US449817A

US449817A - George c

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Publication number: US449817A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 1908-04-07

Description

. KIBBE, Jr.

(No Model.) G

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

No. 449,817. Patented Apr. 7,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. KIBBE, JR, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,817, dated April '7, 1891.

Application filed June 2, 1890. Serial No: 353,914. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE C. KIBBE, Jr., of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Garment- Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a garment-supporter that is simple in construction and that will firmly hold the garment to which it is attached without the liability of tearing it.

I willnow proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings, and then point out the novel features in the claim.

Figures 1 and 2 represent front views of two examples of my invention.- Fig. 3 represents a portion of a limb on which there is a part of a sock and drawers with one form of my invention attached thereto.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 and 3, A designates a frame, which may be conveniently stamped out of sheet metal or which may equally well be made of wire. The central portion of the frame incloses'an aperture a, which in this instance is of substantially circular form. Branching from this aperture at either end thereof are slots a (L The slot at is considerably wider than the slot a the width of the slot at being somewhat wider than the shank of a button or ball B, which is attached to one side of the frame by a flexible connection I).

The supporter is attached as follows Place the frame in front of the sock and the button B at the back thereof about opposite the central aperture a,- press the button through said aperture, taking aportion of the sock with it, and then draw the portion of sock and the 40 portion of the material, as at e, and drawing it into the narrow slot a On reaching the end the material will be firmly held. The two articles are now firmly connected and the sock supported in proper position on the wearer.

In Fig. 3 the two slots a a are of substantially the same width, and the frame has flexibly connected thereto two buttons B on opposite sides thereof. Where the ends of two garments are to be fastened together, I prefer to use this form of my invention. As the method of attaching this example is identical with the method of attaching the lower end of the example in Fig. 1, further description of it is unnecessary.

Though I have explained and shown my invention as connecting together a sock and drawers, I do not confine myself to such use, as I may obviously use it for connecting other garments, shortening sleeves &c;

That I claim as my invention is- A garment-supporter consisting of a frame having a slot and a wider opening with which said slot communicates, a button, and a cord or chain connecting the button with the frame, whereby the saidbutton has a free movement relative to the frame in either direction, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE O. KIBBE, JR. Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, F. GEORGE BARRY.