US1070573A - Buttonhole-piece for suspenders. - Google Patents

Description

A. M. ZIEGLER.

BUTTONHOLE PIECE FOR SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 1912.

1,070,57 3. Patented Aug. 19, 1913.

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cow/1mm PLANDGRAPH 60., WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

ALFRED M. ZIEGLER, 0F ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO A. ZIEGLER &, SONS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTONHOLE-PIECE FOR SUSPENDERS.

Application filed January 24, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED M. ZIEGLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Roxbury, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Buttonhole-Pieces for Suspenders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to suspenders and it has for its object the production of a novel, simple and effective button-hole piece or tab for attachment to the end of the elastic or other form of webbing constituting the shoulder-strap of the suspender.

Button-hole pieces or tabs have been variously constructed, and of different materials, all requiring a considerable amount of finishing to make them presentable for the market, the finishing operation involving an undue proportion of time and labor and thus increasing the cost of production.

In my present invention I have devised a button-hole piece which can be made at a very low cost and which, while minimizing finishing operations, will present a neat and attractive appearance and will be strong and efficient, and at the same time will enable the shoulder-strap to be attached to it rapidly and easily.

The various novel features of my invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 is a front or face view of a button-hole piece embodying one form of my invention, attached to the end of a suspender shoulder-strap; Fig. 2 is a rear view there of Fig. 3 is an edge View thereof, but much enlarged, to show more clearly the structural features involved; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the button-hole piece, detached; Fig. 5 is a similar view of a modified form of the button-hole piece, to be referred to; Fig. 6 is a view in elevation of the end of a shoulder-strap, notched for a purpose to be referred to.

In accordance with my invention the button-hole piece is made of woven fabric in the form of a strip of suitable length and width, and having certain peculiar characteristics.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au 19,1913.

Serial No. 673,169.

Referring to the drawing, Figs. 1 to 4, the button-hole piece comprises an elongated body having a solid woven lower portion or Web 1 of the desired width, provided with a central, longitudinal slit 2 constituting the button-hole, and as the button-hole is formed during the weaving it has finished or selvage edges. The upper part of the body is woven to form a two-ply or tubular portion which adjoins and forms a continuation of the solid web portion 1, such tubular portion constituting a pocket into which the end of the shoulder-strap 4: is inserted, the interior outline of the pocket being indicated by dotted lines at 5, Figs. 1 and 2, said tubular portion 3 being open at its upper end, to receive the extremity of the shoulder-strap. In weaving the button-hole piece the front and rear walls or plies of the tubular portion or pocket 3 are prolonged beyond the mouth of the pocket and separated attheir side edges, forming separate lips 6, 7 at the face and back, respectively, of the button hole piece, said lips having finished selvage edges at the sides of the button-hole piece. This separation of the lips at their side edges enables the elastic or other web constituting the shoulder-strap 4 to be readily inserted in the tubular part or pocket 3, particularly if the shoulder-strap is somewhat wider than the button-hole piece. In such case the end of the shoulder-strap is notched, as at 8, Fig. 6, so that the notched end of the strap can be narrowed or squeezed together by pressure on its edges and inserted into the pocket, the notching preventing any undesirable puckering of the strap at its extremity. The shoulder-strap is permanently united by stitching, as 9, Figs. 1, 2 and 3, passing through the lips 6 and 7 and the intervening portion of the strap end, making a firm, durable and efficient attachment, and neat in appearance. Either or both of the lips 6, 7 may be turned in to make a finished edge easily and cheaply, but in practice I prefer simply to turn in the lip 6 at the face of the button-hole piece, as at 10, Fig. 8, thus providing a finished transverse edge 11 across the front of the pocket 3, the stitching 9 passing through the inturned part 10, as shown. I thus obviate a raw edge at the face or front of the device,

and secure a neat finish with a minimum of expense and handling. lVhile the rear lip 7 could also be turned in I have found in practice that it is more convenient to leave it extended, or standing, so that the stitching 9 will surely pass through the lip, and afterward the surplus lip is cut off. This leaves a raw transverse edge, but as it is at the back of the button-hole piece it is not.

