US1139319A - Resilient connecting device. - Google Patents

Description

J. P. WILSON.

RESlLlENT CONNECTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR; 19- 1914 Patented May 11, 1915.

"INVENTOR Jnww MZron WITNESSES ATTORNEYS PATTERSON WILSON, or Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AssIGNoR TO WILL H.

GROSSCUP, 01? LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

.RESILIEN'I CONNECTING- DEVICE.

Application filed March 19,

T 021 ccfiom it may concern:

iBe it known that 1, JAMES P. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Los Angeles, in' the county of Los Augeles and State of California, have invented a new'and Improved Resilient Connecting Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. f

The invention relates to resilient means for connecting two membersor articles such as for attaching Suspender pa'rtsto trousers, or for usein or with garment supports, 01' trusses, or other articles of. wear involving the yielding connection of two articles or.

members, or the attaching of one article to another, whereby the connecting means will be under tension.

The invention particularly relates to suspender ends, or to a similar flexible element.

returned on "itself and having metallic coil springs around the same, to resiliently connect the said flexible element, whereby nonelastic flexible elements may be employed.

The use of a continuous coil spring permits the cord to'slide in the spring. In

my invention, separate springs are 'employed on the flexible element, and a device is arranged between the springs at the U- bend of the element, the result being that the cord or like flexible element will be prevented from running through the springs by a pull on either end of said cord.

The, invention will be particularly described as embodied in s'uspender ends.

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

Figure 1 is a front elevation, with partsbroken'out and in section, showing myimproved tension means applied to a known form-of Suspender ends and the lower portion of the webbing; Fig. 2 is avertical section onth e line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-.3 of Fig. 1 Fig. dis a plan view of a guard device employed in connection with the tension means 1n the form shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a perspective 'viewof the modifiedthat may be employed.

guard device Referring particularly to Figs. 1 to 3, the

webbing 10 of the Suspender is upturned, a's

at 11., at the front of the webbing, to form'a pocket between the. said .front and back.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1%;5. 1914. Serial No. 825,800.

The pocket-is completed by stitching the upper end of the front 11, as at 10 to the main stretch 10 of the webbing, and also vertically along the. sides-as at 10".

In the closed bottom 12- ofthe pocket gromets 13 are secured. The gromets engage at the interior of the pocket 12 with an apertured reinforcing plate 14, to strengthen said bottom. The gromets 13 provide eyelets-for the passage of elongated members 15 of cordor 'like'flexible 'material. The cord is return-bent to produce the members '15, and said'menibers may constitute a suspender end, being continuous with each other atthe interior of the pocket 12 and merging into a U-bend 15 at their juncture.

Surrounding the 'members 15' within the pocket are the separate helical compression springs 16, the lower ends of which seat on the gromets 13. In order to prevent the cord 15 from having a running-movement .through the springs,'I provide'a guard 17 above theupper ends of the springs adjacent to the said bend 15. Said guard, as best shownin Fig. 7, is in the form of an S, or equivalent shape; to provide eyes 17 which surround the respectivevmemb'ers 15,

the said guard at the junction between theeyes 17*" engaging the under side of the 1 bend 15, whereby the guard is prevented 'from displacement. Any runninggnove ment'of the cord through the spring 16 and guard 17 will be checked, and arrested bythe said guard, because'that member 15 of the cord moving toward the guard will,

through the gripping engagement 'of the spring, draw the said sprmg against the guard, crowding the convolutions of the spring and tightening the grip of the spring on the cord atithebend, at one sideof the guard. The guard furthermore maintains the 'spr-ings separated, afndprevents the one By the described arrangement a pull downward on the members 15 will placethe springs 16 jointly under compression, the reaction of the springs will maintain tension on the said members and on the webbing. In the compression and expansion of the springs the upper ends thereef will be maintained against distortion or in. terferencewith ea ch'other by the 1rd. 17.

Having thus described my i ns cm 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

, ends of the springs, and said springs being seated on the bottom of the pocket.

2. A supporting device for an article of wearing apparel and means there-en to at 'taoh said device to anarticle of apparel, said means comprising a flexible element returned on itself presenting two elongated.

-members, an element presenting pocket through which said members may move longitudii 'mrate eorapressisn springs on. said. e i members yield y resisting 1 J tudinai nievemen if, and a sepa" ting device in 1' on the fioxi element between ngs and abuned by aeent ends 0' the opposite ends of the springs rel, .en't remembers, an throng.

longitudi 1x lid springs being sea arating ble eledevice in imttsd by nient bet and a adjace e said separating 0 Iv embracing the .1

flexib ieeiemeno osed at an angle to in name to tin have signed my i the presence of WILSON.

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