Improvements in and relating to Hook and Eye Fastenings for Wearing Apparel and for other Suitable Purposes.
Year: 1898

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Complete Specification Left; 14th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1898
Improvements in and relating to Hook and Eye Fastenings for
Wearing Apparel and for other Suitable Purposes.
MARIE MAUDE PORTER, C/o Messrs. Holt & Co., 17, Whitehall Place, London,
S.W., Independant Lady, I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A novel way of making the ordinary hooks & eyes for whatever purpose useable,
by stamping each one complete, out of one piece of metal, or other substance,
instead of making them by the ordinary & lengthy process of bent & twisted
wire, the hooks being simply then formed afterwards by doubling down the
extension. The plates, or hooks themselves made be made in any shape or size
suitable to the purpose for which they are required, or two hooks may, if preferred,
be engaged together by bending one slightly sideways, instead of using only the
hook & eye in connection with each other, or the same may be made in one with,
or on, long strips of plain, jointed, pierced, or otherwise prepared metal or other
substance for attachment to the garment or for other suitable purposes, in complete,
or detachable lengths.
Dated this 17th day of Tam
1000
Improvements in and relating to Hook and Eye Fastenings for
Wearing Apparel and for other Suitable Purposes.
MARIE MAUDE PORTER, C/o Messrs. Holt, 17, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.,
Independant Lady, 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 :-
Improvements in hook & eye fastenings for wearing apparel & for other
suitable purposes. My invention being a novel way of making & forming &
shaping the ordinary hook & eye fastenings for what ever purpose useable, by
stamping or otherwise cutting out each one in itself complete except for the one
little after act of doubling down the extension into a hook & instead of making
them by the ordinary lengthy process of bent & twisted wire. The plates, or hooks
& eyes may be made in one size or shape or position suitable to the purpose for
which they are required, or the hooks may be used together by turning one
slightly sideways instead of using the eye only with each one, or may be made in
just the ordinary shape though not necessarily so. Or the hooks may be pointed
Price 8d.1

page_text: to catch into the material itself instead of through the eyes, or may be made
in one with, or affixed to, short or long strips of plain, jointed, pierced,
sheet ball shaped, or otherwise prepared metal or other substance, for attach-
ment to the garment or for other suitable purposes, or for lacing across the
back of ball bodices, in complete or detachable lengths, & plates for eyes may
also be made in the same way. Or one or more hooks may also be made in one
with, or otherwise affixed to, both ends, or sides, or sides & ends of narrow metal
bands or other shaped plates which may also be made in any other suitable substance
or material, & any of the shapes in which the invention is worked, may be plain or
ornamental or raised or flat ball shaped, or otherwise varied at will. The hooks
can double down either on the same or reverse sides, or any of the plates used with
it or the hooks & eyes themselves can if desired, have little outer notches or hooks,
or equivalent affixed to, or made in one with them, & the hooks may have single,
double, treble or more points, of the same or different lengths, & may, as well as
the plates, be used horizontically or perpendicularly, or slantingly, or shaped like
an X or a Y turned right side up or upside down, or be made in any other suitable
shape provided that the hooks are at both ends, or sides, or sides & ends & unless
some of the hooks are replaced by an eye or substitute, & the plates may also have,
if preferred, a brooch pin & fastening, or pierced holes, or any other form of
attachment.
The above hook & eye fastenings can either be used alone, sharp or blunt, or
with suitable eyes or substitutes, & the eyes can engage with suitable hook plates.
One or more hooks and eyes may also be made in one with, or affixed to, safety
pins or brooches, to engage together perpendicularly, or horizontically, & with or
without the extra little outer hooks or notches, or substitutes, or one or more hooks
may be made in one with, or affixed to, one safety pin or brooch, or plate, to
engage between or through others of the same or different lengths mounted on a
second safety pin or brooch or plate.
All the safety pin fastenings, or the brooches or plates made in accordance
with this Specification, may, though not necessarily so, be made suitably to engage
with the material itself, or with their eye plates or substitutes. The safety pins
or brooches may, though not necessarily so, be just the ordinary safety pin, or
specially prepared ones, with the hooks, or hooks & eyes separately affixed or in
one with them, or on spiked bars made for the purpose, & stamped out in one
piece with them. The hooks may be specially made to suit any special purpose,
or have very thin, wavy, plain or other shaped points. Also little sets of hooks, or
hooks & eyes may be mounted in single or double rows having pierced holes or
spikes, or openwork bars, or other hooks, at the other sides suitable for inner
dress bands or other purposes. I know that the ordinary hooks & eyes in
themselves are not novelties, but I claim them as such when this mode of stamping
out & shaping them is used as explained & as applied in the above Specification,
& partially shown in the accompanying drawings & I also claim many of the plates
accompanying them.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 and 2 show some different shapes of hooks & eyes on long or short strips
of metal & also some quaint ball shaped flat or raised plates in different patterns
which may also be further varied, & the eye plates made in any way to suit the
hook plate or either may be used alone, &
Fig. 2 also shows a small square shaped plate of the same kind, though star
shapes, cresents, triangles, octagans, or any others can equally well be used & in
lengths or singly. The same parts of the different figures throughout the drawings
are all lettered in the same way. A denoting the hook plates a the hooks
themselves, a¹ the pierced holes or substitutes, & a² little extra notches or hooks
or substitutes which need not necessarily be used. On the eyelet plates B denotes
the plate itself b the eyes, 61 the pierced holes, & 62 the notches or little extra
hooks or substitutes.
Fig. 3 shows two short plates A with long points a for doubling down into hooks,

