US437390A

US437390A - Trousers-stretcher

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Publication number: US437390A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-09-30
Anticipated expiration: 1907-09-30

Description

(No Model.)

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ARNOLD WYMAN, or B ooKLYN, NEW YORK.

TROUSERS-STRETCH'ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 437,390, dated sej otenlber' 3Q, 1890.

Application filed November 27, 1888. serial No. 331,756. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARNOLD WYMAN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trousers Stretchers and Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved trousers stretcher and hanger, and has for its object to provide a simple and durable device adapted for application to the legs of trousers to preserve the shape of the same through the medium of the weight of the garment when suspended by the device, either with or without an attached weight.

The invention consists in the novel con struction and combination of the severalparts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 represents the application of the device to a pair of trousers and the garment as suspended by the said device. Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation and partial vertical section of the device. Fig. 3 isatransverse section taken through one of the shoes, on line a; a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a slightly modified form of the shoe detached.

The device consists, primarily, of a body portion A and two shoes B attached to the extremities of the body. The body portion A is constructed in two sections 17 and 18, the said sections being pivotally attached at or near their inner ends by an eye 19, the shank of which is threaded and is made to pass through one of a series of apertures 20, formed in the sections 17 and 18, and upon the said threaded end a suitable nut is screwed.

In order that the sections 17 and 18 may be bent or broken in one direction only-namely, in the directionfrom the eye 19an upturned flange 21 is formed upon the lower longitudinal edge of each of the sections near its inner or pivotal end, whereby sockets are formed to receive the longitudinal edge of the section above that carrying the flange 21. Thus when the upturned edge 21 of one section section, the body will beat its greatest length and both members in essentially the same plane.

When the members or sections 17 and 18 are carried upward in the direction of the eye, the shoes attached to the outer face of the sections are drawn suifioiently near one another to permit the device to be conveniently inserted ina trousers-leg. The eye 19 serves as a means whereby the device may be suspended from a nail or other convenient support, and if in practice it is found desirable in connection with the device, a Weight may be attached to the waistband of the trousers or to any other convenient point, to facilitate the stretching of the legs.

The shoes B are made of metal and have a convex exterior 11 and concave inner faces 12, provided with lugs 16, pivoted to the arms or sections1718. The outer faces of the shoes are toothed or roughened, as at 12. In Fig. 4 the shoe is shown solid with its outer face roughened or toothed, as at 13, the shoe being curved longitudinally to correspond with the curvature of the bottom swell of the trousersleg.

In operation, a device is compressed and inserted in the lower end of each trousers-leg in such a manner that the shoes will have a bearing upon opposite sides, one bearing upon the front and one upon the rearof the leg to which it is applied. When a device has been introduced into each trousers-leg, the trousers are folded, one leg upon the other, and suspended by engaging the body portion with a nail or equivalent device. Thus, as the heavier portion of the trouserseenamely, the waistbandis downward, and as each leg is held in shape sidew-ise by said devices, the

weight of the trousers will effectually remove all wrinkles therein and bagging atthe knees, and also will tend, in conjunction with the spring of the body A and the length of the shoes below their pivotal attachment wi th the body, to firmly bind the devices to the trousers.

I desire it to be understood that if in practice it is found desirable, the body may be rigidly attached to the shoes, and also that the trousers may be suspended from the waistband and a weight secured to the body porcontacts witlrthe contiguous edge of the other tion of the stretcher. In fact, the details of construction of the invention described may be substituted by equivalent construction without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patant- 1. A trousers-stretcher comprising two pivotally-connected members having shoes at the outer ends and a stop on the lower edge of one member in the path of the lower edge of the opposite member, and a suspension device, substantially as set forth.

2. A trousers-stretcher comprising the two members 17 18, pivoted together, and having opposite laterally projecting flanges 21 on