AN IMPROVED : MODE OF ATTACHING HOOKS TO FURNITURE OR FABRICS FOR SUSPENDING DRESSES OR PARTS OF DRESSES, FABRICS, CURTAINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF UPHOLSTERY OR APPAREL
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Agatha Montleart, of Mildmay Park, in the County
of Middlesex, Widow, and William Tent, of Birchin Lane,. in the City
of London, Glover and Hosier, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
: MODE OF ATTACHING HOOKS TO FURNITURE OR FABRICS FOR SUSPENDING
DRESSES OR PARTS OF DRESSES, FABRICS, CURTAINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
UPHOLSTERY OR APPAREL."
Sealed the 18th September 1868, and dated the 16th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Agatha Montleart and
William Tent at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 16th July 1868..
We, AGATHA MONTLEART, of Mildmay Park, in the County of Middlesex,
Widow, and WILLIAM TENT, of Birchin Lane, in the City of London, Glover
and Hosier, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Ar
IMPROVED MODE OF ATTACHING HOOKS TO FURNITURE OR FABRICS FOR SUSPENDING
DRESSES OR PARTS. OF DRESSES, FABRICS, CURTAINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
UPHOLSTERY OR APPAREL," to be as follows:-
This Invention of an "An Improved Mode of Attaching Hooks to Fur-
niture or Fabrics for Suspending Dresses or Parts of Dresses, Fabrics,
Curtains, and other Articles of Upholstery or Apparel," relates to a mode of
attaching hooks to fabrics without sewing them on as heretofore.
The Invention consists in combining a hook with a pin, constructed some-
thing like a brooch pin, so that it can be easily and yet securely attached to
any fabric without any sewing, and as easily detached therefrom when required.
To this end the hook, upon which any article or fabric is to be hung, is by
preference formed of one piece with the pin, which is bent back into the

page_text: required position for insertion into any fabric to which it is to be attached.
The compound pin hook is made of strong wire so that it may resist a con-
siderable strain, and a proper catch, such as is usually employed in brooches, is
made of a piece of wire twisted into the required form, and soldered on to the
back of the hook for the purpose of receiving the point of the pin. In using
the article the safety pin is to be secured in the usual way to any fabric of
sufficient strength to support it..when anything is placed upon the hook.
Any article, such as a coat, curtain, or even a bag, can then be hung upon
the hook.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Agatha Montleart and William Tent in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 16th January 1864.
: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, AGATHA
MONTLEART, of Mildmay Park, in the County of Middlesex, Widow, and
WILLIAM TENT, of Birchin Lane, in the City of London, Glover and Hosier,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
into us, the said Agatha Montleart and William Tent, Her special license
that we, the said Agatha Montleart and William Tent, our executors, admi-
pistrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Agatha Montleart and
William Tent, our 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 "AN IMPROVED MODE
OF ATTACHING HOOKS TO FURNITURE OR FABRICS FOR SUSPENDING DRESSES OR
PARTS OF DRESSES, FABRICS, CURTAINS, AND,OTHER ARTICLES OF UPHOLSTERY OR
APPAREL, upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Agatha
Montleart and William Tent, by an instrument in writing under our hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said. William. Tent (on behalf. of myself.
and of the said Agatha Montleart), do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement; reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figurès marked
thereon (that is to say) :- :
This Invention relates to the production of a fastening suitable for attaching
curtains to their rods without the aid of sewing, and also for. the suspending of
dresses and other articles or fabrics. The fastening consists of a metal hook
or eye combined with a brooch fastening and spring pin, which are formed
into one instrument.
The Invention admits of many modifications of construction without
its efficacy being impaired. . It may also be used beneficially with either
end. uppermost; according to the use to which. for the time it may be
applied.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 shews the fastening constructed of
one piece of metal, brass or iron wire being used for the purpose. The wire
is first bent to form the hook a, it is then curled over vertically and back to a
horizontal direction to form a rest or catch. 6 (for the spring pin c¹), and it is
then carried down to a suitable distance, thereby forming a stem, and is curled
round at c to ensure elasticity for for the spring pin c', which is produced by con-
tinuing the wire upwards to the rest or catch 6 and pointing it at its extremity.
In order to hold a curtain by means of this construction of fastening the pins
c', of any given number of these fastenings, are passed through thė, fabric in a
vertical direction at or near its edge, and the hooks a are inserted in the loops
of the curtain rod rings; or, if the. rods are of small diameter, the hooks may
be hung upon the rods themselves. By reversing the fastening and inserting
the pin in any fixed fabric the hook will project and be ready to receive any
light articles which may be suspended therefrom. When fastenings of greater
strength are required we prefer to make them in two parts, in order that the
hook which will bear the greater portion of the strain may be made of stouter
wire than the spring pin.
Fig. 2 shews a fastening constructed on this principle, the hook a being
made of stouter wire than the parts b and c forming the brooch fastening.
Figs. 3 represent different views of the hook part of the article detached
from the spring fastening.
Fig. 4 represents a modification of Fig. 2, the principal difference being
that the hook a is made larger and stronger, and has a shank a¹ which firmly
clasps the stem of the fastening throughout its whole length.

page_text: In order to couple the parts a and c together in Figures 2, 3, and 4, the
part a' is made with a spread or flat end, as shewn in the front view Fig. 3,
and this spread part is then hollowed out by turning up the edges, as shewn
in the plan Fig. 3*, and side view Figures 3, so as to receive the stem c¹ of
the fastening..
Fig. 5 represents another modification in which the hook a, shewn detached
at Fig. 6, is soldered on to the side of the stem of the fastening. In Figures 2,
4, and 5, a kind of brooch fastening 6 is made to receive the point of the pin c.
Another method of making this fastening is shewn at Figures 7 and 8, where
two hooks a and a'are employed, one hook being. curved upwards and the
other downwards; both hooks being vertical, but at right angles to each other
in plan:
Fig. 9 is another form of fastening, in which the spring pin ċ is intended to
bé inserted transversely in: the fabric, and the hook a being fastened on at
right angles to the spring pin c.
Fig. 10 is a modification of the above, the only difference being that instead
of a hook a, as in Fig. 9, there is a ring or eye d secured in a similar manner
to the spring fastening, so that a hook can be suspended therefrom.
Fig. 11 is another modification, with a ring instead of a hook as in the
other: Figures.
Having now described our Invention of "An Improved Mode of Attaching
Hooks to Furniture or Fabrics for Suspending Dresses or Parts of Dresses,
Fabrics, Curtains, and other Articles of Upholstery or Apparel," and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, we claim as our Inven-
tion under the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, the combination
of a hook a or eye d, with the spring fastening b, c, c', as and for the purpose
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Tent, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four:
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
W. TENT. (L.S.)