US136114A - Improvement in hooks - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD wEIss, or EEooKLYN, NEw YORK.

|MPRQVEMENT IN Hooks.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent No. 136,114, dated February 18,1873.

city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of N ewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks; andV I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference beingrhad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which drawing- Figure 1 represents a side view of my hook. Fig. is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in a hookmade of wire and bent so that a single loop is formed at the end of the shank ot' the hook, while said shank is twisted to prevent the loop from spreading open when the same is exposedto a strain.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a hook, which is made of a single piece of metal wire, that is doubled upso that the bight of the wire forms the tip of the hook, while the two ends of the wire are bent in such a manner as to form a loop, a, at the end of the shank of the hook. The ends of the wire meet at the center of the loop, as shown in Fig. 2, and it' a tape is drawn through the become disengaged. This difliculty I have overcome by putting a twist, b, in the shank of the hook, as shown in Figs. l and 2. By this twist the loop is rmly closed and its ends are prevented from spreading open.

This hook is intended particularly for necktie shields, with which it is connected by an elastic tape passed through the loop a. As this tape is subjected to a strain each time the neck-tie is put on or taken ofi', the loop has been liable to spread open, and it was found necessaryT to connect the ends of the wire by solder. The operation of soldering, however, requires much time, and after all it was not sufficient to produce the desired ei'ect. twist b which I use for locking the loop can be put in while the hook is being formed, and the ends of the wire are effectually prevented from spreading open.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a wire hook, A, provided with a single loop, a, which is locked by a twist, b, substantially as shown and described.

This specilication signed by nie this 23d January, 1873.

. RICHARD WEISS.

Witnesses W. HAUFF, E. F. KAsTENHUBER.

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