IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AND IN THE PACKING HOOKS AND EYES
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
M°Evor, of Hall Street, Birmingham, Machinist,. send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great.
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the twenty-seventh day of.
May, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the tenth year of Her,
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,.the.
said Henry M°Evoy, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence,.
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry McEvoy, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry M°Evoy, my
exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time. agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years: therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF AND IN THE PACKING HOOKS AND EYES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Henry M°Evoy, shall cause a.
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my.
hand and seal, to be inrolled in. Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto.
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry M.Evoy, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists,
First, of a peculiar construction of hooks, suitable to be used for fastening
parts of garments, the eyes in some cases requiring slight modification in order
to suit them for such hooks. And,
Secondly, my Invention consists of a mode of preparing hooks and eyes
for sale,, by placing them on a wire or holder to facilitate the packing thereof.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the means, pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS..
The first part of my Invention is shown at Figures 1 and 2, where two
hooks are shown suitable for attaching parts of garments. The one, Figure 1,
proper when an eye such as that shewn at Figure 3 is used, which is similar
in construction to an ordinary eye except that it is, less bent, but an ordinary
loop or eye made by needle and. thread, tape, or cord, as is well understood,
may be employed with the hook Figure. 1. The hooks, shown, as well as
other hooks, may be used with the oval eyelet hole shown at Figure 6, such
eyelet hole being similarly put together, as other eyelet holes, the only difference
being in its being formed oval instead of circular, and such form of eyelet hole,
when made and combined with hooks such as herein described, for fastening
parts of dress, forms.one peculiarity of my Invention. I would state that
I do not claim such construction of eye as that shewn at Figure 8 separately,
but it forms part of my Invention to combine the hook Figure 1 with the eye
Figure 3. The hook Figure 2 is suitable to be used in combination with an
ordinary eye, Figure 4, as is shown. The chief peculiarity of this part of my
Invention is the causing the portion of the hook which is attached to a
garment to be carried beyond the hook, as shewn from a to b, which gives
greater security in its attachment, and causes it to retain the part of the
garment to which it may be attached in better shape, by causing the edge of
that portion of the dress to be close against the other part of the dress, and
such fastenings are thereby also better concealed. Figure 5 shows a portion.
of fabric with two such hooks fastened thereto, by which it will be seen that
only the beak portion of the instrument is uncovered, but the instrument

page_text: may be otherwise fastened to the fabric. And I would here state that I do
not confine myself to making hooks, such as shewn at Figures 1 and 2, of
wire, as hooks according to my Invention may be made of sheet metal, with
the beak formed out of the same, as shewn at Figure 7. Figure 8-shows two
dozen hooks and eyes prépared on a-holder, and in a suitable state to be sold,
in place. of sewing the hooks, and eyes on cardboard as heretofore. And
I would state that other numbers may be in like manner prepared for sale
on holders, according as it is desired to sell hooks and eyes in lots of larger or
smaller. numbers, or. the hooks may be separately packed without eyes, as is
shewn at Figure 9. The mode by which this preparation of hooks and eyes
in holders-is accomplished by me is by means of the apparatus Figure 10,
which consists of a pair of jaws c, c, with a tightening screw d, so as to hold
a piece of bent wire e, shown separately at Figure 11. On the lower part of
one of the jaws c is formed a neck c', by which the jaws are supported with
a capability of turning loosely in the table or frame f, and on the neck c¹ are
affixed two. pulleys, The pulley has one end of a cord affixed to it;
the other end of this cord is attached to a spring g, which always has. à,
tendency to draw the jaws cround towards the left-hand. The pulley. c³ has
another cord attached to it, and this cord is attached to the upper end of a
lever h, which at its lower end turns upon a hinge joint, while the other end
rests against the stop i. In using this apparatus, the attendant, having placed
one of the pieces of wire e between the jaws c with her right hand, applies a
hook and an eye or a pair of hooks, she then with her knee moves the upper
end of the lever / so as to bring it against the stop j, whereby the jaws c will
be turned half round as is shewn by dotted lines. She will then apply another
hook and an eye, or a pair of hooks on the wire, and they will lie on the
opposite side to those first applied to the wire. She will then allow the upper
end of the lever to come back against the stop i by the action of the spring g,
which will bring the jaws into the first position, when she will apply another
hook and eye, or pair of hooks, which will lie over those first applied, and so
on till the required number of hooks and eyes, or hooks only, have been placed
on to each piece of wire e, which will then be disengaged from the jaws 'c, and
by means of a pair of pliars or otherwise the ends e' are to be turned down as
shown. The piece of wire e I prefer should be of soft iron tinned. I would
state that other means may be resorted to for placing the hooks and eyes on
the holders without departing from my Invention.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is performed, I would have it understood that I do not
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page_text: confine myself to the details shewn, so long as the peculiar character of either
part of my Invention be retained. But what I claim is,
First, the constructing of hooks, having parts a, b, extending back beyond'
the bend of the hook, towards the edge of the garment. I also claim the
combining therewith the. eye, Figures 3 and 6. And,
Secondly, I claim the packing hooks and eyes for sale by placing them on
wire holders as herein described..
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry M°Evoy, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
HENRY (L.B.), M°EVOY.
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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1847, the aforesaid Henry M°Evoy came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form 1
above: written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord"
One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.