Improvements in Garment Fastenings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Garment Fastenings.
A. communication from HENRY ANDREW FRANCIS, of Toronto, in the County of
York, Province of Ontario, Canada.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved fastening, having an eye adapted to be
used in connection with an ordinary dress hook, and is designed to be cheaply
made, and adapted to be readily introduced into the dress material and held there
with its ends concealed therein, without sewing.
Previous to this invention buttons had been fastened on shoes by means of a
wire having a loop to receive the shank of a button which wire was provided with
a head or loop at one end, and having its other end bent at right angles to its length,
and both ends exposed; buttons had also been provided with fastening devices,
consisting of a headed pin having its upper portion bent into an eye, and eyes of
various forms have been provided adapted to be sewed to the material to which
they were attached, but no one of these shows the peculiar construction shown by
this invention which is particularly adapted to be used in combination with an
ordinary dress hook, and to be attached to the material by simply passing it through
the garment from the inner side of the cloth, and then turning its point again through
the cloth, whereby both ends of the eye are perfectly concealed, and yet the eye
is securely held in position in the goods.
To accomplish these ends the eye is made in the manner hereinafter more
particularly described.
The essential parts of the eyes are the body, having a loop, and a head, and the
whole is preferably bent out of wire of any desired metal, which may be left of
its natural colour or whitened in the usnal manner.
When it is desired to set the eye in the extreme edge of the garment the eye has
its loop and head bent on the same plane and with the head set a little on one side
of the body but where it has to be set at a short distance from the edge of the
garment the loop and head are set at right angles with the head set centrally.
To use this eye no sewing is necessary, but all that is actually required is to pass
its pointed end through the fabric from the inside thereof, and then return the
point to the inside again, through another place in the fabric, a short distance from
the place where it was first passed through.
When the eye having the loop and head in the same plane is used, it should be
inserted in the edge of the fold of the material and when the eye having the loop
and head at right angles is used, it should be set through the cloth, a short distance
from the edge of the fabric. In both these instances it will be seen that, although
the loop projects to receive the hooks yet the ends of the eye are wholly concealed
between two of the layers of the cloth forming the dress or garment, and that no
sewing is required to perfectly secure the eye. A few stitches may however if
thought desirable be made through the head if the material is very thin or flimsy,
but this will not generally be required especially when the usual "stays
in the edge of a garment.
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are used
From the description of this fastening above set forth it will be seen that a
perfect substitute for the old fashioned eye has been produced that will not only
form a much better fastening, but one that, with the exception of the loop, is

page_text: entirely concealed, and that can also be used in lieu of the thread loops usually
made by the needle and which take so long to make, and when made, soon wear out.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1892.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Garment Fastenings.
A communication from HENRY ANDREW FRANCIS, of Toronto, County of York,
Province of Ontario, Canada.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.1. Mech. E., and Chartered Patent Agent, 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 improvement relates to an improved fastening having an eye adapted to be
used in connection with an ordinary dress hook and is designed to be cheaply made
and adapted to be readily introduced into the dress material and held there with its
ends concealed therein without sewing.
Previous to this invention buttons had been fastened on shoes by means of a wire
having a loop to receive the shank of a button which wire was provided with a head
or loop at one end and having its other end bent at right angles to its length and
both ends exposed, buttons had also been provided with fastening devices
consisting of a headed pin having its upper portion bent into an eye, and eyes of
various forms have been provided adapted to be sewed to the material to which
they were attached, but no one of these shows the peculiar construction shown by
this invention which is particularly adapted to be used in combination with au
ordinary dress hook, and to be attached to the material by simply passing it
through the garment from the inner side of the cloth and then turning its point
again through the cloth, whereby both ends of the eye are perfectly concealed and
yet the eye is securely held in position in the goods.
To accomplish these ends the eye is made in the manner hereinafter more
particularly described.
In the accompanying drawings, which show what is considered the preferable
form of the improvement,-
Fig. 1 is a side view of an unattached eye constructed according to this
improvement.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modification.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 4 shows a plan of part of a dress with eyes like that shown in Fig. 1
attached partly broken away to show the eye.
Fig. 5 is a similar view having eyes like that shown in Figs. 2 and 3.
All of the above are on a large scale the better to show the improvement.
Referring now to the details of the drawing by letters,-A represents the dress
goods, provided with hooks B of any approved form and in which there is nothing
new and therefore no further description of them is needed.
The eyes are shown in two forms to suit different styles of dresses but both are
essentially alike and have the same parts, the only difference being in the form of
the head, which in one is in the same plane with the loop while in the other, the
loop and head are on planes at right angles to each other.
The essential parts of the eyes are the body C having loop c and the head c¹ and
the whole is preferably bent out of wire of any desired metal which may be left of
its natural colour or whitened in the usual manner.
When it is desired to set the eye in the extreme edge of the garment as in Fig. 4
the eye has its loop and head bent on the same plane and with the head set a little

page_text: on one side of the body as shown in Fig. 1, but where it has to be set at a short
distance from the edge of the garment as in Fig. 5, the loop and head are set at
right angles, with the head set centrally as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.
To use this eye no sewing is necessary but all that is actually required is to pass
its pointed end through the fabric from the inside thereof, and then return the
point to the inside again through another place in the fabric, a short distance from
the place where it was first passed through.
When the form of eye shown in Fig. 1 is used, it should be inserted in the edge
of the fold of the material as shown in Fig. 4 and when the eye illustrated in
Figs. 2 and 3 is used, it should be set through the cloth, a short distance from the
edge of the fabric as shown in Fig. 5. In both these instances it will be seen
that although the loop projects to receive the hooks, yet the ends of the eye are
wholly concealed between two of the layers of the cloth forming the dress or
garment and that no sewing is required to perfectly secure the cyc. A few
stitches may however if thought desirable be made through the head if the material
is very thin or flimsy but this will not generally be required, especially when
the usual "stays are used in the edge of a garment.
From the description of this fastening above set forth, it will be seen that a
perfect substitute for the old-fashioned eye has been produced, that will not only
form a much better fastening, but one that, with the exception of the loop, is
entirely concealed, and that can also be used in lieu of the thread loops usually
made by the needle and which take so long to make, and when made, soon wear out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1. A garment fastening consisting of an eye pin having a loop at its centre
to form the eye the body of the fastening extending in opposite directions on
each side of the loop and one end of the body sharpened to form a piercing-
point; substantially as described.
2. The combination of the fabric with the looped and pointed pin set at place
by piercing the fabric substantially as described.
Dated this 13th day of December 1892.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
London, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
London, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.