US1187764A - Hook. - Google Patents

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ROBERT E. MORDEN, OF JEFFERSON, IOVTA.

HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1916.

Application filed May 2, 1914. Serial No. 835,958.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT B. MonnnN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jefferson, in the county of Greene and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hooks, the primary object of which is to eliminate the use of buttons, etc., the device being especially adapted for trousers and wearing apparel in general.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a simple and durable device which is capable of being expeditiously applied and will be positively retained from accidental displacement.

Other objects as well as the-nature, characteristic features and scope of my invention will be more readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims forming a part of this specification.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device constructed in accordance with my invention, illustrating the application thereof, Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device.

In the drawings wherein is illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention, in order to illustrate the application thereof, a piece of fabric 5 is provided with which my improved device, generally designated 6, is associated. The hook 6 in the present instance comprises a single strand of wire, the opposite ends of which are bent to provide parallel hooks 7, which are engaged with the fabric 5, as shown to advantage in Fig. 2, while the intermediate portion 8 thereof is bent upon itself, so as to lie in parallel relation with the hooks 7, thereby providing an engaging member with whlch a suspended tab or the like is connected, should the hook be applied to a pair of trousers, overalls or the like. The arms 9 of the intermediate portion are divergent, so as to provide a substantially V-shaped structure in front or rear elevation, the verteX of which is formed to provide a substantially oval-shaped opening 10, thereby permitting the arms 9 to be expanded and contracted in order to facilitate the disengaging of the device from the suspender tab or the like with which it is connected,

and at the same time, creating a binding action when the arms 9 are depressed as is usually the came when the same are in engagement with a suspender tab or the like, so as to positively prevent the slipping of the tab down over the end of intermediate portion 8, should the button-hole thereof be enlarged.

In use we will assume that the device is in a position as shown in Fig. 3. In order to apply the device when in this position, the parallel hooks 7 are engaged with the fabric so as to penetrate therethrough, having the free'terminals of the hooks 7 engaged with one side of the fabric and the shanks thereof engaged with the opposite sides, said free terminals then being pressed into the fabric in order to positively prevent the accidental displacement of the hooks should undue pressure be exerted thereon. When the device is in this position, the divergent arms 9 extend downwardly in parallelism with the shanks of the hooks 7 and are slightly inclined inwardly so that the fabric 5 would lie in close proximity there'- to. If the device is used as a trouser hook, the button-hole in the tab of the suspender is engaged over the intermediate portion 8 of the hook and slid upwardly over the di vergent arms 9 into engagement at the jointure of the divergent arms and the hooks 7, thereby, as previously pointed out, flexing the arms 9 inwardly toward each other, so as to prevent the accidental displacement of the suspender tab. Although this device has been especially described as adapted for use in connection with trousers or wearing apparel of any type, it is to be understood that the same is equally applicable to buggies or automobiles for supporting side curtains, etc., as well as on nether garments, so as to connect the same to the outer garment, such as the trousers and when used in this latter capacity, the intermediate portion 8 is engaged over the top of the trousers, assuming that the hooks 7 have been engaged with the nether garment which is to be supported.

It will be understood that the above description and accompanying drawings comprehend the general and preferred embodiment of my invention and that various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be made within the scope of the appended claims and without sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: r

1. A device of the character described formed from a single strand of wire having its terminals bent to providefabric-engaginghooks, the bills of said hooks being in clined toward the shanks of the hooks from r the .bights, the intermediate parts of said wire being bent to provide converging arms, whlch inchne toward the shanks from the points of )uncture therewith, said arms being parallel with the bills of the hooks and being connected by a substantially ovoid shaped member which lies in the plane of the shanks.

2. A device of the character described formed from a single strand of Wire bent at a point intermediate its extremities, to

provide a substantially ovoid loop,-said wire Copien ot .thh patent may be obtained for ROBERT E. MORDEN.

WVitnesses W. EMMETT Sonorrn J. W. Frrz.

five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Iatentn, Washington, 30.0. I

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