IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1853

page_text: Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Steel Pen Tool Maker,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES
OF DRESS,"
Sealed the 13th October 1853, and dated the 19th April 1853.
:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Newey
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 19th April 1853.
I, THOMAS NEWEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OP DRESS" to be as follows:-
The improved fastener consists of two instruments, acting as hook
and eye; they are formed of thin plate metal, cut to the desired form.
The part which acts as the hook has its sides towards its outer end
formed into a neck, with a small head or enlarged end; that which
acts as the eye has a small opening formed in it towards its outer end,
to receive the neck of the hook; and the portion of metal across the end

page_text: of the opening is sunk, in order that the neck of the hook may rest
therein whilst the projecting sides or head beyond the neck hold on the
sides of such recessed portion. From the small opening in the eye
there are slits inwards, forming a centre spring tongue, the end of
which has to be lifted for inserting or releasing the head of the hook,
and which thereby keeps the parts, when together, in position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Newey, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 19th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS NEWEY, of No. 6, Garbett Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Steel Pen Tool Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Newey, Her special license
that I, the said Thomas Newey, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Newey, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Thomas Newey, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Newey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
The improvements consist in the arrangements of parts of a fastener
forming two instruments, acting as a hook and eye.
But that the nature of the Invention, and the means of carrying the
same into effect, may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe
the drawing hereto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows an upper side view; Figure 2, an under side view,
and Figure 3, an edge view of the two parts of my improved fasteners,
upon a considerably enlarged scale, in order to their arrangements
being better understood. Figures 4, and 5, shew the two parts sepa-
rately; and Figure 6, shows the two parts in the position I have found
the most convenient to facilitate their separation.
The separate parts are formed, as shewn, from thin plate metal cut
to the desired form.
The part A, which acts as the hook is formed at «, «, into a sort of
neck, with an enlarged end or head b, b, which enlarged parts serve as
the holding means, to hold the parts together, when inserted in the
eye B; and this part B, is formed with an opening c, to receive the
neck a, of the hook A; the portion of metal d, left across the outer
end of such opening, being sunk somewhat as shewn, in order to the
neck a, of the hook A, resting therein, and thereby the parts of the
fastener will lie more closely and compactly together, and also that
the enlarged parts b, b, may rest on the inner edges of such recessed
part, as shown by Figure 1. From the opening c, the metal is slit on
each side, as shown, by which is formed an elastic tongue e, the end of
which next the opening c, is lifted in the act of inserting the pointed
head of the hook, and again for releasing the hook, whilst it also, by
its clastic pressure, tends to keep the head from coming out of the
opening c.
In order to release the parts A, B, from each other, they should be
slided towards each other with the head b, of the hook pressing against
the spring tongue e, and the stem of the hook resting on the end of

page_text: the eye, as indicated by Figure 6, when the parts b, will freely pass out
of the recess in the eye, and from under the spring tongue.
spring tongue. I would
remark that fasteners thus formed will be found to possess the advan-
tages of security, whilst they will lie flat to the dress, and are not
readily injured by the mangle, or otherwise in getting up the articles
to which they are attached.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, I would
have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details
herein shown and described, so long as the peculiar character of the
Invention be retained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Newey, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness, DAVID EVANS,
5, Garbett Street.
THOMAS NEWEY. (L.S.)