Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Dress Fastenings.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 17th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Dress Fastenings.
I SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172, Fleet Street, London, E.C. Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of hooks and eyes for dress
fastenings, and is intended to provide an arrangement which allows them to be
more securely connected than is the case with the ordinary hook and eye.
The eye, which may be used with hooks of the ordinary description is stamped
from thin sheet metal. The central part stamped out to form the hook, is not
completely removed, but is left connected to the body of the eye at the back by a
narrow neck. The part is forced slightly upwards and forms a spring clip, so that
when the hook is inserted, the front edge bears on the bill gripping it with a
strength depending on the thickness and elasticity of the metal, and the amount to
which it has been bent up.
Instead of stamping the gripping part out of the centre of the eye, an eye of
the ordinary shape can be formed, with an extension at the back of suitable shape,
which is turned over to cover the perforation gripping the bill of the hook in
the same manner. The eye is formed with arms extending from each side, serving
as distance pieces, one having at its end a small slit, and the other formed with a
hook, which when the eyes are fixed engages in the slit of the adjacent eye
connecting all in the row together. The hook is thus prevented from coming out of
the eye accidentally, while a slight pressure properly applied will readily remove it.
There is no snapping action as in the ordinary spring hooks, which are frequently
difficult to detach, the hook according to this invention being held simply by
friction.
The book I propose to employ, is also stamped from sheet metal. A piece is
stamped of T shape, and the lower end turned over to form the bill of the hook.
The arms are intended to act as distance pieces, and are formed in the same
manner as those above described for the eye.
Instead of having two arms, a longer one may be used at one side hooking onto
the next eye or hook which is slotted to receive it.
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GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Dress Fastenings.
I, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172, Fleet Street, London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of hooks and eyes for dress
fastenings, and is intended to provide an arrangement which allows them to be
more securely connected than is the case with the ordinary hook and eye.
The eye, which may be used with hooks of the ordinary description is stamped
from thin sheet metal. The central part stamped out to form the loop is not
completely removed, but is left connected to the body of the eye at the back by a
narrow neck. This part is forced slightly upwards and forms a spring clip, so that

page_text: when the hook is inserted, the front edge bears on the bill gripping it with a
strength depending on the thickness and elasticity of the metal, and the amount to
which it has been bent up.
Instead of stamping the gripping part out of the centre of the eye, an eye of
the ordinary shape can be formed, with an extension at the back of suitable shape,
which is turned over to cover the perforation gripping the bill of the hook in the
same manner. The eye is formed with arms extending from each side, serving as
distance pieces, one having at its end a small slot, and the other formed with a
hook, which when the eyes are fixed engages in the slot of the adjacent eye con-
necting all in the row together. The hook is thus prevented from coming out of
the eye accidentally, while a slight pressure properly applied will readily remove it.
There is no snapping action as in the ordinary spring hooks, which are frequently
difficult to detach, the hook according to this invention being held simply by
friction.
The hook I propose to employ is also stamped from sheet metal. A piece is
stamped of T shape, and the lower end turned over to form the bill of the hook.
The arms are intended to act as distance pieces, and are formed in the same
manner as those above described for the eye.
Instead of having two arms, a longer one may be used at one side hooking on to
the next eye or hook which is slotted to receive it.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a side
view of an eye according to my invention, Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a
slightly modified form of eye, Fig. 5 is a plan of the hook, and Fig. 6 shows a
hook and eye attached in side elevation.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the body of the hook from which a central
portion B is partly stamped out. This central part is left connected to A by the
narrow neck b. The part B is raised slightly above the level of A as shown in
Fig. 2. The eye is also formed with the arms C projecting on each side to the
required distance in order to ensure the eyes being stitched at regular intervals.
One arm is formed with a small slot or perforation c at its end, and the other
end is turned up to form a hook. When the eyes are fitted to the dress, the
hook of one arm is engaged in the slot of the adjacent arm, forming the eyes into
a continuous chain.
The eye shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is not provided with these arms, but with the
ordinary holes for stitching. Instead of stamping the portion B from the middle
of the blank, an arm is left projecting from the back of the body of the eye, and
this arm is turned over into a position corresponding to that of the similar portion
in Figs. 1 and 2, the neck B being situated further to the rear, than in the
arrangement first described.
The hook shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is also stamped from a blank of sheet metal,
and is provided with the cross arms C having perforation c and hooked end e' as
shown in Figs. 1 and 2, Fig. 5 showing the method of connecting the arms.
The
central arm of the metal blank is bent over to form the bill D of the hook, and
this bill is passed through the eye as shown in Fig. 6, the stamped up portion B
bearing upon the hook and preventing it being accidentally withdrawn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.―
(1) An improved eye for dresses stamped from a sheet of metal with a central
portion partly stamped out to form the loop, and adapted to bear upon the bill of
the hook when connected, substantially as and for the purposes specified.
(2) In an improved dress eye, formed from sheet metal, stamping a central
portion partly out to form the loop, and to bear upon the bill of the hook when
connected, substantially as described and shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and for the
purposes specified.

page_text: (3) In an improved dress eye formed from sheet metal, the use of an arm
projecting from the back of the eye and bent over to bear upon the bill of the
hook when connected, substantially as described and shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the
drawings.
(4) An improved dress eye stamped from a blank of sheet metal and formed
with cross arms, one of which is provided with a slot at its end, and the other bent
to form a hook to engage with the slot of the adjacent eye, substantially as shown
in Figs. 1 and 2, and for the purposes specified.
(5) An improved dress hook stamped from a blank of sheet metal with the end
bent up to form the bill and provided with two arms, one of which is formed with
a slot at its end, and the other bent to form a hook engaging with the slot of the
aljacent arm, substantially as described and shown in Fig. 5 and for the purposes
specified.
DJ of Ontahan 1801
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.