Improvements in Garment Fastenings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
CUMI LEID DE MULTICATION.
Improvements in Garment Fastenings.
We, OSCAR ANDERSON DE LONG, of 5 Mercer Street, New York, in the
County of New York, and ELEAZER KEMPSHALL of 19 Brevoort Place, Brooklyn,
in the County of Kings, both in the State of New York, United States of America,
Manufacturers, 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 :--
Our invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes for dresses, garments
and the like, and its objects are, first to provide a hook which is readily adjustable
and capable of preventing the eye from becoming disengaged; second, to so
construct the eye as to adapt it for use as either an invisible or ordinary eye, and
at the same time providing two independent engaging portions.
We will now describe our improvements referring to the accompanying drawings
forming a part of this Specification, and in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.
Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating one form of our invention, wherein the hook
is shown as engaged with the eye in the manner of an invisible hook and eye.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same form of hook and eye as that shown in Fig. 1,
but showing the hook engaged with the eye at its other engaging portion.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of that form of hook shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of another form of hook stamped out of sheet or other
metal showing clearly the slotted portion in the outer end thereof which is for the
purpose of preventing the hook from becoming disengaged from the eye.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation thereof after it has been bent into hook shape.
Fig. 6 illustrates still another form of our improved hook wherein two slotted
portions are formed, which, when bent into proper shape, form two separate and
distinct shoulders.
Fig. 7 is a side elevation thereof after it has been bent into proper form.
Fig. 8 is a side elevation of our improved eye.
Fig. 9 is a plan view of still another form of our invention for use on belts and
the like where a strong hook is required.
Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the same.
Fig. 11 is a side elevation showing another form of our improved hook.
a represents the body or main portion of the hook, into which are stamped or
otherwise formed eyes a adapting it to be sewed to a garment.
Our preferred form of hook as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 is slotted at or near the
body portion thereof and the metal between the slots is bent up forming a
shoulder 6 behind which the eye rests and is held in a position from which it will
not itself become disengaged.
In a modified form of our hook a shoulder e is seen to be formed at or near the
outer or hooked end of the hook proper. It will be found in practice that this
form will answer the same as the form above described.
Still another form of our hook is seen in Figs. 6 and 7 in which the two
previously mentioned shoulders b and e are combined in the same hook. It will
also be found that this form of hook will answer the same purposes as the hooks
having single shoulders.
We will now describe our improved eye which is stamped out of sheet or other
metal in substantially the shape shown.
It is seen to have a recessed back as shown at d and is struck up at this point
forming an arch under which the end of the hook is passed and engages therewith
when used as an invisible eye.

page_text: When used as an ordinary eye the hook engages with the opposite end d². To
sew the eye to a garment, etc., the thread is passed over the rounded corners d¹
opposite the recessed engaging portion d which admits of the eye being used either
as an invisible or ordinary eye at will.
Referring to Fig. 9 it will be seen that in this instance the hook is made much
broader, and that the centre is stamped out for the purpose of lightening the hook.
Two shoulders f and f¹ are formed in the body portion a of the hook proper.
Eyes a are also formed in the body portion a by means of which the hook may be
sewed to garments, etc.
We have shown in Fig. 11 a further modification wherein one or more shoulders ġ
are formed by depressing the metal under a die or other suitable machinery. This
form will be found to answer the purposes as well as the other forms above
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
1. A hook stamped out of sheet or other metal and having its body or hook
portion, or both, cut to partially disengage a part thereof, said disengaged part
being formed into a shoulder for the purpose substantially as described and shown.
2. An improved hook stamped out of sheet or other metal and having
depression formed in its body or hook portion, or both, said depression forming
a shoulder within the hook and serving to retain an eye in engagement therewith,
substantially as described and shown.
a
3. An eye stamped out of sheet or other metal and formed in substantially
triangle-shape, one side thereof being bent upwardly and inwardly to form an
engaging loop, the other sides being elongated towards their common point,
substantially as and for the purposes described and shown.
4. A hook stamped out of sheet or other metal and having its central portion
removed to reduce the bulk, the sides forming the body and hook portion or both,
being cut to partially disengage parts thereof said disengaged parts being formed
into shoulders for the purpose substantially as herein shown and described.
5. The improvements in hooks and eyes substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described, set forth, and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 7th day of April 1893.