Improvements in Hooks for Garments and for other purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by ORVILLE LEWIS MASON, of 496, Bolton
Avenue, Cleveland, County of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, Clerk, and
ROMAINE CLARKE COLE, of Waverly Street, Waverly, Tioga County,
State of New York, Engineer, both of the United States of America.]
Improvements in Hooks for Garments and for other purposes.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 31, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bauk Street, Mauchoster, both in the
County of Lancaster, and Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, 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 invention relates to improvements in hooks for garments and has special
reference to hooks of the class customarily used with an eye, and hence commouly
known as "books and eyes," although applicable also to other hooks; its object is to
improve the action of the hook and obviate defects found in the present forms of
such looks.
The invention consists of a hook provided with a spring-tongue intermediate of
the side bara of the shank and hook proper, and which tongue is provided with
a retaining bend or angle, forming the usual lock for the oye, and with a relieving
bend or augle opposite to the same, whereby a new effect is obtained and the
objections found to the use of other hooks are obviated, as will be fully hereinafter
explained.
In the accompanying drawing Figure 1, represents a gaiment hook embodying
the invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof, taken on the line x-y of
Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a like sectional view showing a modification of form, and Fig. 4
represents a modified form of hook embodying the invention and adapted to different
uses from the form shown in Fig. 1.
A represents the hook of the form commonly used with an eye, and is preferably
formed of a continuous piece of wire bent into the loops a, a' and straight sides 6 6'
of the shank, the bend c, and the straight sides d d' of the hook proper. From the
loop a', which completes the hook alone, the wire is continued in the tongue B,
lying between the sides bb' of the shank and d d' of the hook, and having near the
middle of the part lying within the hook sides d d' a downward extending bend or
angle e reaching nearly to the plano of the upper sides of the shank part b b1 of the
hook. As the eye is passed into the hook between the parts bb' and dd' it lifts
the hook pait of the tongue B by means of the bend or augle e, which springing
down again behind the oye, locks it in the hook.
In hooks basing such a locking beud or angle, either on the shank or hook proper,
or both, great difficulty has heretofore been experienced in unhooking the eve,
owing to the fact that when sewn upon the garment the eye cannot be readily or
firmly grasped by the fingers, and the spring of the paits being so short and slight
considerable force was required to effect the unhooking of it, as it is necessary to
bend the two parts forming the tongue apart from each other. In the improved
hook the length of the part that springs in booking and unhooking 18 more than
double that of other forms, being all of the tongue from the eye a' around the
bend e, and to prevent the binding of the eye between the bend e and the shank
portion of the tongue, as it otherwise would, I form a downward relieving bend

page_text: or angle in the shank part of the tongue opposite to the bend e, which allows
the eye to pass between the shank sides b, b and the bend e without contact
with the shank portion of the tongue, and renders the hook casier to unhook
than any other hook now in use. At the same time the bende offers sufficient
resistance to the unhooking of the eye to prevent its being accidentally unhooked.
It is obvious that the hook can as well be made of sheet metal, by stamping out
the blanks of the form shown in the upper part of Fig. 4, and bending the same to
form the hook A', which is suitable for uses which require a heavier and stronger
hook than can conveniently be made of wire. Such a hook is suitable for use in
suspenders, dress supporters, curtain fasteners &c. &c., and is equally within our
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same 18 to be performed, I declare that what
'I claim is
A hook having a tongue extending through the shank and hook proper between
the side bais thereof, said tongue having a retaining bend extending from the
hook portion toward the shank portion and a relieving bend in the shank portion
opposite to the retaining bend, and in the same direction therewith, substantially as
described.
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W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.