Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1899
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
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I, WILLIAM GORDON TEMPLETON, Gentleman, residing in the City of Colorado
Springs, County of El Paso, State of Colorado, U.S.A., 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 relates to improvements in hooks and eyes, and it consists of the
novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter shown,
described and claimed.
Figure 1 is a plan view of the hook of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a plan
view of the eye thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the hook. Fig. 4 is a
side elevation of the eye. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the hook and eye in
positions they assume when the same are being engaged together. Fig. 6 is a
view in perspective illustrating my improved hook and eye in position on portions
of a garment as required for practical use. Fig. 7 is an elevation of the central
portion of the length of wire out of which my improved eye is formed.
The hook of my improved device is composed of a single length of suitably
sized wire 1, the same being bent double and having its ends formed into the
oppositely arranged loops 2. The doubled portion of the length of wire is
bent upwardly and rearwardly toward the loops 2, as indicated by 3, and as said
doubled portion is extended rearwardly, it is bent downwardly as indicated by 4,
and the ends of the doubled portion of the wire 1 which is of course the center of
the length of wire of which the hook is formed, are flattened as indicated by 5,
and said flattened portion is gradually curved upwardly toward its outer end,
which outer end occupies a position directly above the ends of the length of
wire 1 which are formed into loops 2.
The eye portion of my improved device is constructed of a single length of
wire 6, the center of which is flattened as indicated by 7, said flattened portion
being approximately twice the width of the thickness of said length of wire, and
this flattened portion is slightly curved and from the ends thereof the portions
of wire extend rearwardly toward each other and the ends of the length of wire
are bent into the oppositely arranged loops 8.
The hook member of my improved device is so formed as that the opening in
the hook, or that portion indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 3, is slightly
wider than is the flattened portion 7 of the eye, whereas the opening into said
hook or the distance between the body portion of the hook 1 and the point where
the curved portion 4 joins with the flattened portion 5 (which opening is indicated
by the dotted line b in Fig. 3), is slightly greater than is the thickness of the
flattened portion 7 of the eve.
My improved hook and eve are secured in position upon garments in any suit-
able manner and when said hook and eve are engaged together, the eye is turned
into such a position at an angle relative the body portion of the hook as that
the flattened portion 7 of said eve when guided beneath the curved flattened
end 5 of the hook will readily pass through the narrow passage into the wider

page_text: pocket portion of said hook, after which said eye is allowed to resume its normal
position, which is in alinement with said hook, and when in this position said
hook and eye cannot possibly be detached one from the other until said eye is
turned into a position at an angle to said hook, for the reason that the flattened
portion 7 of the eye cannot pass through the narrow passage leading into the
pocket or opening within the hook when the hook and eye are in alinement.
In the drawing I have shown the flattened portion of the eye so formed as
to be directly at right angles to the plane occupied by the body portion of the
eye, but I do not wish to limit myself to the formation of this flattened portion
at this exact angle, for it may be readily perceived that said flattened portion
may be formed at any angle from thirty to ninety degrees relative the horizontal
plane of the eye with the same result as is accomplished by forming said flattened
portion at a right angle.
A hook and eye of my improved construction provides a very secure fastening
for the meeting edges of garments, and should said garments be so loose as
that their meeting edges should have slight play or movement toward one an-
other, my improved hook and eye will not become detached as will ordinary
hooks and eyes when in position upon loose garments.
The hook and eye are simple, inexpensive, easily engaged and disengaged, and
the parts thereof cannot become detached from each other until the eye is turned
into a position at an angle to the 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. In a device of the class described, a hook constructed with a narrow passage-
way into the opening which is normally occupied by the eye, and an eve having
a widened portion at its center, which widened portion occupies a position at an
angle to the plane occupied by the body of said eye, substantially as specified.
2. In a device of the class described, a hook having its free end bent so as to
form a narrow passageway into the opening normally occupied by the eye, and
an eye provided with a flattened portion in its center, which flattened portion is
at an angle to the plane occupied by the body portion of the eye, and which
flattened portion is in thickness less than the width of the narrowed passage
leading into the opening in the hook, substantially as specified.
3. In a device of the class described, a hook constructed with a narrow passage
leading into the opening normally occupied by the eye, and an eye provided with
a widened portion in its engaging loop, which widened portion is so arranged
as that said eye must be turned at an angle to the hook in order to engage said
eye in said hook, substantially as specified.
Dated the 1 CAL
T
1000
HIGDON & LONGAN,
Agents for Applicant.