US1392241A - Trousers-supporter - Google Patents

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L. wooos. TROUSERS SUPPORTER.

- APPLICATION FILED AUG-9| l9l9.

1 ,392,241 i PatentedSept. 27, 1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD WOODS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TROUSERS-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 27, 1921.

Application filed August 9, 1919. Serial No. 316,393.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD lVoons, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers-Supporters, of which the following i a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in trousers supporters, the peculiarities of which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

The main object of my invention is to provide means to mount detachably the lower end of a trousers-supporting plate on a fold or tongue of the shirt of the wearer so as to engage said fold or tongue at the lower front side of the plate, and thereby exert a leverage grip on the tip end of the fold or tongue at the back side of the plate above said lower end, and correspondingly increase the effect by the downward tendency of th plateunder the downward pull of the trousers carried by the upper endof said plate; another object is the change of said means with regard to the plate, so as to allow the, front of the plate to serve as the back, and thus change the plate for use on. the right side of the wearer, or vice versa. 1 1

The style of trousers supporter is one that is interposed between the shirt and the up per part of the trousers, and is adapted to engage the trousers band at the top of the supporter, and also to engage the shirt of the wearer at the bottomof the supporter, and thereby carry the weight of the trousers on the shirt. A device of this kind is generally mounted opposite the hip of the wearer at each side and sometimes also in front, whereby the trousers are supported at three points. r

In the accompanying drawing on which like reference letters indicate corresponding.

parts Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the upper part of a pair of trousers, viewed from the rlght side, and with a portion of the right side of the trousers broken away to show the adjacent supporter; Fig. 2

a detailed view of my device as used on the left side-and viewed from the front with a portion of the shirt engaged thereby: Fig.

3a similar edge view: Fig. 4r a similar view.

seen from the inside-or back of the device: Fig. 5 an-edgeview of the device showing the method of inser g a fo d or t g e of the shirt into the gripping means at the lower end of the supporter: Fig. 6 a similar view to Fig. 3 showing the gripping means operating on the reverse sides of the plate respectively: and Fig. 7 a partial view of the lowerend of the supporter showing the method of applying the gripping means to the lower end of the plate. v

The letter A designates the body of a trousers supporter preferably formed :of-

aluminum plate, and having the upper end extended horizontally and provided. with a slot or other means for engaging two but tons on the inside of the trousers band for attachment to the upper end of the supporter. The lower or bottom end of the body is provided with lateral extensions B-B. A lever frame, preferably rectangular incloses said body above theprojections B, and preferably consists of parallel bars CC connected by end bars D-D, preferably curved as shown in Fig. 3. The connecting bars D serve as levers for the parallel bars, and are slidingly mounted on said projecting shoulders 13-13. The parallel bars are thus mounted on opposite sides of the plate body, and the bar C, Fig. 3, is adapted to lie close to the back of the plate and comparatively near to the fulcrum point of support, when the opposite bar 0 lies in front of and preferably adjacent to the under the bottom end of the plate and up the b ack of the plate so that the up lies between the plate and thebarC as indicated in Fig; 5. A downward pressure of the plate will bring the bar C downward and 'backward and preferably adjacent to the lower front edge of the plate as shown in Fig. 3, and thus grip the tip endof the fold or tongue between the bar C and the back of the plate with an'increased grips ping efiect due to the leverage of said frame, as indicated in Figs. 3and 4. The bar C that receives the first pull of the tongue of the shirt preferably lies close to the plate and below adjacent to the lower edge, in

order to grip the interposed fold or tongue as indicated in Flg. 3, but the bar 0 may be otherwise, p s tioned and still efiecta leyerage grip upon the fold or tongue by the bar G.

Since the lever frame is loosely or slidingly mounted, in its preferred form, on th shoulders BB, the frame may be slid backward so as to bring the bar C from the lower position shown in Fig. 3 to the upper position shown in Fig. 6, and likewise bring the bar C to the lower position adjacent to the lower end of the plate: but the bars thus change their function and the bar C, Fig. 6, is brought closer to the fulcrum than the bar C 1n the same figure, and thus the bar 0 becomes capable of exerting the increased grip on the tip of the fold or tongue which was previously exerted by the bar C Fig. 3.

