Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Dresses and other.. purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1898-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Dresses and other..
purposes.
I, EDWARD SWAIN, of the Manor House, Fordwich, in the County of Kent,
Etcher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes for fastening dresses
and for other purposes.
The chief object of my invention is to make a hook and eye for fastening
dresses and other articles of clothing which is not liable to catch in and tear the
material to which it is attached and to obviate the necessity and inconvenience of
making buttonholes.
The form of the fastening is that of an ordinary square made strap buckle with
the catch point or tongue fixed to the frame and short enough to allow the eye to
pass between its end and the rim or frame the catch point or tongue being almost
flat with the frame.
In order to make the fitting of the eye in the hook more easy the eye may be
made straight or curved or straight and curved between the sewing on loops with
the catch part or end, Vshaped or curved into a loop of sufficient length to pass
into the hook frame and engage with the catch point or tongue.
The fastening may be made in a button form the button shank forming
the eye.
The shank of the button is suitably formed to engage the catch point or
tongue and to be sewn to the material the shank passing through the material..
The hook and eye may be fixed to the material so as to shew, or the catch point
or tongue of the hook or the loop of eye may be put through the material the point
or loop only shewing.
The hook and eve may be made in any suitable material.
Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Fastening Dresses and other
purposes.
I, EDWARD SWAIN, of the Manor House, Fordwich, in the County of Kent,
Etcher, 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:.
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My invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes for fastening dresses
My invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes for fastening dresses

page_text: material to which it is attached and to obviate the necessity and inconvenience of
making buttonholes.
The same letters are used for all similar parts in the figures.
Fig. 2 shows section through centre of Fig. 1.
Fig. 6 shows section through centre of Fig. 5.
Fig. 13 shows end view of Fig. 9 with section of hook.
The form of the hook part of the fastening is that of an ordinary square
made strap buckle shown in Figs. 1 to 8 with a catch point or tongue B, fixed
to the frame A and short enough to allow an eye to pass between its end C and the
rim or frame A. The catch end C being flat with the frame A shown in Figs. 2
and 6. The paint or tongue B being curved slightly upwards at B shown Figs. 2
and 6.
The hook may be of bent wire both ends forming the tongue B as shown Fig. 1
or one end as shewn Fig. 4. Or it may be made from a flat metal plate when the
frame A may be provided with holes K. Fig. 3 for attaching to a material.
The end C of the hook may be put through the material to which it is attached
so that the frame A is beneath the material Fig. 7 and 8 and the tongue B only
showing on the top Fig. 7 showing tongue B on top side of material I Fig. 8
showing frame A on the underside of the material I.
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The eye part of the fastening may be made with the catch part D V shape
Figs. 11 and 14 or curved shape, Figs. 13 and 15 sufficient to enable
the catch part 1) to pass under the tongue B being formed at right
angles to two loops by which the eye is attached to the material E,
shown Figs. 10 and 11. The catch part 1) may be straight between
the attachment loops E as shewn Figs. 12 or it may be bent as shewn Figs. 9 and 11
or it may be curved with an elongation F, placing the catch part in front of the
loops E. The eye is shown in place on the hook Fig. 5, 6 and 13.
The eye of the fastening may be made in the form of a button H, Figs. 15 and 16.
The shank being formed so that it will engage with the catch point B and may
be V shaped or curved the part of the loop of the shank next the button being formed
into shoulders or angles L, to enable the shank to be sewn on the underside of the
material I Fig. 15 through which it is passed.
When there is no pull on the fastening and the eye is pushed to the end C the
eye comes against the frame A the attachment part E is pushed over the frame A
causing the catch part D to lock under the end C.
The fastening may be made of any suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
-I claim is:-
1. The general arrangement construction and combination of the parts composing
an improved fastening for dresses and other purposes substantially as herein
described and as shewn in the drawings.
2. A hook so shaped that it will not catch to any dress or other material sub-
stantially as herein described and as shewn in the drawings.
3. An eye to engage with the hook that locks when pushed loosely to the end of
the catch point or tongue substantially as herein described and as shewn in the
drawings.
4. An eye of a button form the shank shaped for attachment to the underside of
material substantially as herein described and as shown in the drawings.
Dated the 20th day of July 1898.
AUBREY RICHARDSON,
49A, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.