US2074272A - Hose supporter - Google Patents

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P. PUGNIET March 16, 1937.

H6512 SUPPORTER Filed April 5, 1955 Invenfir:

Patented Mar. 16, 1937 1' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,074,272 HOSE SUPPORTER Paul Pugniet, Saint-Maude, France Application April 5, 1935, Serial No. 14,935 In France April 6, 1934 2 Claims.

The present invention has for its object, as new industrial products:

1.-The hose supporter, in which the button and its base form a single rubber unit, such base i being provided with holes extending parallel to its lower face and through which is inserted 3 supporter according to the present invention.

Figure 3 shows a detail of such hose supporter. Figure 4 is a'section on the line IVIV of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a front view of another type of hose supporter according to the invention.

Figure 6 is a section on the line VI-VI of Figure 5.

Figure '7 is a section on the line VIIVII of Figure 6. a The rubber strip shown in Figure 1 recalls the I structure of a railway rail, in which have been bored holes I parallel to the lower face 2 of the base 3.

The hose supporter shown in Figures 1-4 is constituted by a rubber button ,4 forming a single unit with its base 3 and obtained by cutting to the desired length the strip shown in Figure 1. i In the holes I, parallel to the lower face 2 of the base 3 is inserted the iron wire5 which is bent in order to form a frame. The tab 6 generally constituted by web is carried around one of the sides 5' of the wire 5, then passed under the face 2 of the base 3, then over the other side 5" of the wire 5 and finally again passed under its own lower face, as shown in Figure 4. Both sides of the tab 6 and the button loop 1 are secured to the attaching link 8 by means of a tubular shackle 9.

The hose support shown in Figures 5 to '7 also comprises a button 4 and a base 3 constituted by a single rubber section, but in this case the wire 5 is omitted and the holes obtained by the die during the manufacture of the strip such as shown in Figure 1, are separated by thin partitions Ill which are easily torn away when the tab 6 is being introduced, 1. e. by compressing transversely the base 3. In this vway a grooved edge opening is obtained (see Figure 6) in which the tab 6 is directly inserted (see Figure 7). It

is to be noted that in all embodiments of the invention, the attaching means is easily inserted in the holes or slot cut in the preformed blank of rubber. In Fig. 3 the wire 5 slides easily in the holes I; in Fig. 7 the tab 6 slides easily through the slot, as shown.

The improved hose supporter thus obtained affords the following advantages:

(it) The button 4 is firmly secured to the tab 6, since it does not comprise metallic parts for clamping the rubber or penetrating by means of projecting parts into the same. Owing tothe yielding properties of rubber such attaching means both lack strength.

(b) The hose or the sock is not gripped between two metallic parts which tend to tear it.

(0) Since the tab 6 is firmly held along the whole surface of the base 3 it cannot easily become detached from the base.

(d) The manufacture of the button and of its base is very economical.

(e) The tab 6 may be replaced after wearing without it being necessary to completely replace the hose supporter as is the case with the devices in which the tab 6 and the button 4 are constituted by a single unit.

(1) The rubber strip shown in Figure 1, enables one to obtain buttons of any given length, and whatever may be such length, their bases will always be bored through and through with holes such as l or openings such as I, I0, thus enabling the button to be secured to the button supporting tabs.

What I claim is:

l. A device for supporting hose, socks and like garments comprising a piece of rubber so deformed that the top section is formed as a button and the base contains two holes parallel to the lower surface of said base and parallel to the longitudinal axis thereof, a link, a button loop, a wire deformed rectangularly and having two of its sides passing through said holes in said base, a strap passing freely over the other two sides of the said rectangular wire and under the lower piece of said base and meansfor attaching said button loop and said strap to said link.

2. A device for supporting hose, socks and like garments which comprises a piece of rubber hav ing the configuration of an I-beam wherein the top serves as a button and the bottom as a base,

being interconnected, said button loop being con structed and arranged to fit over the button and fit about the center of the I formed by said button.

PAUL PUGNIET.

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