AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR SUSPENDING TROWSERS, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR HOLDING OR FASTENING CURTAINS OR OTHER ARTICLES."
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Shepley, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Tailor, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR SUSPENDING
TROWSERS, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR HOLDING OR FASTENING CURTAINS
OR OTHER ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Shepley at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd August 1878.
JAMES SHEPLEY, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Tailor. "AN IMPROVED
APPLIANCE FOR SUSPENDING TROWSERS, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR HOLDING
OR FASTENING CURTAINS OR OTHER ARTICLES."
The Invention consists principally of a kind of clip hook, which can be
instantaneously attached to trowsers, breeches, knickerbockers, or other similar
articles of dress, to be used in place of buttons for the attaching of braces or other
suspenders thereto; but it may also be used for curtain hooks and for a variety of
other useful purposes where it is required to attach a hook to a fabric without
sewing or without making a hole in or through the fabric.
The clip is made of metal with a fixed and a movable jaw, the latter opening on a
hinge, both jaws being provided with teeth.
To the movable jaw is attached a hook, so constructed and arranged that it can
be turned round on a pin either in a line parallel to the centre line of the clip or
at a right angle (or other angle) thereto. When the hook is in the latter position
the movable jaws of the clip can be opened either to apply the clip to an article or
to remove it therefrom.
When it is required to fix the clip, all that is requisite is to compress the two
jaws upon the article with the finger and thumb, and then to turn the hook into a line
with the clip. The hook then embracing the clip stiffens the hinge joint and prevents
the jaws from being opened till the hook is again turned to one side or the other.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by.
the said James Shepley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th January
1879.
JAMES SHEPLEY, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED
APPLIANCE FOR SUSPENDING TROWSERS, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR HOLDING
OR FASTENING CURTAINS OR OTHER ARTICLES."
This Invention consists principally of a kind of clip hook, which can be
instantaneously attached to trowsers, breeches, knickerbockers, or other similar
articles of dress, to be used in place of buttons for the attaching of braces or other
suspenders thereto; but it may also be used for curtain hooks and for a variety of
useful purposes where it is required to attach a hook to a fabric without sewing or
without making a hole in or through the fabric.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect; and in order that the same may be clearly
understood, I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and
have marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with
those in the following explanation thereof:--
Fig. 1 is a front view of the fastening or suspender hook; Fig. 2 is a side view
of the same; Fig. 3 is a back view; Fig. 4, a similar view with the clip opened;
and Fig. 5, a side view of Fig. 4.
The clip is made of metal with a fixed jaw a, a, and a movable jaw b, b, the
latter opening on a hinge c, c, both jaws being provided with teeth.
To the movable jaw b, b, is attached a hook d, d, so constructed and arranged
that it can be turned round on a pin either in a line parallel to the centre line of
the clip, as shown at Figs. 1 and 3, or at a right angle (or other angle) thereto, as
shown at Figs. 4 and 5. When the hook d, d, is in the latter position the movable
jaw b, b, of the clip can be opened (see Figs. 4 and 5) either to apply the clip to an
article or to remove it tlierefrom.
When it is required to fix the clip, all that is requisite is to compress the two
jaws a and b upon the article with the finger and thumb, and then to turn the
hook d, d, into a line with the clip (see Fig. 1). The hook d, d, then embracing the
clip a, b, stiffens the hinge joint and prevents the jaws a, b, from being opened till
the hook d, d, is again turned to one side or the other.
e, e, in Figs. 1 and 2, shows part of the brace or suspender, and f, f, part of the
trowsers or other article of dress to be suspended.
It will be readily understood that clip hooks of this construction are equally
applicable for the suspension of curtains and for other purposes where it is required
to attach a hook to a fabric without sewing or without making a hole in or
through the fabric.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the construction of
clip hook as herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawing annexed,
whether the said clip hook be applied for the suspension of trowsers or other articles
of dress, or for other purposes, substantially as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Shepley, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.