US569607A

US569607A - Hook and eye

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Publication number: US569607A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-10-20
Anticipated expiration: 1913-10-20

Description

(Ho l lodel.) M. G. BOTTO.

- HOOK AND EYE.

No. 569,607. Patented Oct. 20, 1896.

Q a INENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY G. BOTTO, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HODK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 569,607, dated October 20, 1896.

Application filed- October 18, 1895. Serial No. 566,033. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Ile it known that I, MARY G. BOTTO, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a hook for garments, &c., formed of parts which produce increased resiliency, increase the strength of the article, and provide numerous places of attachment, so that the articles may be firmly retained in position, all as will be hereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of a hook embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of the hook with an eye connected therewith. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the eye at a right angle to that shown in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a hook which consists of the bill B, the divergin g side members 0, the converging limbs D, the necks E, and fastening-eyes F, said parts 0, D, E, and F comprising the back of the hook, the entire device being formed of a continuous piece of wire which is doubled and bent upon itself, forming the bill B, from the bend G of which the side members 0 diverge. Then the wire is bent inwardly or toward the bill, as at H, and converges, forming the limbs D. The two lengths of wire are then bent, as

at J, outwardly or from the bill and continued in longitudinal direction, producing the necks E, on the outer ends of which are formed the fastening-eyes 15, it being noticed that the hook possesses. great resiliency, owing, more particularly, to the bends H and J, which form a broad base and provide numerous places of attachment by sewing or stitchingviz., the eyes F, the bends H, and bends J, said eyes and bends being in different planes, it being noticed that said eyes occupy positions between the bends H and J, forming, as it were, triangular places of attach1nent,wl1ich cause the hook to be most firmly held in place on the article to which it is sewed.

Owing to the back members O diverging from the bill to the bends of the converging members D, I produce a broad back for the hook, especially near to the fastening-eyes F, thus relieving the stitches of the latter when there is a torsional strain on the hook, and I also place the bends H close to said eyes, so that there are at least four places for stitching or attaching close to each other at the terminus of the hook, in the present case the right side of Fig. 1.

The device as herein described is especially adapted to be used as a skirt-supporter and tohold the Waistband of a womans skirt and waist together in an even line at the back.

The limbs or members D reenter or extend toward the center of the hook, thus imparting compactness to the device, while, however, preserving the strength and resiliency of the parts thereof.

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

- In a hook, a bill, a back formed of members extending rearwardly from the bend of said bill, rentrant members extending from said former members, necks extending outwardly from said reentrant members, and eyes on the ends of said necks, substantially as described.

MARY G. BOTTO. lVitnesses:

WM. 0. WIEDEBsHEIM, R. H. GRAESER.