An Improved Attachment to Crochet Hooks and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1895-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Attachment to Crochet Hooks and the like.
I, HANS GRÜNDLER, of Totton, near Southampton, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows :-
The object of my invention is to fit crochet hooks and the like with an elastic
appliance for enabling the fingers to hold and retain the same in position, while
working, with greater ease and less fatigue than heretofore.
My invention consists in applying to the crochet hook, where the fingers hold
the same, a piece of rubber tube, which clings to the upper part of the hook, and
retains its position thereupon, thus forming a convenient rest for the fingers.
The external form of the appliance may be cylindrical, tapered, hexagonal,
polygonal, corrugated, or otherwise, and with or without circular flanges, collars,
grooves, or analogous surfaces.
Dated 19th October 1901
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
An Improved Attachment to Crochet Hooks and the like.
I HANS GRÜNDLER of Totton near Southampton Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of my invention is to fit crochet hooks and the like, such for
example, as knitting pins, with an elastic appliance or grip for enabling the fingers
to hold and retain the same in position while working with greater ease and with
less fatigue than when using crochet hooks and knitting pins of the ordinary kind.
My invention consists in applying to the ordinary crochet hook or like article
where the fingers hold the same, a piece of india rubber tube which grips the upper
part of the hook and retains its position thereupon, thus forming a rest and grip
for the fingers.
The external form of the appliance or grip may be cylindrical, tapered,
hexagonal, polygonal corrugated or otherwise and with or without circular flanges,
collars or grooves.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing represent a crochet hook to
which an elastic tubular grip for the fingers in holding the said hook is applied,
the elastic tubular grip being represented in elevation in Figure 1 and section in
Figure 2;
Figure 3 represents in elevation the elastic tubular grip detached from the
crochet hook.
The said tubular elastic grip applied to the crochet needle is marked a and is
made preferably of vulcanised india rubber. The hole in the said elastic grip is
cylindrical and is of a diameter a little less than that part of the cylindrical body
Price 8d.1

page_text: of the crochet hook to which it is to be applied so that by forcing the said grip
upon the crochet hook from the tapering end, it is slightly expanded and by its
elasticity binds itself firmly upon the cylindrical body of the hook at the place
where it is to be gripped by the fingers. I prefer to give a bulbous figure to the
exterior of the elastic grip as represented but I do not limit myself to that external
form as it may be cylindrical or tapered externally or have a polygonal figure in
cross section; and to increase the hold of the fingers on the grip, it may be
corrugated, or roughened or be provided with circular collars or flanges or with
grooves.
The elastic grip described and represented by improving or increasing the hold
of the fingers on the hook prevents the slipping of the said hook and enables the
said hook to be held while working with greater ease and with less fatigue to
the fingers than when the smooth surface of the hook is gripped directly by
the fingers.
Although I prefer to make the tubular grip of vulcanised india rubber yet it
may be made of other light and slightly yielding material such as cork or leather.<
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention―
The improved attachment to crochet hooks and the like herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the said attachment consisting of an
elastic or yielding tubular grip for enabling the fingers to readily hold and retain
the crochet hook or like article while working, the said attachment or grip being
constructed and applied to the crochet hook or like article substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated this Fourth day of July 1895.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.