Improvements in Clasps, Hooks, and other Fastenings for Dresses, Suspenders, and other articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clasps, Hooks, and other Fastenings for Dresses,
Suspenders, and other articles.
I, PAUL GUSTAVE LE DAN of Ruyaultcourt, Pas de Calais, France,
Mechanician do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention refers to clasps or hooks and other fastenings to be used where
buttons and button holes, ordinary hooks, buckles and generally all means for
hooking, closing or catching are now employed.
The fastening carrier is formed from a plate of metal. This plate has such a
form that when the fastening carrier is finished it presents or produces a sort of
cross piece or of T tube serving.to fix it on the material to which it is desired to
apply it. This cross piece should be very strong and particularly so, where the
fastening is applied to braces, instead of the tabs generally employed for such
purpose.
The attaching or gripping part or tab is composed of a metal frame on one of
the sides of which is fixed a sort of pincers serving to attach the carrier to the
clothes or other object to be hooked. With this end or object the branches of
the pincers are furnished with points, which, when the two branches are brought
together to close them on the fabric or object they hold and assure the stability
of the fixing without the aid of any sewing or other means. The carrier and
pincers are connected together by a metal loop. In the case of the application
to braces, the fastening is connected to the brace, and the carriers replace the
buttons on the waist of the trousers. The forms, dimensions, and arrangements of
detail of my fastening appliance can be varied, as well as the materials employed
in the manufacture, without changing the nature of the invention. I reserve to.
myself also the application of this system to all kinds of braces and especially to
belts and wearing apparel generally.
Dated this 20th day of Aunt 1905
BREWER & SON,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clasps, Hooks, and other Fastenings for Dresses,
Suspenders, and other articles.
I, PAUL GUSTAVE LE-DAN, of Ruyaultcourt, Pas de Calais, France,
Mechanician, 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 refers to clasps or hooks, and other fastenings to be used where
buttons and button holes, ordinary hooks, buckles, and generally all means for
hooking, closing; or catching, are now employed.
The invention will be understood by describing same with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 shews a blank stamped for forming a clasp or hook according to my
invention.
Fig. 2 is a face view and Fig. 3 an end elevation of this clasp carrier.
Fig. 4 represents a stamped out blank of the attaching or gripping part of the
fastening.
Figs. 5 and Fig. 6 shew respectively an end view and face view of the gripping
portion and loops.

page_text: Fig. 7 represents a face view of the fastening complete.
In all the figures, the same letters indicate like parts.
The clasp or hook is formed from a blank or plate of metal a as shewn at
Figs. 1 to 3. This blank has such a form that when the clasp or hook is finished
it presents a sort of cross piece or of T tube b, serving to fix it on the material to
which it is desired to apply it. This cross piece should be very strong, and
particularly so where the clasp or hook is applied to braces, instead of the tabs
generally employed for such purpose.
The attaching or gripping part is composed, as will be seen at Figs. 4, 5, and 6,
of a metal frame c, on one of the sides of which is fixed a sort of pincers d, serving
to attach the carrier to the clothes or other object to be hooked. With this end
or object the branches of the pincers d are furnished with points e, which, when
the two branches are brought together to close them on the fabric or object f
Fig. 7, they hold and assure the stability or firmness of the fixing without the aid
of any sewing or other means.
The clasp or hook and the pincers are connected together by a metal loop, as
shewn at Fig. 7. In the case of the application to braces, the clasp or hook a
is connected to the brace, and the frame c replaces the buttons on the waist of
the trousers. The forms, dimensions, and arrangements of detail of my fastening
appliance can be varied, as well as the materials employed in the manufacture,
without changing the nature of the invention. I reserve to myself also the
application of this invention to all kinds of braces, and especially to belts and
wearing apparel generally.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that I
claim as my *
Improvements in clasps, hooks, and other fastenings for dresses,
suspenders, and other articles"
:-
1. The clasp or hook a with crossbar for fixing it to the article to which it is
to be applied, in the case of braces this clasp or hook is mounted on the braces
and the loop or frame c is used instead of the waist button on the trousers.
2. A. ring, frame, or carrier c, serving to connect the clasp or hook a to a sort
of pincers d.
3. The pincers d serving to secure the whole appliance to the garment or to any
other article to be held, by the combination therewith of the ring or connecting
piece c uniting thereto the clasp or hook a b as described and shewn.
Dated this 30th day of May 1893.
BREWER & SON,
Agents.