US335784A

US335784A - Stocking-supporter

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Publication number: US335784A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-02-09
Anticipated expiration: 1903-02-09

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. 4 J. B. sWBETsER. Y

' STOCKING SUPPORTER. I 7 No. 335,784. Patented Feb. 9,.1886.

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JEWETT B.SIVEETSER, OF DANVERS, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOCKlNG SUPPCRTER.

E B'PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,784, dated February 9, 1886.

I Application filed October 31, 1885. Serial No. 181,492. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J nwnrr B. Swnnrsna, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dan'- vers, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stocking-Supporters, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

My invention has relation to improvements in stocking-supporters; and the novelty consists in the peculiar construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

The primary object of my invention is to provide an improved stocking supporter which can be worn with great ease and convenience, and which shall not bind and chafe or irritate the limb of the wearer; and a further object is to provide a stocking-supporter which shall possess strength, durability, and simplicity of construction and cheapness of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings I have Illustrated several forms of supporting plates or strips with ditferently-constructed devices for clamping both the stocking and the boot of the wearer.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of my improved stockingsupporter in position for use, and having two detachable spring-clamping devices. Fig. 2 is an elevation of another formof supporting plate or strip designed to be detachably fastened to the shoe and detachably connected to the stocking. Figs. 3 to 7, inclusive, represent different forms of the device.

Referring to the drawings, in which like lett ers of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates my improved stocking-supporter, designed to be secured at its lower end to the boot or shoe of the wearer and at its upper end to the stocking at or near the upper edge thereof. The plate or strip A is made of metal to give strength and durability to the device, and to provide a plate or strip having the necessary flexibility to enable it to give or yield to the movements of the wearer, and yet possess sufficient rigidity to properly support the stocking. I take a strip or plate of thin steel and temper the same until the desired degree of elasticity has been attained. A spring plate or strip is thus provided which possesses the necessary requisites of strength, durability, and elasticity, and

which can be conveniently worn without hinderance, and which can be manufactured and sold very cheaply.

I will now proceed to describe some of the forms of devices which may be employed to secure the strip or plate 'to the boot and stocking; but I would have it understood that I do not desire to limit myself to any particular form of device, as I am aware that many changes and modifications therein can be made.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings the upper and lower ends of the plate or strip A are provided with a spring-clamping device, 13, which con sists of two serrated clamping-jaws and a coiled spring, each clasp being rigidly secured to the ends of the plate or strip in any suitable or preferable manner.

In Fig. 2 the lower end of the plate or strip A is provided with one or more apertures, (3, through one of which a separable button or stud is passed, to detachably secure the lower end of the spring plate or strip A to the boot or shoe, while the upper end of said strip A is bifurcated by a cut, 0, so as to provide two arms, 0. The upper ends of the arms 0 are rounded, so as to obviate the danger of cutting the stocking, and the cut 0 is made gradually tapering to its terminal point.

In use the upper edge or end of the stocking is inserted into the cut 0 between the arms 0, and is thus firmly and securely held in place and supported by the plate A, the stocking having been first drawn taut to prevent wrinkles appearing in the same, and so as to exert sufficient strain or tension on the plate A to hold the latter from becoming loosened and detached and in its proper vertical position.

By means of the apertures at the bottom of the strip or plate it can be adjusted to accommodate stockings of varying lengths, and when this form of fastening device is employed to hold the plate to the boot by the stud the stocking is detached from the strip or plate when it is desired to remove the shoe and stocking, and said strip remains attached to the boot.

The spring strip or plate shown in Fig. 3 is provided with the springclasp B at its lower end to detachably connect the device to the ICO shoe or boot, while the upper end has the bifurcated portion to provide the two clampingarms In Fig. 4 the strip or plate is provided with the openings 0 at its lower end to secure the device to the boot by a stud, while the upper end of said strip is provided with the clamping-arms 0.

Intermediate of its point of attachment to the shoe and stocking or the clamping-arms at its upper end the strip or plate is enlarged, as at d, and provided with an enlarged opening, (1, and a tapering slot, 1 whereby the stocking may be secured in the tapering slot (1 when it is not of sufficient length to fit in the arms 0 at the upper end, the enlarged opening (1 permitting of the ready insertion and removal of the stocking at this point.

The device shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings has two laterally-diverging arms, D, which are bent or rounded in the direction of their length, so as to fit or embrace the limb of the wearer. The upper ends of these arms D are provided. with a tapering slot and rounded ends to secure the upper end of the stocking therein, and at the point where said arms D diverge from the plate or strip A a tapering narrow notch or cut, 6, is made to secure the stocking below the upper edge thereof, thus providing for three points of attachment of the stocking to the plate A and the arms D thereof and the secure holding and supporting of the stocking.

The lower end of the spring plate or strip A (shown in Fig. 6) is provided with a clasp, B, for detachably securing the device to the boot, while the upper end of said strip or plate is provided with a safety pin, F, which comprises two arms, ff, bent and coiled at one end'to provide a spring-arm, which is pointed and fits into a guard secured to the rigid arm at the end of the device opposite to the coil, the safetypin in this case being adapted to engage and hold the stocking to the supporting strip or plate.

A spring-clasp of still another construction is shown in Fig. 7, for securing the lower end of the strip or plate to the shoe or boot. In this construction the lower end of the metallic plate or strip is bent upon itself, as at g, and then again bent to provide a springarm, g,

which is adapted to fit and clamp one of the vertical faces of the upper end of the boot,

while the arm 9 clamps or bears against the other surface of said boot. The upper end of the strip or plate A is enlarged, and provided with an opening, h, and a tapering slot, h, extending downwardly and adapted to receive and support a stocking in the manner hereinbefore described, and as will be readily understood. When the lower end of the plate or stripis perforated, and it becomes necessary to use a stud to secure the same to the boot, the strip is laid alongside of and against the outer face of the boot near the upper edge, and at or near the middle thereof, and the stud is passed through one of the apertures.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, it will be observed that I provide a stocking-supporter which entirely dispenses with the use of clamping-bands and suspending cords or straps, which can be worn with ease and without hinderance and inconvenience, which is simple, strong, durable, and light in its construction, can be manufactured and sold very cheaply, is thoroughly effective in its operation, can be readily and quickly adjusted and secured in position, and easily and readily detached to permit of its removal from the shoe and stocking, which provides for the necessary flexibility to permit the free movement of the wearer, and is not liable to tear or cause undue wear upon the stocking.

Any preferred form of separable button or stud may be employed to secure the lower end of the plate A to the boot or shoe.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-is

As an improved article of manufacture, a stocking-supporter comprising an elastic 1netallic plate or strip composed of a single piece, and constructed substantially as described,and having a clasp at one end to engage with the top of the stocking and another clasp at the other end adapted to be secured to the top of the shoe, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing asmy own I havehereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' JEWVETT BAYRD SWEETSER.

\Vitnesses:

FRITZ O. GLEIOHMANN, JAMES F. KENNEY.