US1416609A - Garment supporter - Google Patents

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HOLGER V. CLAU SEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAB IJIENT SUFPORTER.

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Application filed. March 30, 1921.

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Be it known that 1, Homer: V. CLAUSEN, a citizen of Denmark, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Garment Supporter, of which the following is a description.

My invention while adapted to be embodied in other garment supporting devices, is more particularly intended for embodiment in a garter or hose supporter.

The present invention is designed especially as an improvementin the garment supporter forming the subject matter of an application filed by me January 19, 1921, Serial Number 4538,4136.

The general object of the invention is to )rovide a novel spring connection for the band to serve the purpose of elastic webbing. More specifically, the invention has for an object to provide a practical embodiment of the spring connection reflecting important consideration with respect to efficiency and facility with which the hand may be connected with or disconnected from the spring, as well as to prevent the spring from result ing in discomfort to the wearer.

The present invention has particularly in view to improve the character of the spring means and to establish a novel relation between the shield spring and band ends.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of practical eX- amples of the invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a garment supporter embodying my invention, part of the shield being broken away;

Figure 2 is an enlarged transverse vertical section as indicated by the line 2 2, Fig-- ure 1;

Figure 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33. Figure 1;

Figure 1- is a front view of the shield and its immediate appurtenances on the scale of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 1 but illustrating another form of the invention.

In embodying my invention in garter, a band 10 is provided of suitable webbing which may be. and preferably is, non-elastic. On one end of the band is provided any suitable clasp 11, here shown as an eye formed integral with a metallic loop 12 over which Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1922.

Serial No. 456,927.

the webbing is returned and adjustably secured by any suitable buckle 18. The clasp element 11 is adapted to be engaged by a. co-acting fastener element 1 1 preferably a round head. which is secured to or formed upon the adjacent terminal of a spring 16 within the shield 17 of the garter. The spring 16 in the form shown in Figures 1 to 3 is a flexible coil spring constituting a light flexible cable which is bent bodily to present back and forth runs in a vertical plane within the shield 1'7, the spring running over a central guide'element 18 at the top, the bends running below over two similar guide elements 18 here shown as rigid protuberant members stamped up from the material of the shield. The invention has for an important purpose to provide a shield formed celluloid or like material. In the form of the invention shown in Figures 1 to 1, that end of the band or strip 10 opposite the detachable fastcncr element 11 is secured as follows: A slot 21 is formed in the front of the shield 17 oblique to the medial line of the shield and the material of the strip or band 10 is secured to a metallic loop 20, the ends of which are twisted as at 19 and pass rearwardly through the slots 21 to the interior of the shield where it is suitably made fast to the adjacent terminal. of the coil spring 16. The connection with the opposite end of the band through the medium of the co-acting fastener elements 11 and 1 1 is advantageously at the exterior of the shield for which purpose the adjacent end of the spring 16 has the element 11 fastened thereto to project forwardly beyond the face of the shield 17 through a slot 22 in the front of the shield oblique to the media] line thereof, the slots 21 and 22 being in planes flaring upwardly. The element 141: is sufficiently protuberant for the ready engagcmentor disengagement of said element and the element 11. 'ith the elements 11 and 14 engaged the spring 16 will maintain the band 10 under tension to hold the device in position when worn.

The numeral 23 indicates a hose-engaging device of known form, the same being here shown as suspended by a short length of fabric 23" from the slotted lower end 17 of the back of the shield. 17, said slotted end extending below the front of the shield.

The described construction results in resiliency in the connection between the hoseengaging device 23 through the medium of the shield 17 with the loops or bends of the spring 16, so that the connection with the garment is a resilient one in addition to the resilient connection between the band ends and the spring, the whole making; for a threepoint resilient attachment of the device. In response to the strains the band may yield, its terminal elements 11 and 20 being free to have movement relatively to each other on the oblique lines detern'iined by the slots 21, 22.

In the form shown in Figure 5 the band 10 carries at one end the described element 11 detachably cngageable with a stud 14* on the upper end of a lever 24, said lever being one of a pair, a companion lever 25 beinc; provided having its broadened end 25 slotted or looped for connection with the opposite end of the band. Said levers are pivoted at their lower ends as at 26 to the shield 17*, the lower portion of the levers being housed within the shield. The front of the shield extends a sutlicient height to house a spring; 16 which is in the form of a bowed spring disposed within the shield in the plane thereof and having its terminal ends uppermost and directed laterally inward toward each other and toward the medial line of the shield to engage in notches at the outer side edges of the levers 24, 25 as indicated at 16 The back 17 of the shield extends upwardly beyond the front of the shield exposing the upper ends of the levers 24, 25,- for the convenient connection of the band ends with said levers. A. stud or stop 27 is disposed between the back and front of the shield at the medial line to limit the movement of the levers in a direction toward each other, whereby to center the levers. The character 1? indicates the projecting slotted lower end of the back 17 corresponding with the member 17.

The described device may be used as a hose supporter and also as a sleeve supporter, the element 23 being omitted from the sleeve supporter.

I would state in conclusion that while the illustrated examples constitute practical embodiment of my invention, 1 do not limit myself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since manifestly the same can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:-

1. A, garment supporter of the class described, including a shield having slots at opposite sides of the medial line of the shield and oblique thereto, a spring within the shield, a band, and connecting; means between the band ends and said spring, said means extending through said slots and movable therein to subject the band to the tension of the spring.

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scribed, including a shield of stiff material having means at its lower end to clasp a garment, a spring housed within said shield, a ban d, and fastener means for the ends of the band, said fastener means being subject to the tension of said spring.

1. A garment supporter of the class described, including a shield, means on the shield forming a housing, eans on the shield at its lower end below said housing to clasp a garment, a spring in said housing, a band, and a fastening means at the front of the shield for the ends of the band, said fastening means being subject to the tension of said spring.

5. A garment supporter of the class de scribed, including a shield of stiff material, a coil springwithin said shield bent on itself to present loops at opposite sides of the medial line of the shield, a guide within the shield over which the central bend of the spring runs, guides in the shield below the first-mentioned guide and at opposite sides of the medial line, a band, and means connecting the ends of the band with the ends of the spring, one of said means effecting a detachable connection between the spring and the adjacent end of the band.

6. A garment supporter of the class described includinp; a shield, a distensible coil spring held to the shield, said spring being bent bodily to form runs at opposite sides, and means to connect the spring with a supporting; member, said spring being held between said runs below the connection with said member.

7. A garment supporter including a shield provided with means to clasp a garment, a

distensible coil spring secured in said shield, a band, and fastening means for the band ends, and including means connecting one end ofthe band with said spring at the front of the shield to be subject to the tension of said sprinv.

8. A garment supporter including-a shield provided with means to clasp a garment, a distensible laterally flexible coil spring secured in said shield. guide means in the shield. over which said spring; may run, a band, and fastening means for the band ends, the connection of the band at one end beingwith the spring to be subject to the tension of the spring and said connection between the spring and band being at the front of the shield.

HOLGER V. CLAUSEN.

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