US1394199A - Clasp for hose-supporters - Google Patents

Description

J. S. LEAHY.

CLASP FOR HOSE SUPPORTERS. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, 1919.

Patented .Oct. 18, 1921.

UNITED STATES JOHN S. LEARY, OF NORTH CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLASP FOR HOSE-SUPPORTERS.

Application filed January 15, 1919.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. LEARY, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clasps for Hose-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to claspsfor hose supporters.

The object of the invention is to provide a clasp for a hose supporter capable of securely holding material clamped thereto without puncturing or tearing or otherwise injuring the same.

The invention further consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claim thereof.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved hose supporter showing the upper end thereof attached to a portion of the drawers leg and the lower end attached to a stocking.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 5 and 6 are the upper and lower clasps respectively, said clasps being connected together by a piece of tape 7. Th upper and lower clasps are duplicates and the following description of the lower clasp will apply equally well to the upper clasp.

The clamp 6 is formed of a flat piece of metal bent midway of its ends at 8 to receive a loop 9 which loop is attached to the lower end of the tape 7. The clasp, therefore, consists of two jaws 10 and 11, the jaw 10 terminating at its lower free end in a cylindrical portion 12 which extends transversely entirely across the jaw 10. The lower free end of the jaw 11 terminates in a curved portion 1?, which partly encircles the cylindrical portion 12 of the jaw 10 when the jaws are clamped together as illustrated in Fig. 2.

I Said jaws are clamped together by means of a metal band 14 which encircles both of the jaws 10 and 11 and is slidable thereon. The j aw 10 diverges midway of its length at 15 from the jaw 11 so that when the band 14 is pushed downwardly toward the lower end of the clasp 6 it encounters the inclined portion 15 of the jaw 10 and forces the two jaws Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

Serial No. 271,211.

toward each other and thus firmly clamps the upper end of the stocking 16 between the cylindrical portion 12 and the curved portion 13 and clamps it securely without tea-ring or injuring the same.

In the drawing Fig. 2, the clasp 5 is shown opened with the plait 17 of the drawers leg 18 in position to be clamped between the two jaws of the clasp. The clasp 5 is connected to the upper end of the tape 7 by a loop 19.

The upper and lower clasps are both preferably constructed of fiat spring metal so that when the band 1 1 is slid away from the ends of the jaws l0 and 11 the aws will spring open to release the material which has been clamped by them as illustrated in Fig. 2.

In using the supporter the upper end is secured to the drawers leg 18 by taking a small plait in the same and inserting this plait 17 between the jaws 10 and 11 and then sliding the band is toward the free end of the jaws thus clamping the plait 17 between the jaws 10 and 11. In the same way the stocking is clamped between the jaws 12 and 13 as illustrated in Fig. 2.

I claim:

A clasp for a hose supporter comprising two jaws, one of said jaws terminating at one end thereof in a cylindrical portion extending transversely thereacross, the other of said jaws terminating at its free end in a curved portion adjacent to said cylindrical portion, said curved portion conforming to the curvature of said cylindrical portion, and a band encircling said jaws and slidable thereon whereby said jaws may be clamped together and material inserted therebetween firmly secured thereto, each of the jaws being so related to the other as to be at all times yieldable toward each other within said band to entirely relieve the pressure against said band during its movements upon said jaws, the curved ends of said jaws also being so related to each other as to sepa rate automatically when the pressure thereon is relieved by said band.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN S. LEARY.

Witnesses CHARLES S. GOODING, FRANKLIN E. Low.

Images