US364012A

US364012A - Trousers-stretcher

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Publication number: US364012A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-05-31
Anticipated expiration: 1904-05-31

Description

(No Model.)

J. B. HALE.

. TROUSERS STRBTGHER.

No. 364.012. Patented May 31, 1887.

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' cam or eccentric roller shown in Fig. 4, the sec UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA B. HALE, OF HUBBARDSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TROUSERS-STRETCHER.

sPncrrIcA'rroN forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,012, dated May 31, 1887.

Application filod February 14, 1887. Serial No. 227,635. (No model To all whom it may concern.-

Be'it known that I, JOSHUA B. HALE, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Hubbardston, (post-office address at Williamsville,) county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Trousersstretcher, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to trousers-stretchers, so called-that is, devices designed to remove the baggy appearance and wrinkles in the knees and other portions of the. legs of trousers occasioned by wear, and provide a smooth, uniform, and dressy appearance therein.

It is the object of my invention to produce improvements in contrivances of the character mentioned which will secure at once a thoroughly-efficient, easily-operated, and cheaplyconstructed trousers-stretcher, as I will now proceed to describe and claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters indicating the same parts wherever they occur.

'Of the drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved trousersstretcher. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional view oh the line 00 m, Fig. 2. Fig. 4is a plan view, on an enlarged scale, of one of the cam or eccentricrollers detached from the coniplete device. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the tion being taken on the line 3 y of said figure.

In carrying out my invention I- construct two blocks or parts of wood, A B, of suitable dimensions, and bore two holes, a a, in the former bloclgnear the ends thereof,for the reception of the quite stout spiral' springs 11 b, as also one end of the rods 0 c, which are adapted to rest or bear onone end of said springs, the other ends of which bear upon the bottoms of the holes in saidbloek. The other ends of rods 0 c are rigidly secured in any suitable manner to block B, which latter block has a hole, cl, bored therein to accommodate in a loose manner one end of a rod, 6, the other end of which is secured, as at f, to block A. The end of rod 6, adapted to slide in the hole or bore (Z of block B, is provided with an offset or shoulder, 9, between which and a plate, h,

secured to the inner face of block B, is arranged a spiral spring, i, which acts as a buffer on the sudden moving apart of blocks A B by the ac tion of springs b b, the entire construction at the point of connection of rod'e with block B serving also to prevent the blocks A and B and their attached parts from being separated. By the construction thus far described it will be seen that blocks Aand B may be pressed toward each other against the tension of springs b b, and in order to hold them in this position, for a purpose to be presently explained, I provide a latch of any suitable character, .connected with block B and adapted to engage rod 6, the contrivances for this purpose here shown being a catch or spring-bolt, 9', adapted to engage a notch or lug (not shown) on rod 6. This latching device is a desirable, though not an essential, adjunct of the device.

is Z represent rollers provided in each end with a pin, m, set in a hole formed in the end at a point eccentric to the longitudinal axis of the roller, a spring, at, being interposed between the pin and the hollow of said hole, for the purpose of permitting the pin to be pressed inward in order to remove the roller from the machine when desired, said rollers being held to operate with the upper or outer face of said blocks by means of ears or lugs 0, secured to the ends of the blocks, in holes p of which ears or lugs pins in operate as journals to rollers 70 Z.

The operation of my improved trousers.

stretcher maynow be described as follows:

Blocks A B are pressed toward each other against the tension of springs b b, and latched or locked in this position, as described, when the trousers to be operated upon are placed in position with, say, the waist or upper portion on block A and between it and roller is, and the lower portion, of the legs on block B and between it and roller 1, the knee portion of the I trousers being arranged between said blocks,

and the rollers is Z being so arranged as that l ICO A B will be forced in opposite directions by means of springsb b,putting the trousers under tension, in which position they may be left until the wrinkles and bag at the knees are removed. ,7

By my improvements at trousers-stretcher is provided which is to all intents and purposes the trousers may be kept under a uniform and continuous tension while in the device.

It is obvious that my improved means for putting trousers under tension may be employed with any known means for clamping the trousers in a machine, and that the eccentric-rollers and their adjuncts, as hereinafter claimed, may be employed with any known means for putting the trousers under tension.

Having thus explained the nature and object of the invention and the manner of using the same, what I claim is-- a 1. In a trousers stretcher, the combination, with a block provided with holes or sockets, springsin said sockets, and rods adapted at one of their ends to rest on said springs and move in said holes or sockets, of a second bloekto which the otherends of said rods are secured, an inclependentrod secured to said first-mentioned block and being loosely connected with and having a limited movementwith respect to said second block, and clamping devices connected with each of said blocks for securing a garment in the device, substantially as set forth.

2. In a-trousersstretch r, a pair of clamps, each comprising the following devices, viz: a block, ears or lugs o, secured to the ends of said block, a roller, holes formed in the ends of the roller at a point eccentric to the lougitudinal center of the roller, springs 'n in said holes, and pins on, set in said holes on said springs, and devices for expanding or forcing apart a pair of clamps thus constructed, combined and operating substantially'as hereinbefore set forth.

\Villianisville, Massachusetts, February 2,

JOSHUA B. HALE.

. Witnesses:

J OSEPH FISHER, ANNAS A. BABBITT.