US596116A - Check-hook - Google Patents

Description

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' A. P. KIBHL.

CHECK HOOK.

No. 596,116. Patented Deo. 28,1897.

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AUGUST F. KIEHL, OF NORFOLK, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO f FREDRIOK O. KIEHL, OF REEDSVILLE, WISCONSIN.

CHECK-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,1 16, dated December 28, 1897.

Application filed August 12, 18961 To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, AUGUST F. KIEHL, a citizen of the lUnited States, residing vat Norfolk, in the county of Madison and State of Nebraska, have invented a new anduseful OheckI-Iook, of which the following is a speciiication. p

This invention relates to check-hooks, and has for its object to devise an article of this character which will retain the check or overdraw against accidental displacement and enable it being readily-and easily placed in position and removed from the hook when desired with the same ease and despatch.

For a full understanding of the merits and advantages of the invention reference is lto be had to the accompanying drawings and the following description.

The improvement issusceptible of various changes in the form, proportion, and the mi-A nor details of construction without departing from the principles or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and to a full disclosure of the invention an adaptation thereof is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure l is a side elevation of the improved check hook, showing the operation of the guard-by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof, showing the guard in full. Fig. 3 is a section on the line X X of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in the several views of the drawing by the same reference-characters'. 1

The hook l has a recess 2 in-its shank to form a seat for a coil-spring '3, and has the end portion of its bill curved outwardly away from the shank, as shown at 4, and is provided with a slot 5 in the said bill adjacent to the curved end 4. Ears 6 are formed on the inner side of the shank, contiguous to the free end thereof, and receive between them the reduced end of a guard 7, the latter being pivoted to the ears by means of apin 8, passing through registering openings in the ears 6 and the reduced end of the guard 7, located between them.

The guard 7 is curved into an approximately C form, and its outer end 9 curves serial No. 602,541. (No model.)

inwardly in an opposite direction to the curved end 4 of the bill and provides a V-shaped space between the curved ends 4 and 9 to give proper direction to and facilitate the introduction of the check or overdraw into the hook when required. This guard 7 extends across the space formed between the bill and shank of thehook l and is intended to retain the strap in place when engaged with the hook. The'outer portion of the guard enters the slot 5 and is prevented from lateral displacement thereby. A teat or protuberance lO is formed on the rear side of the guard 7 and projects into the upper end of the coil-spring and acts jointly with the recess 2 to retain the spring 3 in proper position under all conditions. The function of the spring 3 is to hold the guard 7 normally projected across the space formed between the shank and bill of the hook, thereby preventing the accidental displacement of the check after the latter is engaged with the hook and passed behind the guard.

In order to engage the overdraw or check with the hook, it is only necessary to present the strap to the space formed between the curved ends4and 9 and press it inward, thereby compressing the spring 3 and causing the guard 7 to turn upon its pivotal connection 8 and allow the strap to pass by the guard into the space formed between it and the bight of the hook, and after the strap has passed by the guard the spring 3 will regain itself and throw the guard into engagement with `the vouter end of the bill and retain the strap in engagement with the hook. When it is required to remove the strap from the hook, the guard is turned upon its pivot 8 by pressing upon the' curved end 9 until a space is had sufficient for the-escape of the strap.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- The herein-described check-hook comprising the hook 1, having the integral ears 6 and the recess 2 in its shank, and the slot 5 adjacent to the upwardly-curved end 4, the guard 7, pivoted between the ears 6 and curved backwardly within the hook l, and the upper portion of said guard held within the recess 5 by a spring 3, the free outer end my own Ihzwe hereto affixed my signature in of said guardbeingeurved outward and downthe presence of tWo Witnesses. Ward revelsely to the end of the hook to form 1 t i :L V-shaped opening 'for the eheekren, said AUGUS F' KILHL 5 guard bein g located entirely within the curve Vitnesses:

of the cheek-hook, substantially as described. ALBERT VVILDE,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as FRANK J. JANNER.

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