US1353614A

US1353614A - Hook-link fastener for eyeleted wearing-apparel

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Publication number: US1353614A
Application number: US264549A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ross Herbert Ernest
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1918-11-29
Filing date: 1918-11-29
Publication date: 1920-09-21
Anticipated expiration: 1937-09-21

Description

H. E. ROSS.

HOOK LINK FASTENER FOR EYELETED WEARING APPAREL.

' APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29,1918. 1,353,614.

Patented Sept. 21,1920.

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. Be it known that I, HERBERT ERNEsT Ross, subject .of the Kingof Great Britain and Ireland, residing. at Equitable Buildings, George street, Sydney, New South Wales, Aiistralia, have invented new and useful Im provements in Hook-Link Fasteners for Eyeleted IVearing-itpparel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto devices for fastening together eyeleted marginal edges of openings in shoes, leggings, corsets, and other articles ofclose fitting apparel. It consists of a fastener of the double hooklink type, and comprises a link or connector limb of metal armed at one end with a plurality of laterally disposed claws, and at the other end a corresponding number of downturned catch claws. Fasteners, according to this invention, are characterized in that the fixing or anchoring means at one end of them consists of a plurality of laterally disposed claws which are insertible in adjacent eyelet holes only when the eyeleted margin of the apparel is folded or crimped to offer the necessary entry clearance. These anchor claws are effectively locked in said eyelet holes when the apparel is in its nor mal shape, but they permit the link to be moved to insert the catch claws in corresponding eyelet holes on the opposite margin of the article or to withdraw said hook claws out of said last mentioned eyelet holes. The term eyelet holes is intended to include holes not fitted with reinforcing eyelets.

The known type of double hook fastener, which consists of a rod or bar bent to form. two parallel link members cross connected by an integral yoke at the anchor ends and bent to form catch hooks at the extremities, is adapted to be inserted in and attached to oneside of the apparel by entering its end upwardly from neighboring eyelet holes therein and drawing it therethrough so that the yokewill underlie the material between,

said eyelet holes. In that type of fastener the link or limb members are necessarily parallel, and in pairs. In hook fasteners according to the present invention. the laterally disposed anchor hooks may be formed on a buckle-like link member or on the ends of parallel or crossed link members, he-

cause the link members are not drawn through the eyelet holes and the anchor hooks and the catch hooks are n rtlbls Specification of Letters Patent; .Patented Sept, Application filed November 2-8,- 1918. Serial No. 264,549.

into the eyelet holes the apparel. l

In the accompanying explanatory draw: 1ngs Figure 1 is a partial perspective; View from the outer side of i of a shoe showingthe closure in the upper thereof fastened according to the. present invention, the fasteners being formed to, simulate a shoe lace arranged in the conven-v tional way; Fig. 2 is a perspective: view showing one of my fasteners heldin position for insertion of the anchor claws in neighboring eyelet holes, the-apparel being shown fdoubled/up 2 to ;ofi"er the necessary en'-.

trance clearance fo'rthe. anchor hooks;.Fig..

3zis an underneath plan view. showing'one of the fasteners attached to one side of eye- 2 leted apparel by means of its anchor. hooks;

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation showingone.

of my fasteners securing adjacent eyeleted edges of a: piece of apparel, the dotted. line showing the lift-up position of the fastener as it appears in the action of fastening the joint; Fig. 5 isv a plan view showing-a modified form of thesame fastener adapted to engage ,at' either endthree. oppositelydisposed eyelet holes; as shoes are commonly 13 made with five eyelet holes ,oneither side. of the vamp opening, it is necessary to provide a means for securing the odd fifth pair of evelet holes. This is accomplished by making one of the fasteners with an additional pair of arms adapted t0 take the odd pair of eyelet holes; Fig. 6 is a plan view showing another form of the link members, in which they are constituted of parallel bars with a central crossed bar, which might be expanded or shaped according to any desired pattern to form a buckle-like structure; Fig. 7 is a View corresponding with F'g. 6 showing the method of making the Fig. 6 buckle fastener to engage three eyelet holes instead of two eyelet holes for the rea son explained with reference to Fig. 5.

The standard form of the fastener is that shown in Figs. 2 and'3. It comprises an X- shaped member 10 which may be convencated a distance apart corresponding neatly with the centering of the eyelet holes 13.

The anchor hooks 11 are inserted by doubling up one edge of the apparel 14 as shown in g- .2, so t t t e anch r hooksl y be entered through the adjacent eyeleted holes 13 and then spreading the apparel 14 as shown in Fig. 3. The anchor hooks are then held irremovable as long as the apparel is in the normal position. To remove the fastener the apparel edge must be doubled up as shown in Fig. 2 to offer clearance for the withdrawal of the anchor hooks. Fig. 1 shows two of these fasteners in use on a shoe, the anchor hooks and the catch hooks respectively shown in dotted lines.

Where it is necessary to provide a fastener for embracing together three opposite eyeleted holes, an extra pair of arms 16, 17, is attached to the X-link member 10. One of these arms is fitted with a catch hook 15 corresponding with the other catch hooks, and the other said arm is formed with an outwardly disposed anchor hooklS. If this anchor hook 18 were disposed inwardly so that it would lie in the same direction as the adjacent anchor hook 11, it would be liable'to work out o-f'the eyeleted hole in which it is set, but by making the anchor hook-s alternately inturned and outturned laterally as shown in Fig. 5 complete security for the anchor'end of the fastener is obtained. The anchor end of the fastener in this case is insertedby first passing its supplemental limb 16 through its eyelet hole, and then drawing up the material between the" two adjacent eyelet holes as shown in Fig. 2 and inserting in said eyelet holes the other two anchor hooks 11 of the fas- .tener in the'manner already described with reference to Figs. 2 and 3. It is quite immaterial what form or design may be applied to the link member of which the hooks form terminalsit may be formed as a buckle-like device, or in the conventional crossed lace type shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 5, or in an H bar type as shown in *igs. 6 and 7.

When the eyelet holes are not reinforced with a metallic eyelet, the claws of the fastener are widened and curved so as to minimize risk of distorting and tearing the leather or other material in which the holes are made.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A fastener for eyeleted apparel comprising rigidly connected members, a laterally disposed anchor hook at one end of each member, and a catch hook on the other end of each member.

2. A fastener for eyeleted apparel as embodied in claim 1, having adjacent anchor hooks bent in opposite directions.

8. 2i fastener for eyeleted apparel comprising rigidly connected members, a transversely disposed anchor hook on one end of each member, and an inwardly bent catch hook on the other end of each member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

HERBERT ERNEST Ross.

Witnesses W. J. HUMPHREYs, H. C. CAMPBELL.