Year: 1888

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1, CHARLES JAMES, of the firm of C. James & Co. of Royal Crochet Works,.
Upper Grove Street, Redditch in the County of Worcester Manufacturers do
hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object improvements in the mode of mounting crochet:
hooks and other similar articles such as Baiting needles Disgorgers, Pens &c. so that
a number of such hooks may be fastened to the mount or handle so that they cannot
be separated or lost by accident and at the same time any one of the hooks is ready
and may be placed in position for use very quickly, and the mount and casing are so
constructed as to form when together a stable handle for the operator-which is a
considerable advantage.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and easily carried into
practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which 1
have shown a number of figures which illustrate my invention as mounted upon a
square handle, in cross section as well as some modifications of the same, from which
I will proceed to explain my invention in detail.
Figure 1 shows the mount A to which the crochet hooks are secured. These mounts
may be made from bone, ivory, wood, metal, horn, vulcanite or any other suitable
substance which is capable of being formed to the necessary shape and of receiving
the holes for the mounting of the hooks.
Figure 2 shows the mount A with four hooks, as shewn by Figure 6, b, b¹ b² and b³
mounted thereon by means of the rivets 4 and 65 which pass through the said hooks
and through the holes a³ and a' on the square part a² of the mount A.
Figure 3 shows the mount and hooks as seen at Figure 2 placed inside the metallic
or other casing E with the hooks folded up or in their closed position.
Figure 4 shows one of the hooks b opened out upon its hinged pivot 6 and then
placed in the casing E so as to be ready for use. The roughed or grooved end a¹ is

page_text: by preference made round or the same shape as the inside of the casing E so as to fit
into the back end of it thus forming a proper finish and a fairly tight fit so that there
will be no shake in the hook or mount when in the said casing.
Figure 5 shows the hooks and the mount A with the casing E in cross section so
that the position of the hook is more clearly seen when in the said casing E. It
also shews the enlarged part a' stopping up the end of the casing E and also the formation
of cranked parts of the crochet hook which is necessary in order that the hook inay
pass through the point el of the casing in a direction straight with the axis of the said
casing and mount A. It will be noticed at Figure 1 that the mount A is reduced at
the neck a so that the cranked hooks will lie compactly on each of the four sides
thereof.
Figure 6 shows a section of the square part a² of the mount A and also an end view
with the several crochet hooks mounted and their rivets shown. By this means I am
able to mount four hooks upon two rivets and each hook lies securely against one of
the four sides of the said mount A, thus preventing the needles from rubbing one
against the other.
I do not confine myself to the square shape shown at Figure 6 for the hooks may
be mounted with equal facility on a hexagon shaped mount a such as shown at
Figure 7 or octagon shape a' as shown at Figure 8 but I do prefer such sections as
have an even number of sides, i.e. 4, 6, 8 etc., rather than an odd number of sides such
as 3, 5 or 7, though these may be used with some little more inconvenience and
complication in the rivets upon which the crochet hooks would be hung. These
mounts may also be made double ended as explained in my previous patent No. 14434
of A.D. 1887, and as illustrated by Figure 9 as an example of what may be doue, but
lière 1 have shown a supplimental casing K though a single casing E may be used
instead of the double casing by simply prolonging it down a sufficient, distance and by
either having an open end thereto or a lid to fit thereon.
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
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The improvements in the mode of mounting crochet hooks and other similar articles
such as Baiting needles Disgorgers Pens &c. upon polygonal sided mounts A, a, a,
and other similar shaped polygonal mounts such as a" and a which are formed so as
to close up and slide into the casing or casings substantially as and for the purpose
herein set forth and shown upon the drawings.
Tul
1000
A
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.