Improvements in Hooks used in Dressmaking and All Kinds of Garments.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1890-Accepted, 6th Sept., 1890
Improvements in Hooks used in Dressmaking and All Kinds of
Garments.
I, EMILY LOUDONSACK 4, Cambridge Gardens, Kilburn, Middlesex Dressmaker
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:
The shank of the ordinary dresshook in its present shape is a straight bar and when
sewn on to the material is always liable to slip through the stitches to the edge of the
dress and expose the fastenings in an unsightly manner.
To remedy this defect I claim by my improved form of hook to prevent all
movement whatever when it is sewn to the material.
Instead of the shank being straight as in the ordinary hook Fig. 1. the wire is
curved inwardly on either side to form the loops B & C Fig. 2 causing the hook to
assume a triangular shape which is the essence of my invention, for when attached by
sewing to the material at A B & C. Fig. 3. it is immovably fixed and cannot slip
through the stitches at A by reason of the resistance caused by the triangular shape
of the shank whereas in the ordinary straight shanked hook there is no such resistance
to pressure therefore allowing the shank to slip through the stitches.
Fig. 1. represents an ordinary hook.
Fig. 2. represents the invention claimed the improvement consisting in increasing
the width of the shank gradually from the apex A to the base B. C. forming a
iriangular shaped shank as opposed to the parallel shank of the ordinary hook.
Fig. 3. represents my improved hook sewn in position on the material shewing the
principle whereby the immovability of the hook is obtained when attached securely
at A. B. C.
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
claim is :-
The construction of a dress hook, the shank of which consisting of two sides
broadens from the apex downwards to the loops which may be turned either inwards
or outwards (but inwards for preference) thereby forming a triangle shaped shank.
The principle being that when the cotton is sewn round the shank at the narrow end
and the hook secured at the loops the angular shape of the shank prevents all
possibility of its slipping through the, stitches at the narrow end.
Dated this 28th day of July 1890.
EMILY LOUDONSACK.

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1890-Accepted, 6th Sept., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks used in Dressmaking and All Kinds of
Garments.
I, EMILY LOUDONSACK 4, Cambridge Gardens, Kilburn, Middlesex Dressmaker
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:
The shank of the ordinary dresshook in its present shape is a straight bar and when
sewn on to the material is always liable to slip through the stitches to the edge of the
dress and expose the fastenings in an unsightly manner.
To remedy this defect I claim by my improved form of hook to prevent all
movement whatever when it is sewn to the material.
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Instead of the shank being straight as in the ordinary hook Fig. 1. the wire is
curved inwardly on either side to form the loops B & C Fig. 2 causing the hook to
assume a triangular shape which is the essence of my invention, for when attached by
sewing to the material at A B & C. Fig. 3. it is immovably fixed and cannot slip
through the stitches at A by reason of the resistance caused by the triangular shape
of the shank whereas in the ordinary straight shanked hook there is no such resistance
to pressure therefore allowing the shank to slip through the stitches.
Fig. 1. represents an ordinary hook.
Fig. 2. represents the invention claimed the improvement consisting in increasing
the width of the shank gradually from the apex A to the base B. C. forming a
triangular shaped shank as opposed to the parallel shank of the ordinary hook.
Fig. 3. represents my improved hook sewn in position on the material shewing the
principle whereby the immovability of the hook is obtained when attached securely
at A. B. C.
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 :-
The construction of a dress hook, the shank of which consisting of two sides
broadens from the apex downwards to the loops which may be turned either inwards
or outwards (but inwards for preference) thereby forming a triangle shaped sbank.
The principle being that when the cotton is sewn round the shank at the narrow end
and the hook secured at the loops the angular shape of the shank prevents all
possibility of its slipping through the stitches at the narrow end.
Dated this 28th day of July 1890.
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EMILY LOUDONSACK.