Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
I, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172 Fleet Street, London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of hooks and eyes, intended to
facilitate the placing of these articles in proper relative position the one to the
other, when fixing them on to wearing apparel.
In accordance with my invention the shank of the book or eye is formed with
an extending arm on each side, continuing to a given distance on each side so that
these hooks and eyes may be placed with their ends abutting, thus keeping the
hooks opposite to the eyes without any trouble of measurement. The extended
arins are only for this use of keeping one hook and eye equidistant from its neigh-
bour, and are formed by extending the wire to the required distance and returning
the same backwards, and finally forming sewing eyes at the top of the hook or eye
portion, and these sewing eyes are for preference in juxtaposition to each other.
It is not intended nor desirous to form a sewing eye at the end of the extended
Small extended arms
arm, as the sewing eye should be near to the hook or eye.
are formed upon the eyes as well as upon the hooks as before referred to, the wire
forming the same being bent and returned back with sewing eye at or about the
centre of the same.
Dated this and dox of Anril 1801
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
I, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of Fleet Street, London, Engineer, 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 relates to an improved construction of hooks and eyes, intended to
facilitate the placing of these articles in proper relative position the one to the
other, when fixing them on to wearing apparel.
In accordance with my invention the shank of the hook or eye is formed with an
extending arm on each side, continuing to a given distance so that these hooks and
eyes may be placed with their ends abutting, thus keeping the hooks opposite to
the eyes without any trouble of measurement. The extended arms are only for
this use of keeping one hook and eye equidistant from its neighbour, and are formed
by extending the wire to the required distance and returning the same backwards,
and finally forming sewing eyes at the top of the hook or eye portion, and these
sewing eyes are for preference in juxtaposition to each other.
It is not intended nor desirous to form a sewing eye at the end of the extended
arm, as the sewing eye should be near to the hook or eye. Small extended arms
are formned upon the eyes as well as upon the hooks as before referred to, the wire
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page_text: forming the same being bent and returned back with sewing eyes at or about the
centre of the same.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Figs. 1 to 7 are front views of various forms of hooks constructed according to
my invention, and
Fig. 8 shows an eye formed with my improved device.
As shown in Fig. 1 the body A of the hook is constructed in the usual manner
from doubled wire the wire being bent outwards at B on each side to form the arm,
the wire is then doubled back a short distance above, and the sewing eyes
C are
formed at the extremities, by looping the wire at the lower side, the eye thus
being situated between the two sides of the arm.
In Fig. 2 the wire forming the body of the hook is taken to the uppermost
extremity of the hook, before being bent outwards to form the arm, and it is then
doubled back at the lower side. The sewing eyes C₁ are formed at the extremity
in the manner described above, but the wire is looped in the opposite direction.
According to Fig. 3 the wire forming the arms is doubled closely upon itself, and
the sewing eyes C² are formed at the upper side. In Fig. 4 a somewhat similar
arrangement is employed, the sewing eyes being placed at the top, and loops ↳ are
also formed at the extremities of the arms.
In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5 the arms are in the form of long loops.
According to Fig. 6 the arms are formed with loops b at their extremities, but the
wire of which the shank of the hook is constructed is bent out at an angle as shown
by letter a. This adds to the strength of the hook. In Fig. 7 the wire forming
the shank is more extended, thus giving the whole hook a triangular appearance.
The eye A shown in Fig. 8 is provided with the arms B of similar form to those
shown in the hooks, the sewing eyes C² being formed at the outside. The arms and
eyes may however be constructed in any of the ways shown in the illustrations of
the hooks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
In dress hooks and eyes, forming distance arms by bending the wire out at each
side of the shank to the required distance, doubling it back and forming sewing
eyes at its extremities, substantially as described and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 2nd day of January 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.