US1013783A - Collar-support. - Google Patents

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N. A. KRISOHEPM,

COLLAR SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1911.v

Patented Jari. 2, 1912.

WITNESSES C AZTOR/VEYS ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHAN A. KRISCHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. V 4

COLLAR-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2,1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN A. Knrsormn, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and a resident of the city of New 5 York, borough of Manhattan, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Collar-Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The invention relates to supports for col lars worn by women, in connection with which it is customary to provide supporters extending vertically, or approximately so, to maintain the collar in proper form.

Objects of my invention are to provide an improved supporter of the character referred to, that may be adjusted as to length with facility and despatch; to provide a wide range of adjustment as to the length;

and to provide a supporter having an improved means for guiding the longitudinally sliding members of which my device is composed; as well as to provide an arrangement of orifices for so receiving sewing thread as to permit of a secure and ready sewing of the device to the collar.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the application of my improved supporter to a collar, a portion of the collar being broken away: Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device, illustrating the manner in which the sliding members may be readily adjusted when the device is grasped centrally between the thumb and a finger; Fig.

3 is a plan view of the device in its collapsed form or shortest adjustment, the two main members comprising the device being in this adjustment co-extensive with each other; Fig. 4 is a plan view with the two sliding members partially extended beyond each other; and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal cen tral vertical section through the parts when adjusted as in Fig. 1. I

In forming a support embodying my invention, two exactly similar members 10 are provided, each being formed with an approximately central longitudinal slot or opening 12 extending in unbroken continuity from points adjacent to the ends of the members. Each sliding member 10 isprovided at one end with an attachment 13, se

cured to the member 10 by an eyelet 14:, or otherwise suitably riveted or secured in place. The attachments 13 constitute essentially guides to the respective members and aid in holding one member to the other by providing a broader surface than the mere eyelet or similar riveting device would afford. Each attachment 13 is spaced from its member 10 the thickness of the companion member 10, the arrangement being such that one member 10 and its attachment 13 lie on opposite faces of the companion member 10, and serve to guide the latter, the rivets 14 or their equivalents passing through the lon- 7 gitudinal slots or openings 12 and being movable therein from end to end. The ends of the members 10 are preferably rounded, as at 15, and the outer ends or edges 16 of the attachments 13, are similarly rounded, 7 and the distance from an end of a slot 12 to the rounded outer end of a member 10 is approximately equal to the distance from the eyelet or other fastenings 14 to the outer end' of the guiding attachment 13, so that when the two members 10 are slid together to their shortest adjustment, one will be imposed completely over the other, the two being co-extensive, so that it is possible to adjust the two members in such a manner 8 that the total. length of the device will not exceed the length of a single member 10.

In each member 10 there is formed on each side of the slot 12, a series of alined orifices 17 for receiving the sewing threads, and these orifices are spaced in the two members 10 a corresponding distance apart both longitudinally and transversely, so that the two longitudinal side series of orifices in one member may be brought to register with the orifices of the other member, and it will be .apparent that the unit of adjustment corresponds with the distance between the orifices lengthwise of the device.

The device is manipulated to adjust it as to length with the greatest facility and convenience by simply taking hold of the device between the thumb and finger, as indicated in Fig. 2, and sliding one member on the other.

In practice I manufacture the members 10, which are of flat form, and the guide attachments 13 from celluloid or similar flexible material which is transparent or translucent that the device may be inconspicuous when in place on the collar.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A collar support comprising two straight longitudinally slotted similar strips lying flatwise against each other in separate planes throughout, and clamping and guiding means holding the strips in frictiontight engagement, said means consisting of end members separate from the strips and disposed fiatwise one on each strip, on opposite sides of the collar support and at opposite ends and conforming to the end formation of the strips, and a fastener extending through each of said fiat end memhere, through the slot of the adj aoent strip, and through the material of the opposite strip at the end of the latter, the said strips having series of perforations and each being gripped friction-tight between the companion strip and the clamp member carried by the latter.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

NATHAN A. KRISCHER. l/Vitnesses:

J. L. 'MOAULIFFE, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D'. G.

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