US1571902A - Method of making garment stays - Google Patents

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. 1,571,962 C. C. sELEY METHOD or' MAKING GARMENT sTAYs Feb. 2 1926.

. Original Filed July 27. 1923 I @ZMK v Patented Feb. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT orifice.

CHARLES C. SELEY, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE H. .'BARLOW AND JOSEPH J. lDESMONID, OF CORRY, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MAKING GARMENT STAYS.

Application filed July 27, 1923, Serial No. 654,130. Renewed December 7, 1925.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. SELEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Method of Making Garment Stays and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as rwill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, 'forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to method of manufacturing garment stays composed of a single wire having edge forming loops along each edge of the stay.

The features of this invention are hereinafter described and pointed out and are illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a plan viewof a fragment of a garment stay made in accordance with this invention;

F ig. 2 illustrates one of the operations in this invention;

Fig. 3 is an edgewise view of Fig. 2;

Fig. l is an end view of the wire braid before it has been operated upon by the operation shown in Figs. 2 and 3;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the wire braid shown in Fig. 2, somewhat elongated; and

Fig. 6 is an illustrative view of the operation shown in Fig. 2.

ln practicing this invention the wire is first put through a wire bending machine of the type shown and described in U. S. Patent No. 1,257,748, issued on my application February 28, 1918, which forms it into a ribbon as shown at A in Fig. 2, an end view (see Fig. l) showing the wire in iigure 8 form, the edge loops shingled over each other, thus placing in the wire, composing the loops, an initial torsional twist. l 'then insert vthe final end of the ribbon or braid 'between press-rolls B and B and pass it which extend from the loops c at one edge,

to the loops a at the other edge of the stay. In Fig. (i, l have illustrated, by means of axial lines C, the movement of the loops from the position thereof, as formed by the wire bending machine, above referred to, to the position thereof, indicated by broken lines, after they have been bent backwardly. This backward bending or twisting of the loops a changes them from long pear-shaped loops, as shown at A in Fig. 2, to substantially circular eyes, thus increasing the initial torsional twist therein, and at the saine time places a torsional twist in the diagonal wire between the loops or eyes a, as indicated by small arrows in Fig. 5, because, in the twisting backwardly of the loops at opposite edges of the stay strip, the wire is twisted substantially a half rotation The result of these Operations is the increasing of the elasticity of the wire, thus rendering the iinished stay, shown in Fig. 1, very elastic in all directions, and not susceptible of becoming set when bent.

Having thus fully described my improved method of manufacturing garment stays, and illustrated a suitable means for practicing the same, what claim as new, and dcsire to secure by Letters Batent is:

1. IThe method of forming a garment stay from a wire, consisting in bending the wire into a series of sinuous oppositely disposed helical loops, and then ypassing' said bent wire between press rolls in a direction opposite to that in which the succession of loops were `formed whereby said loops :no turned over backwards.

The .method of forlning u garment slay :lronl :l Wiro, Consisting' in bending tho Wiro into u serieg olf sinnons oppositoly disposed helical loops whereby :1n initial torlionnl srnin placed in Suid Wire, and then pussing said bent wire betnoon press rolls in L direction opposite to thai' in which the snccession olE loops wore Yformed whereby said l0 loops nro turned over backwards thereby inarousing* the initial torlionzll Strain.

ln testimony whorool l nllx my Signaturen CHARLES C. SELICY.

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