US1320486A

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Publication number: US1320486A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1919-11-04
Anticipated expiration: 1936-11-04

Description

' H. MAXIM AND G. F. PERHAM.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1?. 191a.

1,320,46, Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

INVENTOR ward v ATTORN EY HOWARD F. MAXIM AND GEORGE F. PERI-1AM, 0F LOCKE MILLS, MAINE.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Application filed September 17, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HOWAR F. MAXIM and GEORGE F. PERHAM, both citizens of the United States, residing at Locke Mills, in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The invention has relation to suspenders and garment supporting means of analogous nature wherein engaging devices such as hooks, pins, and the like are employed 'to gethcr with straps, tapes, and like connecting means, the purpose being the provision of an engaging device for cooperation with an eye, said engaging device having an enlarged laterally yieldable portion which is compressed when passed through the eye and which automatically expands after passing through the eye to prevent casual displacement or unfastening of the attaching device. 1

The primary purpose of the invention is the provision of a hook of special formation embodying a bill having an expanded portion which is laterally yieldable, said hook being designed for cooperation with a part having one or more eyelets for the reception of the bill portion of the hook.

Specifically considered, the invention relates more particularly to suspenders or garment supporting means and to the attaching devices whereby the supporting means may be readily engaged with and quickly disengaged from the part to be connected.

The drawing illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention, however, it is to be understood that in adapting the same to meet different conditions, various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the nature of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a detail view in an elevation of a suspender end and waist band of a garment showing one application of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of the hook in elevation showing the link associated therewith, such link being in cross section.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 showing the parts on a larger scale. Fig. f is a front view of a modification.

Fig. 5 is a sectional detail on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4 showing the parts on a larger scale.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

Serial No. 254,441.

Fig. 6 is a further modification.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in the several views of the drawings by like reference characters.

The fragmentary portion of a pair of suspenders llustrated in Fig. 1 comprises a shoulder strap 1, a suspender end 2, and intermediate connecting means, such as a link 3 and cast-off 4. These parts are of well known construction and are illustrated sin1 ply to demonstrate the application of the invention.

The numeral 5 designates a waist band or like part of a garment the same being provided with tabs 6 which are stitched thereto at their lower ends. Each of the tabs 6 is provided with a plurality of eyelets '7 which may be of usual formation and applied to the tab in any well known manner. In Fig. 4, the eyelets 7 are applied directly to the waist band 5 or like part, said waist band having a single eyelet for each of the hooks attached to the suspender end. In Fig. 6, the waist band 5 or like part is provided in its length with a plurality of eyelets 7, whereby provision is had for engaging the hooks of a suspender end at varying points in the length of the waist band or like part; It will thus be understood that the suspenders or like supporting means may be at tached directly to the waist band or to tabs or like means applied to the waist band.

The essential feature of the invention resides in the hook, irrespective of its manner of application, said hook being shown most clearly in the enlarged views-Figs. 2, 3, and 5, the same comprising the usual parts such as the shank, bight, and bill. In the present instance, the shank of the hook consists of an elongated open frame comprising spaced members 8 which have their upper ends inturned, as indicated at 9 so as to engage a link 10 of any well known construction. The lower ends of the members 8 are brought together to form the bight 11 of the hook. The shank of the hook is flat and by having the same constructed in the manner illustrated, it presents a substantially broad surface to hold the hook in a given position. The bill 12 of the hook comprises spaced ele ments which are symmetrically curved in opposite directions, as indicated at 13, to form a widened or laterally expanded part which constitutes a guard to prevent casual disengagement of the hook from an eyelet when in engagement therewith. The Wid and bill of the hook is held in a manner to prevent displacement and so as to keep the part 5 or 6 flat and prevent its wrinkling or forming into a welt.

The members 8 of the shank may extend parallel as indicated most clearly in Fig. 2,

' or they may be upwardly divergent as illustrated in I ig. 6, the purpose being to provide a part of sufficient extent for engage ment with the link 10 or suspender end 2. In Fig.4 the links 10 are shown connected directly with the hooks, whereas in Fig. 6,

' the suspenderend 2 has direct connection with the hooks. In the formation of the hook, the same is constructed of a single lengthof spring wire of suitable gage, such Wire being doubled upon itself at a central point and bent into the form substantially as illustrated. It will thus be understood that the hook is light, strong, and durable and possesses a certaln amountof reslhency to compensate for straln.

It will be understood from the foregoing,

comprehended.

that we claim is: 1 V In garment supporting means, a hookembodying a shank comprising-spaced elements having their terminal portions inturned and coming together to be engaged within a link or like part,- and having its bill comprising spaced elements which at a point in their length are oppositely and symmetrically eurvedto form a laterally yieldable widened portion constituting a guard.

In testimony-whereof we aflix our signa-.

tures in presence'of two witnesses.

HOWARD F. MAXIM. GEORGE F. PERI-1AM.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. TERRELL, -J. C. LITTLEFIELD.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0. I