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No. 6|9,706. Patented Feb. l4, I899.

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- HOOK AND EYE.

(Application filed Oct. 26, 1897.) (No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC H. PAUL, JR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO THOMAS ARNOLD, JR., OF SAME PLACE.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,706, dated February 14, 1899. Application filed October 26 1897. Serial No. 656,40'7i (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IsAAo H. PAUL, J12, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in hooks and eyes adapted for use on corsets and all articles of like character; and it consists of certain details of construction to be more fully set forth in the following specification.

To enable others to understand my invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the device locked and made of sheet metal and adapted for use on a corset or articles of like character. Fig. 2 is also a view of the locked clasp, showing the hook portion forced up on the tongue of base or eye. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the eye with its tongue central therewith. Fig. 4: is a side elevation of the eye and its tongue. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the eye and its tongue extending rearward,- representing the first operation of forming the same. Fig. 6 shows a side elevation of the hook and eye locked together with the bill of the hook thrown under the projecting end of the tongue, a position it must necessarily occupy in order to uncouple the hook from its eye. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the sheet-metal hook in its first operation of construction. Fig. Sis a plan view of the hook bent into the proper form for use. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the first operation of the sheet-metal eye, showing a bar across the opening for the hook, so as to limit the inward movement of the hook when locked to the eye, showing also a broken view of the tongue.

Its construction and operation are as follows:

The device shown at Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 is made of sheet metal both as regards the eye and book. This device is constructed for corset-steels, and consists of the eye 1, having the elongated opening 2 to receive the hook. 3 are holes for attaching it to one of the steels of a corset. 4 is a tongue forming part of the eye and is turned or folded over against its upper surface. The free end of said tongue projects beyond the retaining end 5 of said eye, and such projecting end has a downward deflection for the purpose presently to be more fully described. 6 is the hook, having the hole 7 in one end, by means of which it is attached to the other of said corset-steels, and 8 is the bill portion of said hook. 9 is an elongated slot formed in the body of said hook, and such slot extends also well into the bill 8. In other Words, when the blank (shown at Fig. 7) is bent to form the bill portion it is turned over about the middle of this slot.

To connect the hook with the eye, the bill is passed through the slot 2 of the eye and is forced against the under side of the tongue until it can be drawn over the end 5, as shown at Fig. 1. This will place the tongue through the slot 9 of the hook, so that both hook and eye will be firmly locked together. Any movement of the hook and eye' toward each other will result in the hook' simply riding up on the tongue, as shown at Fig. 2, while the end or bar 5, combined with the projecting end of the tongue, will effectually prevent unlocking when moved in the opposite direction. To unlock the device, the hook is dropped (see Fig. 6) until the bill is below the projecting end of the tongue, which operation will release such end from the slot of the hook, when such hook is simply pushed forward toward the eye and unclasped therefrom, which would be reversing the operation of engaging the hook with the eye.

15, Fig. 9, is a bar across the slot or open ing 2 of the eye to limit, if required, the inward movement of the hook.

If required, the tongue can be made separate from the eye instead of integral therewith, as shown, and the same riveted thereto or fastened in any other suitable manner desired.

It will therefore be observed from the foregoing description that the principle of construction is applicable to various purposes where a fastener can be applied, and therefore I do not wish to be limited in its use merely to a corset-clasp or book and eye.

The gist of the invention lies in the projecting tongue combined with a slot or opening in the body of the hook and its bill portion to receive such tongue when the clasp is fastened, which arrangement or looking to- ICO gether will elfectually prevent accidental unclasping.

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

In a hook and eye, the base-piece or eye 1, having the central longitudinal opening 2, of sufiicient length to allow the hook to have a play therein, and the tongue which extends from the inner fixed end of the base-piece or eye, and which is bent or turned forwardly over the top of the opening, and which has its front end projected beyond the front end of the base-piece or eye, combined with a Witnesses:

JOHN B. CLAPP, WM. E. DISBROW.

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