A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FASTENING ARTICLES OF DRESS, WHICH SAID FASTENING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE JOINING OF BELTS AND BANDS AND TO. OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles William Heaven, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Machinist, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED FASTENING
FASTENING ARTICLES OF DRESS, WHICH SAID
FASTENING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE JOINING OF BELTS AND BANDS AND TO.
OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 23rd June 1865, and dated the 26th April 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles William l'eaven
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 26th April 1865.
I. CHARLES WILLIAM HEAVEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED FASTENING FOR FASTENING ARTICLES OF DRESS, WHICH SAID FASTENING IS
ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE JOINING OF BELTS AND BANDS AND TO OTHER LIKE
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the fastening herein-after described, which said
fastening may be used as a substitute for the ordinary hook and eye, and for
fastening belts and bands and for other like purposes. My new or improved
fastening may be made wholly of wire or partly of wire and partly of sheet
metal. I will describe my Invention as a dress fastening; the said fastening
consists of two parts attached respectively to the two parts of the dress or
other article to be fastened together; I will call one of the said parts the
hook part and the other the eye part. The hook part consists of a piece of
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page_text: wire bent into a form nearly resembling that of a horse shoe, but having a
coil or loop at the curved part to give it greater elasticity. The free ends of
thewire are turned perpendicular to the plane in which the horse-shoe shaped
part is situated, and the extreme ends are turned outwards so as to form hook
shaped terminations. This, the hook part of the fastening, is sewn to the
dress by the coil or loop, The eye part of the fastening consists of a rigid
loop or loops; I prefer to make this part of the shape of the figure 8, and
attach it to the dress by one of the loops, using the other loop for the hook to
engage with. The wire may be double at that loop which is attached to the
dress. In order to connect the two parts of the fastening together, the hook
part is compressed between the thumb and finger, and its hooked ends are
brought sufficiently near cach other to permit of the end of the fastening
being introduced into the loop of the eye part. This having been done and
pressure being no longer exerted on the sides of the hook part the latter
resumes its normal shape. The hook shaped ends extend over and engage
with the sides of the loop of the eye part, and the two parts are securely con-
nected together. The hook part can only be detached from the eye part by
compressing it andwithdrawing its ends while it is in a compressed state from
the loop of the eye part. No motion of the two parts will effect their separa-
tion if unaccompanied by the compression of the hook part. As the eye part
does not require to be elastic it maybe cut out of sheet metal instead of being
made of wire. My new or improved fastening may be made of various sizes
to suit the various purposes to which it is applicable.
In applying my Invention to belts and bands I prefer to make the two
parts of the same breadth as the belt or band to be fastened, and the loops of
both the hook and eye parts may be made angular instead of curved. Instead
of one coil or loop for giving elasticity to the hook part, two or more such
coils or loops may be employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters l'atent, filed
by the said Charles William Heaven, in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd October 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WILLIAM HEAVEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Machinist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our

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Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles William Heaven, Her special licence that 1, the said
Charles William Heaven, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as 1, the said Charles William Heaven, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR FASTENING ARTICLES OF
DRESS, WHICH SAID FASTENING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE JOINING OF BELTS AND
BANIS AND TO OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Charles William Heaven, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six cale: dar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Charles William Heaven, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:
My Invention consists of the fastening herein after described, which said
fastening may be used as a substitute for the ordinary hook and eye, and for
fastening belts and bands and for other like purposes. My new or improved
fastening may be made wholly of wire or partly of wire and partly of sheet
metal. I will describe my Invention as a dress fastening; the said fastening
consists of two parts attached respectively to the two parts of the dress or
other article to be fastened together; I will call one of the said parts the hook
part and the other the eye part. The hook part consists of a piece of wire
bent into a form nearly resembling that of a horse-shoe, but having a coil or
loop at the curved part to give it greater elasticity. The free ends of the
wire are turned perpendicular to the plane in which the horse-shoe shaped
part is situated, and the extreme ends are turned outwards so as to form hook
shaped terminations. This, the hook part of the fastening, is sewn to the
dress by the coil or loop. The eye part of the fastening consists of a rigid
loop or loops I prefer to make this part of the shape of the figure 8, and
attach it to the dress by one of the loops, using the other loop for the hook to
engage with. The wire may be double at that loop which is attached to the

