Improvements in Garment Hooks.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1896-Accepted, 6th June, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Garment Hooks.
I CHARLES COOK BLOSSOM, Gentleman residing at 54 Remsen Street,
Brooklyn, in the County of Kings and State of New York U.S.A. 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 relates to improvements in garment hooks of the class adapted
for use in connection with eyes, loops, rings or other auxiliary fastening devices;
the object of the invention being to provide an article of this character which
will be so constructed ns to prevent its accidental disengagement from any eye,
loop, ring or other fastening with which it is adapted to engage for the purpose of
attaching or connecting two portions of a garment or other article. A further
object is to provide a hook with efficient means for attachment to an article,
whereby the threads adapted for such attachment will not be subjected to the
danger of becoming displaced or broken.
The invention will be hereinafter fully described and specifically set forth in
the annexed claims.
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In the accompanying drawings-forming part of this Specification:
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of my improved 'hook.
Fig. 2, a front elevation.
Fig. 3, a side elevation, and
Fig. 4, a side elevation illustrating the operation of the movable part thereof..
In constructing the article in its preferred form, a single piece of resilient wire
is employed which is provided primarily with an inwardly, bent loop 1; extending
from this said loop is a bar 2, which is bent into semi-circular form at its lower
or outer end and carried back upon a parallel line with the bar 1, to any suitable
distance depending upon the length of hook it is desired to form and then curved
and carried back again to a point opposite the aforementioned bend, whereby two
side bars 3 and 4 forming a hook A are produced. Having formed the hook A,
its upper or end portion 5 is bent or curved outwardly, the wire is then extended
parallel to the bars 2, 3, and 4 whereby the bar 6 which forms part of the shank B
is produced. Having formed the bars 2, 3, 4 and 6 the inwardly bent loop 7 and
the central bar 8 are formed, by first bending and then carrying the stock in a
direction parallel to the aforementioned bars and between said bars to a point
coincident with the semi-circular bent portions thereof, when it is formed into a
bow 9 which projects in the direction of the shank B, and has its free end extended
between the bars 3 and 4 of the hook A, upon a line meeting the curved portion 5
thereof.
In the use of my device it will be stitched to a garment or other article by
means of threads, which threads will extend radially over the outer portions of
the loops 1 and 7, and I desire to especially point out that owing to the inward
bend of these said loops that there will be uo space through which a thread can
accidentally work out after the hook is fastened. It will be further noted that
the three bars forming the shank B are constantly maintained in rigid engagement
with each other, and said shank may be further secured to a garment or other
article by looping threads over any portion of the surface thereof without danger
of said threads being broken by the resilient action of the bow 9, which action is
never communicated to the central bar 8 of the shank B although said bow forms

page_text: an integral part thereof. In the operation of the device, it will be seen that
when any suitable eye or other device 10 which is formed of material greater in
diameter than the distance between the bend of the bow 9 and the shank B is
forced between the said how and shank, that the bow will be pressed outwardly
as illustrated in. Fig. 4 of the drawings, and owing to the curve of the upper end
of the hook A, the free end of the bow 9 will not be forced to a distance beyond
the outer end of said hook, whereby there will be no injurious contact with any
portion of the material forming part of the article to be fastened; the said curved
portion also helps to guide the eye or other fastener 10 by supplying a flaring
space between the outer end of the hook A and shank B.
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 :-
1. A hook comprising a shank composed of three immovable parallel bars and
a hook proper comprising two parallel bars, the central bar of the shank being
extended into a rearwardly directed bow which is located between the side bars
of the hook proper, and the two side bars of the shank having inwardly bent
loops formed thereon, all of the said parts being formed integrally with each other,
substantially as shown and described.
2. In a fastening hook the combination of a shank composed of three parallel
bars, the two outer ones of which are extended into inwardly bent loops and the
inner one of which is extended into a rearwardly directed bow, and a hook which
is bent outwardly at its free end and comprises two parallel bars between which
bars the said bow is located, substantially as shown and described.
3. The combination of the three barred shauk B having inwardly bent loops
thereon and the bent hook A and the bow 9, substantially as shown and de-cribed.
4. The combination of a shank comprising three parallel bars and two loops,
the inner one of which bars is extended into a rearwardly directed bow, and a
hook which comprises two parallel bars between which bars the said bow is located,
substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 1st day of May 1896.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.