US635648A - Garment-supporter. - Google Patents

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WARREN L. BRADDOOK, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent a... 635,648, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed May 12, 1899.

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN L. BRADDOOK, of Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements, in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garment-supporter of-the type shown in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me May 29, 1883, No. 278,493, and December 29, 1891, No. 466,089, said supporter comprising a plate or body portion and two arms pivoted thereto at difierent points, said arms being of unequal length and formed so that their outer ends can be interlocked to engage a piece of fabric interposed between them by aswinging movement of the plate in one direction and disconnected to release the fabric by a swinging movement of the plate in the opposite direction.

The present invention has for its chief object to enable the arms to be locked to the plate when the parts are adjusted in their grasping position, so that the arms cannot be moved to release the fabric without a special operation to unlock them from the plate, thus preventing the accidental release of the fabric.

The invention also has for its object to provide certain other improvements in the-construction of a garment-supporter having the above-mentioned characteristics.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim. v

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent, respectively, front, rear, and edge views of a garment-supporter embodying my invention. Fig. 4 represents asection on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 represents an edge view showing the arms separated. Fig. 6 represents a perspective view. Fig. 7 represents a View similar to Fig. 6, one of the arms being broken off. Fig. 7 t represents a perspective view of the plate or body portion. Fig. 8 represents a perspective view, the parts being in substantially the position shown in Fig.

Serial No. 716,518. (No model.)

5. Fig. 9 represents a side view showing a safety-pin as the attaching device. Figs. 10 and 11 represent, respectively, a side and an edge view of a drawers-supporter embodying my invention. Figs. 12 and 13 represent perspective views of the arms of the supporter shown in Figs. 10 and 11. Fig. 14 represents a side view of a sleeve-holder embodying the invention.

The same letters and numerals of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, and referring to Figs. 1 to 8, inclusive, (t represents the plate or body, preferably of sheet metal, having two pairs of sockets b b and c c and two slots at a. to receive a'suspending-strap, this embodiment of my invention being intended as a stocking-supporter. b and c are the wire arms, which have bent ends entering the sockets b and c, the arms being thus hinged to the plate. The arm b has a head 19 while the arm 0 has a head 0 these heads being formed to interlock when the parts are in the position shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 and to be separated when the plate and arms are adjusted as shown in Figs. 5 and 8, the interlocking of the heads taking place when the plate and arms are swung into alinement. The heads 12 o are formed to grasp and firmly hold a piece of fabric that is interposed between them.

, My present invention provides for the looking together of the plate a and arms I) o,with the heads I) c interlocked, and thus preventing the accidental separation of the heads. To this end the sockets c c are provided with ears or abutments 1 1, formed to bear on the side parts 2 2 of the arm 0, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, and prevent said arm from swinging in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 7 when said arm is in its normal position. The parts 2 2 are yieldingly held by the resilience of the connecting portion 3 in engagement with the abutments 1 1. The trunnion portions 4 4 of the arm 0 are elongated and adapted to slide lengthwise in the sockets c c, and their outer ends are bent into loops or otherwise formed to provide fingerrests or push-pieces to enable the side portions 2 2 to be pressed inwardly out of engagement with the abutments 1 1 when it is desired to release the arms from the plate.

It will be seen that when the parts are in the position shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the arm 0' is prevented from swinging downwardly by the abutments 1 1, whilethe arm b is prevented from swinging upwardly by the plate a. The heads of said arms being interlocked, it follows that neither arm can be swung in either of said directions until the parts 2 2 of the arm 0 are disengaged from the abutments 1 1. \Vhen this is done, the arms and plate are free to assume the relative positions shown in Figs. 5 and 8, the side portions 2 2 bearing on the inner ends of the abutments 1 1, as shown in Fig. 8.

In Fig. 9 I show the sockets b 1) formed on one end of the plate a and the trunnion portion of the arm 6' extended, one being formed into a spring-pinp and the otherinto a keeper p to hold the point of the pin, the parts 19 and 13 forming the equivalent of a safety-pin, which is integral with the arm I).

