An Improved Button Hook.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button Hook.
I CLAUDINE CLAREMONT of Millbrook House Hampstend Road in the
County of London, Artist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is the construction of a button hook whereby boots
gloves &c. can be buttoned with greater facility than with the button hooks at
present in use.
This button hook is constructed like an ordinary button hook except that the rod
to which the hook is attached is bent. The diagrams show more clearly the nature
of this invention.
With this button hook the hook can be put through the button hole and attached
to the button in the usual way and the usual leverage which brings the button
through the button holo cau be obtained by turning the rod of the button hook
round and without the inconvenience of stretching the hand down to the boot.
I make the bend in the rod of the button hook a right angle and I consider this
the most advantageous angle but it is not essential that it should be that angle nor
is it essential that the bend should be an angle at all. It might be a curve or curves
or it might be two or more angles.
The bend of the rod must be such that the line of the rod is not in the same plane
as the hook.
A button hook as above explained will not be convenient for buttoning both
right or left boots as the hook will be turned the wrong way for one boot. To
obviate this I make a button hook with a hook each end both hooks turned the
same way.
To make it more easy to hold and turn the rod of the button hook it is useful to
have a substantial handle and this can be made of almost any shape and can be
made to move up and down the rod of the button hook-so as to be used at either
end. One way of effecting this is to make the rod square and the handle with a
square hole in which the rod fits but not so tightly as to prevent the handle from
being shifted from end to end of the rod.
If it is desired to have a loop to go over the buttou instead of a hook to go round
it this invention would be equally applicable.
Dated this 26th day of January 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button Hook.
1 CLAUDINE CLAREMONT of Millbrook House Hampstead Road in the
County of London Artist 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 :—
The object of this invention is the construction of a button hook whereby boots
gloves and other things can be buttoned with greater facility than with the button
hooks at present in use.
This Lutton hook is made like an ordinary button hook with the exception that
the rod or shaft to which the hook is attached is bent. I make the rod or shaft bent
at two places. The first bend (or the one nearer to the handle) is a bend of about
20 degrees from the straight line and the second bend (or the one nearer to the

page_text: hook) is such that the hook and the part of the rod or shaft immediatoly joining the
book is at right angles to the original line of the rod or shaft. Thus in the drawing
annexed (which shows a button look the subject matter of this invention) tho bend
at the point b is about 20 degrees from the line a bb and the bend at the point e is
such that the hook and the piece of the rod or shaft cd is at right angles to the
line abb. The hook is at the point in the line abb. The plane of the hook
is at right angles to the line a bb'. The lines a b. bc. c d. are all in the same
plane.
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The object and effect of the abovo is that.(the hook having been put through the
button hole and connected with the batton in the usual way) the leverage attained
with an ordinary button hook can be attained by the hook and the part of the rod
or shaft e d. by merely rotating the instrument at the point a where the handle is.
Thus the inconvenience of bringing the hand down to the level of the foot is
obviated.
After much experiment I make my button hook of the shape above described and
shown in the drawing. It is not however necessary that it should be of that exact
shape though I believe that shape to be the most advantageous. It is not necessary
that the angles in the rod or shaft should be exactly as described nor is it necessary
that there should be two or only two angles or that there should be any angles.
The rod might be bent with one or several angles or one or several curves. It is
not necessary that the hook shall be exactly in the line of the rod or shaft. The
one thing necessary is that the rod shall bo so bent that the leverage is attained
wholly or chiefly by merely rotating the rod or shaft.
A button hook constructed as above described will not be convenient for
buttoning both right and left boots as the hook will be the wrong way for one of
them. To obviate this a button hook can be made with a hook ench end both
hooks turned the same way.
If it is desired to have a loop to go over the button instead of a hook this
nvention is equally applicable.
I claim a button hook having its rod or shaft bent with one or more angles or
curves so that the loverage can be attained by merely rotating the instrument at
the end opposite to the hook substantially as above described.
Dated this 27th day of October 1893.
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CLAUDINE CLAREMONT.