bent to the required form of a hook
having the shank part suitably notched or roughened and I take also a screw
having a notched or troughened shank. I insert the said piece of wire and the
screw, shank to shank, in the said collar and then by means of suitable tools and
pressure I force the collar into the indentations in the wire and screw and so firmly
fix them together. I make spike hooks, screw eyes, picture screw rings, screw
knobs, venetian blind cord holders, wardrobe hooks, cornice pole brackets and
music holders by means of a forged collar similarly to the method in part above

page_text: described for screw hooks and I will now refer to the accompanying drawings and
fully describe the manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in sectional elevation an in part separately a straight screw
hook; Figure 2 represents in elevation and part sectional plan a spike hook and
Figure 3 in elevation and part sectional elevation and part sectional elevation a
cup hook all made according to my Invention in which the shank A. of the book
part made from wire is notched or suitably roughened, as at a, and is connected to
the notched or roughened (as at 6) screw or spike part B by being inserted shank
to shank in the forged collar C, shewn separately at Figures 4 and 4*, and then by
being pressed by suitable tools such as shewn in Figures 5, 6 and 7; Figure 4
shews the collar C as it appears on coming from the heading machine and Figure 4*
after having the hole c drilled through its centre; in Figure 5 the hook part A and
the screw or spike part B are shewn inserted in the forged collar C and when the
top too! D descends on the bottom tool E¹, E' which is made at e of similar form
to the finished collar, as shewn at Figure 6, the collar c will thereby be forced into
the indentations a, b and the parts thereby firmly fixed together and the hook
.finished. When the wires forming the hooked parts are bent before being connected
to the screw or spike part the bottom tool E¹, E is made in two parts which can
be separated, as shewn in Figure 7, so that the finished hook can readily be
withdrawn. Figure 8 shews on a smaller scale a general sectional elevation;
Figure 9 a plan open and Figure 10 a plan closed of a form of tool box F which
may be used with the said tools E¹, E². The handle G is formed with the cam g¹
and operates the half E³ of the bottom tool as shewn, a packing piece H being
used between the can g¹ and the tool. Figure 11 represents in part section a screw
ring made as before described with reference to a screw hook. Figure 12 represents
the same as Figure 11 applied as a picture screw ring. Figure 13 shews how I use
tubing for making screw hooks and represents a cornice pole bracket in which the
bracket or hook part A is made of tubing plugged at one end by the notched metal
plug A¹ and is then connected to the screw part B by the forged collar C as above
.described. Figure 14 shews a music holder, Figure 15 is a venetian blind cord
holder and Figure 16 another form of venetian blind cord holder all having their
parts combined together by a forged collar as above described. Figure 17 represents
in elevation, section and detail another forin of screw eye in which the eye A is
formed of hollow half-round wire and the screw part B is placed between the ends
and connected thereto by the forged collar C as above described. Figure 18 shews
a sheet metal eye for use as described with reference to Figure 17. Figure 19
shews the same screw eye applied as a picture screw ring, Figure 20 as a stair rod
eye and Figure 21 as a terrett ring. Figure 22 shews a screw eye made of. half
round wire and Figure 23 a screw eye made of round wire, their screw parts and
eyes being connected together by a forged collar as above described. Figure 24
shews a screw knob centre C which is forged and drilled as above described and
has a groove c² into which the shell of the knob is spun as shewn in Figure 25 and
after the screw has been inserted as shewn the parts are connected together by the
collar being forced into the indentations by means of the tools M, N as shewn in
Figure 26. Figure 27 shews how a flange or rosette may be connected to a hook
by means of a forged collar according to my Invention.
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I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details as
herein described and illustrated as the same may be varied without departing from
the nature of my Invention.
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 Improvements in the manufacture of screw hooks, spike hooks, screw eyes,
picture screw rings, screw knobs, venetian blind cord holders, wardrobe hooks,

page_text: cornice pole brackets and music holders, hereinbefore described with reference to
the accompanying drawings, that is to say, affixing their parts together, as described
and represented, by a forged collar having a drilled hole in the manner hereinbefore
described and illustrated in my drawings.