page_text: as shown in Fig. 3 the little accompanying bars B, being one simple form in
which eyelets can be made on a tiny brooch or substitute, & need not necessarily
be used at all except in some form or other if blunt hooks are used.
Fig. 4 & 4 show two slightly varied forms of the same, the hooks a being,
though not necesarily so, treble pointed, & the plates A & B having, though not
necessarily so, extra hooks & eyes a &b opposite each other to engage when closed,
with pierced holes, or sharp catches or substitutes on the opposite side.
Fig. 5 shows another plate of the same kind with, though not necessarily so,
double pointed hooks & eyes a & b down the centre, all or any of the plates of this
invention may be divided if preferred, & have more or less hooks, or points to the
hooks, or be waved, or flat batted or otherwise decorated.
Fig. 6 & 6 show little double sets of of hooks & eyes a &b useable, though other
shapes can be also used in the same manner.
Fig. 7 & 7 show a simple little hook & y plate A & B, which may be varied
as required &
Fig. 8 & 9 different hook plates though they may be varied in form, & may have
additional eyelet plates if desired.
Fig. 10 & 10A, Fig. 11 & 11 show the hooks added to, or made in one with
safety pins or brooches or plates. Fig. 10 has 2 or more hooks a in even numbers,
on one safety pin brooch A affixed to or made in one with it, to engage with
another safety pin, or brooch or plate which has one or three or
more hooks in
uneven numbers. Fig. 11 shows a hook & eye form of the same, & Fig. 11ª a
smaller plate of the same, the hooks on either of the above can be made with sharp
points or point to engage with the material itself if preferred.
Fig. 12 shows another little hook & eye plate, A & B.
Fig. 13 shows various forms of the single hooks a usable, though any other shape
can equally well be used, &
Fig. 14 different forms of the eyes, which may also be otherwise varied.
Having now particularly discribed ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what I
claim is :-
1st. Hook & eye fastenings whether single or on plates cut or otherwise stamped
out of metal or other substance, substantially as discribed in the above Specification
& partially shown in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly I claim the plates themselves specially Figures 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6ª, 7,
8, & 9, & also the hooks or hooks & eyes of whatever kind as placed on the safety
pins that they shall not be infringed by any other form of hook & eye fastenings
being added to, or substituted for mine without my express agreement (or to their
variations) substantially as discribed in the above Specification & partially shown
in the accompanying drawings.
3rdly. I specially claim all plates in whatever substance made, with single or
more hooks at each end, or at each side, or sides & ends, & in connection with any
kind of hook or fastening & with or without an eyelet plate, & I also specially
clain the double, treble or more points as attached to single hooks, or to any hooks
added to or made in one with any of the aforesaid plates substantially as discribed
in this Specification & partially shown in the accompanying drawings.
4thly. Hooks & eye fastenings for wearing apparel & other suitable purposes,
substantially as discribed in the above Specification, & as partially shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th dox of February 1898