Improvements in Hooks used for Garment Fastenings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks used for Garment Fastenings.
I, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172, Fleet Street, London, E.C. Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in hooks of the class known as spring
hooks, and which have for their object the better retention of the eye used in
connection with them, when fitted to a loose garment.
The common hook which in no way pretends to accomplish the objects above
referred to, consists in a straight portion terminated by sewing eyes at one end
and a turned over portion or bill which is turned over and continued back for a
considerable distance in a direction about parallel to both the horizontal and
vertical plane of the first part.
My invention consists in twisting a part of the hook so that it projects from
the remaining portion of the hook, and in this way reduces the space between the
body of the hook and the bill at the extremity of the latter, to rather less than
the thickness of the eye to be engaged. Thus the eye is sprung on to the hook.
This hook can be made in much softer metal than the other so called spring
hooks, and yet be equally effective, and one advantage it possesses is that it has
a central bearing, the narrowed portion of the opening which retains the eye
being at the middle.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood, I will now refer to
a sheet of drawings illustrating my invention, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective
sketch to a large scale, Fig. 2 is a geometrical side clevation, and Fig. 3 a plan of
my improved hook, according to one arrangement, and Figs. 4 and 5, are
respectively a side elevation and an inverted plan of a modification.
In the hook shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the bill of the hook is twisted at the
point at about right angles to the other part, so that it approaches the lower part
and narrows the extremity of the recess. In that illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5, the
two legs forming the body of the hook are twisted so that one leg is passed over
the other, just under the end of the bill, narrowing the recess at the same part as
in the other case. The twisted part is marked B in all the figs.
Dated this 17th day of November 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Hooks used for Garment Fastenings.
SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in hooks of the class known as spring
hooks, and which have for their object the better retention of the eye used in
connection with them, when fitted to a loose garment.
The common hook which in no way pretends to accomplish the objects above
referred to, consists in a straight portion terminated by sewing eyes at one end
and a turned over portion or bill which is turned over and continued back for
ונס...D

page_text: a considerable distance in a direction about parallel to both the horizontal and
vertical plane of the first part.
My invention consists in twisting a part of the hook so that it projects from the
remaining portion of the hook, and in this way reduces the space between the body
of the hook and the bill at the extremity of the latter, to rather less than the
thickness of the eye to be engaged. Thus the eye is sprung on to the book. This
hook can be made in much softer metal than the other so called spring hooks, and
yet be equally effective, and one advantage it possesses is that it has a central
bearing, the narrowed portion of the opening which retains the eye being at the
middle.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view to a
large scale, Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a plan of my invention
according to one arrangement, Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are respectively a back, a side and
a front view of a modification, and Figs. 7 to 10 show two further modifications.
In the hook shown in Figs. 1, and 3, the bill A of the hook is twisted at the
point at about right angles to the other part, so that it approaches the back B and
narrows the opening of the recess, permitting the bill to be sprung on to the eye.
In the arrangement shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 the two legs forming the body B of
the hook are twisted, so that one leg is passed over the other, just under the end of
the bill, narrowing the recess at the same part as in the other case.
In Figs. 7 and 8, the body of the hook is given a double twist, and in Figs. 9
and 10 the point of the bill is formed by giving a complete twist making a small
eye at the end, as shown in Fig. 9.
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.) A spring dress book, formed, as to its spring portion, by twisting the
ordinary doubled wires over and under each other, as and for the purposes
specified.
(2.) A spring hook having its spring portion formed by twisting the end of the
bill, substantially as described and show..
(3.) A spring hook having its spring portion formed by twisting the wires
of the shauk one over the other, as described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 17th day of August 1894.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.