Aluminium Eyelets for Use with Hook and Eye Fasteners of Ladies' Dresses and Bodices, and Means for Fixing such Eyelets to Fabric Strips.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1900-Accepted, 21st July, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Aluminium Eyelets for Use with Hook and Eye Fasteners of Ladies'
Dresses and Bodices, and Means for Fixing such Eyelets to Fabric
Strips.
We, HUGO SEILBACH and THOMAS WHITING, both of 27, Monkwell Street, City
of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has for object 1, the construction of aluminium eyelet in a
special manner in order that sufficient metal be left at intervals on one side of
the strip or ribbon for producing by the punching or stamping operation the
necessary height of eyelet proper which has to be passed through the double
thickness of fabric also the stiffener and the loop or loops of the hook and eye
attachments or fasteners and then for the edge of the eyelet to be spread outwardly
and burred down upon the loop or loops of said fasteners for fixing them rigidly
in position.
The invention when employed with the ductile metal aluminium is as follows.
The die roll preferably the upper one has a series of hollows at fixed distances
apart which become filled as the rolling progresses the other part of the metal
being thinned and spread outwardly to the required gauge.
If necessary the die roll may also cut pieces from the strip such as are required
for single or double eyelet pieces and these by a simultaneous stamping or
in the latter of
punching press be held firmly by the "bed" and the "force
which plungers have a motion to force the bulges or excrescenses through or into
shaped holes of the bed to form necks of tapered shape and finally to finish them
by the punch passing through to form eyelets proper, say, two from each cut off
piece the necks by reason of the extra quantity of metal produced by the first
rolling being sufficient in height as before mentioned, to be passed through the
two layers of fabric the enclosed stiffener (which may be of steel, whalebone,
coraline or other suitable material) and the ordinary back loops of hooks and eyes
of made up dress fasteners upon which the eyelets are spread and burred into
close contact.
The shaping, punching and eyelet holing of the punched in part or parts may
be separately effected from the cut off pieces.
The second part of the invention is for means or appliances connected with
the fixing of such made eyelets to the loops of hooks and eyes either in pairs or
any number of such looped hooks and eyes at one time it being essential for
perfection of finish of the fixings that each hook of one strip of material be
directly opposite the eye of the other strip. For this purpose we provide a
plate of metal as a die with a pair of pins projecting from the upper face said
plate being rigidly fitted or clamped to a vice or bed below a press head or
punch with burrer tools as part thereof corresponding to the pins. The made
eyelets in pairs with a base plate are placed over the pins which have a spring
backing in holes of the plate before referred to, the fabric strip is next placed

page_text: over the pins guided by a gauge for locating it and is forced down sufficiently
for the pins to be exposed, the loops of the hooks and of the eyes are then
placed over the pins ready for the action of the press head which in descending
pushes the loops close home the fabric being forced down until the whole is in
close contact when the burring tools will spread the top edges of the eyelets
cutwardly and down upon the loops of the hooks or of the eyes or of both hooks
and eyes to fix them on the fabric strip two of which are necessary for attachment
to the front of a dress or corset in a well known manner.
The pin holding plates may be long strip formation or in pieces to fit in a frame
in which the pin holders can be placed and varied as to distance apart by inter-
vening pieces of the desired thickness according to the number of hooks and
eyes to be fitted on the length of fabric.
In some cases the canvas strip may be in plies folded or not with stiffeners
between through which also the eyelets can be passed and fixed with hooks and
eyes as before explained.
The full length of the fabric can have all the desired hooks and eyes fitted to
the canvas strip at one time.
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Dated this 5th day of September 1899.
Aluminium Eyelets for Use with Hook and Eye Fasteners of Ladies'
Dresses and Bodices, and Means for Fixing such Eyelets to Fabric
Strips.
We, HUGO SEHLBACH and THOMAS WHITING, both of 27, Monkwell Street, City
of London, Manufacturers, 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 has for object the construction of aluminium eyelets in a special
manner in order that sufficient metal be left at intervals on one side of the strip
or ribbon for producing by the punching or stamping operation the necessary
height of eyelet proper which has to be passed through the double thickness of
fabric, also the stiffener and the loop or loops of the hook and eye attachments
or fasteners and then for the edge of the eyelet to be spread outwardly and
burred down upon the loop or loops of said fasteners for fixing them rigidly
in position.
Our invention will be understood from the following description aided by the
accompanying drawings in which Figures 1 and 2 are plan and elevation respec-
tively of a double aluminium eyelet such as we prefer to construct.
Figure 3 is a side section of a portion of plate or block containing the spring
controlled pins.
