Improvements in Hooks and Eyes
Year: 1895

page_text: Improvements in Hooks and Eyes
HENRY MARIES, 72 Cobden Road Brighton in the County of Sussex, Joiner
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
-
This invention relates to improvements in diess and like fasteners known as
hooks and eyes, the object being to so construct the hooks and eyes that they may
not be able to cinch or get bioken under pressure, as usually happens with the
common hook when passed through a wringing or mangling machine
The invention consists essenti illy of making the hooh to lie perfectly flat, the
bill or point to be in the same plane with the usual sewing on rings or eyelets,
which are arranged on either side at a sufficient distance apart to allow the eye
to pass between them
The eye to be formed with the front part of its engaging loop cranked or
bent perpendicularly to the plane of the eye, to allow it to pass over the bill of
the hook and lie parallel thei ewith O the eye may have a double or return
bend in its engaging loop to bring the body of it into the same plane with the hook
when the two are engaged
Dated this 6th day of May 189,
HENRY MARLES
HLVRY MARLES, 72 Cobden Road Brighton in the County of Sussex, Joiner,
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 improvements in dress and like fasteners known as
hooks and eyes
The object being to so construct the hooks and eyes that they may not be liable
to crush or get broken, as frequently happens with the ordinary form of hook when
passed through a wringing or mangling machine or subjected to any similar
pressuie
The invention consists essentially in so arranging the several parts of the hooks
and eyes that no material part thereof shall be obliquely inclined to the gener il
plane of the said hool or eye and that no part thereof shall form any overhanging
portion as is the case with the bill of an ordinary hook The only parts that are
necessarily opposed to, or out of, the plane formed by the needle holes or sewing
on rings of the hook or eye, being either substantially perpendicular thereto, or
substantially parallel to the said plane, and preferably supported at each end by
the said perpendicular parts
In order that this invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts

page_text: Figures and 2 are perspective views shewing the preferred forms of hooks and
eyes as applied to and uniting two portions of fabric The said hooks and eyes
being sewn to the fabric in the usual manner
The hook shewn in Figures 1 and 2 is formed of a single wire bent upon itself
to form the shank or bill A, its ends are then bent outwards in opposite directions
at about right angles to the shank then slightly diverging towards the bill or
shank they terminate in the sewing on rings or needle holes B B
The said ings
being about equidistant from the shank and at a sufficient distance apart to allow
the engaging loop C of the eye to pass between them The whole of the hook
with its sewing on rings and connecting arms being substantially in one and the
same plane
The shank or bill of the hook is advantageously prolonged beyond the range of
the needle holes B B for the purpose of facilitating its insertion into the loop C
of the eye, or into the ordinary cotton loop D, with which it is intended to be used
if desired, as depicted in Figure 8
The eye shewn in Figure 1 is also formed of a single wire bent upon itself to
form a square ended eye its ends being turned to form the needle holes BB
The said square end or engaging loop being bent in a vertical direction forming
two substantially 11ght angled elbows LE The straight retaining end of the
loop C being then substantially parallel to the plane of the needle holes
Figure 3 is an end view of Figure 1 looking at the point of the hook, A, and
Figure 4 is a side view of the same
The eye shewn in Figure 2 has a double or return bend F F in its engaging
loop, to bring the needle holes B B and their connecting arms into the same
plane with the hook, when the hook and eye are engaged and lying in their normal
positions
Figure 5 is a side view of Figure 2
The hooks and eyes shewn in the end and side views, Figures 3, 4 and ɔ are in
each case detached from the fibiic
Figure 6 is a modified form of the hook shewn in Figures 1 and 2
Figure 7 is a modified form of the eye, the loop being raised above the plane
of the needle holes B B
Figures 9 and 10 ai modified forms of the hook and eye Figure 9 having the
necessary square bending entirely in the hook The eve used therewith being in
ordinary flat one
In Figure 10 the necessary bending is partly in the hook and partly in the eye
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my sud inveb-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
-
The improvements in the construction of hooks and eyes for the purposes
aforesaid, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the diawings
Dated this 8th day of January 1896
HENRY MARLES