US669783A - Hook and eye. - Google Patents

Description

N0. 669,783. Patented Mar. 12, W01. E. W. GROESGHEL.

HOOK AND EYE.

(Application filed Aug. 29, 1900.) p

I (NoModem INVENTOR,

2 'MMfwM I I BY ATTORNEYS.

m: uoams PETERS do, PHOYO-LITMOWWASNINGTDN o c EDWIN W. GROESOHEL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,783, dated March 12, 1901. Application filed August 29, 1900. Serial No. 28,383. (No model.)

To alt whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN W. GRoEsoHEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in J ersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to garment-fasteners, and it has reference particularly to that class of such devices known as hooks and eyes.

The invention constitutes an improvement upon the hook and eye patented to me July 4., 1899, under Letters Patent No. 628,143, the principal object of said invention being to so construct the members of the device that while proof against accidental disengagement as a series they may with facility be successively and rapidly disconnected provided the force' employed is properly exerted.

The invention consists in the improved hook and eye constructed substantially as will be hereinafter pointed out,and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

I have fully illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings,whereincorresponding letters-of reference indicate like parts, and whe'rein-- Figure 1 represents two pieces of fabric or the adjoining edge portions of a garment provided with one form of my improved book and eye. Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view of the preferred form of my book and eye. Fig. 3 is a' plan view of another form of my hook and eye. Figs. 4. and 5 are views in side elevation, a portion in each being broken away, presenting two different modifications of the hook member of the device shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a view in side elevation of another modified form of my improved hook and eye, the two members being separated and a portion of the hook member being broken away. Fig. 7 is a top plan view, and Fig. 7 isa view in front elevation, of the eye member shown in Fig. 6; and Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively a top plan view and a view in side elevation of still another modified form of my invention, a portion of the hook member, as shown in Fig. 9, being broken away and the eye member appearing in section.

The hook member of the device consists of a single piece of wire'bent in such form as to produce the shank a, the bill 19, and the eyelets c' 0 these elements being the essential parts of a hook for ahookand eye. The shank members a a are comparatively short and lie parallel to each other. One eyelet c of the hook constitutes a loop formed at one end of the wire, the other end of the wire merging from the other eyelet into a tongue or guard d, which either rises in an incline gradually from the plane of the shank members toward the tip of the bill 17, as in Fig. 4:, or first rises abruptly, as at d in Fig. 5, and then extends in a substantially horizontal plane before it is directed toward said tip of the bill, the object in both cases being to clear the tongue from the space that is produced between the parallel shank members a and a so that the tongue will have perfect freedom of lateral movement and will have the resiliency which its full length affords. Furthermore, in the construction shown in Fig. 5 the edge portion of the goods may be laid over the tongue without being appreciably elevated, thus concealing the greater portion of the device.

As in my patented device, the bill is comparatively short and extends substantially at an angle of forty-five degrees relatively to the plane of the shank members, the tongue approaching into approximate contact with the tip of the bill and then being turned in agradual deflection downwardly, its tip either being turned thence rearwardly and lyingin approximate contact with the body of the tongue (see Fig. l) or else extending forwardly in any of the several ways hereinafter set forth.

e e are anchorages which are formed in the wire between the bill and shank members a a these anchorages being projected forwardly-that is to say, toward the bill end of the hook-and extending more or less into alinement with the line of engagement in the bill between the hook and eye. As shown in Fig. 8, these anchorages project beyond the said line, While in Fig. 9 they extend not quite as far as said line. In Fig. 3 they appear as extending up to the line.