Figure 4 is a similar view to Figure 3 with the fabric and hook or eye in
position they occupy, the dotted lines representing the exposed portion of the
eyelet as being bent over the hook or eye to retain it in position..
Figure 5 is a plan showing the fabric and hook with the eyelet burred over.
Figure 6 is an elevation partly broken away of a complete plate or block
with the pins projecting.
Figure 7 is a plan of Figure 6.

page_text: Figure S is an elevation (partly broken away), and Figure 9 a section of two
plates or blocks held together by screws or other fasteners for enabling two
strips of fabric to be hooked and eyed at the same time.
Figures 10 and 11 are plans of the plates or blocks when formed of separate
pieces and clamped together to form a whole.
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The invention when employed with the ductile metal aluminium is
follows: The die roll, preferably the upper one, has a series of hollows at fixed
distances apart which become filled as the rolling progresses, the other part of
the metal being thinned and spread outwardly to the required gauge.
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If necessary, the die roll may also cut pieces from the strip, such as are required
for single or double eyelet pieces, and these by a simultaneous stamping or
punching press be held firmly by the "bed and the force," in the latter of
which, plungers have a motion to force the bulges or excrescences through or into
shaped holes of the bed to form necks of tapered shape and finally to finish them
by the punch passing through to form eyelets proper, say, two from each cut
off piece, the necks by reason of the extra quantity of metal produced by the
first rolling being sufficient in height as before mentioned, to be passed through
the two layers of fabric the enclosed stiffener (which may be of steel, whalebone,
coraline, or other suitable material) and the ordinary back loops of hooks and
eyes of made up dress fasteners upon which the eyelets are spread and burred
into close contact.
The shaping, punching and eyelet holing of the punched in part or parts may
be separately effected from the cut off pieces.
The second part of the invention is for means and appliances connected with
the fixing of such made eyelets A to the loops of hooks B and eyes C either in
pairs (Figures 1 and 2) or any number of such looped hooks B and eyes C at one
time, it being essential for perfection of finish of the fixings that each hook B
of one strip of material D be directly opposite the eye C of the other strip.
For this purpose, we provide a plate of metal E as a die with a pair of pins F
projecting from the upper face, said plate E being rigidly fitted or clamped to a
vice or bed below a press head or punch with burrer tools as part thereof corre-
sponding to the pins. The made eyelets in pairs with a base plate A', see
Figures 1 and 2, are placed over the pins F which have spring backings, as at G,
in holes of the plate before referred to, the fabric strip D is next placed over the
pins F guided by a gauge for locating it, and is forced down sufficiently for the
pins F to be exposed, the loops of the hooks B and of the eyes C are then placed
over the pins F ready for the action of the press head, which in descending
pushes the loops of the hooks B and eyes C close home, the fabric being forced
down until the whole is in close contact when the burring tools will spread the
top edges of the eyelets A outwardly and down upon the loops of the hooks B
or of the eyes C, or of both hooks and eyes to fix them on the fabric strip, two of
which are necessary for attachment to the front of a dress or corset in a well
known manner.
The pin holding plates E may be in long strip formation as at Figures 6, 7,
and 8, or in pieces E, as at Figures 10 and 11, to fit in a frame H in which the
pin holders can be placed and varied as to distance apart by intervening
pieces I of the desired thickness according to the number of hooks and eyes to
be fitted on the length of fabric.
In some cases, the canvas strips may be in plies folded or not with stiffeners
between, through which also the eyelets can be passed and fixed with hooks and
eyes as before explained.
The full length of the fabric can have all the desired hooks and eyes fitted to
the canvas strip at one time, and in some cases, as at Figures 8 and 9 we can
eyelet the hooks B and eyes C to two strips of fabric D at one stamping so as to
form a complete dress or bodice fastened ready for use and each opposite hook
and eye exactly in position.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. Manufacturing aluminium eyelets for use with hook and eye fasteners of
ladies dresses and bodices in the manner hereinbefore set forth.
2. The means and appliances for fixing hooks and eyes to fabric strips by
aluminium eyelets by passing the eyelets over projecting pins properly set at
determined distances apart, placing the fabric over and around the eyelets,
applying the hooks and eyes and burring the projecting edge of the eyelets in
close contact with the hooks and eyes, substantially as specified.
2. Constructing appliances for receiving eyelets, fabric strips, and hooks and
eyes for securing such hooks and eyes to the fabric at determined distances apart
from pieces of metal containing two or more spring controlled pins, such pieces
of metal being securely held together by clamping device, substantially as set
forth.
The 5th day of June 1900
R. CORE GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London.
Agent for the said Hugo Sehlbach and Thomas Whiting.