Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1897-Accepted, 17th July, 1897
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
I, VIRGINIA CONWAY BROWN, Spinster, of Houstonia, in the County of Pettis,
al State of Missouri, one of the United States of America, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
The object of this invention is to provide the two members or part of the hook
and eye with devices by which they can be readily attached or applied to a
garment, the construction embodying the principle of the ordinary safety-pin with
certain modifications or improvements to adapt the same to this particular use.
With the above ends in view the, invention consists in providing or forming the
ordinary hook and eye into safety-pins at their inner ends and furnishing the hook
with an additional pin to hold its outer end in close contact with the garment.
The invention further consists in the peculiar construction of the eye by which
the said eye is strengthened to remove any possibility of its pulling the safety-pin
apart.
In the following specification I have entered into a detailed description of the
peculiar construction of each part of the hook and eye, to enable others skilled in
the art to which the invention relates to make and use the same, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings and numerals thereon which designate the
different parts; and what I consider to be the novel features of the invention are
more particularly set forth in the claims herein.
In the drawings, forming part of this specification.
Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a hook and eye constructed in accordance
with my invention, the two portions being in engagement with each other.
Figure 2 is a detail perspective view of the hook.
Figure 3 is a side eleveation of the hook.
Both parts of the hook and eye are constructed of wire, a single piece being
used in the construction of each. In forming the hook the wire is first bent upon
itself centrally to form the bill 1 and adjoining the shank 2 from which the other
parts or end portions of the wire are shaped to present an ordinary safety-pin, the
point of the pin 3 being adapted to enter the keeper 4. This construction forms a
hook with a safety-pin attachment, but in order to make it more effective by
holding the outer end in closer contact with the garment, the end of the wire which
forms the keeper is extended into the space between the sections which make up
the shank of the hook, and the outer end turned back upon itself to provide a
pin 5.
In the construction of the eye, the wire is looped centrally to form the eye
proper and twisted upon each other in the rear of said eye, from which the end
portions are extended and formed into the ordinary safety-pin. By twisting the
wire upon
itself in the rear of the loop any tension upon said loop is not so liable
tc displace or separate the safety-pin.
From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,
t will be seen that I provide the ordinary hook and eye with safety-pin attachments
by which the parts or members of the hook and eye can be quickly applied to a
garment without requiring it to be sewn thereon, and by connecting the hook
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page_text: and eye in this manner it can be as readily detached. The particular construction
which provides the hook with the additional pin extending backward from the
forward end of said hook holds this part of the hook and eye in close engagement
with the garment to make a neater appearance and secure a better hold.
said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A hook forming part of the ordinary hook and eye having a safety-pin
attachment at its rear end, and a pin projecting rearward from the forward end
of the hook, substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.
2. A hook forming part of the ordinary hook and eye having a safety-pin
attachment at the rear end of the hook, the wire of which the hook is made being
extended between the portions forming the shank and turned back upon itself to
provide the additional pin, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. An eye forming part of the ordinary hook and eye made up of a wire bent
upon itself centrally to form a loop in the rear of which the parts are twisted
upon themselves and extended to form an ordinary safety-pin, substantially as
sbown and described.
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JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.