An Improved Spring Hook for Gloves, Boots, Corsets, and other Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1891--Accepted, 9th May, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Spring Hook for Gloves, Boots, Corsets, and other
Articles.
We, LOUIS ALEXANDRE MORISSON and CHARLES JULES CHLAGOT, trading
as Morisson, Chagot et Cie., Glove Manufacturers, of 50 Boulevard Sebastopol,
Paris, France, 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 :-
This invention consists in a spring metal hook for fastening gloves, boots, corsets,
and other articles.
The hook has an eyelet at its base which serves to secure it to the material of
which the article to which it is applied is made. It is provided with a spring
formed from the metal of the hook itself, or from a separate piece and secured to
the hook, such spring serving to hold the lace, ribbon, string, or other form of cord,
so that it cannot slip through the hook or leave same without a certain pull.
The accompanying drawings show respectively several forms in which the hook
may be made, and also its application to the two parts of any article with which it
may be used and also a cord which serves to fasten these two parts together.
In Fig. 1 the hook a is shown with its spring made in one piece therewith; the
base of the hook is formed with an eyelet for attaching same, at top of which is a
bed or table c. The metal is bent over at d, where it forms an inwardly projecting
elbow which assists in exerting the necessary pressure. The metal is then extended
and forms the head e which is stamped to the desired form, and finally it is again
bent and forms a tongue constituting the spring proper.
Figs. 2 and 3 are side elevations of a hook in which the spring is made from a
separate piece of metal and secured to the hook by a screw or rivet.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the hook shown in Fig. 1, and shows same secured
to any kind of material 9 and a cord confined within the hook.
Fig. 5 is a plan view showing four hooks secured to the two sides of an article g,
and a cord h passing in succession through each of the hooks.
Fig. 6 shows in vertical section a modified form of hook secured to an article, and
also a plan view of such hook before same is bent to its form, the spring in such
hook being formed by the bend of the hook itself, and the pressure is produced by
a piece of metal fapplied to and inserted in the head e of the hook.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
1. In a metal hook for fastening gloves, boots, corsets, and other articles, and to
which it is secured by an eyelet provided at the base of the hook, the combination
of a binding spring made either in one with the hook itself, or from a separate piece
and screwed or rivetted to the hook, or finally inserted in the head thereof, such
combination having for its object to bind or hold within the hook any form of cord,
serving, by means of such hooks, to connect the two parts of the article to which
they are applied, so as to ensure the fastening of the article, while the hooks employed
are independent of each other in their cominon action, substantially as specified.
2. The improved spring hook constructed and operating substantially as specified.
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ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicants.