US413098A

US413098A - smidt

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Publication number: US413098A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-10-15
Anticipated expiration: 1906-10-15

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(No Model.)

W. H. SMIDT SHOE HOOK. No. 413,098. Patented Oct. 15, 1889..

[MEI-1'7" UNITE STATES PATENT Brion.

WILLIAM H. SMIDT, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

SHOE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,098, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed June 15, 1889. Serial No. 314,354:- (NO model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sho'e-Lacing Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make andv use the same.

My invention has reference to the manufacture of shoe-hooks for lacing purposes, and has for its object.- to so construct said hooks that they may readily be enveloped exteriorly with a jacket of pyroxyline composition in order to afford -a good wearing-surface.

'Prior to my present invention it has been customary to japan said hooks; but it is a well-known fact that the japan soon wears off and exposes the unsightly brass hook. In my prior application, No. 307,023, filed April 12,1889,I showed and described ahook which was dished out at the wearing-points, such dished portions being filled and built out withapyroXyline composition, and while this afforded a hook which was fully protected as against wear, still the convexity formed by the dishing out of the top of the hook rendered it very inconvenient to operate the usual tool by which the hooks are set within the shoe. In my present improvement the under side of the top of the hook is straight, so that ample room is left for the introduction of the setting-tool.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis an elevation of a hook-body made in accordance with my improvement, and Fig. 2 a sectional elevation of the completed hook.

Similar letters denote like parts in bot-h figures.

The hook A is made in the usual manner, with the eyelet B depending therefrom. My improvement consists in piercing the top of the hooks with a prick-punch or other suitable tool in such manner that the stock is thrown up to form an eyelet, as shown at C, then applying the exterior jacketD of pyroxyline or other suitable plastic composition, and finally setting such composition by pressure, and thereby embedding the displaced stock 0 firmly within said jacket. I prefer to use hydraulic pressure, since I am thereby enabled to clinch the eyelet C within the composition D.

The great advantage of my improvement will be obvious from the fact that the jacket D is absolutely clinched by the eyelet, and is therefore inseparable from the hook.

I claim 1. The hook having the stock of its head perforated and the edges of said perforations thrown up, in combination with the external jacket of plastic material, as pyroxyline, surrounding said stock, substantially as set forth.

2. The hook having the eyelet thrown up from the top of its head and an exterior jacket of pyroxyline material compressed on said top and clinched thereto by said eyelet, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AROHIBALD O. WEEKs, GEORGE KYTE.