Improvements in the Manufacture of Eyelets.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1889-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Eyelets.
I, FREDERICK JAMES WOLLEN, of 43, Elmsdale Road, Walthamstow, in the County
of Essex, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of eyelets specially adapted for such uses
as fastening leather tabs to brace buckles, handles to rings on reticule frames
and otherwise where the strain and wear upon the leather or other material are
considerable.
The type of eyelet hitherto preferred for purposes such as above referred to consists
of two parts, each of which is composed of two pieces of metal. One part consists of
a head and a shank having an open end. The other part consists of a head provided
with an inwardly projecting annular lip and a conical nipple, whereof the base is
enclosed within the said lip; a small annular space being, however, left between the
nipple and lip. A hole having been punched in the material to be bound, the two
parts of the eyelet are inserted from opposite sides, and, by means of pressure, the
open end of the shank of the one part is expanded upon the conical nipple of the
other part and caused to engage behind the lip appertaining to the head of the latter.
Such an eyelet, when fixed, presents the same external appearance on both sides.
An eyelet constructed according to my improved method differs from that above
described in respect of having both heads formed in the same piece of metal. In the
opposite ends of a strip of suitable sheet metal, I mount an open-ended shank and a
conical nipple, such as before referred to; and the metallic strip having been bent so
as to bring the shank and nipple opposite one another, the portion of the strip
extending between the two heads forms a loop or strap which embraces the loop or
fold of leather or other material to which the eyelet has been applied and materially
strengthens the same. Such an eyelet when fixed may be made to present a similar
appearance on both sides and will have a metallic strap extending from the head on
one side, around the loop or fold of material bound, to the head on the other side.
The portion of the metallic strip forming the loop or strap may be perforated in such
a manner as to afford an increased extent of edge for folding over and forming the
inwardly projecting lip wherewith each head is provided for the reception of the shank
and nipple respectively.
It will be obvious that instead of the eyelet being composed of three pieces of
metal, as hereinbefore described, it may be formed from a single piece.
Under
such circumstances, the strip of metal is stamped up towards one end to form a
shank or neck; an orifice being punched in the other extremity. The strip is then
bent into a loop, as before described; and the projecting neck having been passed
through the material to be bound and through the orifice at the opposite end of the
strip, the protruding end of the neck is expanded around the edge of the orifice in
the usual manner.
This mode of manufacture, although somewhat less costly, does not
however present so neat a finished appearance.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1888.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Eyelets.
I, FREDERICK JAMES WOLLEN, of 43, Elinsdale Road, Walthamstow, in the County
of Essex, Warehouseman, 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 relates to the manufacture of eyelets specially adapted for such uses
as fastening leather tabs to brace buckles, handles to rings on reticule frames
and otherwise where the strain and wear upon the leather or other material are
considerable.
The type of eyelet hitherto preferred for purposes such as above referred to con-
sists of two parts, each of which is composed of two pieces of metal.
One part
consists of a head and a shank having an open end.
The other part consists of a head provided with an inwardly-projecting annular
lip and a conical nipple, whereof the base is enclosed within the said lip; a small
annular space being, however, left between the nipple and lip. A hole having been
punched in the material to be bound, the two parts of the eyelet are inserted from
opposite sides and, by means of pressure, the open end of the shank of the one
part is expanded upon the conical nipple of the other part and caused to engage
behind the lip appertaining to the head of the latter. Such an eyelet, when fixed,
presents the same external appearance on both sides.
In the accompanying drawings, one extremity of a leather handle fastened to the
ring of a reticule frame by means of an eyelet constructed according to my
improved method is represented in front olevation in Fig. 1, and in side elevation
in Fig. 2; Fig. 3 being a transverse vertical section on the line a x, Fig. 1. Fig. 4
is a vertical section of the eyelet before application to the leather handle; Fig. 5
being a similar view shewing a different method of construction.
The improved eyelet differs from that above described in respect of having both
heads formed in the same piece of metal. In the opposite ends of a strip A of
suitable sheet metal, I mount an open ended shank b and a conical nipple c such as
before referred to. In substitution for the nipple c, a conical projection a may, how-
ever, be formed from the solid metal in the head at one end of the strip A. The strip
having been bent so as to bring the shank and either the nipple a or copposite one
another, the portion a¹ of the strip extonding between the two heads a² a forms a
loop or strap which embraces the loop or fold d of leather, or other material to which
the eyelet has been applied, and materially strengthens the same. Such an eyelet,
when fixed, if made as illustrated in Fig. 5, presents a similar appearance on both
sides; and will have a metallic strap extending from the head on one side, around
the loop or fold of material bound, to the head on the other side. The portion of
the metallic strip forming the loop or strap may be perforated in such a manner as to
afford an increased extent of edge for folding over and forming the inwardly-
projecting lip a wherewith each head is provided.
It will be obvious that instead of the eyelet being composed of two or of three
pieces of metal, as hereinbefore described, it may be formed from a single piece.
Under such circumstances, the strip of metal is stamped up towards one end to form
a shank or neck; an orifice being punched in the other extremity. The strip is then
bent into a loop, as before. described; and the projecting neck having been passed
through the material to be bound and through the orifice at the opposite end of the
strip, the protruding end of the neck is expanded around the edge of the orifice in the
usual manner.
This mode of manufacture, although somewhat less costly, does not
however present so neat a finished appearance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the saine is to be performed, I claim :-
In the manufacture of evelets or fastenings whereof the two members are connected

page_text: by a metallic loop or strap, forming either the shank or nipple, or the socket wherein
either the shank or nipple is mounted, from the metal composing the loop or strap
connecting the two members of the eyelet, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1889.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.