An Improvement in Hooks and Eyes and their Attachments.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1801
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Hooks and Eyes and their Attachments.
I, PIERRE ALBERT RAYMOND, Manufacturer, of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Paris, in the Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of a hook or an eye and its attachments
in such a manner that it can be readily and securely fixed to leather or fabric by
the rivetting of an eyelet. I make the hook of a piece of flat wire doubled and
bent, the bent doubled part forming the hook, and the ends spreading apart so as to
form a base. The eye is likewise a piece of flat wire bent to the form of a U with
the ends spread out to form a base. The base thus formed, whether of the hook or
of the eye, is placed in a recess formed by punching in the face of a disc, and the
edge of the disc is turned inwards all round so as to overlap the extremities of the
base of the hook or eye. The disc being placed against a hole in leather or fabric
with the hook or the eye projecting upwards through the hole, a tubular eyelet is
driven into the hole from above, so that its lower edge spreads out over the base of
the hook or eye and under the lip of the disc, rivetting the disc to the leather or
fabric, and firmly holding the hook or the eye.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1890.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Hooks and Eyes and their Attachments.
I, PIERRE ALBERT RAYMOND, Manufacturer, of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Paris, in the Republic of France, 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 :-
My invention relates to the construction of a hook or an eye and its attachments
in such a manner that it can be readily and securely fixed to leather or fabric by
the rivetting of an eyelet, as I shall describe referring to the accompanying
drawings shewing constructions according to my invention of hooks and eyes suitable
for boots or gaiters, applicable also on a smaller scale to gloves, corsets or other
articles of wear.
The hook, shewn in position in Figs. 1 and 2, consists of a part A (Figs. 3 and 4)
the two paws of which a are fixed on the cap B by the edge of the cap turned
over them.
This hook A is held fixed by two projections c c punched inwards in the face of
the cap B (Figs. 5 and 6). If necessary, for the two projections cc of the cap
might be substituted a special piece F shewn separately in section and plan (Figs. 7
and 8), which could be placed within the cap B, presenting the projections c c.
An
eyelet C serves to fix the hook inserted in the leather, the edge of the eyelet being
driven in and rivetted between the paws a of the hook A and the inner edge 6 of the
cap B.
The eye consists of the loop D (Figs. 9 and 10) the two paws d d of which are
fixed in the cap E shewn in Figs. 11 and 12 by the inwardly turned edge e of the
cap E. An eyelet C shewn separately Figs. 13 and 14 like that for the hook,
fixes the eye to the leather by its edge being driven in and rivetted between the
paws of the eye and the edge of the cap E (see Fig. 15).

page_text: For placing the hook or eye, the material having been pierced with a hole, the
hook or the eye is inserted by placing the cap B or E under the leather or fabric
on which the hook or eye is to be fixed.
Then the hook A or eye D passing through the hole, the eyelet C (the same for
both) is placed above and becomes internally rivetted by its edge spreading out
within the edge of the cap B or E, it being passed through the hole whence the hook
or the eye emerges. The leather or fabric is thus firmly gripped between the two
edges of the eyelet C, stiffened by the edge of the cap B or E.
This system presents the following advantages
1. The leather or fabric being thus gripped, water cannot penetrate to the interior
of the boot.
2. The eye D projecting very little above the leather or fabric, the lace strains
tangentially to the leather and does not make the eye incline so as to hurt the foot,
a defect met with in almost all known articles of the kind.
3. The loop being made of drawn wire, half round or oval, the lace encounters no
sharp angle, consequently it lasts long.
Fig. 16 of the drawings shews a child's boot furnished with this system of
or they might be hooks A.
eyes
D
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
.claim is :-
A hook or eye fastening and its attachments consisting of a bent wire or loop
having its ends held under the inwardly turned edge of a cap which holds also the
outwardly spread edge of an eyelet driven through the leather or fabric to which
the fastening is applied, substantially as described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1891
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.