US448224A

US448224A - Charles glover

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Publication number: US448224A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-03-17
Anticipated expiration: 1908-03-17

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(No M0del.) I I I G. GLOVER.

MANUFACTURE OF GOAT AND HAT HOOKS. No. 448,224. Patented Mar. 17, 1891.

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Wwz M CHARLES GLOVER, OF NEW BRITAIN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO P. d: F.

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MANUFACTURE OF COAT AND HAT HOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,224, dated March 17, 1891.

Application filed September 6, 1890. Serial No. 364.099. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

3e it known that I, CHARLES GLOVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Coat and Hat Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of coat and hat hooks; and the chief object of my improvement is to produce a cheap and substantial hook from wire and sheet metal.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a piece of Wire headed at each end, the same representing the result of the first step in making the wire portion of my hook. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the partially-formed wire portion, the same having been formed from the headed blank shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the wire portion of my hook, the same being ready for being united with the sheet-metal base. Fig. 4; is a plan view of the blank for the sheet-metal base. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the same in its complete form. Fig. 6 is a plan View of said base, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the finished article.

I make the wire portion of my hook from an ordinary piece of drawn wire, preferably brass, the first operation being to form a double-headed blank of the proper length for making the wire portion, as shown in Fig. 1. This may be formed in any ordinary heading or upsetting machine, and, if desired, one of the heads may be formed previously to cutting the wire off to make the desired length, or the wire may be first cut and the heads then formed upon its respective ends. I next take the blank, Fig. 1, and strike it in dies, which swages or drops up the rivet (L on the front side of the middle portion, and bends the hooks at their base, as shown in Fig. 2. This rivet can be readily formed in dies by forming a depression b, Fig. 3, in the back side of the middle portion, as shown in Fig. 3, so that there will be stock enough thrown out at the front to form the rivet a. The swaged and partially-bent blank, Fig. 2, is then further bent into the desired form of hooks A B, as shown in Figs. 3 and 7 The sheet-metal base C for securing the hook upon the wall is made by cutting a blank from sheet metal in the form shown in Fig. 4, and then dropping or swaging said blank into the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6. As thus formed, the part C consists of two wings or brackets 19 b for resting upon the wall or other support to which said plate may be secured, and a middle socket c to receive the body portion of the wire part on which the hooks A B are formed. The front of this socket is perforated, as at (1, Figs. 4 and 5, and after the wire and sheet-metal parts have been placed together, with the rivet a entering the perforation d, they are permanently secured by upsetting the end of said rivet.

I am aware that a prior English patent shows and describes making coat and hat hooks of wire and a sheet-metal plate by placing a coil of smaller wire around the ends of the larger wire, then swaging to solidify the same and dressing off into proper form, and securing said plate and hook portion together by bending the opposite edges and not the middle portion of said plate, and the same is hereby disclaimed.

By my improvement I form the hook portion of the article of a single piece of wire with solid heads, and the base of sheet metal by swaging the middle portion to form a socket at its back to receive the middle of the hook portion, and mechanically secure them together by riveting, thus forming a cheap and efficient coat and hat hook from only one piece of wire and one piece of sheet metal.

I claim as my invention- That improvement in the manufacture of coat and hat hooks which consists of forming the wire part by first upsetting the opposite ends of a piece of wire to form an integral head at each end, then swaging and bending the same to form the middle portion and hooks, and forming a separate sheet-metal base by blanking the same from sheet metal and swaging its middle portion to form a socket on its back side, and finally securing said sheet-metal base and wire portion together to form the complete hook, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES GLOVER.

Witnesses:

O. A. BLAIR, G. E. R001.