IMPROVED HOOK ATTACHMENTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND OTHER USES.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
***IMPROVED HOOK ATTACHMENTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND OTHER USES.”.
- A communication from abroad by Jean Baptiste Charles Grut,
of Paris, France.
Scaled the 4th September 1874, and dated the 10th March 1874.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th March 1874.
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I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVED HOOK ATTACHMENTS FOR WEARING APPAREL
AND OTHER USES," to be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to an improved hook or fastening, more
especially for attaching the weather guards of civil or military head'
dresses, but also suited for use in all kinds of coach furniture, leather
work, wearing apparel, and other purposes, as a substitute for books and
eyes attached by sewing.

page_text: These improved fastenings are stamped or cut out of sheet metal in
various forms, of which some examples are given in the accompanying
Drawings.
Figure 1 shows in front and edge view a flat metal blank to form a
single hook and eye attachment; Figures 2 and 3 show the same as 5
made into a hook and ready to be applied to the weather guard or other
article.
Figure 4 shows in front and edge view the metal blank for another
form of hook shown in Figures 5 and 6, the hook being provided with a
guard; Figure 7 shows the same hook with eye attached.
Figures 8, 9, and 10 show views of another form of eye for the
attachment; and Figure 11 shows the hook and eye connected.
Figures 12, 13, and 14 show views of another form of eye for the
attachment; and Figure 15 shows the hook and eye connected.
The same reference letters apply in all the Figures.
a, plate forming the shank or body of the hook; b, b, four prongs
projecting from either side of the same, which are first bent back as
shown in Figures 2 and 3, in order that they may be passed through
holes,made in the article to which the fastening is to be applied, the
fastening being securely fixed by
prongs at the back of the article.
are made longer than those on the
or clinched as above mentioned, the
of the short ones so as to present the appearance of two prongs only on
the same side of the shank.
doubling down and clinching the
The two prongs on the one side
other, so that when folded down
long prongs shall overlap the ends
In Figure 1 the upper pair of prongs 6 are at the extreme end of the
shank a, the lower end of which is bent up to form a hook as shown in
Figures 2 and 3.
In Figure 4 the two pairs of prongs 6 are placed in an intermediate
position on shank a, the two ends of which are bent up to form a hook
with spring guard, as seen in Figures 5 and 6, suitable for attachment to.
an eye c, similarly fixed by prongs of the form shown in Figure 7 or of
other form.
In Figures 8, 9, and 10 the upper end of the shank a has a hole d
punched in it, through which is passed a hook e, similarly secured a
by prongs to form the fastening shown in Figure 11.
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page_text: In Figures 12, 13, and 14 the upper end is bent in the form of a loop
and embraces a ring f, forming the eye to which the hook e is attached,
as shown in Figure 15.
Figures 16 and 17 show the application of these improved fastenings
to weather guards for military head dresses.
Figures 18, 19, and 20 show the same form of attachment as applied
to different patterns of caps, the weather guard in Figure 19 being also
.
Figures 16 and 17 show the application of these improved fastenings
to weather guards for military head dresses.
Figures 18, 19, and 20 show the same form of attachment as applied
to different patterns of caps, the weather guard in Figure 19 being also
fastened in front in a similar manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,.
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special
licence that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander
Melville Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times.
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVED HOOK ATTACHMENTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND OTHER USES," a
communicaton to me from abroad by Jean Baptiste Charles Grut, of
Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Alexander Melville Clark, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to. be performed, and cause the.

page_text: 'same to be filed in the Great Seal. Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to an improved hook or fastening applicable
more especially for attaching the weather guards to civil and military
head dresses, but also suited for use in all kinds of coach furniture,
leather work, wearing apparel, and for other purposes as a substitute for
hooks and eyes attached by sewing.
These improved fastenings are very cheaply made by stamping or
cutting out of sheet metal in various forms and dimensions to suit the
purpose to which they are to be applied. For example, they may be
made to form a simple hook attachment, or be provided with a guard or
otherwise, but they are in all cases made with four or a greater number
of prongs, whereby the fastener is attached to the article in liew of by
sewing.
The blank is formed of a shank with arms projecting on either side,
which are bent up at a right angle in order that they may be passed
through holes previously made in the leather or other material to which
the fastener is to be applied. The upper or lower, or it may be both
ends of the shank, are also bent up to form either a simple hook or hook
with guard,, or other kind of attachment.
. These fastenings as applied to weather guards for all kinds, for civil
or military caps, present the advantage of great strength combined with
increased facility in attaching or detaching the said guards.
This Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, Figure 1.
of which shows in front and edge views a flat metal blank to form a
simple hook and eye attachment; Figures 2 and 3 show the same made
into a hook.
Figure 4 shows in front and edge view a metal blank for another form
of hook; Figures 5 and 6, the hook being provided with a spring guard;
Figure 7 shows the same hook with
eye attached.

page_text: Figures 18, 19, and 20 show the same fastening applied to different
pattern of caps for attaching the weather guards, which in Figure 19 is
also fastened in front by similar means....
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to
be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, tho
improved fastening herein-before described, each part formed of a
single piece of metal with prongs by which to attach it to any article,
the shank being bent up or otherwise formed into a hook or eye as
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof;. I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, "have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
)
Witness,
HY. SWALES,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.) 1
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