US2059618A - Lingerie tape holder - Google Patents

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Nov. 3, 1936.. F. J. SWAYNE LINGERIE TAPE HOLDER Filed Sept. 24, 1934 Patented Nov. 3, 1936 UNITED STATES LINGERIE TAPE HOLDER Frank J. Swayne, near Centralia, Wash, assignor to The De Long Hook and Eye Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania Application September 24,1934, Serial No. 745,309

7 Claims.

My invention relates to a device intended for securement to the shoulder portion of a woman's dress, waist, or other outer garment, to receive the shoulder tapes of. lingerie, so that these tapes can not fall from the wearers shoulders, or drop into a position where they become visible.

Such a lingerie tape holder must be substantially n0 larger--certainly no wider--than the tape itself, as the shoulder straps of evening dresses are frequently only of sufiicient width to conceal the lingerie tapes. The holder must therefore be inconspicuous or invisible even under such circumstances. It should be so constructed that it causes no bunching or break in the contour of the shoulder of the dress, and

therefore should be substantially flat or planiform. It must be capable of permanent attachment to the dress, if desired, and by convenient means, such as by sewing, and therefore must be sufiiciently small and rugged to stay in place while the dress to which it is attached goes through laundering or cleaning processes. If it is preferred that it be only temporarily attached to the dress, this must be by easily engageable means, and whatever the character of the attaching means, they must be inconspicuous and of such character as will not damage the clothing nor be uncomfortable to the wearer. It must be simple and therefore cheap, so that it may be widely adopted.

It must be capable of permanent securement, when this is desired, in a simple manner, easily accomplished, that will hold it against undue departure from its proper position, preferably flat against the shoulder portion of the garment, in a line with the extent of the lingerie tapes. It must be readily engageable and disengageable with these tapes, without damage to them or to the dress, yet unlikely to be accidentally disen-- 40 gaged. When engaged, any pull or stress caused by the lingerie tapes should be so applied to the holder, and by it to the dress, that such pull or stress serves only to hold the holder the more surely in its proper position, and the tapes flat 45 within the holder, not bunched or rolled into a string.

It is to the accomplishment of the above ends that my invention is directed, and the invention, to such ends, comprises. the novel holder, the

5 novel parts thereof, and the novel relative formation, arrangement, and relationship of such parts.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown the principles of my invention embodied in various illustrative forms.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the shoulder portion of. a dress and the underlying tape, illustrating how my invention is applied to and employed with the same.

Figure 2 is an elevation, and Figure 3 an edge view, of one form of the invention.

Figures 4 to 9, inclusive, are elevations of various forms of the invention, each differing from the others in certain respects; Figure '7 is the form which I prefer at the present, when a permanently attached holder is desired.

For cheapness, ease of construction, ruggedness, small size, and like advantages, I prefer that the holder be formed of wire, and that it be formed by bending one piece of suitable length. This, however, is a matter of choice, and many of the advantages of my invention may be realized if it is formed of other material or materials, or is made by methods other than bending or forming into shape, or if its several parts are separately formed and suitably connected, rigidly or otherwise. To maintain it flat and .inconspicuous, and to avoid injury to clothes or wearer, I prefer that all parts lie in one common plane, yet this also is optional, and some forms shown arev not so arranged. The naming of one material or form of material in the claims is, therefore, to be understood as including all equivalent materials or forms of material.

Essentially the holder comprises an open loop I to receive thetape 4, a portion typified by the hook or pin 3 of Figures 2 and 3, for securement to the dress, and a shank 2 or other connecting part extending between the loop and the dressengaging part3. Thus, the part 3 is somewhat distant from the loop, and the shank 2 serves to transmit tension from the loop I to the part 3, and to the shoulder portion 5 of the dress, to which the latter is secured. 7

Various securing means are shown in the several figures of the drawing. Since the plane of the hook 3 of Figures 2 and 3 is at right angles to the plane of the loop I, and may cause an unsightly bunching or breaking of the contour of the shoulder part 5 (though it may be more easily engaged therewith), the hook 30 of Figure 4 is shown disposed in tht plane of the loop I.

A pin 3|, having a longer line of bearing on the dress fabric, is shown in Figure 5. These are all detachable forms. In Figure 6 an eye 32 is shown, whereby the holder may be stitched to the dress 5. Since a single eye, as shown in Figure 6, may permit swinging or rotation of the holder about the axis of the eye, the wire is shown bent into S shape, as indicated at 33 in Figures '7, 8 and 9, to form a double eye, which can be so stitched, as indicated at 6 in Figure 1, that such rotation is impossible, and the holder can be held without deviation from its intended position.

