I (No Model.) . . MILLER. 1 110111: . ‘ No. 447,618. Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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ATTORNE YS NITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

JAMES K. MILLER, OF EMPORIA, KANSAS.

ROPE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,618, dated March 3, 1891. Application ?led May 17,1890. Serial No, 352,246. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: , through the upper hook A“, and one or more 55 Be it known that I, JAMES K. MILLER, of turns around the shank between hook AG and Emporia, in the county of Lyon and State of the lower hooks At, the free end 0’ of the rope Kansas, have invented a new and Improved 0 being allowed to dangle from the hook, as Rope-Hook, of which the following is a full, Shown. clear, and exact description. lVhile I have shown a particular means for My invention relates to improvements in fastening the rope (J in the hook, it is evi rope-hooks; and the object of the invention is dent that it may be fastened in a great many to provide a hook that is suitable for use with ways, so as either to hold the rope in a sta clothes-lines, hammocks, for hoisting pur tionary position or to allow it to slide slowly poses, or for fastening bundles, and various through the hook. 65 other purposes, and .one by which a rope may ' It will be seen that by having the two hooks be easily and quickly fastened. A‘1 upon opposite sides of the shank the rope To this end my invention consists in a hook may be passed through either of ‘said hooks, having a single shank and a terminal eye, and may be passed through the central hook and having two oppositely-extending hooks A6 from either the right hand or the left with at its lower end, and a central equal facility, so that an unskilled person said lower hooks and at right angles to the will have no difficulty in securing the rope to same. ' the hook. - 20 Reference is to be had to the accompanying When used as a hoisting-rope, the hook drawings, forminga part of this specification, should be made sufficiently strong for the 75 in which similar letters of reference indicate purpose; but it is obvious that the hook may corresponding parts in all the views. be stamped from sheet metal, and may be Figure 1 is a perspective view of the de used as a twine-hook for fastening various 25 vice suspended by a rope and having another kinds of bundles, bags, the. rope fastened therein. Fig. 2 is aside eleva - Having thus described my invention, I claim tion of the hook with the ropes detached. as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same, and ent—— Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modi?ed 1. A rope-hook consisting of a shank hav form of hook. ‘ ing an eye at its upper end and provided at The hook A is provided with the shank its lower end with two hooks projecting in 85 formed of the members A2 and A3, which are diametrically-opposite directions, and with a doubled together in such a manner as to third hook projecting from the shank above form an eye A’ at one end of the shank. The and at right angles to the two hooks, substan 35 member A2 extends below the member A3 tially as described. and is formed into two oppositely-extending 2. A rope-hook consisting of a shank hav 9O hooks A“, which terminate in oppositely ing an eye at its upper end and provided at curved points A“. The member A3 is formed its lower end with two hooks projecting in into a terminal hook A“, which will thus pro~ diametrically- opposite directions and hav ject- from the shank at right angles to the ing oppositely-cuiw'ecl points, and with a third hooks A4, and will be a little above the said hook above and at right angles to the, two 95 hooks. hooks, substantially as herein shown and de As shown, the shank of the hook ispoom scribed. posed of the members A2 and A3; but it 1s evi 3. A rope - hook consisting of a shank 45 dent that the shank might be formed of a formed of two members of unequal length single piece, with thehooks A" and A6 welded doubled together to form an eye, the lower or cast thereon, as shown in Fig. 1i. end of the shorter member being formed into As used for hoisting purposes, the hook is a hook and the lower end of the longer mem suspended by a suitable rope , which is at ber into two oppositely-proj ecting hooks, sub tached to the eye A’ of the'hook, and the stantially as described. rope C, to which a weight may be attached, is JAMES K. MILLER. suitably secured in the hook. As shown in YVitnessse: » Fig. 1, it is to be done by passing the rope up . J. TURNER, behind the hooks A“, as shown at l, thence A. WEHRMAN.