Improvements in Means for Fixing Hooks and Eyes to Ladies' Dresses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Fixing Hooks and Eyes to Ladies'
Dresses.
I, WALTER LUFT of Barmen-Wichlinghausen, Freudenbergstrasse, Rhenish
Prussia, Germany Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention_to
be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to a peculiar manner of fixing hooks and eyes to a hollow
woven band or to a double laid strip of a woven fabric and made into hoseshape
by being sewn lengthways, to form so called dress-fasteners with or without an
elastic stiffening strip therein.
I use hooks and eyes made of wire as usual, but the fastening eyelets of these
hooks and eyes are of peculiar shape. Instead of being circular and small, just
large enough to enable convenient sewing on to a dress, I make them of rectangular
shape and oblong, so that these eyelets enclose a comparatively large surface and
their edges at the hook or the outer side are straight.
These hooks and eyes I stick or insert into the hose band just along the inner
edge or scam of that part which contains the elastic stiffening strip, if such a one
is used, so that only the hook or the eye respectively project at the outer side of
the band, whilst the large eyelets are covered and enclosed by the laps of the band,
the outer edges of the eyelets bearing against the seam.
After inserting the hooks and eyes as described the laps of the band are sewn
together so that the eyelets are now enclosed in a hose shaped strip; this seam
going snugly along the inner edges of the eyelets so that these are held in place
by the seams against lateral movement and by the corners of the holes through
which they are stuck they are prevented from being shifted lengthways without
requiring fixing by sewing or rivetting or other special means of fixing.
Dated this 8th day of October 1895.
WALTER LUFT,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Fixing Hooks and Eyes to Ladies'
Dresses.
I, WALTER LUFT, of Barmen, Heckinghauserstrasse 48, formerly of Barmen-
Wichlinghausen, Freudenbergstrasse, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, 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 a peculiar manner of fixing hooks and eyes to a hollow-
woven band or to double-laid strips of a woven fabric made into a hose-shape by
being sewn lengthways, to form so called dress-fasteners with or without an elastic
stiffening strip therein.
I use hooks and eyes made of wire as usual but instead of making the customary

page_text: small circular eyelets for fastening them by sewing I make the eyelets of the
hooks and eyes of peculiar shape. Instead of being circular and small, just largo
enough to emble convenient sewing on to a dress, I make them of transversely
blong and rectangular shape, of a size to occupy a comparatively large surface
and with the long sides of the rectangles in two parallol straight lines and these 80
shaped hooks and eyes are then inserted into a pair of hose-like ribbons, either
Looks in the one and eyes in the other, or in ench alternately hooks and eyes, and
stuck with their heads through suitably distanced openings along an inner edge or
seam in the hollow ribbon, along the part which contains the stiffening strip if such
a one is used, so that only the hooks or the eyes respectively project transversely
at the outer side of the textile fabric, whilst the large eyelets are covered and
enclosed in the interior, so that the rectangles laying in the longitudinal direction
of the ribbon close to the seam where the openings are, and then a seam encloses
them in a hose-shaped channel by running close to them, along the outer line of
the edges of the rectangular eyelets, so that the eyelets are held in place by the
scams against lateral movement; and by the corners of the holes through which
they are stuck they are prevented from being shifted lengthways, without requiring
fixing by sewing, rivetting or other special means of attaching.
This dress fastener, with the improved hooks and eyes is represented in the
accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 shows a front view of a pair of fasteners partly with the hooks and oyes
uncovered and made of a double laid textile strip.
Fig. 2 shows a rear-side view of the same, partly opened partly closed.
Fig. 3 is a side view of Fig. 1, partly section along line 11-11.
Fig. 4 is a cross section along -1.
Fig. 4 is the same in enlarged scale.
Fig. 5 is a front view of a part of a fastener of hollow-woven ribbon, showing
on the right side hook and eye during insertion and on the left side book and eye
in place.
The two hollow woven or double laid strips A, B. Fig. 1, 2, or hose like
ribbous A and B Fig. 5, have at. C and at C' respectively, at a suitable distance
from the outer edge a longitudinal seam, dividing off a hollow partition or sleeve
of sufficient width to allow inserting of an elastic stiffening strip St if wanted, and
alongside of this is a second hollow partition of sufficient width, F¹ (Fig. 5) for
inserting, from one or from both ends the hooks and eyes crossways, and this
partition has close to the seam C', separating it from the first partition, a series of
suitably distanced openings or small slits D through which the effective heads of
the books and eyes are stuck, to appear at the outside in regular distances from
each other, and to bear against the seam C¹ with the inner long sides of their
eyelets. A second longitudinal ɛeam E' is then made close to the outer edges or
the other long sides of the rectangular eyelets, so that the latter are enclosed in
a hollow partition of the woven hose-like ribbon A' as in Fig. 5. I prefer how-
ever the use of double laid strips of textile fabric A, B, and in this case the
hooks and eyes are put in from the open side through slits D along the seam C,
separating the elastic stiffening strip S, if such is used, from the other part; and
the suitably distanced openings D, for sticking through the effective parts of the
hooks and eyes, are shifted close to the said seam C. The hooks and oyes are
inserted in this case between the two flaps of the double laid woven fabrics A
and B, from the one open side directly into the said openings D, so that they touch
with the straight rectangular sides of the eyelets, the seam C, and then alongside
the outer line of hooks and eyes thus put in place a second seam E is sewn through
the two flaps of the double laid ribbon and a third one G along the outer edge
of the latter if desired, so that the rectangular eyelets are covered and enclosed
between the two seams C and E holding thereby the hooks and eyes in their
places, securing them against transverse straining whilst their longitudinal shifting
in the ribbon or strip is prevented by the hooks and eyes being held in place by
the sides of the small openings D in the stuff.

page_text: It is obvious that no direct fixing or securing by special means, as sewing the
eyelets or rivetting them to the fastener, is required. The relatively great
contact surface or number of threads occupied by the long rectangular eyelets in
the hollow partition of the fabric secures the hooks and eyes sufficiently against
dislocation or tearing away from the fastener.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :
1. A dress-fastener with hooks and eyes, consisting of a pair of double laid
strips of woven fabric A, B, made into hose shaped partitions by longitudinal
seams, C, E and G, and having enclosed in one of these partitions the oblong or
rectangular large eyelets of suitably distanced hooks and eyes projecting at one
side-outside-through small-openings-or-slits-D, made-in-a- line-along-a-longitudinal-
seam C, the hooks and eyes being held in place without any other special fastening
than the seams C and E between which the oblong eyelets are confined and the
edges of the slits D through which the hooks and eyes protrude to the outside
while elastic stiffening strips of whalebone or other material may be inserted or
not into the hollow partition between the scam C and the edge of the strip, and
the free strip of the double laid fabric between the seams E and G serving for
sewing the fastener to the dress.
2. In a dress fastener as described in Claim One the use of hollow-woven or
hose-like ribbons A B having a partition made therein between the outer edge
and a seam C' to take up an elastic strip S' or not, as desired, and having small
slits D in one side of the hose along the scam C' to stick through the hook or eye
part of fastening hooks and eyes, the inside edges of the oblong eyelets of said
hooks bearing against the seam C' whereas a seam E' is sewn along the outside
edges of said eyelets holding the hooks and eyes in place, and the remaining strip
between seam E¹ and the inner edge of the hollow ribbon serving for fixing the
dress-fastener to a dress.
Dated this 28th day of November 1895.
WALTER LUFT,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.