Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Garments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Garments.
I, EMMA MARY MCCARTHY, of 18 Feld Strasse, Dusseldorf, in the Empire of
Germany, Widow, 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.
My invention relates to hooks and eyes for fastening garments and has for its
object to render the same more efficient.
Hitherto-hooks-have-been-constructed-with-one-pair-of-attaching-loops-at-the-end
of-the-straight-shank; necording-to-my-invention I construct the hook with two or
more pairs of attaching loops on the shank, one pair being placed in the usual
manner, and the additional pair being placed on the shank at or near the bend of
the hook.
According to my invention I construct the eye either straight or bent upwards
and with an attaching loop at either end.
In the accompanying drawings Figure is a plan or front view and Figure 2 a
side view of a hook and eye manufactured in accordance with my invention, and
engaged and fastened.
Figures 3 and 5 are respectively a plan or front view and side view of one form
of eye.
Figures 4 and 6 show respectively a front and side view of alternative forms of
eyes.
A represents a hook with the usual pair of loops a a one on each side of its shank
head, bb represent the an additional pair of loops which by my-invention are found
formed on the shank at or near the bend of the hook.
For long shanked hooks I may place an additional loop or loops between a
and b.
c represents one form of eye which is preferably a straight bar having an attachi-
ing loop dat either end. This will lie flat on the material of the garment, but when
used with very stiff material I find it advantageous to curve or bend the bar more
or less upwards as shown in Figure 4 so that the hook may be more easily
engaged.
In Figure 6 the bar c is shown bent slightly outwards so that when the edges,
by which a garment is to be fastened, abut, the hook may be more easily
engaged.
The advantages of the improvements above described are that the two parts of
any garment may be brought and held more closely together than with other forms
of hooks and eyes, and the hook by means of the four loops may be more firmly

page_text: sewn to the garment, thus doing away with the necessity of overcasting the shank
at or near the bend of the hook as is the usual practice
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The manufacture-of-hooks-for-fastening garments-with-two-pairs of attaching
loops-upon-their-shanks substantially-as-set-forth.
1.2. The manufacture of eyes for hooks in the form of a straight or bent bar
with an attaching loop at each end substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
2.-The-manufaeiure-of-hooks-and eyes-for-fastening garments-substantially-as
above-deseribed-and-illustrated:
Dated this 8th day of July 1893
For the Applicant:
J. G. LORRAIN.
Mem. Inst. E.E., Mem. Inst. M.E.,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, London, W.C.
Chartered Patent Agent.