Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Dresses, Jackets, and other Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Dresses, Jackets, and other
Wearing Apparel.
FREDERIC PARKINSON Warehouseman and Draper 34 Melbourne Road
Leicester do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of improvements in hooks and eyes for dresses jackets and
other wearing apparel.
My object in this invention is to prevent hooks and eyes from becoming
accidentially unhooked.
I will describe my said invention as made with wire and will for convenience
name the eye in parts, the part of the eye whereon the hook rests when booked I
will name the front part, and the part through which the eye is sewn or attached
to wearing apparel the ear part.
Instead of forming the ears in the manner they are usually forined in an
ordinary eye (i.e.) with the ends of the wire terminating outside the eye I form one
or both ears (preferably one) by turning the wire that forms the ear round in the
opposite direction and by having the wire longer I form or bring the end down the
centre of the eye untill it. terminates at or near the front part of the eye, this
central peice of wire I will name the tongue, the said tongue may be either straight
or slightly curved at the end,
The hook to be used with the aforesaid eye I form much in the same manner as
an ordinary hook, only instead of the end of the hook that enters the eye being
formed with the wire close together I form the said end with the wire somewhat
apart thus leaving an opening. The hook and eye are connected by slightly
pressing the book into the eye, the tongue of the eye springs or passes into the
opening at the end of the hook thereby preventing the hook from becoming
accidentially unhooked.
Another method is to make the tongue in the eye more rigid and to form a spring
hook with a double or opening end the said double ends meet, a hollow is formed
from the ends to the bend in the hook, they are connected by slightly pressing this
double end of the hook on the bar or tounge in the centre of the eye the ends of the
hook open and admit the tounge of the eye, by means of a similar pressure
backwards the hook becomes released.
Although I have described my invention as being made of wire yet it may be
formed of sheet metal or other sufficently rigid material, and I wish it to be
understood I do not confine myself to this particular method of making or forming
the aforesaid hooks and eyes.
The Fifteenth day of October 1896.
FREDERIC PARKINSON.

page_text: Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Dresses, Jackets, and other
Wearing Apparel.
I, FREDERIC PARKINSON of 34 Melbourne Road, Leicester, Warehouseman and
Draper, do bereby 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 statenient :-
My invention consists of improvements in hooks and eyes for dresses, jackets, and
other wearing apparel and my object in this invention is to prevent hooks and eyes
from becoming accidentally disconnected.
I will describe my said invention as made with wire and will for convenience name
the eye in parts; the part of the eye whereon the hook rests when hooked I will
name the front part, and the part through which the eye is sewn or attached to.
wearing apparel, the ear part.
Instead of forming the ears in the manner they are usually formed in an ordinary
eye, i.e. with the ends of the wire terminating outside the eye, I form one or both
care, (preferably one) by turning the wire that forms the ear round in the opposite
direction and by having the wire longer I form or bring the end down the centre
of the eye until it terminates at or near the front part of the eye. This central piece
of wire 1 will name the tongue. The said tongue may be either straight or slightly
curved at the end.
The hook to be used with the aforesaid eye I form much in the same manner as
an ordinary hook, only instead of the end of the hook that enters the eye being
formed with the wire drawn close together, I form the said end with the wire
somewhat apart, thus leaving an opening.
The book and eye are connected by slightly pressing the beak end of the hook into
the eye; the tongue of the eye springs or passes into the opening at the end
of the hook thereby preventing the hook from becoming accidentally unhooked.
Another method is to make the tongue in the eye more rigid and to form a spring
hook with a double opening end, the said double ends meeting.
In this case the hook and eye are connected by slightly pressing this double end
of the hook on the tongue in the centre of the eye; the ends of the hook open and
admit the tongue of the eye and by means of a similar pressure backwards the hook
may be released.
may
In order to more clearly illustrate the invention reference is made to the
accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention and various modifications thereof,
though it will be readily understood that other forms, sizes and methods are
available and permissible within the maiu lines of the invention.
Figure 1 shews an eye and Figure 14 a hook, the former having the before-
mentioned tongue C down its centre, terminating near to the front part of said eye,
although it is obvious that the tongue C need not necessarily terminate at that
point, as the wire forming the said tongue may be returned towards the ears of the
eye, thus leaving the desired tongue. The hook, Figure 14, it will be seen is
formed with its beak end D preferably further from the back of the hook than
usual and with an open beak, so that when connected with the eye, the tongue of the
latter passes or springs into the open end of the beak.
In connecting the hook with the eye the hook is put into any part of the eye
and the tongue springs aside or down according to the shape of the hook used.
When tight the tongue passes into the open end of the hook and a slight pressure
backwards will release it.

page_text: Figure 2 represents the plane of Figures 1 and 14 showing the hook and eye.
connected.
Figure 3 shows the manner in which the tongue C in the eye catches the hook.
when loose or on an article of dress.
Figure 4 and Figure 4 show an eye with a spring tongue C¹ curved at the end.
by which means it forms a receptacle for the hook in the first instance.
Figure 5 represents a hook with a beak D with an enlarged end which will
more directly on the tongue of the eye.
press
Figure 6 represents a hook with a straighter opening than shown in Figures 1^
and 5.
Figure 7 shows a side or plane view of a hook with an enlargement D' formed at
or near the end of the beak D, which when connected with an eye with a shorter
tongue acts as a stop in passing in and out of the eye.
Figure 8 represents a hook with a double spring beak which when hooked
or unhooked on a more rigid tongue in eye, springs open to admit or release the
tongue.
Figure 9 represents the hook shown in Figure 8 engaged with the tongue C in.
the eye.
Although I have described my invention as being made of wire, it may be formed
of any other sufficiently rigid material, and I wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to this particular method of making or forming the aforesaid hooks
and eyes.
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. A. hook formed with an open beak adapted to engage with a spring tongue
formed in un oye in the manner and for the purpose described and illustrated
in Figures 14 2. 3. 5. 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawing.
2. An eye formed with a tongue adapted to engage with a hook having an open.
beak to hold the hook in the manner and for the purpose described and illustrated
in Figures 1. 2. 3 and 9 of the accompanying drawing.
3. A hook constructed in the manner shown in Figures 8 and 9 of the accom-
panying drawing.
Dated this 26th day of November 1896
FREDERIC PARKINSON.
Shouler & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.