US102945A - Improvement in coat and hatjjooks - Google Patents

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Cdiluted' tatee @we e 1mm.

MoEToN JUDD, or NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AND HUBERT L. JUDD,

OF l BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 102,945, dated .May 10, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom 'it may conce-ru.-

Be it known that we, MoRToN J'Unn, of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, and HUBERT L.' J UDD, of Brooklyn, `in the county of Kings and State of New York, haye invented au `Improved Hook or Bracket; and the following is declared to be a correct `descriptimi thereof.

I'Ieretoforehooks and brackets in metal for hanging clothes upon and supporting other articles have been niade with a spike, to be driven into vthe' wood-work. This spike has been at right angles, or nearly so, to the metallic plate ,or disk, that sets against the surface of theu'ood; hence thebracket or hook was liable to work loose, because it could turn with said spike iu the wood, and ,eventually the spike would ceu-se to hold firmly, 'andthe hook l or `bracket be liable 'to fall.

Our invention is made for the purpose of preventing any turning inoveniefi-it of the spikeiu the wood,`

so that Athe saule cannot work loose, and, at the same time, the spike is in such posit-ion relatively to the'` portion of the hook Vor bracket that projects beyond the wood-work, that the spike is'not as liable as here- 'toibre to be pulled out by any weight upon such hook or bracket.

In, the draining- Figure 1 is a side view of said hook or bracket, and

Figure is a plan'of t-he saine.,`

The plate a and hook, arm, or bracket b are ofany usual or desired character adapted to hanging clot-hes upon, or supporting any desired article, such asa window-curtain or shade.

The spike or nail portion c is to be pointed, so as to be driven with facility into wood-work.

The peculiar-ity of this invention consists in the spike placed at a downward inclination to the surface ofthe plate a, so that theoue is diagonal to the other, instead of. being zit-right angles, as heretofore..

The result of this construction is that the spike holds the hook or bracket much more firmly than heretofore to wood-work, because aweight hungr upon such hook or bracket tends to force the spike inward, inconsequence of the inclination thereof', and, furthermore, a latral or turning motion is eifcctually prevented, because such turning movement would causel the lower part of the plate a to press into the surface of the wood, and, it' continued, would either scrape into and break away the surface of the wood, or else pull the spike out of the wood, to do either ot' which would require considerable forceyheuce, for all usual purposes, the said hook will be firm and immovable when driven into place; but, as an additional precaution, a

spur, e, may be provided to enter the surface of the wood, as thebracket or hook is driven to place.

We claim as ou'r'invention l The hook or bracket, having a plate, a, and spike c,

the latter being at an inclination downward from the surface of' the former, substantially as and for the pur-w= poses set. forth.

Signed by us this 21stday of March, A. D. 1870.

M ORTON J UDD. Witnesses: H. L. J UDD.

CHARLES IvE's, Jr.,

Geo. '.l. PINCKNEY.

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