Improvements in Hooks and in Means for Facilitating the Attachment of Hooks and Eyes to Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks and in Means for Facilitating the Attachment
of Hooks and Eyes to Wearing Apparel.
FREDERIC PARKINSON, 34, Melbourne Road, Leicester, Warehouseman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to avoid accidental unhooking of hooks on wear-
ing apparel also to facilitate attaching hooks & eyes to wearing apparel.
I will describe my invention relating to improvements in hooks as made of
wire although they may be made of sheet metal the aforesaid hooks are made
much in the form of an ordinary wire dress hook with the two arms forming the
back part of the hook open instead of close together as is usual. The beak part
of the hook I bend down between the open back preferably untill its end or
other desirable part of the beak would touch the article of dress to which it
may be sewn or otherwise attached leaving sufficient space between the arms
forming the back of the hook to allow the eye to pass up to and under the beak
of the hook by this method and formation of hooks they are more secure when
hooked.
I will now describe the part of my invention relating to the means for facili-
tating the attachment of hooks & eyes to wearing apparel.
The hooks and eyes are attached to one or two long strips of paper or card-
board but I will describe the method as on one strip, the hooks I affix near one
edge of the paper the eyes near the other edge preferably with the ears pro-
jecting over the edges of the paper or the paper may be cut away from under
the ears each hook and eye is set at equal distances apart as they are generally
placed when on an article of dress. When attaching the hooks & eyes to an
article of dress the row of hooks is divided from the row of eyes by cutting or
otherwise seperating the paper between them they are then stitched or affixed on
the article of dress, whilst on the paper. The paper may then be removed from the
hooks & eyes thereby rendering the attaching of hooks & eyes at equal distances
to an article of dress much easier.
It is obvious other materials besides paper may be used for this purpose.
Improvements in Hooks and in Means for Facilitating the Attachment
of Hooks and Eyes to Wearing Apparel.
I, FREDERIC PARKINSON, of 34, Melbourne Road, Leicester, Warehouseman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to

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be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow
ing statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in hooks and in means for facilitating
the attachment of hooks and eyes to wearing apparel, and the object of the
invention, in addition to facilitating the attachment of hooks and eyes, is to
obviate the tendency of the said articles to become disengaged from one another
when attached to an article of dress.
The invention will be understood by referring to the drawing accompanying
this specification, in which,
Figure 1 is a plan, Figure 2 a side view and Figure 3 a perspective view of
a hook made in accordance with one form of this invention. Figure 4 is a side
view showing a modified form of hook hereinafter referred to.
I will first proceed to describe that part of my invention relating to the
improvements in hooks, which although preferably made of wire may when
desired be formed from sheet metal. Referring to "Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 it
will be seen that the hook is made somewhat in the form of an ordinary dress
hook, though in this invention the two arms A, A, forming the back part of the
hook, are opened, instead of being closed together as in the ordinary form of
hook. The beak B is bent down into the space between the said arms A, A,
until its end B¹ about touches the dress material to which the hook is attached,
i.e until preferably the end B¹ of the beak B is in the same plane as the
underside of the ears C, C. In Figure 4 a modified form of hook is shown the
end of the beak being turned up.
Sufficient space or clearance is left between the said arms A, A, to allow an
eye (not shown in the drawing) to pass under the said 'beak B"of the hook. "
It will readily be understood that the eye. presses upon and slightly displaces
the material when passing under the end B₁ of the beak B,, consequently the
connection between the hook and eye is rendered much more secure. Refer-
ring to that part of my invention relating to the means for facilitating the
attachment of hooks and eyes to wearing apparel, it will be understood that I
do not confine myself to the particular shape of hook described in the 'first part
of this specification, as other forms of hook and eye adapted for wearing apparel
can be similarly arranged for the said purpose.
The hooks and eyes are arranged and affixed upon a strip or strips of paper
or other suitable removable substance capable of being readily torn or in any
other convenient way detached or withdrawn from the hooks and eyes after they
have been fastened by sewing or otherwise to the dress or the like. The hooks
and eyes are set out and affixed on the strip or strips at suitable distances apart
as when ordinarily attached to an article of dress, preferably with the ears of
the hooks and eves projecting over the edges of the strip or strips, or by turning
back or cutting the removable substance from under the ears.
Referring to Figure 5 before attaching the hooks D and eyes E thereon, to
the dress, the strip F, F¹ is preferably divided longitudinally, though not neces-
sarily, either by cutting or tearing along the line G, H, the said line being
formed of a series of perforations or indentations or equivalent J.
The hooks D will then be fastened to the dress whilst on the strip of paper
or other removable substance, by sewing or otherwise, the hooks D on one side
and the eyes E on the opposite side after which the strips are torn away or
otherwise removed.
It is obvious that hooks and eyes may be put on separate strips one for each
side of the dress for facilitating attachment thereto and they can also be placed
on square or other shaped sheets readily formed into strips preferably by divid-
ing. perforating or indenting the paper or other substance, also instead of all
the hooks D being placed on one side and all the eyes E on the other side of
the strip, they may be arranged alternately or in any other desired manner.!
There are several ways of affixing the hooks and eyes on the removable strip

page_text: or strips so that the latter can engage and retain them in position, one way con-
sisting of perforating the strip or strips with a series of T cuts in which to
Each hook however
affix the eyes, or any shape of cut suitable for the purpose.
is by preference affixed by making two cuts or holes through the paper, see
Figure 5.
The said removable strips can also be marked along their face with inches and
divisions of same, forming a handy form of measure and also a guide for cutting
any desired length of strip.
I am aware that hooks and eyes have been fastened to lengths of fabric and
the latter attached to articles of dress, but in my invention I only attach the
hooks and eyes to strips or lengths of suitable substance to serve as guides to
facilitate the attachment of hooks and eyes to articles of dress, such substance to
be removed after the hooks and eyes are fastened.
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 dress hook having its arms opened and the end or other part of its beak
brought down in or near a plane with the underside of its ears, substantially as
described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawing.
2. A new article of commerce consisting of the arrangement at the usual suit-
able distances apart of hooks and eyes on a substance, which substance is
removable after the attachment of the hooks and eyes to the article of dress.
3. A new article of commerce comprising a strip or strips of paper or other
suitable substance having hooks and eyes affixed thereon at suitable distances
apart, the said strip or strips adapted when necessary to be separated or detached
from each other, and readily torn or removed from the hooks and eyes after they
are fastened to the article of dress, substantially as described.
4. The herein described means for facilitating the attachment at suitable dis-
tances apart of hooks and eyes to wearing apparel, substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Tinted this Oth day of January 1900
FREDERIC PARKINSON.
Shouler & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.