US1550974A

US1550974A - Garment suspenders

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Publication number: US1550974A
Application number: US27600A
Authority: US
Inventors: Lefebvre Adolph
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-05-02
Filing date: 1925-05-02
Publication date: 1925-08-25
Anticipated expiration: 1942-08-25

Description

'A. LEFEBVRE GARMENT l.SUSPENDERS Aug. z5, 1925. 550,974

Filed May 2, 1925 Y mma-9 Patented Aug. 25, l25.

ADOLPI'I LEFEBVRE, OF ST. CAT-IARINES, ONTARIO, GANAIDA.

GARMENT SUSPENDERS.

Application filed May 2,

To all whom t may concern."

Be it known that ADOLPH LEFEBVRE, a subject of the King of Great Brita-in, residing at No. 2 Center Street, in the city of St.Catharines, in the county of Lincoln and Province of Untario, Canada, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Suspenders, of which the followinor is a speciiication.

2My invention relates to improvements in garment supporters and more particularly to trousers suspenders and in the disclosure herein made the latter is described as an example.

Trousers Suspenders are usually made of elastic fabric and rubber shoulder straps and these elastic straps in a comparatively short time lose their elasticity by the rubber going dead7 and consequently become a discomfort to the wearer long before the suspenders are actually worn out. Various spring devices have been substituted for the elastic rubber, but these have failed in their purpose owing` to lack of suiiicient elasticity.

The first important obj ect of Jthis invention is to provide in a trousers suspender comprising shoulder straps spring means interposed between sections of the straps which will aiford the proper degree of elasticity and also retain their elastic properties so long as the suspenders wear.

A second important obliect is to provide a device of the class specified which will be simple and inexpensive to manufacture.

These, together with other objects; may be attained by the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claim hereunto annexed.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view of Suspenders constructed in accordance with this invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged view of the spring' portion in normal position;

Figure 3 is a similar view showing` the suspender strap expanded;

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of the spring portion;

Figure 5 is a sectional front elevation of the springr portion; and,

Figure 6 is a detailed magnified sectional View of the union of two strap sections.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

This invention includes a pair of non- 1925. Serial No. 27,600.

elastic main shoulder straps, indicated by the immoral 10, crossed as usual at the back and stitched or otherwise suitably united as indicated at 11.

At both the forward end and the rear end of each of these main straps are similar short straps 12. Both the main straps and the short straps are folded on themselves and stitched or otherwise suitably secured as at 13 to form loops or envelopes, the bent portion of the short strap being adapted to face or meet the bent portion of the main strap. In the bends of these straps are spaced holes protected by the eyelets or bushings 14, the eyelets in the main strap registering` with those in the short strap, and at the opposite or low end of the short straps is a loop in which it held the usual link 15 of the garment supporting member 16.

The main shoulder straps 10 are connected to the short straps 12 by endless cords 17 woven through the eyelets 14C and looped within the said envelopes.

Spiral springs 19 are coiled around the said cord where it is looped within the said envelopes, and these springs keep the cord taut and thereby keep the main strap and the short strap normally in contiguous relation as shown in all the figures except Figure 3 which shows the two straps stretched apart under a pull or strain as would be caused b v the flexing` of the body of the wearer. 1When a strain is thus applied to the suspenders the gap between the main strap and short strap widens and the cord 17 is pulled partially through the eyelets 14.-, and when the maximum yield is reached, the springs 19 are compressed so that no further cord can be pulled out of the envelopes. When the strain is released the springs return the main strap and short strap to contiguity by eiqoanding` and taking up the cord.

There has thus been produced ra simple and efficient device of the class'described and for the purpose specified, and now having' fully disclosed my invention and the manner in which it is ascertained, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is ln a lgarment supporter, a flexible nonelastic shoulder strap having an envelope formed by folding` the end of the shoulder strap on itself, said envelope having a pair of spaced openings in the bend thereof, a short flexible non-,elastic strap having means l0 being passed through said openings and adapted to slide therethrough and the rounded ends occupying the respective envelopes, and spiral springs coiled around the portions of the oord Within the envelopes and confined therein by their ends abutting against the edges of said openings.

In testimony whereof I have aiiixed my signature.

ADOLPH LEFEBVRE.