Improvements in the Construction of Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Dresses and other Garments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1894-Accepted, 12th May, 1894
Improvements in the Construction of Hooks and Eyes for Fastening
Dresses and other Garments.
1 JEANIE CHRISTINE FOLEY of Summer Hill, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland,
Spinster 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 Improvements in the Construction of Hooks and Eyes
for Fastening Dresses and other Garments and has for objects, so far as the hooks
are concerned, to provide means whereby they may be more securely attached to a
dress or other garment than heretofore and by which said hooks are prevented
being pulled forward and becoming visible, whilst as regards the eyes, to provide
substitute for the thread eyes previously used which were always troublesome to
make and unsatisfactory in wear.
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And in order that this invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will now describe same with reference to the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Figure 1 thereon being a plan view of a hook and Fig. 2 a similar view of an eye
constructed in accordance with this invention.
Fig. 3 shews my improved hook as fastened to an ordinary eye and Fig. 4 shews
the eye provided in accordance with this invention as a substitute for the ordinary
thread eye, in attachment with an ordinary hook.
As will be seen particularly in reference to Fig. 1, 1 form my improved hook
with two loops a at its top, or front end by means of which it can be firmly sewn to
the edge of the material to which it is to be attached.
These loops a are in addition to the two ordinary loops b formed at the lower, or
rear, end of the hook, and constitute a strong firm, and substantial, means for
preventing the hook being pulled forward and becoming visible as so frequently is
the case with the ordinary hooks.
It will be found also that the additional loops a will stiffen the edge of the
material and prevent wrinkles forming therein.
In Fig. 2 I have illustrated the eye which in accordance with this invention 1
provide as a substitute for the ordinary thread eyes : This eye I form of a piece
of wire c of suitable strength and pliability at each end of which I form a loop d by
means of which the same is attached to the garment.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew as aforesaid my improved hook and eye in attachment
respectively with an ordinary eye and hook.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The improvements in the constructions of hooks and eyes for fastening dresses
and other garments, substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the
drawings.
2. In the construction of hooks the two loops a formed at the top or front end
of the hook substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
shewn.

page_text: 3. As a substitute for the ordinary thread eye an eye formed of a piece of
wire c having at each end thereof the loop d substantially as hereinbefore described
and shewn.
Dated this 21st day of March 1894.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for Applicant.