The eye member is formed of a continuous piece of wire, having as the essential parts thereof a loopf and eyelets f f The device is so shaped (assuming that the loop and eyelets are already produced) as to bring the eyelets more or less into alinement with the loop. In Fig. 2 said eyelets and the loop appear in approximately perfect alinement with each other, while in Figs. 3, 7, and 8 they appear more or less out of perfect alinement with each other. In the eye member shown in Fig. 3 the advanced portion of each eyelet is made straight, as at f thus affording in this portion of the eye an extended medium for the engagement of the attaching-threads. It will be observed in view of what has been above stated and upon a perusal of the drawings, that according as the bill protrudes beyond the anchorages in the hook member so the loop is set back in the eye member-or, in other words, the eyelets in said eye member are advanced according as the anchorages in the hook member are set back. The object in these several constructions is in each case to bring the securing-points, which the eyelets in the eye member and the anchorages in the hook member afford, into such proximity to each other as certain conditionsfor instance, more or less of a space between the edges of the garment or fabric-will permit. As in my patented device, my improved hook and eye possesses an advantage over many hooks and eyes which are so constructed as to obviate their unintentional separation, in that, since its bill is extremely short, all that it is necessary to do in order to connect the members is practically but to bring their adjacent end portions together, an inappreciable reverse motion only after the eye clears the bill of the hook being necessary. Furthermore, the two meeting portions of a garment may be brought together edge to edge where overlapping of the edges would he necessary with the ordinary hook and eye; but in the construction of the hook and eye which constitutes this my present invention there is involved a still further advantage. As has been hereinbefore pointed out, both members of the device have anchorages which are disposed near their forward ends, which anchorages in the case of each member are appreciably spaced or remote from each other and situated in contiguity to an imaginary transverse line in the member where the other member engages it. The consequence of this construction is that, considering each edge portion of the garment and the member of the device which is secured to it as a single flexible element, the latter is, as it were, stiffened or made rigid for intervals of considerable lengths as compared to the widths of the connections or couplings between the members and so, since in the eye member especially the anchorages are brought up into proximity to the imaginary transverse line of engagement between said members, considerable leverage may be exercised in separating the members, and their couplings or connections may be twisted apart with the greatest facility and, beitemphasized,withoutstretch ing the goods adjacent said members. The wider the anchorages are spaced, as compared with the widths of the coupling afforded in the connected bill and loop of each device, the better. Also, it should be remarked, the securing-threads for each member should be applied as near to the front portions of its anchorages as possible.

It is preferred that the bill project first outwardly from the hook member before its end is upturned, as in Figs. 2 and 3, instead of rising at once, as in Figs. 8 and 9, since thereby a free space 3 Will be left both sides of said bill down into which, in twisting out the loop of the eye member from engagement with the bill, said loop may turn.

If the forward end of the tongue is deflected forwardly after it has been given the downward bend, it may extend in a slight incline upwardly, as shown in Fig. 4:, or it may first extend substantially in the plane of the shank members and then upwardly, forming a rectangular hook, as in Fig. 5, or it may be shaped to form a curved hook, as in Figs. 6 and 9. The bill may, as seen in side elevation, be perfectly straight, as in Figs. 4 and 6, or it may be curved inwardly from its base to its tip, as seen at g in Fig. 9, or it may extend first vertically and then at a slight incline rearwardly, as seen at h in Fig. 5. The hook and bill are given the various shapes for several reasons, but principally so as to reduce the space 2', which they form, and so as to facilitate the disengagement of the members of the device.

The eye membershown in Figs. 6, 7, and 7 has the extreme forward portion 7a of its loop slightly deflected upwardly, so that the two members of the device may be secured flat against the fabric. In Fig. 9 the entire loop is curved upwardly out of the plane of the eyelets of the eye for the same reason.

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

1. In a garment-fastener, the combination of a hook member having a short upturned bill and a suitable guard coacting therewith, and an eye member, said members having relatively narrow coupling portions and also having laterally-disposed anchorages situated relatively remote from each other and projecting into approximate transverse alinement with the point or points where said coupling portions engage each other, substantially as described.

2. In a garment-fastener, the combination of a hook member having its coupling portion projecting outwardly therefrom and upturned at the end, thus forming the bill, and a suitable guard coacting with said bill, said coupling portion or bill having a free space both sides thereof, and an eye member, said coupling portion or bill and also the coupling portion of the eye member being relatively narrow, and said members having laterallydisposed anchorages situated relatively remote from each other and projecting into approximate transverse alinement with the point or points Where said coupling portions engage each other, substantially as described.

3. In a garment-fastener, the hook memher having a relatively narrow coupling portion projecting outwardly therefrom and upturned at the end, thus forming the bill, a suitable guard coacting with said bill or coupling portion, and laterally-disposed anchorages situated relatively remote from each other and projecting into approximate trans- EDWIN W. GROESOHEL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM GROESCI-IEL, JOHN W. STEWARD.

Images