That is to say, by shifting the lever frame the function of the bars is reversed, and the front of the plate becomes the back and the back becomes the. front, so that the supporter is adapted to be worn at either the right or the left side of the wearer by changing the lever frame asv just described. In Fig. 7, one of the projecting shoulders B is shown bent inward or toward each other so as to reduce the spread of the shoulders from the normal distance shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and thus allow the lever frame to be slipped over the other projection B and pass the bent up projection to embrace the body of the supporter: the bent up shoulder is then bent back to the normal position as indicated by dotted line Fig. 7 and will maintain the lever frame in the proper position. Any. means by 'which the normal spread of the projecting shoulders is re duced, such as by springing them closer together to allow slipping them into the lever frame, the length of which is less than the normal spread of the shoulders,may be employed. The frame is thus loosely mounted to inclose the body of the plate, and allow of fulcrumingon the shoulders to exert the leverage pressure on the interposed tip of the fold or tongue of the shirt, as above described. v

The folded tip of the wearers shirt is the i only part of the dress that is engaged with the cross bars CC of the clampingdevice at the base of the body plate. That is to say, one of the engaged portions of the wearers dress is engaged with both of the cross bars mentioned and the pull of the folded tip, due to the weight of the trousers supported at the top of the body, operates in one direction only upon the loosely mounted lever device or frame herein shown. I

The body being flat at the bottom edge or portion makes it desirable that the sides of the lever frame be curved as shown in the drawing, so that the lower cross bar may come to operative position close to the bottom edge of the body plate as shown in Figs. 8 and 6. On account of the symmetrical shape of the" lever frame, either cross bar may take its operative position close to the bottom edge of the body plate, according to which side of the device is to be turned outward.

The'tcp of said body A extending upward is widened laterally as shown in Figs. 2 and 1-. One extension preferably to the front being longer than the other, and provided with a horizontal slot extending across both extensions and reduced at the ends at E and F so, as to engage the necks of buttons secured to the inside of the waist band of trousers as shown in Fig. 1. The said slot is widenedvertically at G intermediate of the'ends of the slot so that the head of the buttons may slipped into the slot and directed horizontally to the respective ends E and F for engagement thereby. The upper end of'the supporter therefore consists of a horizontal bar H connecting and stiflening the lateral extending ends of the top. The button that is engaged by the end F of the said slot is preferably located about at the vertical side seam of the trousers, and the end E therefore extends forward to the button located in front of said seam of the trousers. 7

If desired, the supporters may be reversed so that. the forward button is substantially on the side seamof the trousers and the other button is the length of the slot (about two and a he finches) to the rear of the side seam. The idea is to cause the supporter to lie against the pelvis in such a position that it will be unaffected by body movements. The preferred location of the buttons on the trousers band and therefore the location of the supporters as shown in Fig. 1, or reversely located as just described, will depend upon the girth of the individual.

Iclaim:

1. A device of the character described comprising a plate body having laterally projecting shoulders, and a slidable rectangular frame having cross bars extending in front and behind said body, and connecting curved side lever bars adjustably fulcrumed on said shoulders,the front bar adapted to be engaged by a folded tongue of the shirt, and the back bar to grip the tip of the tongue between the body and the back bar which is otherwise unconnected to the shirt, substantially as described. I A device of the character described comprising a plate, body having laterally projecting shoulders near the bottom end, and a rectangular lever frame having parallel cross bars on opposite sides of said body and connecting curved lever bars ad justably fulcrumed on said shoulders so as to locate one'bar adjacent to the bottom end of thebody and slide it toward and away from said bottom end and the otherbar ad-. justably mounted above the shoulders on the back side of the body, and slidable to and y from said shoulders, the slidable mounting of the frame on said shoulders allowing of either cross bar being used with the bottom end of the body for reversing the device, substantially as described.

3. YA device of the character described comprising a plate body having laterally projecting shoulders near the bottom end, and a loosely mounted rectangular lever frame composed of cross bars and side bars surrounding said body, the side bars being slidingly mounted on said shoulders as fulcrums, and adapted to be shifted so that either cross bar will be close to the shoulders and the other cross bar will be close to the bottom end to change the maximum grip fromone side of said body to the other, and

allow reversing the body, substantially as described.

4. A device of the character described comprising a body having a laterally widened top provided with a button-engaging slot adapted to carry the trousers at the top, and having a lever device, having two arms engaged by the shirt only,-the longer arm being mounted at the bottom edge of the body and clamping an interposed fold of the wearers shirt by the upward pull of said interposed fold due to the downward ush of the said body under the weight 0 the trousers engaged at the top slot.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

LEONARD WOODS.

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