US1427960A

US1427960A - Hose supporter

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Publication number: US1427960A
Application number: US254538A
Authority: US
Inventors: Leonard Joseph
Original assignee: FIFTH AVENUE CORSET Co IN
Current assignee: FIFTH AVENUE CORSET Co IN; FIFTH AVENUE CORSET COMPANY Inc
Priority date: 1918-09-18
Filing date: 1918-09-18
Publication date: 1922-09-05
Anticipated expiration: 1939-09-05

Description

1. LEONARD. nose SUPPORTER. APPLICATION HLE D SEPT. 8, i918.

1 427 9 0 Patented Sept. 5, 1922.

Inventor, Jo seph Leonar d,

Patented ept. 5, 1922,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH LEONARD, OF NEW YORK, 1\T{Y., ASSIGNOR TO FIFTH AVENUE CORSET COMPANY, IN (3., OF ALLEN TOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORIORATION OF NEW YORK.

HOSE SUPPORTER.

Application filed September 18, 1918. Serial No. 254,538.

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosErH LEONARD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough of the Bronx, city of New York, county of the Bronx, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose Supporters, of which the following is a specifica tion.

This invention has been designed particularly for supporting hose from corsets, but is applicable in connection with garments generally irrespective of the source of support or the garment which is sup orted. One object is to provide a substitute or elastic webbing, the elastic element of which is rubber, scarcity of which makes it increasingly diflicult to obtain. Another object is to provide an elastic element which will not deteriorate through the influence of the warmth and moisture of the body and continued strain, or more rapidly than the corset or other parts with which it is associated.

In the accompanying sheet or drawings which forms a part of this application Figure l is a perspective of a corset hose supporter which embodies this invention,

Fig. 2 is a top view of the elastic element,

Fig. 3 is a section through the elastic element on the line Ill-ill of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 1- is a section through the elastic element on the line IV-IV of Fig. 3.

A means of attachment 5 to the hose or other supported garment of any suitable form has a pulley 6 connected therewith which may be in the form of a roller which turns on the wire frame of the attaching device. The elastic element comprises two

helical compression springs

7, 7 which are enclosed in slotted spring-

barrels

8, 8. A first crossbar 9 has enlarged ends which project through the slots into the barrels and bear on the upper ends of each of the springs. A second crossbar 10 connects th upper ends of the spring barrels, and the barrels, the lower ends of which are closed, serve as abutments for the lower ends of each of the springs. A bar 11 may connect the lower ends of the barrels, if desired, to better hold them in place, but this is not essential. A supporting tape LZ'hangs from the lower edge of a corset 18, but it is not essential that it should be supported from the body in this manner. The tape is branched. One branch 14: leads down behind the metal spring barrels, thereby keeplng them from touching the wearer, and thence the branch is led around the pulley and up to the first crossbar to which the end is attached. The other branch 15 has its end attached to the second crossbar.

By reason of the pulley action the strains on the branches attached to the elastic element are half of the strain on the hose supporter, and one-fourth on each. of the two springs, so that the springs and their casings may be light and of much smaller diam eter than it has been necessary to show them on account of the requirements of clear illustration. The connecting bars are preferably narrower than the diameters of the spring barrels so that the elastic element'will have a distributed bearing against the branch of the tape behind it, which will more or less concave in conforming to the leg of the wearer. I

The foregoing detailed description has been given for clearness of understanding and no undue limitation should be deduced therefrom but the. appended claim should be construed as broadly as permissible in view of the prior art.

What I claim, is

In a. garment-supporter, the combination with an elastic element including a pair of cross bars arranged adjacent one end of the elastic element, and means resiliently urging the cross bars into close relation to each other, of a supporting tape having one end returned and connected to one of the cross bars, the elastic element'being positioned be tween the returned portion and the body portion of the tape, a branch carried by the tape beyond the returned portion and attached to the other cross bar, and a means of attachment to a garment supported in the bight of the returned tape portion.

Signed at New YorlnN. Y., this 17th day of September, 1918.

JOSEPH LEONARD.