Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1893—Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR, of No. 3423, Smedley
Street, Designer of Special Machinery, and JOSEPH STEDHAM KELLER, of
No. 3515, Hamilton Street, Manufacturer, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
United States of America.]
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 has for its object the production of hooks and eyes of such con-
struction that when arranged in manner suitable for uniting the two edges of fabric
to be joined, the entire series of hooks may be readily stripped or disengaged from
the co-operating eyes by a single continuous motion, beginning at either one end or
the other end of the series.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 represents a view of two pieces of fabric provided with my preferred
form of hooks and eyes;
Figure 2 represents, in perspective, separate views of said preferred form of hook
and eye;
Figure 3 represents a plan view of the same;
Figure 4 represents a central longitudinal section of the same assembled ;
Figures 5 and 6 represent, in perspective, and in plan, a modified form of hook ;
Figure 7 represents a central longitudinal section of said modified form of hook
and its co-operating eye;
Figure 8 represents, in perspective, a further modification of the hook;
Figure 9 represents a central longitudinal section of said further modification and
its co-operating eye;
Figure 10 represents a perspective view of a still further modification of the hook
and also of the eye; and
Figure 11 represents a central longitudinal section thereof.
In the preferred form shown in Figures 1 to 4 of the drawings, the eye consists
of a bow a provided at its ends with the loops b, whereby said eye may be sewed to
the fabric B as shown. The eye is provided at its forward end with a downwardly
projecting cross-bar n.
The hook is provided with an upwardly and rearwardly extending bill c, inclining
at a slight angle toward the main body or shank of the hook. The main body or
shank of the hook is formed of the sections m, terminating at their free ends in
loops. Beyond the sections m, the wire of which the hook is formed approaches
the bill c at the bends m' so as to be separated therefrom on either side thereof by
an interval less than the diameter of the wire of the co-operating eye, so that to
engage the eye with the hook, the eye must be snapped through the said intervals
into the space beneath the bill c, the bends m' serving as guards to prevent accidental
disengagement of the eye.
At either side of the bill c, the hook is extended to form anchoring loops e, and
these anchoring loops e extend to such a distance from the bill that when the eye
is in engagement with the bill as indicated in Figure 1, the stitching for fastening
the anchoring loops e to the fabric A will be beyond the side bars of the eye, so as
not to be abraded by said eye.
To disassemble an eye from a hook, the
is held fast, and the eye is tilted sidewise.
sequently fulcrums upon the corresponding
fabric A upon which the hook is sewed,
One of the side bars of the eye con-
side wing of the hook, and the cross

page_text: bar n of the eye is caused to slide along the under surface of the inclined bill e of
the hook, and to pass out through the space through which it entered, i.e. between
the bill e and the guards m'. To separate the entire series of eyes from the hooks,
it is merely necessary to hold fast the fabric A near one end or the other of the
series of hooks, and to grasp the fabric B at the same end; whereupon by a single
continuous stripping movement transverse to the line of strain, the entire series of
hooks and eyes may be at once disengaged from each other.
The downward bend of the cross-bar n is of importance because it lowers the
level of said cross-bar with respect to the guards m', as indicated in Fig. 4, and
thereby lessens liability of accidental disengagement.
In the modification shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, the same general features are
present, as indicated by the lettering, save that there are provided, in addition, the
reverse bends m², which serve to impart a certain degree of elasticity to the
guards m', which may be desirable for larger sizes of hooks.
In the modification shown in Figs. 8 and 9, the shank portions fl of the hook
are inclined toward the bill c, so as to leave an open space beneath them and
beneath the guards m³. The hook is to be anchored to the fabric by the
loops and e.
The modification shown in Figs. 10 and 11 has projections or loops f², e²,
whereby the hook may be fastened to the fabric, and the bill c and single guard d
incline toward each other leaving a free space beneath for the cross-bar n¹ of
the eye, which cross-bar may be straight as shown.
The mode of operation in stripping the hooks and eyes from each other is
substantially the same in all of the modifications. Of all the forms shown,
however, I prefer that illustrated in Figures 1 to 4, as it gives the best results
in practice.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :
1. In a hook and eye, a hook having a guard and provided with a bill having an
angular incline from its base upwardly to the point of nearest approach of the
guard; whereby on tilting the eye sidewise it will be caused to ascend the incline
and pass out between the bill and guard; substantially as described.
2. In a hook and eye, a hook having a guard and provided with a bill having an
angular incline from its base upwardly to the point of nearest approach of the
guard; whereby on tilting the eye sidewise it will be caused to ascend the incline
and pass out between the bill and guard, the length of the bill being less than the
width of the eye; substantially as described.
3. In a hook and eye, a hook having a guard and provided with a bill having an
angular incline from its base upwardly to the point of nearest approach of the
guard; whereby on tilting the eye sidewise it will be caused to ascend the incline
and pass out between the bill and guard, and outlying anchorages at opposite sides
of the bend of the bill; substantially as described.
4. In a hook and eye, a hook having a rearwardly extending bill or projection,
and a co-operating forwardly extending projection, said projections being separated
from each other by an interval less than the diameter of the eye-bar, a free space
being provided at each side of said interval, whereby the eye may be tilted
sidewise to disengage it from the hook; substantially as described.
5. In a hook and eye, a hook provided with a bill having an angular incline from
its base upwardly, and two guards co-operating respectively with opposite sides of
the bill; substantially as described.
6. In a hook and eye, a hook provided with a bill having an angular incline
from its base upwardly, and two guards co-operating respectively with opposite
sides of the bill, said bill extending higher than both guards; substantially as
described.
7. In a hook and eye, a hook provided with a bill having an angular incline from

page_text: its base upwardly, and two guards co-operating respectively with opposite sides of
the bill, said guards being separated by an intervening space, and the co-operating
eye having a downwardly projecting bend at its forward end; substantially as
described.
8. In a hook and eye, a hook having a bill inclined from its base upwardly,
outlying anchorages at opposite sides of the bend of the bill, and two guards
co-operating respectively with opposite sides of the bill; substantially as
described.
9. In a hook and eye, a hook having a bill inclined from its base upwardly, and
outlying anchorages at opposite sides of the bend of the bill, said anchorages
extending beneath the side bars of the co-operating eye, whereby on tilting the eye
sidewise, one or the other of the side bars will be fulcrumed upon one or the other
of said anchorages; substantially as described.
10. In a hook and eye, a hook having a bill inclined from its base upwardly,
outlying anchorages at opposite sides of the bend of the bill, said anchorages
extending beneath the side bars of the co-operating eye, and two guards
co-operating respectively with opposite sides of the bill; substantially as
described.
11. In a hook and eye, a hook consisting of an inclined bill, side wings forming
a continuation of the bill, guards forming a continuation of the side wings, and
terminal anchorages beyond the guards; substantially as described.
12. In a hook and eye, a hook consisting of a bill, side wings forming a
continuation of the bill, and shank portions in the same plane with and forming
a direct continuation of the wings, the junction of the side wings with the shank
portions forming guards for the bill and being separated from the bill by an
interval permitting the passage of the co-operating eye; substantially as
described.
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1000
Date HS way
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.