A Hames Fastener.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Hames Fastener.
I, JAMES LANDRIGAN O'CONNOR Manufacturer of 23 Chambers Street, in the
City of New York County of New York, and State of New York in the United
States of North America do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained by the following statement :-
My invention consists in the combination with a hames fastener body, provided
with a swinging lever, constructed with a pivoted hook and spring latch attached,
said latch being adapted to engage a stop in said body; of a chain adapted to
engage said pivoted hook, and provided with a hook at one end, said body being
provided with a similar hook, at its end opposite said pivoted hook, my invention
also consists in substituting for the said last named hook, a slotted sliding strap
slipping in said body, a latch in said body to engage said slots, and hold said strap
in desired position, and a hook upon the outer end of said strap, all of which will
be more fully hereinafter described.
Figure 1, is a side view of my newly invented hames fastener,
Figure 2, is a sectional view of one form of the body thereof,
Figure 3, is a side view of another example of my hames fastener,
Figure 4, is a view of the slotted strap,
Figure 5, a sectional view of the second example of my hames fastener,
Figure 6, another sectional view of the same,
Figure 7, is a detail view of the latch which holds said slotted strap in hames
fastener body.
a, is the body of the hames fastener,
b is the pivoted hook
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the chain,
d, the hook on the end of the chain,
e, the hook on the end of the body,
f, the swinging lever,
gg' the spring latch of said lever,
, the hook on the end of said sliding strap,
i, the said sliding strap,
k, the latch holding the strap in said body,
m, a hook on said body, more fully hereinafter described, and
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the actuating spring of the latch k.
The body a, may be either cast or struck up, of any convenient or proper metal,
in the form herein illustrated. In this body is hung by a pivot, the swinging
lever f, to this lever, by the pivot b', is attached the pivoted hook b, to this lever f
is also pivoted the spring latch g g', whose catch g', engages the stop a', of the body a.
In the first example of my invention here given as illustrated in Figures 1. and 2
the body a, is provided with a hook e, and the chain c, engages the pivoted hook b.
In the second example of my invention, as illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7,
the body is not provided with a hook but in place thereof has the sliding slotted
strap i, which slips into the body a, as illustrated in Figure 5, and is there held in
proper adjustment by the latch k. This latch is actuated by the spring n, which
may be of any approved, and available form. The hook h on the end of the strap i
replaces the hook e, upon the body a, of the first example of my invention. The
pivoted hook b, engages the chain c, in this second example of my invention just as
it does in the first example. The body a, of this second example is constructed
with the breast stop hook m, as illustrated.

page_text: To use the first example of my invention the hook d, of the chain c, is put into
the lower eye of the hames on the left side. The body having been opened as
illustrated in Figure 2, is hooked with its hook into the lower eye of the hames on
the right hand side. The pivoted hook b, is then put into the link of the chain c,
which will bring said chain the nearest taught. The lever f, is then swung round
into the position illustrated in Figure 1, and pressed home, untill the catch g¹,
engages the stop a¹. It will then be found that the hames are drawn down snugly
upon the collar, and are held firmly in their places. To release the fastener, the
operator presses the part 9, of the spring latch with his thumb, until the latch g',
comes out of engagement with the stop a'. The lever f, may then be swung out
into the position illustrated in Figure 2, and the chain c, and the hames released.
In this first example of my invention the body a, is always hooked into the bames
on the right hand side, and is always against that side of the collar. But in the
second example of my invention the body may he made to stand in the middle,
between the two hames. This is accomplished by adjusting the strap i, by means
of the latch k, and the chain c, so as to bring the body into the middle, when closed
upon the hames.
The hook m, may then be used for the breast straps, and
martingales &c., in the usual way, otherwise the second example of my invention, is
operated in the same way as the first example.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is performed, I do hereby declare that what I
claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,
1. In a hames fastener, the combination with a body formed with a hook, and a
stop as specified, a swinging lever pivoted in said body, a hook and spring latch
pivoted on said lever, said latch adapted and arranged to engage said stop, of a
chain having links adapted to engage the said pivoted hook, substantially as
described and illustrated.
2. In a hames fastener, the combination with a body, a swinging lever pivoted in
said body, a book and a spring latch, pivoted to said lever, and the catch of said
latch adapted to engage a stop in said body, a slotted strap provided with a hook
at one end, sliding in said body, a spring latch to hold said strap in proper adjust-
ment in said body and a hook upon the middle of said body, adapted to hold breast
straps as specified, of a chain having a hook at one end, and having links engaging
said pivoted hook, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 7th day of October 1893
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.