US1158193A - Garment-hook. - Google Patents

Description

H. E. FANSHAWE.

GARMENT HOOK.

APPLICATION mm OCT. 16. 1912.

Patented 001;. 26, 1915;

COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH co.,wASHlNOTON. D. c.

HENRY FANSHAWE, .NE W "fiO B/K, Y., .A'SSJEGNOR, BY IVLESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 'IO WIRE P5816DUG'JJS CQIMBANY, 'A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

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A plication filefl flcitober 16, 191-2.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY E. FANSHAWE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, whose :post-o'flice address is Fourth avenue and Seventeenth street, New York city, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gamnent-Hooks, .of winch the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hooks used for securing :togetherthe opposite parts of garments and for similar uses, and it has for its objectthedevisingfofa hook which the wire forming it as so shaped that ianeye is provided flush with the extreme front edge, and wherein :the bending oflthe wire is such that the eye is rigidly secured to both members forming one side :of the hook, thereby enabling the hook being secured to the garment with itscxtrem-e front end secured attheextreme edge of the garment :by means of the eye :thus formed and :the Emanner of securing it rigidly to the members forming one side -of .the hook.

The various other objects of the invention will be more fully set forth in the following description of one form of constructionembodying the invention whichconsists in the new and novel features hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is an embodiment of the invention substantially in plan View. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 83 of Fig. 1 with the upper part of the hook removed, and Fig. 4 is 'a sectional view similar to Fig. 3 showing a slight modification.

The hook is formed of a single piece of wire by bending it at one end to form a back loop a. intended to be sewed flatwise upon the garment in the usual manner. The wire is then carried forward to form a bottom side bar I), and at the extreme front end is bent upward and back for a suitable distance and then given a rounding bend and brought frontward again in a plan parallel to the previous bend to form the bill a of the hook. The wire is then bent down ward and back parallel to the bend 7) forming a second side member (Z for the bottom part of the hook. Another loop 6 is then formed in line with the loop a for furthersewing the hook flatwise to the garment.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1a, which is also closely Patented Got. 2 8, 1915.

Serial No. 7265043.

The wire is next carried forward between the bars 6 and (Z forming an intermediate bar upon which is formed the usual hump g, the bars 6, f and (Z beingsubstantially in the same plane. The wire is next formed at the front of the hook into a loop h, which has its front edge flush with the front of the hook. It is obvious that this loop in may, if desired, be formed to extendeither in front or to the rear of the front of the hook, but where the hook is to be placed to the extreme edge of the garment and that edge is to be secured :to the hook, it is preferable that the loop be formed flush with the front of the hook. In forming this loop the wire is preferably bent so that the end of the loop formation will be beneath the beginning thereof. The wire is then carried from the loop over and around to the underside of the bar 62 forming a claw 2', which is closely turned to snugly embrace the bar. The wire is then carried across to the bottom of the bar I) forming the tie bar '9' and is then wrapped around the bar '2) to form a claw turned to snugly lit the .bar. The ends of the claw i may be spread sidewisely as shown in Fig. 2, so that the double thickness of wire forming the bar j andthe stretch Z extending from the claw i to the loop it will be substantially in the same horizontal plane, which will *be the thickness of the wire below the bars Z) and cl, thereby permitting the front end of the bar 7 to set in the same plane with the bars 6 and d.

The modification shown in Fig. a, how ever, shows the stretch Zas raised above the tie bar j, thereby raising the forward end of the bar f a wires thickness above the plane of the bars 7' and (Z. This brings the upper side of the forward end of the bar 7 flush with the upper sides of the claws i and 70. This latter construction will assist the eye member (not shown in the drawing) in mounting the claws 2' and is, when it is being hooked to or disengaged from the hook. In the first construction the bar 7 will not assist in hooking or unhooking the members, but the claws 2' and 70, being above the bars 6, f and cl, will better retain the eye in its extreme frontward position within the hook. In either case it is desirable that the forward end of the bar f be substantially midway between the bars 2) and a? as shown in Fig. 1, for in this position it will hold the sides Z) and (Z down u 3011 the arment with an equal pressure.

With a hook as thus constructed, it is pos-' sible to secure the extreme forward end of the hook to the very edge of the garment when desired, by sewing the extreme front portion of the loop h to the garment. This loop being thus sewed to the garment and being rigidly secured to the front of the hook by means of the claws i and 7c, afiects a secure holding of the hook at its front end to the garment without otherwise sewing it thereto. The loops at and e are, sewed to the garment in the usual way. Although I have shown only one embodiment of my invention, it is obvious that various changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit-of the invention, provided the means set forth in the following claims are employed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A garment fastener formed of one piece of wire and including three spaced apart substantially parallel bars, one end of, the middle bar being rounded into one of the outside bars to form a rear sewing loop, the other end of said middle bar being rounded back upon itself to form a front sewing loop located between the outside bars and having itsfree end attached to both of the outside bars to form a transverse tie bar bracing both of the outside bars.

2. A garment hook fastener comprising a hook having one of its sides formed of bars, a tie bar wrapped around the said bars of the hook, a front loop disposed between said side bars for sewing thread having one end integrally formed with one end of the tie Copies of this patent may be obtained for bar, a loop at the rear end of the fastener for sewing thread, and a bar integrally formed at one of its ends with an end oi the rear loop and integrally formed at its other end with the other end of the front loop.

3. A garment fastener comprising a hook having its lower side formed of bars terminating in loops at the rear for sewing thread, a bar extending frontward from one of the loops intermediate the said bars of the hook, a loop for sewing thread between the bars of the hook one end being formed integral with the front end of the intermediate bar, and a tie bar having its ends turned over the said bars of the hook and having one of its ends integrally formed with the lower end of the front loop, said intermediate bar being raised opposite the tie bar in a plane with the turned over ends thereof to serve as a guide to and from the front of the hook.

4. A garment fastener formed of one piece of wire and including three spaced apart substantially parallel bars, one end of the middle bar being rounded into one of the outside bars to form a rear sewing loop, the other end of said middle bar being rounded back upon itself to form a front sewing loop located between the outside bars and having its free end looped, first about one of the outside bars and then looped about the other outside bar to form a transverse tic bar bracing both of the outside bars.

This specification signed and witnessed this 15th day of Oct, A. 1)., 1912.

HENRY E. FANSHAWE.

Witnesses M. P. WINNE, D. F. DAMES.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

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