US205334A

US205334A - Improvement in clasps

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Publication number: US205334A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1878-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 1895-06-25

Description

P. ARMSTRONG Clasps.

No. 205,334; Patented June 25, I878.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LIFHDGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK ARMSTRONG, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,334, dated June 25, 1878; application filed April 10, 1878.

T ll whom it may concern: when the two plates are in position a space, 0, Be it known that I, FRANK ARMSTRONG, of is left between them, through which the web Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and C is free to pass when the biting-ends of the State of Connecticut, have invented certain plates are not in contact therewith. D is a new and useful Improvements in Clasps and slide which causes the biting-ends of the I do hereby declare that the following is a full plates A B to approach each other in an obviand exact description thereof, reference being ous manner, the said plates springing apart had to the accompanying drawings, making a when the slide is moved back. part of this application. The back plate A is perfectly flat, with a My invention relates to certain improvechannel or groove, d, formed therein, and into ments in metallic clasps designed more parwhich the web or fabric is forced when the ticularly for use in stocking-supporters. It curved ende of the plate B is forced against has for its object to providefor the adjustment it by the slide. The advantage of forming the of the clasp upon the web-support, and also end of the plate A flat, in contradistinction to facility of locating the biting-ends to grasp. the usual bent end, is that when used as a With these ends in view my invention constocking-supporter this plate may be passed sists in forming the upper end of the clasp down very readily between the stocking and so that the web may freely pass for longitudithe leg of the wearer without striking the top nal adjustment, as will be fully explained or edge of the stocking. The plate A may hereinafter; and my invention further consists terminate at its upper end at the same point in the peculiar form of one of the biting-ends, with the plate B, or it may extend to form a whereby it may be located, as will be more suspension-loop, as shown in dotted lines at fully set forth. Fig. 1, and both plates may be cut away, as

To enable others to make and use my imshown at f g, for the sake of lightness.

proved clasp, I will describe its construction What I claim as new, and desire to secure and operation, referring by letters to the acby Letters Patent, is-- companying drawing, in which A metallic clasp consisting of the spring- Figure l is a perspective view of one of my jaws A B, joined at their upper ends, provided improved clasps arranged upon a piece of with a channel, 0, between them, and adapted web. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section to be closed by means of a sliding ring, sub

taken at the line a; w of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

an end view of the clasp.

Similar letters indicate like parts in the FRANKARMSZLRONG' several views. Witnesses:

A B are two plates riveted together at a a. WM. C. MOINTYRE,

The plate B is formed with a channel, I), so that A J NO. D. PATTEN.