US592296A - Hook and eye - Google Patents

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.. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

View of a hook disconnected from the eye.

IRENE PATIENOE KIMBALL, OF OWENSVILLE, INDIANA.

HOOK AND EYE.

v SPECIFICATION formingpart of "LettersPatent No. 592,296, dated October 26, 1897.

Application filed February 13, 1897. Serial No. 623,276. on; model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRENE PATIENCE KIM- BALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Owensville, in the county of Gibson and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to hooks and eyes such as are generally employed for fastening garments; and its object is to provide an improved construction of the same which shall be simple and inexpensive to manufacture and in which there will be no liability of the hook being accidentally disengaged from the eye.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation showing the invention as it appears when in use. Fig. 2 is a perspective Fig. 3 is a similar view of the eye disconnected from the hook. Fig. 4 is a view showing the hook in the act of being disengaged from the eye. r

In the said drawings the reference-numeral 1 designates the hook, consisting of a single piece of wire bent over at the center, forming These arms are contracted or bent inwardly intermediate the ends, forming bends 3, and are then bent outwardly and then upwardly and inwardly,

forming a rearwardly-extending lug or hook 4. The opposite or inner end of one of these arms is formed With a coil 5 and then bent transversely at a right angle, forming a pin 6. The otherarm 2 is bent' upwardly, forming a lug 7, with which said pin engages, and is then extended transversely or across to the other arm, and the extremity bent around the same. The pin 6 is intended to secure the hook to a garment after the manner of an ordinary safety-pin.

The numeral 8 designates the eye, made from a single piece of wire bent over at the then extends transversely across to the other arm and is bent around the same.

The said hook and eye are formed of springwire, and the lug or hook 4 extends up above or in a different plane from the arms 2. The lug 9 and the eyes or loops 10 of the eye 8, on the contrary, are in the same plane with each other.

The manner of using the invention is as follows: The hook and eye are secured to a garment by means of the pins 6 and 14, and

to connect them together the lug or hook 4 is passed between the arms 12 of the eye, as seen in Fig. 4. By now pulling the hook 1 outward the bends of the lug or hook 4-will en gage, respectively, with the eyes or loops 9, as seen in Fig. 1. The bends 11.will now serve as stops for the lug or hook 4, preventing the latter from being accidentally disengaged from the said eyes or loops. there is no liability of the hook and eye being accidentally disengaged or disconnected from each other.

' Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a hook and eye, the combination with the hook, consisting of a single piece of wire, bent over and contracted at the center and then bent upwardly and backwardly, forming a lug or hook 4, the curved bends 3, in rear thereof and the arms 2, of the eye consisting of a single piece of wire bent overat the center and formed with an inwardly-extending lug or tongue 9, two curved eyes or loops 10, inclined at an angle with respect to each other, the stop-bends 11, in rear thereof and the arms 12; substantially as described.

By this means 2. In a hook and eye, the combination with the hook made of a single piece of wire, bent over, or doubled at or near the center, and comprising the lug orhook 4, the bends 3, the arms 2, one of which is formed with a springcoil 5, and a transverse pin 6, and the other formed with a lug 7, and then extended transversely across, and secured to said first-mentioned arm, of the eye made from a single clined eyes or loops 10, the bends 11, and the 3 arms 12, one of which arms is formed with a spring-coil 13, and a transverse pin 11, while the other is formed with a catch or lug 15, and then extended across and secured to the other arm; substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IRENE PATIENOE KIMBALL.

Witnesses:

ZOE POLLARD, L. L. POTTER.

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