US2114561A - Sock suspender - Google Patents

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April 19, 193%. J. HAUSMANN' 2,114,561

SOCK SUSPENDER Filed Dec. 12, 1936 Patented Apr. 19, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application December 12, 1936, Serial No. 115,508 In Germany December 17, 1935 2 Claims.

Sock-suspenders heretofore have been applied in a form generally injurious to health, as my experiences have shown in the medical treatment of varicose veins and other bodily defects,

owing to the stagnation in the circulation of blood on account of undue pressure exerted by such other suspender-constructions. The evil effects of such old sock-suspenders upon the body have been recognized long ago and many have been the ways tried to overcome their injurious defects, without, however, any great success. Elastic bands have been mostly employed to this end, surrounding the leg below'theknee, yet even an approximate fit is diflicult to insure. Aside from this fact, a leg-surrounding support will always exert a certain undue pressure on the veins and arteries, while the mode of application in vertically suspending the holders from undergarments, short undertrousers or the shirt, do 20 not insure a sufficient hold and easily allow the socks to slip and spoil their appearance.

All these disadvantages are avoided by means of the improvements in sock-suspenders which I have designed and tried out in practical usage. I employ three ribbons, preferably elastic, diverging in the shape of a star or T, connected with one another directly or by means of a triangular or polygon-shaped middle piece, and bearing at their free ends catch-es, e. g. clamps; or I employ 30 a polygon-shaped, preferably triangular flat support of leather, rubber, fabric or the like, having the catches at its: corners. Said catches serve for easily securing my sock-suspender at its two upper corners to the underwear, while the lower corner will be connected to the sock-border. In such a way the two upper branches of the socksuspender slightly contract the underwear above the calf, so that it cannot slip down over the calf and the sock is well fastened.

The construction of my sock-suspender may be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention. The main feature of the invention is that the vertical pull exerted by the sock upon the suspender is subdivided into two diverging components, acting slightly to contract the underwear above the calf.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figs. 1 and 2 are elevational views showing two forms of the invention, and

Fig. 3 shows the embodiment of Fig. 1 applied to clothing.

In Fig. 1 three short connecting ribbons 2, 3 5 and 4, preferably of elastic material, are secured together by a body piece 5 of polygonal shape. At the end of each of the ribbons 2, 3 and 4 is a catch 6. The catches of the ribbons 2 and 3 are arranged so that their axes form an obtuse angle, while the axis of the catch on the ribbon 4 bisects this angle. The axis of the catch is the line along which its force is exerted when it is applied to the clothing, as shown in Fig. 3.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 the catches 6 are applied directly to the corners of a body piece 7 in the form of an equilateral triangle. The axes of all the catches in this form of the invention therefore lie apart.

It is evident that by only partly surrounding the leg just below the knee and above the calf, the pressure exerted on the leg by this hold is well distributed over a large surface by the more or less elastic underwear, and no indentation whatsoever will appear on the leg, thus avoiding all undue pressure thereon with dangerous effects and rather obtaining a slight massaging accelerating the circulation of the blood.

Having thus described my said invention what I claim is: 0

1. In a sock supporter, three catches and means uniting said catches so that the axes of two of them.f-orm an obtuse angle while the rearward extension of the axis of the third one bisects said angle. 35

2. In combination with a sock and the leg of an undergarment adapted to reach below the knee of the wearer, a support for said sock comprising two catches connected together and engaging the leg of the undergarment at circumferentially spaced points below the knee of the wearer, and a third catch connected to the other two extending downward to engage the sock, whereby the pull of the sock is distributed circumferentially to the leg of the undergarment to draw the same against the leg of the wearer.

J USTUS HAUSMANN.

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