US570267A - Fastening for garments - Google Patents

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W. F.- PEET. FASTENING FOR GARMENTS.

No. 570,267. PatentedOot. 27, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WALTER F. PEET, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FASTENING FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,267, dated October 2'7, 1896.

Application filed November 27,1898. Serial No. 492,107. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it ntay concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER F. PEET, a citi= zen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful 11nprovement in Fastenings for Garments, &c., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an eye for the hook member of a garment or other article, the same being constructed of a raised cross-bar and attaching-eyes at the ends thereof, said bar occupying a position centrally on said eyes, the space of the bar being adapted to be fully occupied by the portion of the bend of the hook, so that lateral play of the hook or eye, or both, is prevented. The eyes have their open ends or termini on opposite sides, so that while the eye which has an open end may yield, the other eye, which has its end closed, is rigid and unyielding, and so is prevented from overturning. Furthermore, the hook and eye may be located entirely within the edge of the overlapping part or flap of the garment or articleto which they are secured, whereby they are concealed after the manner of a blind eye.

Figure 1 represents a perspective View of a fastening for a garment, &c., embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a top or plan view thereof.

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

Referring to the drawings, A designates a cross-bar which is formed with legs B at the ends thereof, and O designates eyes which are formed of a single coil or ring and connected with the lower ends of said legs, it being noticed that owing to the legs B the crossbar rises centrally from the inner sides of said eyes.

The fastening is made of a piece of wire suitably bent into shape, so as to produce the parts named. One eye is turned to the right and the other to the left, so that the termini of the eyes are opposite to each other and on opposite sides of the crossbar or central part of the wire. It is evident that when the fastening is secured to the place of service the strain on the same from opposite sides will cause the open ends of the eye to yield, whereby the fastening is liable to overturn, but this is prevented by the fact that there is always one solid side of the eye in service. Now as this side is rigid it will not yield, and thus it counteracts the yielding action of the opposite eye, whose end is open. By this pro- .vision the fastening remains comparatively true and flat on the garment and prevents the latter from opening. The bend of the hook fits closely between the legs of the eye member, so that there is no lateral movement of the hook on the eye. Furthermore, the outer end of the hook is adapted to rest within the space between the two eyes without projecting in front of the same. Consequently both the hook and fastening are concealed by the outer flap of the garment to which the parts are applied.

I am aware that it is not new to form a fastening of a crossbar with depending legs, and eyes on said legs, said eyes being bent in the same direction from said legs. I am also aware that it is not new to form a fastening of a cross-bar with depending legs and double eyes on the ends thereof, the terminals of said eyes being exposed on the outside of the bodies of said eyes, whereby said terminals are liable to catch in the garment and scratch the hands, but in my construction, while the side of one eye is elastic and the side of the opposite eye is rigid, the termini or ends of both eyes are directly opposite the place where said eyes start or bend off from the legs, and they abut against said bends, so that each eye is a perfect circle and the termination thereof is 011 what may be termed the inner side of the circle, where it is not exposed, said termination, as is evident, being the cut end of the wire of which the fastener is produced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 'is- In a garment-fastener, an eye member constructed of a cross-bar, depending legs on the ends thereof, and a single eye on the base of each leg, the bodies of the two eyes being wholly outside of the space between said legs, and the termini of said eyes facing the bases of the legs in opposite directions, the parts named being combined substantially as described.

IVALTER F. PEET.

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R. H. GRAESER.

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