US350228A

US350228A - Clasp

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Publication number: US350228A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-10-05
Anticipated expiration: 1903-10-05

Description

(No Model.)

B. H. BBDELL.

GLASP. No. 350,228.

I Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

N. PETERS. Phmvljlhugnpher, Washinglon. 11C.

UNITED STATES ,PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN n. EEDELL, oE LE EoY, LAKE COUNTY, oHIo.'

CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,228, dated October 5V, 1886.

Application tiled May 25, 1886. Serial No. 203,206.

' aid of suspender-buttons, and for other similar purposes, and it consists in certain features of construction, and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

ln ,the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View in perspective showing my improved clasp in position connecting the 'suspender' with the pantaloons. Fig. 2 is an enlarged I'ront elevation ot` the clasp'. Figs. 3 and 4 are elevations in ser-tion on the line ot' a: x, Fig. 2, showing, respectively, the clasp closed and open.

The clasp is made of two thin metal plates, A and B, each provided with ears, respectively,a and b, that project substantially at right angles to the respective plates, and are pivoted together at e. substantially liat, and has openings A and A2, the latter leaving the upper part of the plate in the form of a bail. I he plate B below corresponds with the plaie A, but above isreduced in width, forming a tongue that is bent forward and made to pass through the opening A2. The tongue has a part, b', inclined slightly to the plane ofthe plate B, and'is oft set forward at b2, and from the offset terminates in a thumb-piece, b3, the latter overlapping the cross-piece c at the top of the bail portion of the plate A. The lower part or jaws of each plate are indented from the outside, respectively, at c, causing small projections or teeth on the inside that prevent the jaws from slipping on theV cloth. A ring, D,

' is placed in position, as shown, between the The front plate, A, isl

(No model.)

bail and tongue before the plates are secured on the' pivotal wire.' The offset portion b2 of the tongue has notches b4. on either side for engaging the ring D. When the ring is near the pivot-al point, as shown in Fig. 4, the jaws may be opened some. distance, and in such position may be placed astride the cloth,or a portion of the garment that is to be held, after which, by drawing the ring upward, and by means oi' the incline b and the arrangement of parts shown, the jaws are pressed together. When the ring engages the notches b4.' as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the jaws are locked and held securely in position grasping the garment. By pressing down on the ring, the tongue loe-` ing` elastic, the jaws are unlocked and may be separated, as 1n Fig. 4.-

The ring D is designed to engagea hook, such as commonly had on suspender-buckles.

In removing the garmentv the ring is unhooked and the clasp left attached to the garment. The unhooking of the ring is more easily done than unlouttoning Suspenders in the usual manner.

rI he clasps are so small that they vmay be conveniently carried in the pocket, and in case Suspenders are used and one is '"lost off a clasp can be applied in a few moments.

The clasp is recommended especially to bachelors.

In a clasp, the combination, withrplates p ivoted together and adapted to grasp and hold the material, one of said plates having a bail integral therewith, and the other plate having a tongue inclined and offset, as shown, and

extending through the opening in the bail, of the ring operating between the tongue and bail, substantially as set torth.

In testimony whereofl l sign this specication, in the presence of two witnesses, this 20th day of May, 1886. Y

BENJAMIN H. BEDELL.

' Witnesses:

GEO. BLAoKMoRE, F. H. BROWN.