US690051A - Dress-hook. - Google Patents

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UNTTEE STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

CORDELIA SMITH FALES, OF FOXBORO, AND EDGAR J. RAUCII, OF BROCKTON,

. MASSACHUSETTS.

DRESS HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,051, dated December 31, 1901. Application filed April 13, 1901. Serial No. eaeve. (No model.)

To atZZ whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that we, OoRDELIA SMITH FALES, residing in Foxboro, Norfolk county, and EDGAR J. RAUOH, residing in Brockton, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dress Hooks or Fastenings for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in the so-called dress hook and eye, and it consists of a hook proper and three pins.

With our improvement sewing is entirely dispensed with, the hook being fastened to the garment by means of pins.

The improvement referred to is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view showing the hook fastened to the garment; Fig. 2, a side View showing our improvements, and Fig. 3 the pin used to fasten the hook to the garment.

The figures are necessarily greatly enlarged for the purpose of perspicuity and precision.

Similar numbers refer to similar parts in the different figures.

The hook is made by using a piece of wire of suitable length bent sharply at 1, forming the free end of the hook, and the two ends, now parallel wires, again bent at 2, forming the hook proper. At a short distance from the bend of the hook 2 small depressions are made in each wire, as shown at 3, to receive the pin at when fastened to the garment. The

wire ends are then straight to the end, where they are bent so as to form small eyes 5 for the insertion of a second pin, similar to pin 4,, used in fastening the hook to the garment. The pin used has small spurs or is otherwise roughened near the point or at 6 to prevent its pulling out of the garment when inserted therein.

It will be seen that We dispense entirely with needle and thread, thereby saving much time and labor in fastening the hook to the garment. At the same time the hook is fas tened much firmer, the shanks of the hook being made fast in two places-at the depres sions near the bend of the hook and at the end of the shank at the eyesand at some little distance apart draws evenly on the garment and prevents pulling or tearing. It will also be seen that the hook andpin used for an eye can be used invisibly as well as visibly. A third pin is used for the eye to engage with the hook proper.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture a dresshook constructed of a single piece of wire bent upon itself to form a hook, and provided with fastening-eyes at the free ends of the wire, occupying parallel planes, and bends in the wire opposite the hook and extending in a direction away from the book, all arranged for fastening by means of pins, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CORDELIA SMITH FALES. EDGAR J. RAUOH.

Witnesses:

ZEBALE KEITH, ABBIE F. KEITH.

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