US884040A - Garment-clasp. - Google Patents

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PA'IBNTED APR. 7,190.8.

J. H. PILKINGTON. GARMENT CLASP. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 2a, 1907.

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JOSEPH H. I ILKINGTON, OF WATERBURY, GONNECTICUT'.JA

GARMENT-cmsr.

To all whom ci 'may concern:

Bei known that I, JOSEPH H. PILKING- TON, a citizen of the'Un-ited States, residing at Waterbury, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Garment-Clasp, of which the following is aspecification.' I This invention relates to the lever type of garment clasps and has for its object to pro'- closed by a ever and adapted for general use as upon stocking and other garment supporters and as a necktie holder, the special object of the present invention being to simand cheapengthe construction and to ot shorten the clasp and increase the resiliency of the spring jaw, thereby greatly improving the operation of the clasp in use.

With these and other ,objects in view I have devised the novel clasp, of whichthe following description in connection with the accompanying drawings is a specification, reference .characters being used to indicate the several parts:

Figure' 1 is a top plan view of my novel clasp, the lever and spring jaw being in the closing position; Fig. 2 an inverted plan view corres onding therewith; Fig. /3 a side elevation, t ve springxjaw being in the open position; Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, the clasp being shown as attached to a web and the spring jaw and lever bing in the lclosing position; Fig.- 5 an inverted lan viewshowing a form in which the web s ot at the forward 35 end is omitted; and Fig. 6 is a plan view'of the blank from which both jaws -and the spring are formed.

The novel feature ofthe present invention twist when the aws are placed parallel tol each other and t e torsion of the connection providing the necessa s ring.

10 denotes a jaw wxc for convenience I will term the fixed jaw, 11 the spring jaw, 12 the spring connection and 13 the closing lever as a whole. The closing lever com rises a inger pliece 14, a bearing piece 15 w 'ch engages t e spring jaw to force it to the closing position, and lugs or trunnions 16 which ena'g'e holes 17 in ears 18 which are formed integral with the fixed jaw and arev bent to a position at right angles thereto. Spring j Specification of Letters Patent. l

Application filed July 23, 1907. Serial No. 385,196.

duce an improved clasp having a spring jawplete the clas lies inthe fact that both jaws and the s ring are formed from a single piece of meta the jaws being connected by a strip attached toI Patented April 7, 1908. i

connection 12 is formed by cutting slots 20 in the blank on opposite sides of a connection, which is indicated by 19, said slots eX- tending inward froin opposite sides of the blank and being preferably rounded, as shown, at the closed ends. y The jaws are blanked out,- as shown in Fig. 6, with the connection 19 between them, formed by cutting the slot-s 2O on op osite sides thereof. The connection is attacllied to lthe opposite sides of the inner ends of the jaws. In order to give am le length to the connection, it may be blanke out as in Figo, in which the connection is shown as extending outward from the portion of the blank which forms the rear end of the spring jaw, then curved and'ex- 'tending parallel with the ends of the jaws,

between them, and then curved inward and Y the desired shape to the iixed jaw, the clasp is completed by placing the jaws in a super-- posed position. In placing the jaws in this position, a halt` turn or twist is given to the connection, thereby making of it a torsion spring, the action of which is to throw the spring jaw to the open position. This twistof the connectionV and the formation thereby of a torsion spring enables me tov make thejaws of a clasp 'ust as short as may be required.\ I thus ma e a very neat and compact clasp Vwith ample spring power and at a greatl reduced cost of construction, as

I am enab ed to effect not only a saving in the amount of metal required but a reduction of the number of operations required to com- The specialshape of the jaws or the mode of connecting the web thereto is wholly unimportant so far asv the present invention is concerned, as iny noveljspring. connection is equally applicable to the various styles of lever clasps in general use.v The web which 1 60 is indicated by 21, may be secured to the clasp by passing it through the slot 22, in the rear end thereoj, which is produced when the connection is twisted and-the portions of the blank Which'form the jaws are bent to the 105 super osed position, the slot 22 of the complete clasp corresponding with and comprising the slots 20 on the opposite sides of the connection 19 of the blank, and the closed ends of slots 20, which are on opposite lsides of the blank, forming the closed ends of slot 22 of the clasp.

If referred, the web may be attached to the c asp by passing it downward through slot 22, then forward under the fixed jaw, upward over the outer end of the fixed jaw and downward .through a web slot23 near the forward end of the iixed j aw.

In Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the xed jaw is shown as made box-like in form. This, however, is whollyimmaterial so far as the principle of the invention is concerned.

Having thus described my invention I claim: j

1. A clasp comprising jaws and a spring connection attached to the jaws and given a half twist when the jaws are superposed.

2. A clasp comprising jaws and a spring connection attached to o posite sides of the rear ends of the jaws an given a half twist when the jaws .are superposed.

3. A olas com rising jaws and a spring connection ormeii) integral, said spring connection being attached to the rear ends of the jaws and given a half twist when the jaws are supergosed.

clasp comprising jaws, a spring connection attached to the jaws and given a half twist when they are su erposed and aoting to retain the jaws in t e open position and means for closing the jaws.'

5. A clasp comprising jaws, a spring connection attachedv to the jaws and given a half twist when they are superpcsed, one of said jaws'being provided with ears and a closing .lever pivoted in said ears and comprisin a bearing piece and a finger piece.

6. clas com rising jaws and a spring connection orme from a blank having slots extending inward from opposite sides leavingv a connection between them, said connection being given a half twist when the jaws are su erposed and the slots inthe blank 4forming.; a c osed-ended slot in the completed clasp.

7. A clas comprising fiat j aws connected by a twisted)spring integral with said jaws.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

f JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON.

Witnesses: A A. M. CAREY,

ROBERT DENNrsoN.

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