seen and hence is u-nobjectionable. It will be apparent that if the pocket 3 were continued the full length of the separated lips 6 and 7 its mouth could be turned 1n, all

formed, as at 12, Fig. 4 across the lip at I the desired point for the bend or infolding. I This loose line or band of weaving 1s effected in practice by dropping that part of the warp which has been used on the face of the v lip to the back thereof, for two or more picks, this making the transverse band of loose or irregular weaving, indicated at 12. 1 The lip folds easily on such line or band,-

and it is located close to the mouth of the pocket 3, or somewhat above it, according to whether the shoulder-strap will fit into the f pocket or whether it is a little wider than the pocket.

front edge 11 of the pocket.

Referring to the modification, Fig. 5, the; lower portion or solid Web 13 of the button- 2 hole piece is the same as heretofore do i the button-hole 14: formed therein, but the tubular portion or pocket 15 is widened somewhat, and then continued with parallel sides at 16, from which latter, part extend the separated ,p'lies or lips 17,5 18. The lip 17 can be made with the transi verse fold line 19, if desired, This widen pocket provides for the reception of a shoulder-strap very considerably wider than the solid part 13 of the button-hole piece, without requiring any squeezing or compressing of the strap to enter the pocket. The lower end of the button-hole piece can be finished in any one of a number of ways, as by turn- 1 ing over and stitching, as shown at 20, or it can be otherwise finished, this, however, 1

scribed with forming no part of this invention.

I have found In the latter case it appears in i practice to be more advantageous to fold in 5 the lip at a greater distance from the mouth of the pocket than when the strap just tits 1 into the pocket. I have indicated in Fig. 1 Q the irregular weaving at 12, which is practically coincident with or forms the finished be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit andscope of my invention as set forth in the claims hereunto annexed.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: a

1. A button-hole piece for suspenders, comprising a solid, Woven lower web portion. havinga button-hole formed therein, and an upper tubular portion adjoining and forming "a continuation of the web portion, said tubular portion presenting front and rear walls which are connected at their edges thereby to constitute a pocket for reception of the end of a shoulder strap, said front and rear walls of said tubular portionbeing prolonged beyond the mouth of the pocket and disconnected at their side edges and adapted to overlie and be secured to said shoulder-strap.

2. A button-hole piece for suspenders, comprising a solid, woven lower web portion having a button-hole formed therein, and an upper tubular portion adjoining and forming a continuation of the Web, to constitute a pocketfor the reception of the end of a shoulder-strap, the front and rear walls of said tubular portion being prolonged and separated at their side edges beyond the mouth of the pocket, one of said prolongations having a transverse, loosely woven portion along which such prolongation V is turned into present a finished edge.

A button-hole piece for suspenders, comprising a solid woven lower web portion having a button-hole formed therein, and an upper tubular portion adjoining and form ing a continuation of the web but of greater width than the web, to constitute a shouldertrap-receiving pocket which is closed at the sides.

4. A button-hole piece for suspenders, comprising a solid woven lower web portion having a button-hole formed therein, and an upper tubular portion adjoining and forming. a continuation of the web but of greater width than the web, to form a pocket for the reception of the end of a shoulderstrap, the front and rear walls of the pocket being prolonged and separated at their side edges beyond the mouth of the pocket, such prolongations constituting lips which may be folded transversely from edge to edge and turned into the pocket to present a finished transverse edge at the mouth thereof.

5. A button-hole piece for suspenders, comprising a solid, woven lower web portion having a button-hole formed therein and an upper tubular portion integral with the web portion, said tubular portion presenting front and rear walls which are into gral at their edges thereby to constitute a Various changes or modifications in de-; I

tails of construction and arrangement may shoulder-strap-receiving pocket, said front and rear wal s of the tubular portion being prolonged beyond the mouth of the pocket name to this specification, in the presence of and disconnected at their slde edges, thereby two subscribing Witnesses.

to form se arate 1i s which me be folded transversel? from e dge to edge {ind turned ALFRED ZIEGLER' 5 into the pocket to present a transverse fin- Witnesses:

ished edge. JOHN C. EDWARDS,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my THOMAS J. DRUMMOND.

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