Improvements in the Manufacture of Dress Fasteners.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 21st June, 1898-Accepted 23rd July 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Dress Fasteners.
I, THOMAS BENT WILKINS, of 146 and 147, Great Charles Street, in the City
of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:- -
This invention relates to the manufacture of fasteners, principally of the hook
and eye type, commonly employed in securing the ends of waist belts, bands and
the like, and usually made from wire or metal in the length.
In making up a two-part hook and eye fastener for a belt or band according to
my invention, I make the one part of an elongated frame with the eye part formed
separately from a length of wire or strip metal, fashioned into the figure of a
series of open-backed loops separated from each other by spaces. These loops are
then attached to the inner bar of the frame by soldering, brazing or other means,
thus making a frame with a series of eyes, and having at points between the loops
or eyes, two bars or double thicknesses of metal.
The other half of the fastener is made up in a similar way but instead of
fashioning the wire into shallow loops, it is bent into long ones, which are then
bent nearly upon themselves to form the hooks. The hook bars are soldered to the
main frame of the fastener in the same way as described in connection with the
other.
The application of my invention to the manufacture of other kinds of two part
fasteners differs in no essential respect from its application to hook and eye
fasteners as herein described.
THOMAS BENT WILKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Dress Fasteners.
I, THOMAS BENT WILKINS, of 146 and 147, Great Charles Street, in the City
of Birmingham, 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:-
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This invention relates to the manufacture of fasteners, principally of the hook
and eye type, commonly employed in securing the ends of waist belts, bands and
the like, and usually made from wire or metal in the length and has for its object
Price 1

page_text: to so fashion the several hooks or eyes, as the case may be, of each part that the
distance between them is always equal, whereas in the ordinary fastenings where
each hook or each eye is attached separately to the body loop of the fastening,
the distances between them are frequently unequal, notwithstanding that gauges
are frequently employed for determining the accurate positions of the same.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a front elevation of a triple
hook and eye dress belt or similar fastening, with the several hooks and eyes of
each part respectively fashioned in common or integrally from a single length of
wire, shaped and then soldered or otherwise attached to the body loops of the
fastening, in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 represents an elevation an edge view and an end view of the hook part
of the said fastening, and
Figure 3 represents like views of the part of the fastening carrying the eyes
or loops with which the hooks of the other half engage.
Figure 4 represents an elevation of two component pieces from which the hook
part of the fastening is made, and showing how the whole of the hooks are
fashioned by tools in common from one length of wire thereby ensuring the dis-
position of the same at equal distances apart along the edge of the body loop.
Figure 5 is a like view of the elements of the eye-part of the fastening.
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The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said figures 1
to 5.
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In making up a two-part hook and eye fastener for a belt or band according to
my invention, I make the one part a, of an elongated frame or loop a¹, with the
three eyes a², thereof formed separately and in common from a length of wire
or strip metal, fashioned into the figure of a series of open-backed loops separated
from each other by spaces (see the part marked a³, in Figure 5). These integ-
rally formed eyes are then attached to the inner bar a, of the frame or loop a¹,
by soldering, brazing or other means, thus making a frame with a series of eyes,
and having at points. between the loops or eyes, two hars or double thicknesses of
metal marked as, in Figure 1.
of a
The other or hook half b, of the fastener is made up in a similar way,
loop 6, and a series of three integrally formed hooks 62, but instead of fashioning
the wire into shallow loops, it is bent into long ones (see Figure 4) which are
then bent nearly upon themselves to form the hooks. The hook bars are soldered
to the side 64, of the main frame or loop 6, of the fastener in the same way as
described in connection with the production of the hook fastening.
By thus making the series of hooks and eyes of the two parts of the fastening
respectively from or out of a single length of wire, with the several eyes or hooks
connected together by intervening bars (marked a, 66, in the drawings) of set or
determined and corresponding lengths, there is always a given distance between
the eyes of the one part and a corresponding given distance between the hooks of
the other part, so that when the fastener is in use, the connection of the two
halves is easily effected as the hooks on the one loop are always the same distance
apart as the loops on the other and consequently come readily into line with one
another.
Figure 6 represents the two parts of a double hook and eye fastening made in
accordance with my invention and in which the eyes a³, and hooks 62, of the
respective parts a, and b, are each fashioned from a length of wire and the said
eyes and hooks are respectively connected together by bars a, 66, or equal and
corresponding lengths, thus facilitating the infibulation or connection of the
fastening.
Figure 7 represents a double hook and eye fastening with the parts made accord-
ing to a modification of my invention, in which, instead of forming the hooks 63,
or eyes a², from separate wire or metal lengths as in the preceding forms, the said
eyes or hooks are fashioned out of extensions a³, 63, of the lengths of metal from
which the body frames or loops a¹, b¹, are made.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
nvention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
In dress fastenings having two or more hook and eye-like connections, forming
the several hooks or eyes of each part, integrally out of a separate metal length or
bar either attached to or formed as an extension of, the body loop or frame, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth.
Tatad this 20th doy of June 1808
THOMAS BENT WILKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.