An Improved Hook and Eye Fastening for Wearing Apparel and other purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hook and Eye Fastening for Wearing Apparel and
other purposes.
I, ROBERT JAMES MCCORMACK Surgeon Captain, Army Medical Staff,
Cambridge Barracks. Woolwich, in the County of Kent, 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:-
This invention, which I term "An improved hook & eye fastening," consists of
hooks & eyes, which may be made, either of wire, or stamped out of sheets of
metal, or the like. The base of hook & eye, or that part which in ordinary
hooks & eyes, is fixed on to garments by sewing, consists of a tubular, expanding,
hollow eyelet, such as that commonly used for boots. This eyelet may either
form the entire base of hook & eye, or may fit on to loop of wire, or stamped
metal forming base, as is found most convenient in manufacture. With the aid
of a press or plyers, these hooks & eyes can instantly be attached to strips of
any material, such as linen, belting, webbing, leather, or even metal, & these
strips, which as aforesaid, may be of any material, texture, or colour, to suit
nature of garments for which they are intended, can at once be attached to
garments by means of a sewing machine, or by hand. Thus effecting an enormous
saving of time & labour, & a decided gain in neatness & stability.
My invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying
drawing,
Fig. 1. of drawing represents a strip, with hooks of the formation described,
& attached in the manner above stated. The curved part of the hook, or that
part which fits on to eye, projecting a little beyond the border of strip.
A, is the hollow, tubular, expanding eyelet, by means of which the hook or eye
is made fast to the strip.
Fig. II. represents a strip with eyes attached in a similar manner as hooks. The
eyes projecting beyond the margin of strip, either the whole extent of loop that
fits on to hook, or so far as may be desired.
Fig. III. represents both strips in position, as they would be after being attached
to garments.
The hooks & eyes can be fixed along strips at any distances apart, so as to
suit the garments for which they are intended to be used, both hooks & eyes
being fixed to their respective strips at similar distances apart, so as to be exactly
opposite each other when strips are sewn on garments.
Strong hooks & eyes of this formation, & fixed on strips of equally strong
material, will be exceedingly useful for military uniforms &c., or other garments
on which hooks & eyes require to be close together, thus enabling one person
to do the work of many.
The object of my invention is to overcome the great waste of time & labour
at present expended in sewing hooks & eyes on garments, & at the same time
effect a gain both in neatness & stability.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what I claim is,
A form of fastening, for wearing apparel &c., by means of hooks & eyes fixed
on strips, substantially as shown & described, & for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 27th day of November 1891.