Improvements in Metallic Fastenings for Attaching Hooks or other articles to Curtains, Wearing Apparel, or other articles
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Fastenings for Attaching Hooks or other
articles to Curtains, Wearing Apparel, or other articles.
I ADOLPH RIEKMANN of 59 Knightrider Street in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in the shape and construction
of the parts of fastenings of metal employed for effecting the attaching of hooks
buttons or other like articles used to cooperate with button-holes or otherwise in
connecting together curtains and their means of support, parts of boots, shoes or
other articles of wearing apparel or other goods.
The improved metallic hook, button or like connector or fastener is shaped
with a loop or curved shoulder around which part the shank of the button or
connected part eventually rests or is secured to, and this shoulder is substantially
round and solid, by preference, with widened wings or horns at either or both
sides and these horns are in a suitable tool or machine bended down oppositely
disposed so as to grasp and permanently embrace a part of the fabric of the
goods-say a flap of a boot upper-or other article.
Dated the 22nd low of Natobou 1801
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Fastenings for Attaching Hooks or other
articles to Curtains, Wearing Apparel, or other articles.
I ADOLPH RIEKMANN of 59 Knightrider Street in the City of London,
Merchant, 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 reference to improvements in the shape and construction of
the parts of fastenings of metal employed for effecting the attaching of hooks,
buttons or other like articles to be used to cooperate with button-holes, or other-
wise, in connecting together curtains and their means of support, parts of boots,
shoes or other articles of wearing apparel or other goods.
The improved metallic hook, button or like connector or fastener is shaped with
a loop or curved shoulder around which part the shank of the button or connected
part eventually rests, or is secured to, and this shoulder is substantially round and
Solid having legs with widened wings or splayed fan shaped inclined ends, on both
legs as shewn.
Figure 1 shows a side view, and Fig. 2 an edge view of one of the fastenings a
separately and Fig. 2ª an enlargement of the splayed portion thereof. Fig. 3
shows a fastening a passed through the shank of a button b and closed on a double
piece of fabric c. a, a' are the splayed out or widened parts of these legs and
designed to engage the stops e².
These legs are in a suitable tool or machine, bended down oppositely disposed so
as to grasp and permanently embrace a part of the fabric of the goods-say a flap
of a boot upper or other article.
This form of fastener is especially designed to be applied by the aid of a button
attaching implement, such as is described in the Specification of Letters Patent

page_text: No. 2506 dated February 24th 1885, but the form of the holding and feeding jaw
is modified by the adoption of a duplicate detaining spring stop e², e².
Figs. 4 to 8 show in front elevation etcetera, parts of such an implement so
modified to fit it for applying my improved fastener.
Fig. 4 shows a front view of the tool e with the outer edges e' of this carrier tool
removed to show how the tool stops e² are arranged to catch and hold the ends of
the fastener a after they have slidden down the grooves a³, a³. The central
groove a serves to provide a guide way for the button shank b. Fig. 5 is a similar
part side section with fastener and button in situ. Fig. 6 is a front view and Fig. 7
an underside view of same. Fig. 8 is a cross section on line 1-1 Fig. 4. The
manner of using this tool being substantially identical with that described in the
aforementioned Specification it is not necessary further to refer thereto herein
except to point out that the function of the two stops e², e2 is to engage the widened
parts or wings a¹ of the fastener and detain it in the guide until the presser comes
down to press and lock it into the material.
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:
The hereinbefore described construction of metallic fastening for attaching a
hook or other article to a curtain, a boot or shoe or other article of wearing
apparel or other article or articles, having inclined flattened and widened or
splayed ends as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
Dated the 25th day of May 1892.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.