US503980A - oberly - Google Patents

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.4 (No Model.) 'l 7 V. H. OBERLY.

GARMENT FASTENER. I l

7 Patented Aug. 29,- l1893.

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VIRGINIA H. OBERLY, OF IVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

GARM E`NT`FASTEN ER.

A SPECIFICATION forming part of Letteyrsvlatent No. 503,980, dated August 29, 1893.

Application filed October 13, 1892. Serial No. 448.745. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VIRGINIA H. OBERLY, at present residing at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Clasp or Fastening Adapted for Fastening Garments and forA other Fastening Purposes, of which the following is a specification. 1

My clasp or fastening is made of a single piece of plate metal, or of other suitable material, peculiarly bent and folded. One of the purposes for which it is intended is as a front fastening for corsets, but it has many other uses.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating it detached, and also in its application to a corset: Figure 1, is a front view of part of a corset fastened, showing several of my clasps or fastenings in place as in use, in connection with a pair of front steels or staysinclosed in casings. Fig. 2, is a bottom perspective View of my clasp or fastening, detached. Fig. 3, shows a blank, whichr'nay be stamped out of a sheet of metal at one operation, suitable for making my clasp or fastening. Fig. 4, shows a modified form of catch, and Fig. 5, illustrates the saine with a bevel edge for convenience in fastening and unfastening the clasp. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of my clasp.

Referring to the letters on the drawings, A, A', indicate the casings of the steels or stays.

l5, Fig. 1, indicates several of my clasps or fastenings in place as in use when the corset is fastened in front on the body of the wearer.

O, C', indicate front steels or stays within their casings, parts of the casings being torn away for the purpose of exposingthem in place.

D, indicates the main central portion of the clasp or fastening, and thebands or folds at its ends are mere continuations of it, requiring no cutting or stamping out of any part of the blank.

E, indicates what I will call the fixed end of the clasp or fastening, because it is to be applied With a degree of permanency to a steel or stay.

F, indicates the free end of the clasp or fastening.

j', indicates the hook at this free end, adapted to hook around the inside edge of a steel or stay.

The fixed end E, of the clasp should be provided with a suitable catch as for example a hook e. This hook is formed by Iirst bending the blank at e', so that the part e2, passes across the space for the steel or stay, and is bent again at e3 to form the hook e. ,Thus it willbe seen that the fixed end of the clasp completely enfolds one steel or stay on all sides. It is this complete enfolding or enveloping of the steel that enables me to readily attach or detach the clasp from the garment without removing the steel or stay and withoutbending back the hook e.

G, G, indicate openings in a garmentleading into or under the casings A, A.

It will be observed that hook e, is adapted to clasp around the outer edge of one of the steels or stays. In practice such steel or stay is made to move freely in the opening for it through the fixed end of the clasp. Therefore, it is very easy to press the clasp so that lthe hook e, will be disengaged from the edge of the steel or stay, when by tilting the clasp or steel a little, the hook will move out of engagement and the clasp will slide laterally o from the steel, so that it is but the work lof a moment to detach it. It can be attached by simply sliding the hook e, and the part e2, under the steel or stay, and engaging the hook with its outer edge. When the clasp is fastened to both steels, the strain upon it keeps it firmly in position, and when it is released it cannot come off of itself, because the part e2, clasps the steel or stay and prevents it from unfastening, but it can readily be detached from the steel or stay in the manner above described.

The catch e, may be formed as shown in Fig. 4, in which shape it may be readily adj usted in practice or its adjustment may be facilitated by making it with a bevel as illustrated in Fig. 5, at k. This bevel enables the steel to easily enter under the catch 1e, in attaching and detaching the clasp. Y

When a clasp is made from a single piece of metal with the bends and folds described, it has the capacity, on account of its structure, of being attached or'detached, which no other form of clasp that I am aware of has. The bend at e', will always yield a little under the slight prying strain applied to release the hook e, and the'part e2, which connects the bend with the hook e, communicates the movement to the hook e, which releases it. But in the absence of that prying strain especially applied to remove the clasp, when the steel or stay is in place, the fold e', and the part e2 keep the hook e, to its place securely.

When the clasp is attached at its fixed end to a front steel or stay of a corset, or other garment, it has all the characteristics of a permanent fastening, being held firmly in place, but itis easily detachable from the steel or stay, or casingto which it is attached, and from the garment, dac., and can be replaced, or another clasp or fastening of the same kind can be put into its place readily without riveting, clamping, or sewing. The clasp or fastening can be put on or taken oi even while on the person of the wearer Without removing the steel or stay, and without cutting, ripping, or sewing: and when it is used, the front steels or stays of a corset can be removed and replaced even While the garment is on the body of the wearer without removing the clasps or fastenings, and Without cntting, ripping, or sewing.

All these advantages,and others not specified, may be gained by the wearer of corsets, in the use of my clasp or fastening, which may be used also as a fastening of other garments, as bodices, cloaks, ac., and of neckties, gloves, wristlets, &c.

1. A detachable clasp or fastening formed of one piece of metal comprising the body part D, hook f, at one end, and the enfolding part e2, and catch e, at the other end, snbstantially as set forth.

2. A detachable clasp or fastening formed of one piece of metal comprising the body part D, hookf, at one end,and the enfolding part e2 and catch e, at the other end, said catch being provided with abevcl 7c,snbstantially as set forth. I

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

VIRGINIA H. OBERLY.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. OBERLY, JOSEPH L. ATKINs.

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