US1272857A - Hook and eye. - Google Patents

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'J. B. RUSS.

HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I5, 1915.

1372,857. Patented July 16, 1918.

wilbvwoou: y a gvwewtoz MEN 1;. Ross, on sHnLToN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR To. ROBERT N. BASSETT COMPANY, or SHELTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION or CONNECTICUT.

' HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Continuation of application Serial No. 822,850, filed March's, 1914. This application filed June 15, 1915.

Serial No. 34,280;

To all whom it may concerm V Be it known that 1, JOHN B. Russ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelton in the town of Huntington, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hooks and Eyes, of which the fol posed between the prong and the open base portion when the device is anchored in passages'orfolds' in fabric material, especially in folds or passages disposed along the meeting edges of garments, without resorting to the expedient of sewing other than that required in forming the folds themselves.

I attain these and other objects of my invention in the preferred embodiment thereof,

set forth in the following description and accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to corresponding parts. j"

In the drawingsi Figure 1 is a front view of my hooks and eyes in their proper position in the folds or passages along the meeting edges of a fragmentary portion of 'a garment, the upper portions of the fabric material being broken Fig. 2, a view of the manner of assem-' bling the hooks in the fabric material before thelatteris folded to form a fold or passage.

to inclose' the-base of the hooks, only one of the'latter being shown; I

Fig. 3, atop view of a single pronged hook;

Fig. 1, an end view of the hook shown in Fig; 3;

Fig. 5, a top view of a hook member having a plurality .of prongs;

Figs. 6 and 7, top and front views of one of the forms of eyes showing a plurality of loops or eyes proper carried by the base, and Fig. 8, a' fragmentary transverse section of the parts taken on line w-min Fig. 1.

Th fundamental features of my inveng tion are disclosed in my application Serial No. 822850, filed March 6, 1914, for improvementin corset fasteners of which the present application is a continuation.

In the present instance I have shown the meeting edges 1' and 2 respectively of a fragmentary portion of a garment, the base portions of the hooks and eyes being wholly or partly embraced' between the layers 3 and A of the reinforcing pieces 5, 5 respectively.

The bases of .the hooks and eyes are completely incased within the layers 6 and 7 formed by folding the marginal edges 8 and 9'of an outer fabric a around the bases of the hooks and eyes respectively and sewing theouter, fabric down close in back of the bases of the hooks and eyes by means of the stitches 10 and 11 thereby forming a passage which holds the hooks and eyes in place between. the layers of the different fabrics. The edges '12 and'13 of the marginal portions 8 and 9 ofthe outermost fabric are turned in under and sewed down by stitches 14: and 15 respectively to form a hem immediately adjacent to the stitches 10 and 11. I have thus far described the hooks and eyes as being confined within the folds respectively of only two layers of fabric, but it is obvious that the same may be confined in a like manner between a plurality of layers of fabric according to the nature of the garment or other article in which it is desired to anchor the bases of the hooks and eyes. Having now described generally the application of my hooks and eyes to a garment I willv proceed to describe the hooks and eyes in detail. Each hook is bent up outqof a single piece of wire to form a rectangular anchoring portion or base 16 having the ends of the wire terminating on one side thereof and confined within a ferrule 17 to prevent'the base from becoming distorted when under stress. The wire at'the middle of its opposite side is curved upwardly and inwardly over the space inclosed within the sides of the base to form the prong or hook proper 18; In a like manner each eye, if desired but not necessarily, is also bent up out 7 of a single piece of wire to form a rectangular anchoring portion or base 19 having the ends of the wire terminating on one side thereof and confined within a ferrude 20,

Y. but having the wire at the middle of its opposite side loopedj outwardly and up- Patented July 16, 1918.

wardly away from the base to'form the eye proper 21. Of course it is not necessary for eaclrbaseor anchoring portion of either-.-

member of thethook-and eyeto carry a single prong or loop slnce one base may be of sufficient length to carry a plurality -ofprongs or loops, as is shown in Fig. 5 in which thebase 16/- is provided with a ferrule 17 on one side and a plurality of prongs 18 on its opposite side. A plurality of eyes proper 22 is shown looped outwardly from a single base 2-3 carrying a ferrulefZ-fl on its outer side; While I have described theeye portion as beingbent up to have a like base tothat of the hook portion yet it will hereinafter appear that the eyesimay be made in any other suitable manner as'long as theyare designed to properly engagethe hook. To assemble the hook between the laye ers of the folded fabrics the fabrics are first laid'down flat, the inner reinforcing piece 5 on top of the outer piece a, the formerbeing disposed over the middle line orline of fold b of the outer. piece. Coincident with, or adjacent to, this line of fold both pleces of fabric are slit atfpredetermined intervals 7 25 to permit 'theinsertion therethrough of the" inwardly projecting prongs 18 carried by their respective basesas shown in Fig. 2 in whichbnly one of the hooks appears. The two pieces of fabric 3 and ,6 are then folded over atthe line of fold'b so that the base 16 wil1lie wholly or partially within ing or otherwise fastening them tothe walls 'of the passage. To assemble theeye within its fold'the fabrics are laid flat and slit and folded over and stitched in a like manner. The membersv being assembled as above described causes the adjacent sides of the base of each hook and eye respectively to form long bearings which whenthe hooks and eyes are under stress press against the inside of the adjacent edges of the passages in:

