US1080987A

US1080987A - Garment-hook.

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Publication number: US1080987A
Application number: US53758410A
Authority: US
Inventors: Philip Marquand
Original assignee: Tri Eye Hook & Eye Co
Current assignee: Tri-Eye Hook & Eye Co; Tri Eye Hook & Eye Co
Priority date: 1910-01-12
Filing date: 1910-01-12
Publication date: 1913-12-09
Anticipated expiration: 1930-12-09

Description

P. MARQUAND.

GARMENT HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.12, 1910.

1,080,987, Patented Dec. 9, 19.13.

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PHILIP IVIARQUAND, OF NEW YORKy N. Y., .ASSIGNOR,

BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 'IO

TRI-EYE HOOK & EYE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF YORK.

GARMENT-Hook.

Application filed January 12, 1910.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP MARQUAND, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment hooks of the type used in connection with an eye to form a fastening means for womens dresses, and the cbj ect of the invention is to provide a hook of this description which may be easily and securely attached to the garment in the desired position and which will be cheap to manufacture.

Hooks of this character are usually formed from a single piece of wire bent into the desired shape, and consist of a pair of attaching eyes at the rear end and a bill projecting rearwardly from the front end. To attach to the garment, the front end is brought up nearly flush with the edge of the garment, and the eyes at the rear are sewed down in place. This is objectionable because the edge of the garment being free may curl up or be pulled out of place so as to expose the hook to view. To remedy this defect it has been suggested that the hook be provided with a front attaching eye in addition to the two rear eyes, so that I do not claim broadly the provision of means for attaching the forward as well as the rear end of the hook, but I believe that my hook is a substantial improvement over the other forms which have been suggested and patented because they are lacking in certain important characteristics.

I have found from practical experience that the means for attaching the forward end of the hook must have the following points: It must be in the same plane as the rear eyes and as far forward as possible without projecting beyond the bend, being preferably between the side wires. It must fasten down the side wires rather than the tongue which has the hump. In Patent No. 774,426, of November 8, 1904, a forward eye is shown having certain of these characteristics, but it is subject to theobjection that Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

serial No. 537,584.

the side bars are free to move away from the cloth even when the tongue is fastened down. I have found that I can overcome this objection by continuing the wire from the eye on over across the top of one of the side bars so as to act as a stop against upward movement of the side bar.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view; Fig. Q is an underside view; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view.

The hook is preferably bent up from a single piece of wire which is first coiled t0 form a rear attaching eye l, thence forward as the side bar 2. Then the wire is bent up and back to form one side of the bill 3, and returning in a similar manner, the side bar 4 and rear eye 5 are formed. After the eye 6 has been formed the wire is continued down between the

side bars

2 and 4 as the tongue 6 preferably provided with a hump 7 which serves to prevent displacement of the eyelet. The end of the tongue G is bent or coiled to form the. eye 9. and then the end 10 is brought over across the top of the side bar. Any upward pull on the bill will be resisted by this projecting end 10, and the hook is therefore securely fastened to the garment. Theside bars are kept a suiiicient distance apart to permit the forward eye as well as the tongue to be between them, and the forward eye is preferably located just at the point where the side bars bend up to form the bill.

Means for attaching the forward end of the hook to the garment other than a circular eye will readily occur to one skilled in this art, and I therefore do not limit myself to the specific form herein shown.

Having described my invention what I claim is:

A garment hook comprising two side bars provided with rear sewing eyelets, and eX- tended to form an upturned bill, an intermediate bar extending from one of the said eyelets and provided with a hump, a coil between the side bars at their front ends and having its lower end connected to the intermediate bar and a stop bar connected at one end to the upper end of the coil to cross the intermediate bar and to hold it down at a In witness whereof I have hereunto set point between the thread engaging front my hand in the presence of two Witnesses. portion of the coil and' the hump and eX- tended to cross a side bar at the front end PHILIP MARQUAND thereof, a portion of the stop bar between the VVitnesseS:

coil and side bzu constituting it sewing bar to GERTRUDE WV. MARTLING,

hold down the bill end of the hook. OLIVE B. KING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, '1). C.