Improvements in Hooks for Fastening Dresses and other purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 19th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks for Fastening Dresses and other purposes.
1, FREDERICK ADOLPHUS BELLAMY of Mona Lodge, Streatham, in the
County of Surrey, Dental Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
Hooks for fastening dresses and other purposes are commonly made each out of
a single piece of wire bent so that the middle of the wire forms the point of
the hook and its two ends the holes through which the thread sewing it on is
passed.
In such hooks therefore the two portions namely the point and the part next the
fabric are each composed of two parallel or nearly parallel branches of the wire
and in order to prevent the hook from coming unfastened too easily it has been
proposed to bend one or both wires of each portion so that at one point the two
portions nearly touch each other and the hook can only be passed over the wire
forming the eye by slightly opening out the hook which closes again by its
elasticity.
According to the present invention the same object is attained in a superior
manner by bending the two branches of wire forming the point portion of the hook
away from each other so that the middle of this portion is wider than the remainder
and can only pass through the eye when the two branches of wire forming it are
pressed towards each other. In this manner a very much better spring is obtained
than in the first mentioned arrangement.
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FRED. A. BELLAMY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks for Fastening Dresses and other purposes.
I, FREDERICK ADOLPHUS BELLAMY, of Mona Lodge, Streatham, in the
County of Surrey, Dental Surgeon, 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 :-
Hooks for fastening dresses and other purposes are commonly made each out of
a single piece of wire bent so that the middle of the wire forms the point of
the hook and its two ends the holes through which the thread sewing it on is
passed.
In such hooks therefore the two portions namely the point and the part next the
fabric are each composed of two parallel or nearly parallel branches of the wire
and in order to prevent the hook from coming unfastened too easily it has been
proposed to bend one or both wires of each portion so that at one point the two
portions nearly touch each other and the hook can only be passed over the wire
forming the eye by slightly opening out the hook which closes again by its
elasticity.
According to the present invention the same object is attained in a superior
manner by bending the two branches of wire forming the point portion of the hook
away from each other so that the middle of this portion is wider than the remainder
and can only pass through the eye when the two branches of wire forming it are
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page_text: pressed towards each other. In this manner a very much better spring is obtained
than in the first mentioned arrangement.
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 a side view of the hook and eye.
The hook is formed as shown of a single piece of wire whose ends are bent
round to form loops a¹ a¹ for attaching it. The branches a² a³ proceeding from the
loops diverge slightly the one from the other so that their extremities as a³ do not
touch. The upper branches a* a* of the wire which meet to form the point a³ are
bent outwards at about their middles their extreme width between the points aⓇ a®
being somewhat greater than the inside width b₁₁ of the eye b so that the hook
can only be passed in or out of the eye by the points a³ a³ closing upon each
other.
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 :-
1. A hook whose point portion is normally wider than the eye but which can be
compressed to pass through the eye substantially as described.
2. Hooks substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated thin 10th dove of Anvil 1904
FRED. A. BELLAMY.