Improvements in the Construction of the Handles of Button, Crochet, and similar Hooks, Screw Drivers, and other Tools and Implements as a Medium for Advertising.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of the Handles of Button,
Crochet, and similar Hooks, Screw Drivers, and other Tools and
Implements as a Medium for Advertising.
We, FREDERICK EDMUND ALDERTON of 16 Union Street, Bath, in the County
of Somerset, and SYDNEY WALTER STRANGE of 9 North Street, Bristol, in the
County of Gloucester, both Boot and Shoe Establishment Managers, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the construction or formation of the
handles of button, crochet and similar hooks, screw drivers, rimers and every
description of other tools and implements the handles of which are usually made
broader in one direction than in the other, in cross section, or in other words, such
handles as have two more or less flat sides, such formation (in the case of screw
drivers and the like) being to provide a greater leverage in rotating the tool, and
in such hooks as described, in order that the position of the hook may be known to,
and maintained by the user. The object of our invention is to so construct such
articles of use, that the handles thereof may be utilized for receiving and holding
advertisements, which may be that of the owner, user, retailer or manufacturer, or
otherwise as desired.
In order that our method of constructing said handles and utilizing the same for
the purposes stated, may be clearly understood, we have appended hereunto a sheet
of drawings in which,
Figs. 1 and 2 are two forms of button hooks or fasteners, Fig. 3 a crochet hook,
and Fig. 4 part of a screw driver, the handles of which are constructed in the
manner forming the subject of our invention.
Fig. 5 is a view which may be taken to fairly represent a cross section of either
of the handles of the four previous figures.
It has hitherto been customary to construct button, crochet and similar hooks of
bent wire so arranged that, the handle partook more or less of the form of a ring,
which gave thereto a flatness to facilitate the manipulation of the instrument, and
the salient feature of our invention is the utilization of the space inside said ring
for the purpose of advertisements. In a like manner, we purpose forming the
handles of certain tools and implements, of stout wire so arranged that the internal
space may be imployed for the same purpose.
In carrying our invention into effect in so far as concerns the button hook Fig. 1,
we form this from stout steel or other wire, and arrange the handle in the form of a
ring in the usual way, and upon this we mount a tin, brass, iron, steel or other
plate A, which we firmly attach thereto by turning the edges of said plate over
and around the said ring, in the manner shewn by Fig. 5, so that the interior of
said ring is filled up by the plate, upon which we paint, print, indent, emboss,
engrave or otherwise provide, any advertisement desired. The attaching of said
plate to the ring may be by the means of dies and levers, presses, or hand tools,
which may be arranged to stamp or otherwise imprint the desired advertisement
upon the plate, by the same operation, or the plate may be so imprinted previous to
being so attached if desired, and if necessary solder may be used to perfect the
attachment of the plate to the ring.
In Fig. 2 we show a different form of button fastener, the operating end of which B
is in the form of a loop instead of a hook, and so arranged that one part thereof is
widened to permit the same to be passed over the head of the button, while the end
is lessened in width to grasp the shank. The same wire continuing from the loop

page_text: forms a ring handle similar to Fig. 1, upon which we mount a plate A in like
manner to that of Fig. 1. In this form of button fastener we are enabled to use a
smaller guage wire than that necessary in the first method of construction, by
prolonging the length of the plate A, so that this extends from the handle nearly
to the loop B as shewn.
In the case of crochet hooks we form the handle of one continuous stout wire, and
to the narrow end we attach, or form therewith, a boss or socket C, for the recep-
tion of hooks D, of various sizes, and these may have a thread formed upon their
ends so as to screw into C, or their ends may be square in cross section and tapered
so as to fit into a like shaped bole in C.
For the handles of screw drivers, rimers and similar tools that usually have flat
handles, we employ a much stouter wire than that needed for Figs. 1, 2 or 3, and if
desired a much stouter plate A. A boss and socket E is soldered or otherwise
attached to the smallest end of said handle, for the reception of the screw driver,
rimer or other tool F, which may be retained therein by means of a milled headed
screw G, or any suitable equivalent therefor.
Although we have described and illustrated the application of our invention in
the construction of the handles of button hooks and fasteners, crochet hooks, and
the like, and the handles of screw drivers and other tools, we wish it understood
that we may in like manner employ the same in the construction of any tool, or
implement to which it may be suited, such for instance as the handles of knives and
forks as used by restaurant proprietors and others, in order that they may have
their own advertisements indeliably imprinted thereon as an incentive to business
and a protection against theft.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
In combination, the employment of the herein described method of constructing
the handles of button hooks, button fasteners, crochet hooks and the like, screw
drivers, rimers and other tools, knives, forks and other implements, for the purpose
of printing, writing, engraving, embossing, indenting or otherwise providing suitable
advertisements thereon, substantially as herein set forth and shown by the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of October 1892.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.