In Figs. 10, 11, 12, and 13 I show arms B O as substitutes, respectively, for the arms I) c. The portion 6, that connects the side portions of the arm B, is formed as a hook to engage the waistband ofa pair of trousers, and the trunnion portions of said arm are extended to form a safety-pin, as in the construction shown in Fig. 9. The side portions 2 2 of the arm C are bent to form oppositelyprojecting arms 8 8, on which are formed spurs 9 9. The arms or spurs constitute an equivalent of the head 0 on the arm 0, the spurs projecting into the hook 6 when the parts are interlocked. The spurs therefore penetrate the waistband with which the hook 6 is engaged and prevent the hook from slipping upwardly. Since the head on the arm 0 does not in this case constitute a resilient connection between the side portions 2 2, such connection is provided by the neck portion 11. The device is attached to the drawers by means of the safety-pin. The plate a has the sockets b b and c c and the abutments 1 1, the latter cooperating with the side portions 2 2 of the arm 0 in locking the arms to the plate.

Fig. 14 shows two devices of substantially the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 8, the slots a in the plates at a being omitted and the two plates connected by a hinge-joint composed of sockets 12 on the plates a a and pintles 13, formed as extensions of the arms Z). This construction is adapted for use as a holder to adjust the length of a shirt-sleeve, the two pairs of arms being engaged with the sleeve in such manner that there will be slack material between the points of engagement.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 9 and in Fig. 14; the parts of the wire that form the narrow neck portion of the arm I) are bent or offset adjacent to said neck and cause said head to be offset from the arm, the two lying in parallel planes. The head a is bifurcated or forked, so that it presents two wings, the inner sides of which are formed by the connecting portion 3. This bifurcated head bestrides the offset 15 when the two heads are interlocked, the said branches lying beside the head W. The two arms and heads thus formed are adapted to hold a piece of fabric very securely.

In the form shown in Figs. 10 to 13 the construction is similar to that above described, the arm 13' being offset adjacent to its narrow neck, so that the forked or bifurcated arms 8 8 of the arm C bestride the said offset portion and the spurs 9 9, extending beside portions of the book 6 of the arm B. In this last-mentioned form the arms 8 8 and their spurs constitute the head of one arm and the hook 6 constitutes thehead of the other arm, which two heads interlock in the same manner as above described in connection with Figs. 1 to 9 and Fig. 14.

I claim- 1. A garment supporter or clasp having means by which it may be suspended and comprising a body portion or plate, two arms hinged to the plate at different points and hav-' ing heads formed to interlock when the arms and head are substantially in alinement, means for limiting the movement of the longer arm in one direction, and abutments on the plate formed to engage the shorter arm and preventits movementin the opposite direction and thereby lock the plate and arms together.

2. A garment supporter or clasp having means by which it maybe suspended and com prising a body portion or plate, two arms hinged to the plate at difierent points and having heads formed to interlock when the arms and head are substantially in alinement, means for limiting the movement of the longer arm in one direction abutments on the plate formed to engage the shorter arm and prevent its movement in the opposite direction and thereby lock the plate and arms together, and push-pieces on the shorter arm whereby the said arm maybe disengaged from the said abutments.

3. A garment supporter or clasp having means by which it may be suspended and comprising a body portion or plate, two arms hinged to the plate at difierentpoints and having heads formed to interlock when the arms and head are substantially in alinement, means for limiting the movement of the longer arm in one direction, abutments on the plate formed to engage the shorter arm and prevent its movement in the opposite direction and thereby lock the plate and arms together, and safety-pin members formed as extensions of the longer arm.

4. A garment supporter or clasp having means by which it may be suspended and comprising a body portion or plate, two arms hinged to the plate at different points and having means for limiting the movement of the arm in one direction, and abutments on the plate formed to engage the shorter arm and In testimony whereof I have affixed my sigprevent its movement in the opposite direcnature in presence of two Witnesses.

tion and thereby lock the plate and arms together, the longer arm having a head formed WARREN BRADDOGK as a hook, While the shorter arm has a head Witnesses:

which includes spurs adapted to project into C. F. BROWN, the hook. A D. HARRISON.

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