US509347A

US509347A - Hook and eye

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Publication number: US509347A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-11-21
Anticipated expiration: 1910-11-21

Description

(No Model.)

Z. E. BATESKFM. E. COLLINS.

HOOK AND BYE.

'No. 509,347. Patented N0-V.'21,1.893.

WITNESSES: INVENTORS,

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ZERVAH E. BATES AND MARY E. COLLINS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No..509,347, dated November 21, 1893.

Application filed February 14, 1893 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ZERVAH E. BATES and MARY Es COLLINS, citizens of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eye Members for Hooks and Eyes; and We do 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 and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to that particular class of hooks and eyes used on ladies garments; our objectbeing to produce a device which will be less exposed to view when the edges of the garment are drawn apart, than those generally heretofore in use.

A further object of the invention is to produce a device wherein the hook is prevented from disengaging the eye, except when the user so desires.

' To accomplish these different objects we construct our invention in the peculiar manner as will now be described.

7 In the accompanying drawings which illustrate our invention: Figure 1 represents an enlarged plan view of the hook and eye disengaged. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a similar view of the members forced together in the same plane. Fig. at represents the position of parts when the members are being disengaged.

In the drawings the reference letter a represents the hook member of our invention, preferably made of an integral spring piece of wire. This wire is so bent that its ends terminate in loops 1) at the rear of the hook. Loops c are formed at the forward end of the book, all of said loops being in the same plane with the side wires 61. A tongue 6 is formed from a continuation of'the'side wires d, being bent upward and backward after passing the loops 0, thereby forming a shoulder f. Af-

ter forming this shoulder, the tongue is bent downward at g and nearly intersects the plane of the side wires 61. The extreme end h of the tongue is bent slightly upward to facilitate the reception of the eye. By means of the shoulder f, and peculiar formation of the tongue e, it will be seen that when the same' engages the eye, the latter slips under the Serial No. 462,299. (No model.)

shoulder and is prevented from slipping out by the spring tendency of the tongue. The eye is thus practically locked in place and cannot become disengaged.

Any common form of hookcan be used with our form of eye, the one shown and described however being preferable, but we make no claim therefor.

The eye member is represented by the reference letter i, and like the hook member, it is made of an integral piece of spring wire, and is also provided with loops is at its rear corners. Loops Zare formed at its forward corner, and between these two latter loops the Wire is bent in the form of an arc m, for the reception of the tonguee of the hook memher a.

All of the loops lie in the plane of the side wires n, and extending forward from one of the loops is is a retaining arm 0, bent in the shape of a U, its forward curve following the general outline of the arc-shaped side m, but at such a'distance therefrom as to allow the tongue 6, to pass freely between. The forward end of this arm 0 is slightly out of theplane of the wires n, whereby, when the two members are pushed together in the same plane, this retaining arm mounts and. slides back of the shoulder-f, thereby preventing the disengagement of the same from the hook member, as shown by Fig. 3. Thus it will be seen that the hook member must be turned at an angle to the eye member, before the same can be disengaged therefrom, as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The herein-described eye member consisting of an integral piece of spring metal, loops formed at its corners and in the plane of the 5 eye-frame, the frame between the front loops being arc-shaped, and a U-shaped spring retaining-arm in the rear of the'arc-shaped side, the normal position of which is below the plane of the eye-frame, substantially as de- I00 scribed.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ZERVAH -E. BATES. MARY E. COLLINS.

Witnesses:

L. B. RICE, H. J. MAYNARD.