Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1896--Accepted, 29th Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
I, ALICE DONNELLON, a citizen of the United States, residing at 176 Adelphi
Street, in the City of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, and State of New York,
United States of America, Inventor 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 fastening devices, and to that class thereof, known as
hooks and eyes, and the object of the invention is to provide an improved device
of this class which is simple in construction and operation, and comparatively
inexpensive, and which is adapted to be connected with a fabric or garment,
without being stitched or sewed thereto.
The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the
accompanying drawing forms a part, in which :-
Fig. 1, is a plan view of the hook which forms a part of my improved fastening
attachment showing the same connected with the fabric;
Fig. 2, a side view thereof detached from the fabric;
Fig. 3, a plan view of that part of the fastening device which constitutes the
eye and showing the same connected with the fabric;
Fig. 4, a side view thereof, detached from the fabric;
Fig. 5, a plan view of a modified form of hook; and,
Fig. 6, a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.
That part of my improved fastening device which constitutes the book is shown
in Figs. 1 and 2, and in the practice of my invention, I form said hook from a
single piece of spring wire, which is bent double at the middle thereof, to form a
loop 5, and then bent to form a hook 6, and the separate sides are then bent to form
rings or eyes 7, and each side is then carried out in the same direction, as the
loop 5, of the hook 6, and each side is bent to form a supplemental spring
loop 6, and the free ends thereof, are bent backwardly to form arms 9, which are
designed to be passed through the goods or the fabric to which the fastening device
is secured, and then through the eyes or rings 7, as shown in Fig. 1, whereby the
device is secured to the fabric or garment without stitching or sewing.
That part of the fastening device which constitutes the eye is, in my improvement,
also in the form of a loop and is shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and in practice, I form a
loop 10, or a ring or eye may be thus formed, and the sides of the loop are then
bent to form rings or eyes 11, and said sides are then carried backwardly, and beut
to form loops 12, and the free ends are then bent in the direction of the loop 10, to
form arms 13, which are designed to be passed through the fabric or garment, and
then through the rings or eyes 11, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, and by this means
the eye or that part of the fastening device which constitutes the eye is also
secured to the fabric or garment without the necessity of stitching or sewing the
same thereto.
In connecting the separate parts the loop 10, engages with the hook 6, as will be
readily understood, and it will thus be seen that I provide a simple and effective
fastening device of the class herein described, the separate parts of which may
be quickly and easily connected with a fabric or garment without stitching or
sewing.
In Figs. 5, and 6, I have shown a modified form of construction, in which the
hook 6, is formed in the same manuer as hereinbefore described, or in substantially

page_text: the same manner, and the sides thereof, are bent parallel and brought together as
shown at 15, and carried outwardly in the same direction as the hook 6, and said
sides are then bent backwardly to form arms 16, and in this form of construction,
I provide a clamp or band 17, which is passed around or secured beneath the back
or bottom portion of the hook 6, and which is provided with upwardly and inwardly
curved side loops 18, into which the arms 16, are adapted to be passed, and as will
be apparent, with this form of construction, the side arms 16, are passed through
the fabric or garment as hereinbefore described, and then connected with said side
loops or hooks 18.
My invention is not limited to the material employed, or the method of forming
the separate parts thereof, and it is evident that changes in, and modifications of
the construction herein described, may be made without departing from the spirit
of my invention, or sacrificing its advantage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tiou, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The fastening device herein described and shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, said
fastening device consisting of a hook and an eye or loop, each of which is adapted
to be connected with a fabric or garment, without being stitched, or sewed thereto,
substantially as shown and described.
2. The fastening device herein described and shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, said
fastening device consisting of a hook and an eye or loop, each of which is adapted
to be connected with a fabric er garment, without being stitched or sewed thereto,
and said hook and said eye or loop being each composed of spring wire, and each
being provided with eyes or rings which are formed in the sides thereof, and each
being also provided with side loops, the ends of which are adapted to be inserted
through said eyes or rings, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 27th day of July 1896.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.