A New or Improved HOOK.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan.,
1899
A New or Improved HOOK.
I, WILLIAM BAILEY, of 33, Broadmead Road, Folkestone, Kent, Gentleman, 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 relates to a new or improved hook the object of which is to provide
a hook either for temporary or permanent use, and which can be secured in position
without sewing or fastening of any kind such as at present employed for securing
hooks in place.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, my improved hook is preferably
bent up out of a length of wire, and is furnished at one side with a horizontal
projecting arm pointed at its extremity, while the opposite side is furnished with
a shorter projecting arm the extremity of which is bent down at right angles.
When required for use the longer pointed arm of the hook is passed into or
threaded through the material while the bent arm, or extremity of the second
projecting arm, is pushed into the material, in such a manner as to prevent the
hook from being removed until the said shorter arm is withdrawn.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will now proceed
to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is a front view of my improved hook.
Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the hook secured to a piece of fabric or
material.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the hook.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the views,
which are drawn to an enlarged scale.
According to this invention the hook his preferably bent up out of a length
of wire as shown, and furnished at one side with a horizontal projecting arm a,
and upon the opposite side with a shorter projecting arm b, the extremity b¹ of
which is bent down at right angles as shown.
The hook is secured in place as shown (Fig. 2), by first passing the longer arm a
into or through the material or fabric m, the extremity 6 of the arm b being then
turned down into or passed through the fabric, so that it is impossible for the hook
to be withdrawn until the extremity b¹ of the arm b is first removed from the fabric
or material m, when the longer arm a can be withdrawn after the manner of an
ordinary pin.
Although the extremity 61 of the arm 6 has been shown in the drawings as being
straight, this may be suitably curved if required, or the whole arm b, b', may
follow one continuous curve.
My improved hook, which I preferably designate a "pin-hook," may be
temporarily or permanently employed for all the purposes for which an ordinary
hook is used, or for other purposes to which it is suitable, while it is particularly
useful for insertion in the inner material or lining of the neck band of a tie, scarf

page_text: or the like, for retaining the latter in position and preventing it rising or shifting,
the hook portion h taking under the collar for this purpose.
The hook h, instead of being formed out of wire as shown may be stamped or
formed out of metal or other suitable material in any convenient manner, in which
case it would be suitably and conveniently furnished with a straight arm such
as a and a bent or curved arm such as b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The combination with a hook such as h of a projecting arm such as a and
a shorter arm such as 6 having a bent or curved extremity such as 6', substantially
as herein described and shown with reference to the accompanying drawings, and
for the purposes specified.
2. The new or improved hook, substantially as herein described and shown,
and for the purposes specified.
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.