which they are anchored, thereby giving a uniform' 'strain againstuthese inside, edges,

which assists'in keeping the hooks and eyes from turningor twistingwithin the passage; An yrtendency to move longitudinally within the slot 25, tlllfQllgh lWhlCh the prong-of the,

hookpasses, of a length substantially coincidentwith the width O fYtheP TOI 'gR and where a plurality of bases are confined in oneipassagethe ends of the passage may be closed and each base-abut closely against e' x ba s, h r y. omr t y'fillins ha passage from end to end the basepor fold isprevented by making the tionsi The base portionsof the eyesmay be "held from transverse and longltudinal movement ina like manner. The open space in the base of each h'ook, :taken together with the fact that the prong of the hook projects ba ok'wardly or inwardly over its open space facilitates the manipulation of each hook strands of the wire which extend upwardly I from the base in forming the prong may be curved slightly outwardly, expediency may require, since the impoi tant feature resides in having the extremity of the prong terminate over the open space formed with} in the base and having no. part of the. device underneath the prong which would prevent the'layer or layers of the fabric beneath the prong from being pressed downwardly into the open space as above described. Forthe purpose of clearn'ess I have shown aslight. space between themeeting edges 1 andZof' the garment'in Fig- 1,, but do not desire it to beunderstood that these meeting edges can not be drawn tightly together: or to slightly overlap should thejengagement iof the'hook and eye be suitably located rela tively to one another to effect this-resultl- While I have shown the folds,. for,thei purposeof clearness, as' being forinedby fold: ng Q ayer b abric ar nd he dj t edges ofthe base portions. of the. hooks and e r s ecti ely lde e' i e dis inctly understood that I may adopt'any suitable manner of forming a passage for inca sing' h h ks and y s, b t mo e p rtic lar y he ha k gtoo e'll lmqwn ii! t e ar to a qn re ny e ai ed l ustr tien Althou h, Ii ave s n my' illve ti n dantedfw a as pa a e n g rme ts yet? t e pe ific configuration of my hooks and eyes, and;

m r special y th ho ks, ha ar us- 1 en nt se fa ners a idefrom use 11 ar nts l e' iieration of ben he loiop er ren ol h t it. willbe clined upwardly maybe simultaneous with 1 that of rolling the ferrule around'theeextremities of the wire forming thebasefpor- Hons..- While he: uti zat n of. thes errules has a peculiar mer't, yet the dee we. mig t b cope atiY should t slat bedi'spen'sed with and the egrtremitiesofilthe; wire left bare. Neither I l I v flee s easy; hr ughp eferable to have th wextrem f he W r te m n ted mammals, of the."

a qk fith h s in e theyj ay r i ate almostanywhere in the skeletonform of the a evice; as; f r instance a -ti e emi 'ee the prongs. When it is desired to engage the hooks and eyes to close the meeting edges of the passages in the form of my invention above described, the base 19 of the eye is tipped upwardly at an angle so that its loop or eye proper may pass over the extremity of the prong 18. Since the distance between the under side of the prong and the outer layer of fabric passingunder the prong is less than the diameter or width of the wire- Fig. 7.

While the arrangement illustrated and above described sets forth the way in which I carry out my invention, yet the same is susceptible to such modification as may fairly come within the scope of the ap pended claims.

Having now described my invention what I desire to claim and protect by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a fold or passage in fabric material, of a wire hook for hook and eye fasteners comprising an anchoring portion incased within and of a length greater than the width of said fold, the said anchoring portion being provided with an opening and having abutting surfaces disposed in a straight line along. each side thereof, and a prong mounted on the outer side and passed through said fabric material the said prong being'ben-t inwardly and disposed sufficiently close to said fold to cooperate therewith when the said prong is engaged by the eye member.

2. A wire hook for hook and eye fasteners comprising an elongated rectangular anchoring portion provided with an opening and having abutting surfaces disposed in a straight line along both of its sides, and a prong carried by one of said sides and bent inwardly over said opening whereby no part of said anchoring portion lies under said prong.

3. The combination with a fold or passage in fabric material, of a wire hook for hook and eye fasteners comprising an anchoring portion incased within said fold, the said anchoring portion being provided with an abutting surface in a straight line along one side thereof, and a prong mounted on said side and passed through said fabric material, the said prong being bent inwardly over said fold.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN B. RUSS. Witnesses:

JOHN U. Russ, JOSEPHINE W SULLIVAN.

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