The wire, after being formed into such securing means, 3, 30, 3|, 32, or 33, as may be desired, extends away therefrom to form the shank 2. This shank is preferably straight, and extends to a point 1, whence it is bent outwardly from the shank, or from a straight line including the securing means and the point 1. This outward extension is designated 1 I. From the outermost point of this extension the wire extends inwardly to form the straight side l0, and past the straight line which includes the securing means and the point I by an equal amount on the opposite side of such line. Thence the wire extends inwardly to the point I, as shown at l2. It may stop just short of the point 1, to leave a slight opening 8, through which the tape 4 may enter or leave, edgewise. A roll I3, at the end of the wire and at one side of the entrance 8, prevents damage to the tape in entering or leaving.

The loop is preferably of a Width just sufiicient to receive the tape, when the latter lies fiat. The fiat tape bears all along the straight side l0, and the portions II and [2 press down equally upon the upper side of the tape, thus holding it flat. Because the straight side I!) preferably is normal to and substantially bisected by the shank, or, as shown in several of the forms illustrated, the shank lies adjacent to a line normal to the straight bar Ill, through its mid-point, all tension or stresses originating in the tape are so transmitted to the securing means that there is no particular tendency to move the holder from its intended position. Similarly, and for the same reasons, there is no tendency for the tape to slide to one side of the loop, or to bunch and roll into a string; rather it lies fiat, held or in a sense clamped between the straight side 10 and the opposite inclined sides II and [2.

Rather than terminating at the point 7, the wire may extend within the loop, as indicated at M in Figure 8, thus forming a somewhat more tortuous entrance for the tape. It may be again bent outwardly from the point 1, as indicated at IS in Figure 9, to better define the entrance, and to guide the tape thereinto.

These or any form of loop incorporating the principles of my invention may be employed with any one of the securing means, though it must be borne in mind that a form wherein all parts lie substantially in a common plane is preferable, for reasons given above, and that a double eye as shown at 33 will more surely hold the holder in proper position, and will better overcome any tendency for the tape to slide off to one end of the loop and to swing the holder sidewise. The form shown in Figure '7 is, therefore, the one which at present seems most preferable.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A lingerie tape holder comprising a wire formed at one end for direct securement to the wearer's dress, and extending thence in a straight line to a point spaced from such end, thence in turn angularly outwardly from a line connecting said end and point, inwardly and past such line, and then at a like angle inwardly to such line to form an open loop of a width to snugly receive the tape, and equally disposed at opposite sides of said line, all parts of said Wire lying substantially in the plane of said loop.

2. A lingerie tape holder comprising a wire having a sewing eye formed at one end for securement to the wearers dress, and extending thence substantially in a straight line to a point spaced from such end, thence angularly outwardly and then inwardly along a straight line, normal to its first direction, and past the projection of this first direction by an amount equal to its aforesaid outward extension, then at a like angle inwardly substantially to said point, to form an open loop lying in the plane of the sewing loop, and having a straight bar over which the tape lies when received in the loop.

3. A lingerie tape holder comprising one piece of wire bent to form a transversely extending loop open at its upper side, a shank extending upwardly from the loop, in a general line substantially bisecting and generally normal to the lower bar of the loop, and bent in S-shape at the upper end of the shank to form two closed sewing eyes disposed close to and at opposite sides of such line.

4. A lingerie tape holder comprising one piece of wire bent to form a transversely extending loop having a straight lower bar of a length substantially equal to the width of the tape to be held, the wire at each end of the bar being inclined inwardly and upwardly towards a line normal to and substantially bisecting the bar, one inclined wire stopping short of such line to leave an entrance to the loop, the other inclined wire extending upwardly along such line substantially bisecting the bar, and being formed at its upper end for direct securement to the wearers dress.

5. A lingerie tape holder comprising one piece of wire bent to form a transversely extending loop having a straight lower bar of a length substantially equal to the width of the tape to be held, the wire at each end of the bar being inclined inwardly and upwardly towards a line normal to said bar through its mid-point, one inclined wire stopping short of such line to leave an entrance to the loop, and there being recurved in the plane of the loop to form a ring defining such entrance, the other inclined wire extending upwardly on its side of such line, and being formed at its upper end for direct securement to the wearers dress.

6. A lingerie tape holder comprising a piece of metal shaped to form a loop of substantially the width of the tapes to be held, having a transverse lower bar and side arms inwardly directed towards each other, but spaced to define an opening for entrance of tapes into the loop, a shank joined at one end to one of the side arms of the loop, and extending away from the loop, and a sewing eye at its distant end formed for direct securement to the wearers dress, the line of the shank lying adjacent to a line normal to the bar at the latters mid-point, and all parts of the tape holder lying substantially in the plane of the loop.

7. A lingerie tape holder comprising one piece of wire bent to form a transversely extending loop having a straight lower bar of a length substantially equal to the width of the tape to be held, the wire joined to each end of the bar being directed inwardly therefrom, one such wire extending upwardly on its side along a line normal to said bar through the latters intermediate portion, and being formed at its upper end for direct securement to the wearers dress, and the other inwardly directed wire being spaced from the first wire to form an entrance to the loop.

FRANK J. SWAYNE.

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