US150690A

US150690A - Improvement in garters

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Publication number: US150690A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-05-12
Anticipated expiration: 1891-05-12

Description

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Garters.

Patented May 12,1874.

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A UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. EOUsE, OE EEIDGEPOET, CONNECTICUT.

lMPROVEMENT IN GARTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,690, dated May 12, 1874; application filed March 21, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. HoUsE, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Garters; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification.

My invention has for its object the construction of a metal garter which shall obviate the objectionable weight of metal incident to their construction when the coil of'which the garter is composed is made from wire.

Garters, when made of wire, as now in oomvmon use, are objectionable, since the weight of metal tends to indent that part of the body to which they are applied, aside from suoli tendency due to the tension of the coil.

By my invention a spring-garter is produced which has even greater tensile strength than o the wire spring-garter, while, at the same time,

i lter constructed on my improved plan, two

coils, A, being used to form the garter, and held together by bands E and end plates B, as shown. These coils are made of very thin strips, a, out from sheet metal which has been rolled to the desired thinness, the strips being cut of an unbroken length sufficient to form the length of coil desired for the garter. These strips, when cut, are then, either by hand or by machinery, wound around a mandrel having an elliptical or flattened form, so that when the coil is made it will have the form as clearly shown in Fig. 6, which gure is a somewhat enlarged view in cross-section of Fig. 1. B B represent clasp-plates secured to the extremities of the coils, which inclose a flexible stay,

c, to limit their extension. The stay c is of a length a little short of the limit to which the coils A can be extended without injury, and is made in the form of an endless band passing within and over the ends ofthe adjoining portions of the coils.

' Figs. 4 and 5 clearly show the construction of these clasp-plates, which are made with two separated tongues, d d, which may have barbs e projecting therefrom, as shown.

Fig. 2 represents one of these clasp-plates attached to one of the coils, which attachment is effected by thrusting the tongues into the coil, so that the barb c will engage itself in the coil, as shown inFigs. l and 2, after which the point of the barb is struck down upon the coiled strip a, and thus secured thereto. This being donea cap, B', as shown in Fig. 3, is passed over the ends of the garter and made to t snugly upon the ends of the coils, and is held thereon by having the center ofthe cap,

as at f, depressed or struck down, so as to` tightly clasp the coils. At one end of the garter the clasp-plate B is formed with a claspbutton, as at g, fitted to enter the button-hole or slot g' inthe clasp-plate at the opposite end of the garter, and so lock or fasten the garter upon the leg of the wearer. A

To alford additional length to the garter, claspdisks C, with slots g therein, are attached to the garter, and are connected with the clasp-plate and each other by projecting hooks i, as represented in Fig. 7 y

Between the clasping ends of the coils, at one or more points, bands E of thinfmetal are 'secured around the coils, in order to hold the coils in proper lateral position, and prevent them from unduly separating or interlocking with each other. These bands are made to tightly fit upon the coils by striking down the metal of whichV they are composed at a point where the coils laterally adjoin.

What I claim as'my invention isl. An uncovered fiat metal spring-garter,

having its adjoining springs connected and` stayed at one or more points between its .fastening ends, substantially as described.

2. A stay, c, arranged within an uncovered flat metal spring garter or band, constructed substantially as described.

3. The extension-disks C, in combination with the coils A, constructed substantially as described.

4. An uncovered elastic garter, the coils of which are composed of a single strip of thin at metal, substantially as described.

HENRY A. HOUSE. Witnesses:

GEORGE C. Brsnor, ALEORD B. BEEns.