CCAs and Eyes
Year: 1899

page_text: CCAs and Eyes:
I, EDWIN WRIGHT GROESCHEL, of 102-104 Cambridge Avenue, Jersey City, in the
County of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Novelty Manufacturer, 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 hooks and eyes, and the object of the invention is to
provide a device of this nature whose members are so constructed as to be readily
susceptible of engagement and disengagement and which when engaged will be
securely locked together against accidental disengagement.
The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of a connected hook and eye formed of wire and
constructed after the principles of my invention;
Fig. 2 shows in side elevation the invention as illustrated in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3, 4 and 5 are side elevations of the invention, showing various forms of tongue
that may be employed in the hook member; and,
..
Fig. 6 illustrates the hook member of the device as formed from a single piece of
sheet metal.
The device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 may be thus described :-
The hook member consists of a single piece of wire that is bent to form the shank at,
the bill at one end of said shank, and the pair of eyelets c, d at the other end
thereof, these constituting the essential parts of said hook member.
The two
sections e of the wire which together form the shank a are spaced from each other, as
shown in the drawings, and at f they are provided with incurvations that project
toward each other. The bill is purposely made comparatively short and projects from
the plane of the shank and its eyelets at about an angle of 45°. One of the eyelets, c,
is formed at one extreme end of the wire whereas the other, d, is situated, as shown,
some distance from the other end of the wire; this leaves a portion of the latter to
be used as a tongue g which, as illustrated, extends toward the bill from a point in
proximity to the eyelets and at an incline relatively to the plane of the shank, and it
is bent downwardly near its free end, terminating between the members of said
shank. The bend or deflection h in the tongue touches or nearly touches the tip of
the bill band is so gradual that ready passage of the eye into and out of engagement
with this member is possible without the necessity of first pressing down said tongue
with the finger.
The eye member is formed similar to the ordinary eye with this exception, that
its loop is transversely elongated and is so spaced from the eyelets; of said eye as
to leave recesses & between said loop and the eyelets, the latter being closed at all
points by bringing their terminating portions in contact with each other. By this
arrangement it is possible, as will be well apparent to sew the eye down at three
points and thus prevent it from being turned out of position. I have formed the
ncurvations which are further from the eyelets c, d, in the hook member with
exactly the same object in view, and said incurvations are so situated relatively to the
nclined portion of the tongue that the crossing threads whereby the hook is secured
Price 8d7

page_text: at this point are not materially interfered with by said tongue; it will be apparent
that the other incurvations f are merely provided so as to close the eyelets of the
hook at this point.
It will be seen that in Fig. 2 the members of the eye are not all situated in the
same plane, the loop being turned up slightly out of the plane of the shank and 5
eyelets at ; this arrangement facilitates the engagement of the hook and eye because
the loop of the latter is normally retained out of contact with the fabric to which the
eye is attached.
The modifications of the hook shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 exactly resemble that
form of this member of my device already described with the exception that in Fig. 31
the angle formed by bending the tongue at h is obtuse instead of approximately a
right angle, as appears in Fig. 2; that in Fig. 4 the tongue has its free end bent
back parallel to and, by preference, normally coincident with, the plane of the shank,
being otherwise like that form of tongue shown in Fig. 3; and that in Fig. 5 the
tongue which has the type of bend shown in Fig. 2 has its extremity bent back as in
the case of the tongue shown in Fig. 4.
That form of tongue shown in Figs. 3 and 4 obviously facilitates the better.
engagement and disengagement of the hook from the eye and may therefore be
somewhat preferable to the form shown in Fig. 2; the end of the tongue is re-bent in
Figs. 4 and 5 so as not to cut the fabric.
The general features of the hook shown in Fig. 6 are similar to those of the hook
shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the only difference being that in the former case this hember
is stamped out of sheet metal and then bent into the required shape.
It will be noticed that in all of the forms of tongue shown, the bend h therein is
situated in, or approximately in, the plane of the tip of the bill; said bend h is
therefore a means for protection of the bill.
From the foregoing it will be manifest that have provided a very practical hook
and eye the members of which are so forined as to render their accidental disengage-
ment practically impossible. At the same time, owing to the comparitive shortness
of the bill b of the hook, which renders it necessary to pass the loop of the eye hut
a short distance back of the extremity of the hook in connecting the members, and
owing to the peculiar formation of the tongue of said hook and the slight upturn
of the loop of the eye, easy engagement and disengagement of the parts are greatly
facilitated.
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
1-A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and shank, the latter
comprising two spaced members, and a tongue projecting toward said bill from
the eyelet end of the hook and being deflected near its free end downwardly and
terminating between the shank members, the deflection in said tongue being gradual,
and the tip of the bill terminating short of said deflection and in a horizontal plane
therewith, substantially as described.
2-A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and shank, the
latter comprising two spaced members, and a tongue situated between said shank
members and being inclined from the shank upwardly toward, and then deflected
near its free end downwardly from, the bill and terminating between said shank
members, the deflection in said tongue being gradual, and the tip of the bill
terminating short of said deflection and in a horizontal plane therewith, substantially
as described.
3-A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and shank, the latter
comprising two spaced members, and a tongue situated between said shank members
and being inclined from the sbank upwardly toward, and then deflected near its free
end downwardly from, the bill and terminating between the shank members, the
deflection in said tongue being gradual and in, or approximately in, a horizonta
plane and contact with the tip of the bill, and the shank members having oppositely

page_text: disposed and inwardly projecting incurvations opposite the inclined portion of the
tongue substantially as described.
4-A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and shank, the latter
comprising two spaced members, and a tongue situated between said shank members
and being inclined from the shank upwardly toward, and then deflected downwardly
from, the bill and terminating between the shank members, the end portion of the
tongue being re-bent near its extremity in the plane of the shank, the deflection in said
tongue being gradual and in, or approximately in, a horizontal plane and contact
with the tip of the bill and the shank members having oppositely disposed and
inwardly projecting incurvations opposite the inclined portion of the tongue, sub-
stantially as described.
5-An eye for a hook and eye consisting of a loop with which the hook is adapted
to engage and a securing or attaching device for said loop comprising three members,
two of said members consisting of a pair of closed eyelets situated close to said loop
and the other of said members consisting of a short shank integrally connecting said
eyelets and the loop and forming therewith contracted recesses for the reception of
the securing threads, substantially as described.
6: An eye for a hook and eye consisting of a loop with which the hook is adapted
to engage and a securing or attaching device for said loop comprising three members,
two of said members consisting of a pair of closed eyelets situated close to said loop
and the other of said members consisting of a short shank integrally connecting said
eyelets and the loop and forming therewith contracted recesses for the reception of
the securing threads, said loop being deflected out of the plane of its attaching
device, substantially as described.
1000
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.