US572528A - Hook and eye for garments - Google Patents

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A.DONNELLON. HOOK AND BYE FOR GARMENTS.

(No Model.)

No. 572,528. Patented Dec. 8, I896 zufiiwsaaa- F UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALICE DONNELLON, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

HOOK AND EYE FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,528, dated December 8, 1896.

Application filed January 24, 1895. fierial No. 536,04t9. (N model.)

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hooks and eyes for garments, the object being to provide a hook or eye that may be attached to a material without sewing the same thereto.

I will describe a hook and eye embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claim. A

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a hook and eye embodying myimprovement as secured to a garment. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a hook before attachment. Fig. 3 is a side view thereof. Fig. at shows the formation of the parts when applied to a fabric. Fig. 5 is'a side view thereof. Fig. 6 is a plan view of an eye in its form when attached to a fabric. Fig. 7 is a side view thereof. Fig. 8 shows an eye of modified form. Fig. 9 is a plan view of a movable keeper employed. Fig. 10 is an edge view thereof. Fig. 11 shows the eye and keeper in the form when attachedto a garment, and Figs. 12 and 13 show the hook when so attached.

Referring by letter to the' drawings, A designates a hook, and B designates an eye. The two are similar in construction, excepting, of course, that the hook has a return or hook portion a and the eye has an eye portion b. Each is formed of a single piece of wire bent to form the hook or eye portion, keepers, and straight pin portions a.

In the hook the keepers a are formed by bending the wire laterally outward and crossing it adjacent to the hooks, and in the eye the wire is crossed adjacent the part b, to form the laterally-extended eye-keepers b. The keepers a b have their openings in a direction transverse to the length of the hook or eye, so that the same will lie fiat upon the material. to which'it is attached.

In the example of my improvement just described to attach the hooks and eyes to a garment the pin portions ct are driven or pinned through the material for about half modification, consisting of a metal plate having at one side an integral slide portion d,

and at the opposite side the ends of the plate are turned over to form keepers (Z' for the pin-points.

In the drawings the plates are shown as sufiiciently long to extend across and beyond the outer side of the pin-bars.

In attaching this hook or eye to a garment the pin-bars are first passed through the slide (Z and then half their length into the material, and then the ends are turned back and the points spring into the keepers, which have their inner edges against the edge of the garment material.

In both examples of my improvement it will be seen that the pin portions, which are designed to engage through material, are eX- tended throughout their length in substantially the same horizontal plane as the keepers engaging their ends, so that there is but little space between said pin portions and the portions engaging against the surface of the material to which the device may be attached. It is obvious by this construction that the hook or eye will lie flat or close against material in est strain 5 and two reversed. points a a, Which Signed at New York, in the county of New enter the said opening after passing through York and State of New York, this'2d day of the material of the garment, the said parts January, A. D. 1895. being also constructed to lie flat and close ALICE DONNELLON.

5 against the face of the material in a manner \Vitnesses:

similar to that of the ordinary sewed hook and JAs. E. WARNER,

eye, substantially as described. WV. L. BENNEM.

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