Improvements in Fastenings for Garments, Gloves, Boots, Shoes, and the like
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1891-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Garments, Gloves, Boots, Shoes,
and the like.
I, JULES PÉAN, of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to fastenings for garments, gloves, boots, shoes, and the like,
whereby the use of buttons is dispensed with and a more convenient fastening is
provided than those at present in use and it comprises a perforated eye portion with
a spring steel plate in combination with a hook portion, the hook of which acts
eccentrically upon the spring when fastening and unfastening, the said spring con-
stituting a stop which keeps the parts fastened either by entering a notch or recess
in the hook or by bearing flatwise beneath the said hook.
Dated the 3rd day of June 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Garments, Gloves, Boots, Shoes,
and the like.
1, JULES PEAN, of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, in the Republic of
France, 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 :-
My invention relates to fastenings for garments, gloves, boots, shoes and the like
whereby the use of buttons is dispensed with and a more convenient fastening is
provided than those at present in use, and it comprises a perforated eye portion
with a spring steel plate in combination with a hook portion, the hook of which
acts eccentrically upon the spring when fastening and unfastening, the said spring
constituting a stop which keeps the parts fastened either by entering a notch or
recess in the hook or by bearing flatwise beneath the said hook.
My fastener admits of various modifications which I will describe by reference to
the accompanying drawing.
Figures 1 to 7 represent one arrangement of fastening suitable for ladies'
garments; the eye portion is shewn in elevation at Figure 1 which exhibits the
inner side,
Figure 2 is an edge view of the same and
Figure 3 is a section on the line m, n of Figure 1.
This portion consists of a metal frame a with a large elliptical opening & therein
and two eyes c, c.
A strip of steel-d forming a spring is fixed. to-the frame by
eyelets rivetted therein at c. The said cyclets serve to attach this portion of the
fastener by sewing. The other or hooked portion of the fastener is shown in
elevation at Figure 4 and in edge view at Figure 5.
Figure 6 represents a section of the same on the line
P. 1 of Figure 4.
This hooked portion is also made of metal and is provided with holes e, e
and to allow of it being sewn to the garment. It is made with a hook g which
has a projection or nose h, adjoining which is a small recess or depression i.
To close the fastening the tip of the hooky is introduced into the eye between
the end of the spring d and the ring in the position shewn by the dotted lines in

page_text: Figure 7 and the hook is turned. In this turning movement the nose acts upon
and passes the spring which then, lodges behind the nose in the recess i. The
fastening will be then secure as shewn by the full lines. The fastener is disengaged
by reversing the hereinbefore described movements.
Figures 8 to 15 represent a second arrangement of the fastener also suitable
for ladies' garments. The eye portion is shewn in elevation, edge view, and section
at Figures 8, 9 and 10 respectively and the other portion (shown in similar views
at Figures 11, 12 and 13) has the hook k formed with a recess serving to receive
the point of the spring d.
To secure this fastener the hook is introduced obliquely in the position shewn in
dotted lines in the section, Figure 14, between the spring d and the metal frame a
and is then pulled. When the hook is in place it is in the position shewn in full
lines. Parallel displacement of the eye and hook is prevented by the spring
which enters the recess in the hook. To undo the fastening the hook is moved into
the position shown in the section Figure 15; the hook slightly raises the spring and
passes out from below.
Figures 16 to 23 show another modification suitable for mens' garments, gloves,
boots and shoes.
Figures 16, 17 and 18 are an elevation and two edge views shewing the eye
part attached to the edge of a garment. It comprises two steel plates 1,
connected by rivetted eyelets m, m; one of these plates is provided at n with
an eye having an eyelet. The hook shown in elevation and two edge views at
Figures 19, 20 and 21 attached to the inner edge of a garment has rivetted
eyelets o, o and a turned over edge p The hooking is effected by means of the
tooth q. To secure this fastener the tooth 7 is introduced into the eye n as shewn
in the section, Figure 22, and it is then turned and slid between the two strips 1, 1,
when it assumes the position shewn in the section Figure 23 and the fastening is
completed. To unfasten, a slight pressure is exerted with the finger upon the
part in the direction of the arrow a
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
(1.) A fastener for garments, gloves, boots, shoes, and the like comprising a
perforated eye portion with a spring steel plate in combination with a hook portion
the hook of which acts excentrically upon the spring when fastening and unfastening,
the said spring constituting a stop which keeps the parts fastened either by entering
a notch or recess in the hook or by bearing flatwise beneath the said hook, substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the various figures of the accom-
panying drawing.
(2) The improved fastenings for garments, gloves, boots, shoes and the like
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 3rd day of March 1891.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.