Improvements in Garment Hooks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
Improvements in Garment Hooks.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 consists of a garment hook having a jaw for engaging and locking
an eye, the said jaw projecting from the rear member centrally toward or into
the front member, one end of the jaw terminating in one of the fastening eyes of
the hook, thus producing an effective and reliable securing action of the jaw, as
will be hereinafter set forth.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a garment hook embodying my
invention.
Figure 2 represents a front view thereof.
Figures 3 and 4 represent side elevations of different forms thereof.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
The improved garment book, A. has a rear portion or shank B which consists
of two side members, a and b, a central member c, an eye d at the upper end of
the said central member c, and another eye e at the upper end of the member b.
At the top of the member a is an eye f, which encircles the eye d, and joins the
outwardly projecting limb g of the jaw C of the hook, said limb g joining an
inwardly extending bend h, whose rear end joins the central member c of the rear
portion B.
The front portion D of the hook consists of the side members k, whose lower
ends are bent as at m and join the side members, a, b, constituting the hook
proper.
It will be seen that the jaw C projects from the rear portion of the hook
towards or into the front portion thereof, and closes the space between said portions,
consequently when an eye is applied, it presses against the jaw and opens the
same, and when it clears said jaw, it occupies the bends m, the jaw then closing
and holding the eye locked on the hook, as will be seen in Figure 1, the eye and
hook being disconnectible by applying superior force to the eye to press the jaw
backwardly, and cause it to open, whereby the eye may pass the same, and so
reach the unobstructed end of the space between the front and rear portions of the
hook.
a, and
It will also be seen that as the jaw is continuous of the eye f of the member
also of the central member c which is disconnected from the side members a and b,
the eye d of the said member c, which is within the eye f being free of the same,
the jaw
highly resilient in its nature, while being firm and not liable to open
improperly, whereby the eye is reliably held connected with the hook.
The two eyes and d, will be sewed to the garment, fabric, or the like and thus
the eyed which constitutes one of the ends of the jaw C will be held within the
eye f
By having the termination of the central member c continued or extended so as
to form an eyed within the eye f, said termination can be stitched in place so as
not to project from the shank in the movements of the tongue, thereby presenting

page_text: no obstacle or exposed cutting end of the member c, it being noticed that while
there are three eyes, they occupy the space of but two, as in ordinary hooks of the
class of hooks and eyes, and the portion which constitutes the jaw C is within the
eye, whereby its end is not exposed in the length of said jaw, but is located
where it is not liable to catch the hand or fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. A garment hook formed of front and shank portions, the shank portion
consisting of side members and a central member, and the front portion consisting
of side members which are continuous of the side members of the shank portion,
and a forwardly projecting jaw which is continuous of the central member, and
one of the side members of the shank portion, the rear end of said jaw having an eye
which is enclosed in one of the eyes of the side members of the shank, said parts
being combined, substantially as described.
2nd. A garment hook having its shank portion formed of side members with
attaching eyes, and a central member, and a forwardly projecting jaw which is
continuous of, one of said side members and of said central member, and is
provided with an eye which is freely enclosed in one of the eyes of the shank
portion, substantially as described.
3rd. A garment hook having its shank portion provided with fastening eyes, and
a forwardly projecting jaw, which latter is continuous of one of the members of
said portion, and having an eye which freely occupies said first named eye, substan-
tially as described.
4th. A garment hook formed of a shank with side members each having an
attaching eye, a central member and a front portion or hook proper continuous of
said side members, said central member extending between the sides of said front
portion and being continuous of the attaching eye of a side member of the shank
and the central member thereof, the terminus of said central member being within
the attaching eye of one of the side members, said parts being combined substan-
tially as described.
1
1000
Coruary
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.