US1962021A - Garter - Google Patents

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June 5, 1934. H LQBBENBERG 1,962,021

GARTER Filed Aug. 19, 1933 y lzfgj 1715.2

j?? bei? Zw /ms 055612 ery mmwf/@- PatentedJune 5, 1934 x y? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,962,021 GARTER Hans Lobbenberg, Cologne, Germany Application August 19, 1933, Serial No. 685,919 In Germany August 20, 1932 2 Claims. (Cl. 2111-1) This invention relates to garters and more invention and Fig. 2 a longitudinal central secparticularly to garters which are fastened by tion through Fig 1. sewing or otherwise to a bodice, corset or waist- Referring more particularly to the drawing, belt. Essentially the present garter is of the to the under margin of the bodice, corset or kind which consists of a supporting strap or waist-belt 1 there is fastened by sewing or other- 60 garter proper provided with a series of buttonwise a supporting strap 2 or garter proper which holes arranged in longitudinal direction and a is made elastic by means of rubber threads two-part gripping device for the hose with a woven thereinto as usual. The strap 2 is pro-- hook or clip permitting said gripping device to vided along its longitudinal center-line with a l be carried by any one of said button-holes to series of button-holes 3. The lower eyelet mem- 65 adjust the actual length of the garter according ber 4 forming part of the gripping device is to requirement. elastically rigid as a whole and made in the usual In known garters oi this kind a gripping deway, for instance, from a piece of wire bent vice which consists of a ilexible knob or button into the shape as shown while the upper eyelet l5 lmember to be buttoned into an eyelet, the latter member which forms the support for the grip- 0 as well as the aforementioned hook or clip is ping device is made in the shape of a transverse made from sheet-metal. The practical value of eyelet 5 of suitable width permitting the strap such an eyelet or clip which is made from sheetor garter proper to be drawn therethrough. The metal by punching is connected with the grave upper eyelet member is connected with the lower 2) drawback that it is diihcult or even impossible eyelet member 4 which member 4 coacts with the 75 to properly round off or smoethen the edges of button 9 and has a gripping member for engagthe sheet-metal punchings or even to remove the ing the stocking at its upper edge, and the upper burr due to the punching by suilicientlyk cheap and lower eyelets are connected by a sleeve 6 of means or tools of manufacture. For this reason sheet metal bent around the transverse portion punched sheet-metal members will always have 7 of the upper member and a transverse portion 80 more or less rough edges and thus are liable to of the lower member at its upper end. A flexible injure the button-holes through which the sheetholding strap 8 is laid in the form of a loop metal hook or clip is forced and also the margins around said transverse portion 7, the lower ends and surfaces of the garter strap which must be of said strap 8 being united with each other 3G pulled through the upper eyelet that supports and carrying the button 9 which co-operates with 85 the gripping device. The lifetime of the garter the eyelet 4 for gripping the hose. is thus considerably shortened, the garter soon The wire body of the upper portion of the becoming unsighty and unfit for use. transverse upper eyelet 5 which acts as a sup- According to this invention the drawbacks inport for the gripping device is provided at its herent to known constructions of garters are center with a hook-shaped bend 10 having a 99* successfully avoided by making the projecting narrow neck in proximity to said bend and enmember, such as said hook or clip, which is to larging towards both sides to form an eyelet of be buttoned into the button-holes in the garterhook-shaped conformation, so that it may be strap as well as the eyelet members of the griphooked or buttoned from above into any one of 4G ping device from pieces of wire. More particuthe button-holes 3, thus permitting to connect 95 larly, said hook or clip is formed by a bend at the gripping device detachably from and adthe middle of the upper transverse portion of justably with respect to the strap 2 or garter the upper wider eyelet member through which proper. In order to permit the strap 2 of being the supporting strap or garter proper is: drawn. more easily drawn through the upper or sup- `By so constructing the garter there will be obporting eyelet 5 the body of the hook-shaped tained only fully smooth surfaces on the metaleyelet 10, as may be seen from Fig. 2, is prefparts with which said supporting strap and the erably bent somewhat forward out of the plane button-holes therein come in supporting contact of said upper or supporting eyelet 5 and of the and in rictionally sliding engagement during under or gripper eyelet 4.

wearing the garter, even if the wire-body from I claim: 105 Which the 1100K 01' Clip G0 be engaged by the l. A garter consisting of an elastic strap bll'JOIl-hOleS in Said Strap iS more 01" 1655 pressed adapted to be secured to a bodice, corset, or the flat. like, said strap having holes therein spaced In the aCCOmDanYing dlWIlg Fg- 1 iS a fI'Ontlongitudinally thereof, an upper eyelet member view of a garter constructed according to this through which the Strap is threaded, the up- 11.0,

g a transverse portion with tending downwardly thereet member, means for suseyelet member from the first d hook being relatively narn with the transverse portion d diverging toward its end, a suspended from the rst mend a button on said flexible ele- With the second mentioned eyeng a stocking.

HANS LOBBENBERG.

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