US699076A

US699076A - Hook and eye.

Info

Publication number: US699076A
Application number: US6595401A
Authority: US
Inventors: Emma E Chipman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-06-25
Filing date: 1901-06-25
Publication date: 1902-04-29
Anticipated expiration: 1919-04-29

Description

No. 699,076i PatentedApr. 29, |902.

E. E. cHlPmAN. HOOK AND EYE.

(Apixlicntion led June 25, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED i1 STATES,

PATENT Cifra-ICE.

' E. CHIPMAN, OF "WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

Hook AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,076, dated April 29, 1902.

Application led June 25, 1901y To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, EMMA E. CHIPMAN, acitizen of the United States, and aresident of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of

which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to new and useful labor-saving improvements in hooks and eyes, such as are employed upon garments and other articles for securing one part to another.

It is the object of myinvention to improve upon the construction of articles yof the above class by providing a hook or eye which can be attached to a garment more readily and with a fewer number of sewings than those now employed; further, to produce a hook which will remainattached longer than those now upon the market by reason of the fact` that the threads employed for its attachment are protected from wear.

With the above objects in view my inven-Y tion resides and consists inthe novel construe-- tion of a hook, as is shown on the accompanying sheet ofdrawings, forming a part of this specification ,upon which similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures, and of which- Figure l shows a perspective view of my novel hook attached to a piece of fabric. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the hook shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4. show a plan 'and'side view of an eye made in accordance withmy invention. Fig. 5 is a sideelevation of ahook constructed in accordance with my invention and employing a preferred style of eye resistance or hump. This does away with the center or spring wire, thus saving wire in the construction of the hook.

cv c at the rear, and a central Araised part or hump d, which is located beneath the tongue of the hook and adapted to operate in the usual lmanner to afford a resistance against the detachment of the eye B. This resistance or humpl CZ' (shown in Fig. 5) is rigid,.so to speak, being formed in the two horizontal wires comprising the shank portionb, before mentioned, and consequently the tongue a' of the hook yields to permit the passage thereunder of the eye B, whereas in the other form thehump itself yields. n

' Within the top side of the shank portion b of the hook I form one or moreattac'hingloopse, which IV arrange transversely of the Wires to form' thread-pockets below the top surface of the shank. These pockets in practice serve to receive the attaching-threads and aiford several advantages, the first being the fact that the hook can be attached with two sewings by placing the hook or eye on the lining of the dress exactly the same as l-buttonsare placed on a ladies shoe, turn and delay the work. A second and equally as desirable advantage of my invention is the fact that the attaching-threads are below the top surface of the hook and as a result are not exposed to the wear of thethreadby friction of the eye.

This invention is equally applicable to eyes, as is clearly apparent from ,the accompanying illustrations,.whereinfrepresents the eye proper, and hthe-horizontal shank portion, z' the eyes, and j the pockets for the attaching-threads. The novel advantages recited forthe hook are present in the eye, and consequently I do not Wish to restrict the use of my invention to hooks alone.

yIn the accompanying drawings I have shown both a hookand eye, each formed of a single piece of wire; but it will be obvious, of course, that my invention is equally applicable to hooks and eyes formed of sheetmetal, and it isalso true that it is applicable -toy different v Ystyles of hooks than those shown in the drawings, and is consequently not at all limitedto the structure described.

Having thurs described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A hook comprising a hooked portion, a shank portion, eyes on said shank portion, depending thread-pockets formed in both said shank and eye portions.

2. A hook of the class described, the same comprising a hook portion, a shank, eyes secured to said shank, and a depending threadpocket formed in said eyes for attachment of the hook to a garment.

3. A hook of the class described, the same comprising an engaging hook formed of a double portion of the Wire, a double horizontal rigid shank portion, eyes formed at the said thread-pockets, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, this 19th day of June, A. D. 1901.

EMMA E. CHIPMAN.

Witnesses:

OLIVER S. BARTON, S. I-I. MCCAIN.