Improvements in Button Hooks for Buttoning Up Boots, Shoes, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button Hooks for Buttoning Up Boots, Shoes, and
the like.
I GEORGE NASH of $8 Stamford Hill London N. Pianoforte Dealer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A system of using pieces of stout metal wire of any desired length or size, &
twisted to any design or pattern, & to fill up or enclose the part forming, & used as
the handle either with solid metal, or other suitable material. or by stretching over
such handle, a piece of sheet metal or other suitable material, with flanges
overlapping & enclosing such handle, or otherwise rivetting or fixing the same, but
in each & all cases leaving a plain surface or disc in the centre of such handle, and
on such surface or disc, to print, emboss or stamp, names, addresses, businesses &
trade marks of any & every design for advertisement or other like purposes.
Dated this 6th day of February 1895.
Improvements in Button Hooks for Buttoning Up Boots, Shoes, and
the like.
I, GEORGE NASH, of 38, Stamford Hill, in the County of London, Pianoforte
Dealer, 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 has for its object a novel construction of button hook whereby the
same may be used for advertising purposes.
According to my invention the button hook is formed of metal wire or rod one
end of which is bent to form an open handle, the space or opening in which handle
is closed by a plate of sheet metal or other suitable material upon which an
advertisement may be impressed or printed.
In the accompanying drawing,-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a button book constructed according to my invention;
and,
Figure 2 is a button hook of a slightly modified form :
Figure 3 is a section on the lines 3-3, Figures 1 and 2.
a is the shank of the button hook, and b is the handle which may be bent into
any desirable shape, for instance, the shape shewn either in Figure 1 or in
Figure 2; c is the filling of sheet metal or the like which is placed over the
opening formed in the handle, the said filling being applied in any suitable manner,
for instance, by bending its edges around the wire forming the handle of the button
hook, as shewn clearly in Figure 3.
To allow of hanging up the button hook a hole d may be left near the top of the
handle as shewn in Figure 1, or a ring e may be applied as shewn in Figure 2 for
the same nurnose

page_text: It is to be understood that my invention is applicable to button hooks of all
shapes and also to button hooks in which the hook proper adapted to fold inside
the handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A button hook formed of metal wire or rod and having the handle formed by
bending one part of the wire in such a manner as to leave an opening, the said
opening being wholly or partially closed with sheet metal or other suitable
material upon which an advertisement may be impressed or printed, substantially
as described.
1905
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.