Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Wearing Apparel, and for similar purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Wearing Apparel,
and for similar purposes.
I, JOHN WOOD JONES, of 71 Cathedral Square, Christchurch, in the
Provincial District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Bank Official,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to what are known as "hooks and eyes" which are
used for a variety of purposes, principally for fastening articles of wearing
apparel.
Hitherto hooks and eyes have usually been made so that they require to be sewn
to the article upon which they are employed.
My invention consists in forming each of them respectively integral with a safety
pin, whereby they are more readily connected to the clothing and better adapted
for several purposes such as attaching the ends of a necktie or scarf to a shirt
front or blouse, holding cuffs in a desired position within the sleeves of a coat, and
for connecting a skirt to the body of a dress.
The eye is formed by a loop of the wire of the safety pin so that a passage
or opening is provided into the eye to permit the shank of a stud to pass
into it.
Dated this 6th day of December 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Wearing Apparel,
and for similar purposes.
1. JOHN WOOD JONES, of 71, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, in the
Provincial District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Bank Official,
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 what are known as hooks and eyes which are usually
employed for fastening articles of wearing apparel.
Hitherto such fastenings have been made so that they require to be sewn to the
article upon which they are employed.
This method of attachment has been found inconvenient as considerable time is
wasted in removing and replacing the hooks and eyes when the garment is
washed.
Now according to my invention I form a hook and an eye respectively integral
with a safety pin whereby they may be readily attached to or removed from a
garment when desired.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
In Fig. 1 the hook (a) is made integral with the back of the safety pin (b) and
the eye (c) is made integral with the back of the safety pin (d).

page_text: The eye is formed by a loop of the wire leaving an opening or passage (e)
sufficiently wide to admit the hook (a) when turned upon its side; the hook being
thereby more readily inserted in the eye under certain conditions which may occur
in practice.
Fig. 2 shows a fastening formed by making two hooks and two eyes respectively
integral with the backs of safety pins.
Fig. 3 shows an eye (f) formed upon the pin of a safety pin, and a book (h) bent
in a different manner to the preceding figures.
Fig. 4 illustrates an eye (1) formed by a single loop of the back of a safety pin
and a hook (m) made at the end of and integral with a safety pin.
The last mode is adopted when it is desired that the fastening shall be hidden
and that there shall be as little play as possible between the ends of the article
fastened together, for instance the front of a blouse or the ends of a waistband.
In attaching the "eye" (f) of the fastening illustrated in Fig. 3 the pin is
passed through a portion of the material of the garment and pushed through up to
the eye.
A second portion of the material is then passed on to the pin and the
first portion slipped over the eye which will be thus held on both sides.
The mode of attaching the other forms of my invention will be readily under-
stood without description.
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 1
claim is:
1. A fastening consisting of the combination of a hook and an eye respectively
with safety pins substantially as and for the purposes herein described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
2. One or more hooks formed integral with the back of a safety pin as and for
the purposes herein described and shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
3. One or more eyes made integral with the back of a safety pin the eye or eyes
being made with an opening or passage (e) as and for the purposes herein described
and shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
4. An eye formed integral with the pin of a safety pin substantially as and for
the purposes herein described and illustrated in Fig. 3 of the accompanying
drawings.
5. An eye (1) formed by a bend or loop of the back of a safety pin as and
for the purposes herein described and illustrated in Fig. 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
6. A hook (m) formed at the end of a safety pin substantially as and for the
purposes herein described and illustrated. in Fig. 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 7th day of November 1895.
JOHN WOOD JONES.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.