IMPROVE. MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL.
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Newey, of Garbett Street, Birming
ham, Steel Pen Tool Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL.'
Sealed the 6th January 1854, and dated the 6th July 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Newey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th July 1853.
I, THOMAS NEWEY, of Garbett Street, Birmingham, Steel Pen Tool
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL " to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to that class of fastenings commonly called
hook and eye, and consist in forming the parts from sheet metal to
the desired form. The tongue of the hook being produced by cutting
a portion from the body thereof, and then stamping or pressing such
portion into form to receive the eye and hold it by spring pressure.
The eyes are formed by cutting out of sheet metal to the desired
form, or an ordinary wire eye may be used with the hook.
Eyelet or oyelet holes may be formed where the sewing is to be
effected to prevent cutting of the thread.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Newey in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 6th January 1854.
PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE
THOMAS NEWEY, of Garbett Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Steel Pen Tool Maker, send greeting.
of
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Newey, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Newey, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Newey, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and-lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL," upon the condition (amongst
others) that the said Thomas Newey, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
the
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Newey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
The improvements relate to that class of fastenings commonly called
"hook and eye," and consist in producing the parts from sheet metal
to the desired form; the tongue of the hook being produced by cutting
a portion from the body thereof, and then stamping or pressing such
portion into form to receive the eye, and hold it by spring pressure.
But that the nature of the parts may be better understood, I will
procced to explain the Drawing annexed."

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING,
Which is to an enlarged scale in order that the arrangement may be
better understood. Figure 1, shows a front, and Figure 2, an edge
view of the improved hook, with an eye formed to act therewith,
Figure 3, shows a front view; Figure 4, an edge view, and Figure 5,
a section of the hook separately; Figure 6, shows a front view, and
Figure 7, a section of the eye separately.
The eyes are formed by cutting out of sheet metal to the desired
form, but an ordinary wire eye may be used with the hook.
a, is the tongue of the hook, which tongue is formed,, as stated, by
cutting the two sides and the end a', from the main body of the hook,
and then by stamping or. pressing or otherwise giving to it the form
shown. In hooking' the eye the part b, of the eye is passed under the
turned up end a¹, of the tongue, until it is received within the project-
ing part 2, where it is retained by the form of the tongue, but so as to
be readily released when desired by the elasticity of the tongue of the
hook. Hooks thus formed will be found readily to resist without
injury the action of the mangle in mangling. Eyelet or oyelet holes may
be formed at c, c, to prevent cutting of the threads where the sewing is
to be effected.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would
have it understood that what I claim is, the mode of arranging and
combining parts for fastenings of wearing apparel, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Newey, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
.
Witness,
DAVID EVANS,
No. 5, Garbett Street.
THOMAS NEWEY. (L.S.)