Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application. 29th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes.
1, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Engineer
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 :-
This invention relates to improved hooks and eyes which, whilst being provided
with laterally extending arms or distance pieces to ensure correct spacing and
registering, have their sewing eyes (or equivalent) in the ordinary position so as to
have the stitching central with the hook or eye and therefore in the best position
for attaching the same to the garment.
In the form which I prefer to adopt the wire of the hook or eye is first bent.
round on each side to form the sewing eyes and is then extended outwardly to form
the arms or distance pieces, which thus spring from the sewing eyes and not directly
from the hook or eye proper.
The arms of adjacent hooks or eyes may abut against each other, or may engage
so as to link the hooks or the eyes together.
The improved hooks and eyes may however have each only a single sewing eye
and a single arm or distance piece, arranged on opposite sides thereof.
In this case
the arm of one hook or eye is adapted either to abut against, or to engage with,.
the sewing eye of the next hook.
The sewing eyes (or equivalent) may be omitted if desired, and in such case
the stitching for holding the hook or eye to the garment may be passed round the
inner ends of the arms where they spring from the hook or eye.
And in order that the invention may be readily understood. I will proceed to
describe the same by aid of the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents the improved hooks with sewing eyes and arms extending each
side from them, the arms of adjacent hooks abutting against each other,
Fig. 2 represents a corresponding arrangement having the arms engaging,
Fig. 3 represents a hook having only a single sewing eye and arm,
Fig. 4 represents a hook formed with arms on both sides but without sewing
eyes,
Fig. 5 shows a convenient form of eye constructed according to this invention.
Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 a are the hooks proper, b are the
arms or distance pieces and e are the sewing eyes from which the said arms extend.
The arms bare turned over at their extremities as shown at b' or have any other
suitable termination and not to form sewing eyes, but to prevent them catching in
the material. As shown in Fig. 1 in which the arms abut, both ends are formed in
this manner, but in the arrangement shown in Fig. 2 the alternate arms have
hooked ends to engage the ends and link the hooks together. In Fig. 3 the
single sewing eye c of each hook is formed in the ordinary manner, and the single
arms are hooked at their extremities to engage in the eyes c.
In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the sewing eyes c employed in Fig. 2 are
dispensed with, but the engaging arms are retained. In this case the stitching for
holding the hooks in position is passed around the inner ends of the arms at the
angles from which they spring or diverge.
In the improved form of eye shown in Fig. 5, d is the eye proper, that is to say
the part with which the hooks a engage while as before b are arms or distance
pieces with turned over ends b and c are sewing eyes from which these arms extend.
The said arms may be arranged to abut after the manner of the arms shown in
Fig. 1, or to engage like those shown in Fig. 2.

page_text: I wish it to be understood with reference to Figs. 1 to 4 that although they are
shown as hooks, yet the same arrangement of sewing eyes and of arms or distance
pieces apply equally to eyes constructed according to my invention.
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
(1) A hook or eye, having the wire of which it is formed bent first to form
sewing eyes (or equivalent) in immediate proximity to the hook or eye proper, and
then continued outward from such sewing eyes to form extending armis or distance
pieces substantially as described in this Specification and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
(2) The improved hooks and eyes formed of wire and provided with arms or
distance pieces b extending from their sewing eyes c (or equivalent) such arms
being either adapted to abut or to engage, substantially as described in this
Specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of January 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.