Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Wearing Apparel and other Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Wearing Apparel and other
Purposes.
I, CARLISLE JAMES SCOTT SPEDDING, of Junior Carlton Club, in the County
of Londen, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, (a com-
munication from James Wyndham Harrington Percy Spedding, at present of Hotel
Grande Bretagne, Capri, Italy, Gentleman), 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 form hooks and eyes so that they may be
attached without sewing to the articles on which they are to be employed. In
carrying out my invention, I proceed in or in about the following manner, that is
to say, on each side of the shank, of the hook and eye, and about parallel thereto [
form two upstanding points very slightly out of the plane of the shank of the hook
or eye. On the shank of the hook or eye I provide a sliding bar having at its
ends cup like formations or indentations, which when the bar is slid down are
intended to cover the points and keep the hook and eye in position. The sliding
bar is further held down by two small springs attached to or forming part of the
sides of the shank; these springs are pressed back when the bar is pushed down,
and spring out and retain it when it has passed. In some cases I provide spikes on
the back of the shank of the hook or eye and after passing them through the
material to which the hook or eye is to be attached, I pincb them down and so
retain the material between them and the back of the shank.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood, I make reference to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein,
Fig. 1 is a front view of a hook before using.
Fig. 2 a front view of one as in use.
Fig. 3 a side view.
Fig. 4 a front view of a hook having more than two points on each side of the
shank.
Fig. 5 a side view of hook with spikes behind the shank, and
Fig. 6 a side view of it after passing the spikes through the material and
pinching them down so as to retain the material between them and the shank.
In each case similar letters refer to the same parts where they occur.
a beak of hook; b shank; e upstanding points; d bar sliding on b; e cup like
formations or indentations at ends of d, to cover points c: f springs to keep d in
contact with e: 99 g spikes on back of shank, there being two of g and g' and
one of g² on each wire of the shank, the former pointing one way and the latter the
opposite way: h the material to which the hook is attached. Although only hooks
are shewn in the drawing, the same idea is applicable to eyes also. To use the
hooks and eyes when arranged as shewn at Figs. 1 to 4, the points c are inserted
carefully at the proper place in the garment as a needle or pin would be used, but
so that they do not appear on the other side of the fabric, yet entering sufficiently
deep in it to hold firm, the whole length being inserted till the points just shew.
The bar d is then pushed down so that the points c will enter the cup like
formations or indentations thereon. The return of the springe f as soon as the bar
has passed them will prevent the latter from working back and uncovering the
points. When it is desired to remove the hook or eye, the springs f are pressed in,

page_text: the bar d slid back, and the hook or eye can then be taken out. In using the
hooks or eyes arranged as shewn at Figs. 5 and 6, the long spikes are inserted as
far as possible into the material (the full length) and the short ones then put in by
very slightly moving the hooks or eye, so that they may pierce the fabric also.
The hooks or eyes and the bar may be of any suitable material, and I do not
confine myself to any particular details, shapes, relative proportions or disposition
of parts, as any or all of them may be considerably varied without departing from
the spirit of my invention.
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 improvements in hooks and eyes consisting of one or more points formed on,
or attached to, and placed parallel with, but slightly out of the plane of, the shank
of the hook or eye; the said points being coverable by cup like formations or
indentations at the end of a bar sliding up and down the shank and retained in
position by spring projections provided on the shank, the whole substantially as
described and for the purposes set forth in the above Specification and exemplified
by Figs. 1 to 4 of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
2. The improvements in hooks and eyes consisting of spikes attached to, or
formed on, the back of the shank of the hooks or eyes; some of the said spikes
pointing towards one end of the shank, and some towards the other end, the said
spikes being intended to be passed through the material, and pressed down so as to
retain the material between the spikes and the shank, substantially as described
in the above Specification, and exemplified in Figs. 5 and 6 of the accompanying
drawings.
3. The combination of parts together forming and operating as improved hooks
or eyes, substantially as described in the above Specification and exemplified in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th day of March 1896.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.