A New or Improved Method of Fixing the Feet or Heels of Hooks and Eyes between Strips of Fabric.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 19th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Fixing the Feet or Heels of Hooks
and Eyes between Strips of Fabric.
I, AUGUST PRYM, of Stolberg near Aachen, in the Province of the Rhine,
German Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention refers to hooks and eyes that are arranged in series, and are
secured in definite distances to a strip or strips of fabric, so that the person having
to sew said hooks and eyes on to a waistband, coat or other piece of garment may
do so without being compelled to pay attention to the said hooks and eyes receiving
their proper and uniform distances.
My improvements in said strips of fabric with series of hooks and eyes relate to
a method of securing the latter to the strip, or, more precisely, of holding the
hooks and eyes between two strips; and my invention proper consists in connecting
one strip to the other by glue, gum-arabic, or any other cementing-medium, for
instance caseine cement, the feet or heels of the hooks and eyes being situated, or
enclosed, between said two strips of fabric, and one or both, of the latter being
shaped by pressure in such a manner as to show in relief the configuration of said
feet or heels.
In order to make my invention more clear, I refer to the accompanying drawing,
in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the different views, and in
which:
Figure 1 is a plan of two portions of the double-strips mentioned in the preamble,
one of said strips having a hook, the other an eye, and all parts being drawn on a
greatly, enlarged scale;
Figure 2 is a section in line 5-6 of Figure 1, but being. drawn on a still larger
scale;
Figure 3 is a similar section showing a modification, &
Figure 4 is another similar section showing another modification.
In carrying my invention into practice, I take two strips of a suitable fabric, for
instance gauze, and I provide either one of them, or both, with a layer of a suitable
cementing-medium, for instance caseine-cement; this may be done either at any
desired time before the union of the said two strips, or only shortly before, according
to the kind of cementing-medium employed as well as to the kind of apparatus or
device employed for said union. The hooks and eyes, or more precisely, the feet
or heels of the same, are inserted whilst the hooks and eyes are being united, and
to perform this union in spite of said feet lying between the strips these latter are
pressed over or around the various portions of the feet or heels, in such a manner,.
that there appears upon the strips prominent portions corresponding in configuration
to the configuration of the said feet or heels or thereabouts.
In the form of construction shown in Figs. 1 & 2 it is supposed, that both
strips (A' A 2) have been pressed over and around the various portions of the feet'
or heels of the hook B or eye C; said strips are thus united at a a' a 2 a 3 a4 a5
a6 a7 a 8, and so on. In fact, in spite of some portions of the feet or heels lying
very near to the edges of the strips, said edges may also be united throughout their
whole lengths, as is shown in Figure 2.

page_text: It is not indispensably requisite that both strips are pressed in the manner afore
stated; but it is sufficient, if but one of them is treated so as described. Compare
in this respect Figures 3 & 4, in which in one case (Figure 3) the strip A' only,
in the other case (Figure 4) the strip A 2 only has been pressed as stated, whereas
the other strip has remained perfectly flat.
Dated this 17th day of July 1896.
AUGUST PRYM,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Method of Fixing the Feet or Heels of Hooks
and Eyes between Strips of Fabric.
I, AUGUST PRYM, of Stolberg near Aachen, in the Province of the Rhine,
German Empire, Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention refers to hooks and eyes that are arranged in series, and are
secured in definite distances to a strip or strips of fabric, so that the person having
to sew said hooks and eyes on to a waist-coat or other piece of garment may so do
without being compelled to pay attention to the said hooks and eyes receiving their
proper and uniform distances.
My improvements in said strips of fabric with series of hooks and eyes relate to
a method of securing the latter to the strip, or, more precisely, of holding the hooks
and eyes between two strips; and my invention proper consists in connecting one
strip to the other by glue, gum arabic, or any other cementing-medium, for instance
caseine cement, the feet of the hooks and eyes being situated, or enclosed, between
said two strips of fabric, and one of, or both, the latter being shaped by pressure in
such a manner as to show in relief the configuration of said feet.
In order to make my invention more clear, I refer to the drawing sent in with
Provisional Application, in which:
Figure 1 is a plan of two portions of the double-strips mentioned in the preamble,
one of said strips having a hook, the other an eye, and all parts being drawn on a
greatly enlarged scale;
Figure 2 is a section in line 5-6 of Figure 1, but being drawn on a still larger
scale;
Figure 3 is a similar section showing a modification, &
Figure 4 is another similar section showing another modification.
In carrying my invention into practice, I take two strips of a suitable fabric,
for instance gauze, and I provide either one of them, or both, with a layer of a
suitable cementing-medium, for instance caseine-cement; this may be done either
any desired time before the union of said two strips, or only shortly before,
according to the kind of cementing-medium, as well as to the kind of apparatus or
device employed for said union. The hooks and eyes, or more precisely, the feet
of the same, are inserted whilst the hooks and eyes are being united, and to perform
this union in spite of said feet laying between the strips these latter are pressed
over or around the various portions of the feet, in such a manner, that there appear
upon the strips prominent portions corresponding in configuration to the configuration
of the said feet.
In the form of construction shown in Figures 1 & 2 it is supposed, that both
strips (A' A 2) have been pressed over and around the various portions of the feet

page_text: of the hook B or eye C ; said strips are thus united at a a² a 2 a 3 a4 a5 a6 a7a 8,
and so on. In fact, in spite of some portions of the feet laying very near to the
edges of the strips, said edges may also be united throughout their whole lengths,
as is shown in Figure 2.
It is not indispensably requisite that both strips are pressed in the manner afore.
stated; it is sufficient if but one of them is treated as described. Compare in this
respect Figures 3 & 4, in which in one case (Figure 3) the strip A¹ only, in the
other case (Figure 4) the strip A 2 only has been pressed as stated, whereas the
other strip has remained perfectly flat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The method of fixing the feet of hooks or eyes between strips of fabric,
consisting in coating one of, or both, said strips with a cementing-medium, placing
said feet between the said strips, and uniting the latter by pressing one of them
against the other at the free portions existing at the various portions of each foot,
substantially as described.
2. As a new article of manufacture, a double strip of fabric having between its
two layers the feet of a hook or eye or of hooks or eyes, and having said layers
united at the free portions existing at the various portions of each foot, substantially
as described.
3. As a new and useful article of manufacture, the herein described hook and eye
band, the same consisting of a plurality of hooks and eyes having feet extending
for some distance laterally of the bill of the hook or the eye, a plurality of strips
of fabric between which the feet of the hooks and eyes are laid, the bill or eye
projecting between the two strips of fabric, the said strips of fabric being united by
a suitable adhesive substance and pressed so as to exhibit the contour of the feet
of the hooks or eyes on the outer face of the band comprised by the strips so
that the said hooks or eyes will be arranged seriatim between the strips and
the contour of their feet will be manifest on the face of the band, whereby the
band may be directly applied to a garinent and may be readily sewed thereto,
substantially as described."
AUGUST PRYM,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
No. 1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
AUGUST PRYM,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
No. 1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.