Improvements in Spring Hooks or Clasps for Gloves, Boots, or the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 29th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 10th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spring Hooks or Clasps for Gloves, Boots, or
the like.
A communication from abroad by LEON BOURGAIN, fils, of 91, Boulevard Sebastopol,
Paris, in the Republic of France.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Various more or less efficacious methods of buttoning boots and gloves are in use
at present, and more especially spring hooks, which, in the usual patterns, are formed
of a tilting lever piece A' (Figure 3 in the drawings) having two little pivots a a
which engage openings
c bored in the raised parts or lugs of another piece attached
to the boot or glove (Figures 1 and 2), this lever piece is held in position by a
spring.
This method has a bad fault, for after a time the pivots a a become disengaged
from the openings bc, and the tilting part A' falls off and is lost. The hook or clasp.
is thus rendered useless.
This invention relates to a spring hook absolutely incapable of becoming detached.
It is composed of a tilting part A having at its end a square or rectangular opening B
of any convenient size (Figure 4) into which a shank passes, forming the spring.
This piece A is connected to a plate formed of two pieces C D E F, GH IJ,
fastened together by a little rivet d'; Figure 6 shows this arrangement in elevation,
and Figure 7 in plan. It may be seen that the lower piece G H I J rises and forms
a spring, whilst the piece C D E F bends back in order to penetrate the opening B
of the tilting piece A. Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 allow the mode of utilising this
undetachable spring hook to be easily understood. The two lower pieces CDEF,
GH IJ, connected by the rivet d, are sewn on one of the two flaps of the boot or
other article, and the other flap has eyelet holes. When the part A is raised, it is
passed through the eyelet holes and bent down by pressing lightly upon it. The
part 1 J forms a spring on the end of the piece A and keeps it in the eyelet hole.
When it is desired to disengage the piece A from the eyelet hole, it suffices to lift up
the end K.
Figures 8, 9, 10 and 11 represent various modifications introduced in the arrange-
ment of this hook as far as the spring and the pieces fixed to the boot are concerned,
but they always show the characteristic part of the arrangement, namely, the tilting
lever represented by Figure 4. Not having pivots, this piece can no longer become
detached like the ordinary hook or clasp does.
Figures 12 and 13 show the application of this invention to clasps with several
eyes or several holes in felt, caoutchouc, or other boots. The tilting piece is always
pierced with an opening (instead of being fitted with pivots) into which the lower
piece, forming the spring enters.
The shape and dimensions of the clasp as above described and shown may be
varied without departing from the spirit of this invention.
Dated this 17th day of February 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spring Hooks or Clasps for Gloves, Boots, or
the 'like.
A communication from abroad 'by Léon BOURGAIN, fils, of 91, Boulevard Sebastopol,
Paris, in the Republic of France.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON .F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency-for-Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil 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:--
The drawings referred to herein are those filed with the provisional specification.
Various more or less efficacious methods of buttoning boots and gloves are in use
at present, and more especially spring hooks, whicb, in the usual patterns, are formed
of a tilting lever piece A' (Figure 3 in the drawings) having two 'little 'pivots a a
which engage openings be bored in the raised parts or lugs of another piece attached
to the boot or glove (Figures 1 and 2), this lever piece is held in position by a
spring.
This method has a bad fault, for, after a time, the pivots a a become disengaged
from the openings bc, and the tilting part A' falls off and is lost. The hook or clasp
is thus rendered useless.
'
This invention relates to a spring hook absolutely incapable of becoming detached.
It is composed of a tilting part A having at its end a square or rectangular opening B
of any convenient size (Figure 4) into which a shank passes, forming the spring,
This piece. A is connected to a plate formed of two pieces C D E F G H I J, fastened
together by a little rivet id; Figure 5 shows this arrangement in end elevation,
Figure 6.in front elevation, and Figure 7 in plan. It may be seen that the lower
piece G H I J rises and forms a spring, whilst the piece ČD E F bends back in
order to penetrate the opening B. of the tilting piece A. Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 admit
of the mode of utilising this undetachable spring hook being easily understood.
The two lower pieces CDE F, G H I J, connected by the rivet d, are sewn on one
of the two flaps of the boot or other article, and the other flap has eyelet holes.
When the part A is raised, it is passed through the eyelet holes and bent down by
pressing lightly upon it. The part 1 J.forms a spring on the end of the piece A and
keeps it in the eyelet hole. When it is desired to disengage the piece A from the
eyelet hole, it suffices to lift up the end K.
Figures 8, 9, 10 and 11 represent various modifications introduced in the arrange-
ment of this hook as far as the spring and the pieces fixed to the boot are concerned,
but they always show the characteristic part of the arrangement, namely, the tilting
lever represented by Figure 4. Not having pivots, this piece can no longer become
detached like the ordinary hook or clasp does.
Figures 12 and 13 show the application of this invention to clasps with several
eyes or several holes in felt, caoutchouc, or other boots. The tilting piece is always
pierced with an opening (instead of being fitted with pivots) into which the lower
piece, forming the spring, enters.
The shape and dimensions of the clasp as above described and 'shown may be
varied without departing from the spirit of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature-of-the said invention,
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 :-
1. In a spring clasp, a hook composed of a tilting part A having at its end a
square or rectangular opening adapted to receive the shank forming the spring,
substantially as described in reference to Figure 4 of the drawings.

page_text: 2. The means whereby the part A is connected with a base formed of two other
pieces C D E F, G H I J fastened together by a rivet d, substantially as described in
reference to Figures 6 and 7 of the drawings.
3. A clasp having several eyes or several holes substantially as described in
reference to Figures 12 and 13 of the drawings, the tilting part of which is pierced"
with an opening (in place of being fitted with the usual lateral pivots) into which
the lower piece, forming the spring passes.
Dated this 28th day of March 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.