US431861A - Garment-supporting hook - Google Patents

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(N0 Model.) I I G. A. WHITCHER. GARMENT SUPPORTING HOOK- No. 431,861. A Patented July 8, 1890.

WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARRIE ARDELIJE WHITOHER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,861, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed February 16, 1889. Serial No. 300,123. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARRIE ARDELLE \VHITCHER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporting Hooks, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved toilet pin orhook particularly adapted to the connection or suspension of garments with more convenience and greater elasticity and strength of attachmentthan has heretofore been secured.

My invention consists of a double-spring hook or pin having a central connecting part, two hooked and pointed ends, and two intermediate poiut-protecting shields or guards, all formed of a single piece of spring-wire properly bent, as herein set forth.

The drawings show in perspective the peculiar character of my device, and represent it in Figure 1 with the points disengaged, while in Fig. 2 the central part is attached to a strap or band, the hooks pass through a piece of fabric, and the points are held behind the guards.

A represents the central connecting part,

inade straight for attachmentto a suspending strap S or otherwise. At each end of this central part the wire is bent downwardly and then inwardly nearly to the center. At these inner points E the two parts of the wire are bent toward the front about horizontally and then outwardly and back again nearly to the center, to form the guards or point-protectors C C in a plane forward of that of the part A. At the inner end of the guards the wire is bent rearwardly into its former plane and then outwardly about parallel with the part A, then again inwardly in the original plane about as far as before. From here the hooks H extend downwardly, then curve to the front and upwardly, terminating in the points P, (shown free in Fig. 1,) and engaged behind the guards G O in Fig. 2.

To make this construction more clear in the drawings, the various parts of the wire which are in the same rearward plane with the part A are shaded dark, while the guards, being in a plane in front thereof, are left light. The bends of the wire give a spring action.

I am aware of the patent to Berbeeker, No. 360,555, dated April 5, 1887, showing a lambrequin-pin having a twisted shank extending rearwardly from the pin for engagement in the suspending ring. Such pin is wholly unsuited to my purpose and does not embody my invention.

I claim as my invention- As an improved article of manufacture, the double-spring wire pin-hook herein described and shown, consisting of the plain central part A, the pointed terminal hooks II H,and the intermediate serpentine portion for each hook, beginning in the plane of the part A and having'the integral guards O C in front of said plane, substautiall y as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two snbseribin g witnesses, on this 20th day of December, A. D. 1888.

CARRIE ARDELLE \VHITCHER.

Witnesses:

A. H. SPENCER, J. G. KENNEDY.

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