US831066A - Picture and curtain hanger. - Google Patents

Description

No. 881,066. PATBNTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

' I E. J. HAWKS.

PICTURE AND CURTAIN HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1906.

WITNESSES A [NVENT'OR I y I I v I r I A TTOR/VE Y5 TE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed June 29, 1906. Serial No. 324,097.

To [LZZ/ whom, it may concern:

.Be it knownthat I, EDITH J. HAwKs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Colorado Springs, in the county of El Paso and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Picture and Curtain Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to picture and cmtain hangers.

.The object of the invention is to provide a simple and improved device which is adapted to be inexpensively constructed from sheet metal and which is also adapted to be used in hanging pictures or curtains as well as in applying picture-hooks to the molding v of walls.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of the following claims without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device, showing a picture-wire and a picture-hook engaged therewith. Fig. 2 is a view in elev ation showing the body portion reversed on the handle, so as to adapt the device for use as a support for a curtain-pole. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed view showing the upper end of the handle. Fig. 41 is a detail longitudinal section in the plane of the clip.

Like reference characters indicate corre sponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The improved picture and curtain hanger of this invention, generally speaking, comprises a handle A and a head or flat body portion B. The body portion B, for the sake of economy, is constructed, preferably, of sheet metal and is usually formed with a relatively wide end 1 and a relatively narrow end 2. Formed inte ral with the relatively narrow end 2 of the body portion B, at the opposite ends thereof, is a pair of approximately semicircular picture-fingers 3, which are adapted to receive the picture wire or cord, so as to support the same in the operation of hanging a picture. As shown in. the drawings, the picture-fingers 3 preferably are produced by stamping the sheet-metal body portion B with a pair of parallel projections or arms, which are bent first downward and then outward and upward in a semicircular manner, as illustrated. It will be understood that the picture-fingers 3 are employed for hanging a picture on a hook or nail which has been already applied or driven into the wall.

In the event that it is-necessary first to suspend a picture-hook from the molding and then suspend a picture from the hook the device of the present invention can be employed for this purpose by fitting the picture-hook 5 over the upper end of the body portion B, as shown, so that the portion of the hook which is to engage the molding is disposed on the side of the body portion B opposite the picture-fingers 3, so that when the hook 5 is engaged with the molding and the body portion is drawn downward the hook will remain suspended in engagement with the molding. After applying the hook 5 to the upper edge of the body portion B it is preferable to fit the picture-wire 6 over the picture-fingers 3, so that it will contact with one portion of the picture-hook 5 and hold the same securely in position on the portion B, it being understood that the picture-wire 6 on account of the weight of the picture as well as on account of its engagement with the hook 5 will serve to hold said hook securelyin position and will also engage the lower end of the hook 5 when the body portion B is drawn downward.

At its lower or relatively wide end 1 the body portion B is formed with a pair of widely-separated integral curtain fingers or hooks 10, which open downward, as shown. As will be apparent, the curtain-fingers 10 extend in the opposite direction from the picture-fingers 3.

It is desirable to secure the body portion B to the handle A in such manner that it can be readily reversed whenever desired. The preferred means for reversible connecting the body portion B with the handle A consists of a pair of open-ended slots 11 12, formed in the upper and lower ends of the body portion B, and an open-ended slot 13, which is'formed in the handle A and intersects the upper end thereof, as shown. The handle A is provided with a pair of pins 1 1, which extend through the slots 13. As will be readily apparent, either the upper or the lower end of the body portion B can be fitted into the slot 13 of the handle A, so that the slot 11 or 12 in the body portion will straddle the pins 14. When the body portion B is fitted into the handle A so that its relatively wide end 1 is at the upper end thereof, a curtain-pole can be engaged with or fitted into the curtainfingers l0, and thus raised into position to be held by the ordinary curtain-brackets. When it is desired to hang a picture, it is only necessary to reverse the body portion B1 upon the handle A, so as to dispose the picture-fingers 3 at the upper end thereof.

By reason of the fact that the body portion B is adapted to be stamped from a single piece of sheet metal and then readily bent to form the picture-fingers 3 and curtainfingers '10 it will be obvious that the entire device can be manufactured at very small expense, especially in view of the fact that the handle A is quite inexpensive in construction.

As shown in the drawings, the picturefingers 3 preferably are not only placed at the opposite end of the body portion B from the curtain-receiving fingers 10, but also on the opposite side of said body portion, for which reason the curtain recei'vin fingers 10 do not interfere'with the action 0 the pic ture-receiving fingers 3, and vice versa.

In hanging a picture with the improved device of this invention it is preferable that the picture bedisposed on the outside of the handle A, so that said handle will serve to hold it away from the wall, and thus prevent any marring of either the wall or the picture.

It will be understood that when a picturehook is being suspended from the molding of a room the body ortion B will be turned so that the picturegers 3 Will be on the side of the body portion away from the wall and that when a picture is being suspended from a nail or hook which is already secured in position the picture-fingers 3 will be turned 1 toward the wall.

What is claimed is 1; A picture and curtain hanger comprising a flat metal body portion having curtain and picture fingers.

2. A picture and curtain hanger compriswardly and downwardly'extending picture and curtain fingers.

6. A picture and curtain hanger .com'pris; ing a handle, a body portion reversibly connected therewith, and oppositely-extending picture and curtain fingers on the upper. and lower ends of said body portion. i

7. A picture and curtain hanger compris ing a handle having a slot intersecting its upper end and a plurality of pins extending through said slot, a sheet-metal body portion having a relatively wide end and a relatively narrow end, said body portion having a plu rality of picture-fingers formed integral with the narrow end thereof, a plurality of curtain-fingers formed integral with the relatively wide end thereof, and a pair of oppositely-extending open-ended slots in the opposite ends of said body portion.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MABEL C. BARLOW, F. WALTER BARLOW

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