US1281110A - Garment-supporter. - Google Patents

Description

B. H. WHITE.

GARMENT SUPPOBTER.

APPLICAHON HLED MAY 8. 1916.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

liTlW IBIRDORA H. WHITE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

Application filed May 8, 1916. Serial No. 96,188.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BIRDORA H. WHITE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters; 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.

This invention relates to garment-support ers, and more particularly to that type of garmentsupporters, which, when in use, are

adapted to be suspended from such garments as corsets, corset-waists, waists, belts,.or suspenders, in connection with which garments it is necessary to adjust the fastening devices to a desired position.

The object of my invention. is to provide a simply constructed, easily operated and effective buckle, in which the elastic webbing of the garment supporting device, in connection with which it is used, is securely held againstwithdra'wal both by a sliding device around which it is passed, and a clamping member carried thereby, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and as particularly pointed out in the claims:

In the drawings:

Figure 1 'is a front view of a fragment of a garment supporter showing my improvements applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a front view of my improved buckle detached from said supporter show ing a slightly modified construction of the sliding element thereof.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the preferred form of my invention.

Fig. 4 is a similar view of the same showing yet another modification of the sliding element thereof, with the clamping device removed.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the sliding element of the preferred form of my invention is made.

Fig. 6 is a similar View of the blank from which the clamping device of the said preferred form is made.

Fig. 7 is an edge view of said clamping device separated from the buckle.

Fig. 8 is a vertical central section taken on the center line of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, it will be noticed that the body or supporting-frame of my improved buckle is rectangular. I prefer width of the same.

to make this frame of one piece of wire bent so that its end portions form the upper hori zontal stretch 3 of the frame andterminate in opposed relation at about the center of Slidably mounted upon the vertical sides 1 and 2 ofthis frame is a vertically movable member, which, in the preferred form of my improved buckle, consists of a flat rectangular piece of metal, of a height approximately one-half that of the supporting-frame, and of such a width that its ends can be bent back upon itself to form vertical. tubular guides 5 and 6, that are adapted to surround and slide freely up or down on the vertical sides of the body of the buckle. This vertically movable member is provided with a transversely elongated rectangular opening 14, the position of which is such that the transverse stretch of metal 8 below it is wider than the transverse stretch above, which latter forms a spindle 7 upon which the knuckles 11, 11, of a hinged clamping-plate 9 are journaled.

The templet from which this plate 9 is formed is shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, and it will beobservedthat between the lugs from which knucklesll, 11, are formed, the lower edge is provided with a depending portion-which when said templet is reduced to the proper shape forms a cam or pressurefoot-10, which, as shown in- Fig. 7 of the drawings, corresponds somewhat in crosssection to the curvature of an evolute.

WVhen the parts of my invention are properly assembled, as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the drawings, the buckle is supported through the medium of a web of suitable fabric 17 whose lower edge is sewed around the upper stretch 3, 3, of the body of the hook, and whose upper end is attached in any suitable manner to the hem or selvaged edge of a garment of any nature. The upper end 15 of a pendent strap or web 16 of elastic or other material is then passed to the rear through opening 14. of the sliding member and then downward back of the buckle to and forward through the space between the lower edge of said sliding member and the lower bar 4 of the body of the buckle, from whence it hangs downward. When the said end 15 of web 16 is thus threaded through the buckle, clamping-member 9 is moved on its axis and cam 10 thereof is brought to bear against and to clamp web 15 between the same and the lower horizontal edge of opening 14. When this is done the greater the downward strain on web 16, the more firmly, its upper end will be held.

The modified construction of the sliding element shown in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings is due to the substitution of wire for the metal plate construction thereof, shown in the drawings, and particularly in Fig. 5 thereof. In Fig. 2 of the same, the ends of a suitable length of wire are brought into horizontal alinement to form the spindle on which the knuckles f clamping member 9 are journaled and extending fro-m said ends each branch of the wire is bent to form hook-shaped guides (that are the equivalents of guides and 6) which engage and are slidable on the vertical sides of the body of the buckle, and to provide an unbroken lower horizontal member 8 which is opposed and is adapted to cooperate with the lower horizontal member of the body of the buckle to clamp the web of elastic in the same manner as the corresponding parts of the preferred form of my invention do.

The modification shown in Fig. i of the drawing is also the result of making the sliding member of wire. The only difference from the sliding member shown in Fig. 2 is that the wire is made to describe a transversely elongated rectangular .shape, and the ends of this shape are made to hook around the vertical sides of the body of the buckle to form the necessary guides therefor.

What I claim is:

l. A. buckle comprising an open rectangular supporting-frame, a sliding member the lower edge of which is adapted to cooperate with the lower horizontal bar of said frame,

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the ends of which are provided with guides that engage the vertical side members of the supporting-frame, and which has atransversely elongated opening therein between said guides through which the web of a garment supporter is adapted to be passed, and movable means that are adapted to prevent the withdrawal of said web fromsaid opening.

2. A buckle comprising an open rectangular supporting frame, a sliding member mounted thereon having a transversely elongated opening, a clamping-member which has lugs that are pivotally connected to said sliding member above said opening, and the lower edge of which is adapted to engage the web or strap of a garment-supporter to prevent its withdrawal.

' 3. A-buckle comprising an open rectangular supporting-frame, a sliding member the lower edge of which is adapted tocooperate with the lower horizontal bar of said frame, the ends of which are formed into guides that slide on the vertical sides of the same and which has a transversely elongated opening which is located nearer its upper edge than its. lower edge, and a clamping member which has lugs that are pivotally connected to said sliding member above said opening and which, between said lugs, substantially corresponds in cross-section to an evolute and is adapted to engage and clamp the web of a garmentsupporter passed through said opening against withdrawal;

I BIRDORA H. XVHITE. Witnesses:

HELEN WHITE, LYNNoRA A. HOLMAN.

the Commissioner i of Patents,

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