US1128122A - Pad. - Google Patents

Description

W. H. POX.

PAD

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

i in 1 WILLIAM H. FOX, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

PAD.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1.915.

' Application filed May 26, 1914. Serial No. 841,050.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Fox, of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in pads and particularly hip and leg pads for base ball players, the object being to provide a pad composed of two connected members, having free movement longitudinally independently of each other, so that as the player strikes the ground in his eifort to slide to a base, the member of the pad next to the body will slide on the member on the ground and thus compensate for, or absorb, to a large extent the friction,and largely reduce the danger of injury to the player.

A further object is to provide improved means for securing the pa to the waist and le s of the player.

VVith these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the parts and combinations of parts as will be more fully explained and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of my improved pads; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side of the pads and Fig. 3 is a view in sectlon through one of the pads.

1 represents the two ads, each consistmg of an envelop 2 containing cotton batting or other suitable padding material, held in place and prevented from bunching by lonitudinal lines of stitching 3,,and an inner abric member 4 of any suitable material, secured at its upper end to the upper end of the envelop 2. The inner member 4 is preferably of one thickness of material and corresponding as to shape and slze with the padded enve op 2, which constltutes the outer member'of the pad.

The pads 1 have substantially straight front edges, and are curved as at 5, on their rear edges, so as to conform to, and fully cover the hips of the wearer, and each is provided at its upper end with a waist band member 6, made of flexible material and not added and may be skeletonized. This waist liand, may be, and preferably is integral with the envelop 2, and the two band memthe elastic band 7, and one is provided at its front end with an inelastic tying tape 8, and the other with a tying tape 9 having an elastic section 10. The inner fabric members 4 conform in length and width to the envelop sections 2 of the pads 1, and are secured at their upper edges to said envelops, at the upper ends of the latter, or to the waist band sections 6, and are preferably secured at their lower ends to the lower ends of the envelops 2 by the tapes 11, the side edges and remaining portions of the lower ends'of envelops and inner members being free and disconnected.

These tapes 11, are of sufiicient length to allow of some sliding movement of the inner member 4 on the pad or envelop section of the pad and this sliding movement can be prolonged by the turning inwardly and upwardly of the lower end of the padded or envelop section of the pad, due to the pull thereon of the tape 11. The envelop section of each pad is also provided with tying tapes 12 and 13, said tapes however maybe secured to the inner member 4 in preference to the sections 2, each of the tapes 12-13 having an elastic section 14, for fastening the pads to the legs of the wearer. By interposing elastic sections in the tying tapes 9-12 and 13, the parts will be free to yield or give, and thus prevent the transmission of in urious strains to thebody or limbs of the wearer, and by roviding each pad or envelop with a loose inner'fabric member, the contacting faces of the envelop and inner member being comparatively smooth, it will be evident, that, when .the'pad strikes the ground, the inner member which is next to the body of the 1 user, willbe free to slide on the pad and thus compensate for or absorb a part of the initial friction which retards the sliding movement.

It is evident that many slight changes might be resorted to in the relative. arrangement of parts shown and described without departing from the spirit and scope of my I invention hence I would have it understood that I do not wish to confine myself to the exact construction and arrangement of parts shown and described, but,

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

1. As a new article of manufacture, a hip pad composed of a padded section and a 'bers 6, are connected at their rear ends by fabric section in rear of the same, the said fabric section being attached at its upper endto the pad and free at its side edges.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a hip pad composed of a padded section and a fabric section in rear of the same, said fabric section being preferably attached at its upper end to the pad and having a loose attachment at its lower end with the lower end of the pad, the side edges of the inner fabric 10 section being free.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. FOX.

Witnesses:

J. L. MEEHAN, SARA BRENNAN.

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