page_text: dress.
In order to connect the two parts of the fastening together, the hook
part is compressed between the thumb and finger, and its hooked ends are
brought sufficiently near each other to permit of the end of the fastening being
introduced into the loop of the eye part. This having been done, and pressure
being no longer exerted on the sides of the hook part, the latter resumes its
normal shape. The hook shaped ends extend over and engage with the sides
of the loop of the eye part, and the two parts are securely connected together.
The hook part can only be detached from the eye part by compressing it and
withdrawing its ends while it is in a compressed state from the loop of the eye
part. No motion of the two parts will effect their separation if unaccom-
panied by the compression of the hook part. As the eye part does not require
to be elastic it may be cut out of sheet metal instead of being made of wire.
My new or improved fastening may be made of various sizes to suit the
various purposes to which it is applicable.
-
In applying my Invention to belts and bands, I prefer to make the two
parts of the same breadth as the belt or band to be fastened, and the loops of
both the hook and eye parts may be made angular instead of curved. Instead
of one coil or loop for giving elasticity to the hook part, two or more such
coils or loops may be employed.
Having explained the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe,
with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in which the same
is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in plan a dress fastening constructed according to my
Invention, the two parts of the fastening being disconnected from one another;
Figure 2 is the same on a larger scale, and Figure 3 is an edge view of the
same; Figure 4 represents the two parts of the fastening connected together.
The hook part of the fastening is marked a and the eye part is marked in the
said Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4. The said parts a, b, are connected respectively
to the two parts of the dress or other article to be fastened together. The
hook part a of the fastening consists of a piece of wire bent into a form nearly
resembling that of a horse-shoe, but having a coil or loop at the curved part
to give it greater elasticity. The free ends of the wire are turned perpen-
dicular to the plane in which the other part is situated, and the extreme ends
are turned outwards so as to form hook shaped terminations marked in the
Drawing. The hook part a of the fastening is sewn to the dress by the coil
or loop c. The eye part of the fastening consists of a rigid loop or loops,
having the figure represented, the said eye part being sewn to the dress by
the smaller loop. In connecting the hook part a to the eye part the sides
of the hook part are compressed between the thumb and finger, and the
b

page_text: hook shaped ends d, thereby brought sufficiently near cach other to permit of
the ends of the fastening being introduced into the loop of the eye part b
Having introduced the compressed ends of the hook part a into the eye part b,
the pressure is removed from the sides of the said, hook part when the said
sides resume their normal shape, the hook shaped ends dextending over and
engaging with the sides of the loop of the eye part, in the manner represented
in Figure 4, the two parts of the fastening are thus connected securely
together. In order to detach the hook part from the eye part it is necessary
to compress the hook shaped ends d, and to withdraw them from the loop of
the eye part when they are in a compressed state. No motion of the
parts a, b, of the fastening will effect their separation if unaccompanied by the
compression of the hook part.
Figure 5 represents in plan and edge view a hook or fastening made
according to my Invention, used with the eye of an ordinary dress fastening,
and Figure G represents the manner in which the said hook and eye are
connected to the dress. Figure 7 represents the same to be used for fastening
belts or bands. In this case I prefer to make the two parts of the same
breadth as the belt or band to be fastened, and to provide the hook part with
a double loop as represented in Figure 7, or more than two loops for the
purpose of giving greater elasticity to the said part.
Figures 8 and 9 represent my improved fastening of a shape different from
that represented in Figure 7 applied to a band or belt, the said fastening
being connected to the belt or band by an eyelet instead of by sewing. The
loop or opening with which the hook or fastening engages is made of an
cyclet marked. The sides of the hook are twisted into loops / by pressure,
on which loops the sides of the look are compressed and the free ends brought
nearer each other. The said loops / enable the finger and thumb to compress
the hook shaped ends of the fastening with great case.
h
Figure 10 represents the fastening applied to the connecting together of the
two ends of a chain or necklace.
In this case
Figure 11 represents my Invention used as a curtain hook.
the hook shaped ends are pointed for the purpose of being passed through
the curtain i. After the said ends have been passed through the curtain
they are compressed and made to engage with the loop k of the curtain ring 1,
in the manner described with respect to the loop of the eye of the dress
fastening.
Figure 12 represents my Invention used for holding or fastening a reel of
cotton or silk to a dress; and Figure 13 represents the fastening separately.
In connecting or fastening the reel m to the dress n, one limb of the fastening

page_text: is passed through the hollow of the reel, and the hooked and pointed ends d
compressed and inserted in the dress. The clasticity of the fastening securely
retains the pointed ends d in the dress after they have been inserted therein.
The outer limb of the fastening is provided with a loop p, through which the
silk or cotton passes as it is unwound from the reel.
I do not limit myself to any particular shape of the eye used with a hook or
fastening made according to my Invention, as the shape of the said eye may
be varied to suit the purpose and article to which it is to be applied, and the
said eye may either be made from wire or from sheet metal. Neither do I
limit myself to any particular shape of the fastening made according to my
Invention, but I have found that the shapes described and represented answer
satisfactorily.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated in the Drawing,
as thesame may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention,
but I claim as my Invention a new or improved fastening for fastening articles
of dress, for joining belts and bands, and for other like purposes, constructed
in the manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing, that is to say, a fastening having elastic sides, the free ends of the
said elastic sides being hook shaped and either plainorpointed, theengagement
of the fastening with the article to be connected to it being effected by the
expansion of the said clastic sides, and the disengagement by the compression
of the said elastic sides, substantially in the manner described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles William Heaven have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
CHARLES WILLIAM HEAVEN. (L.S.)