US548234A - Garment-supporter loop - Google Patents

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EDWARD S. SMITH, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 548,234, dated October 22, 1895.

Application filed August 14,1894. Serial No. 520,248. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. SMITH, of Waterbury, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporter Loops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to an improved garment-fastener; and it consists, essentially, in improving the loop shown and described in my prior patent, No. 500,353, dated June 27, 1893.

My invention has for its object the formation of a loop to be used in connection with the stud ordinarily used with garment-fasteners of this description which will securely hold the stud and the portion of the garment carried by the same in such a manner that accidental disengagement will be practically impossible, and which will be simple in application, and which will, by the presence of the smooth lining-piece around the lower inner edge of the loop, prevent the garment from being unduly worn at this point, the said lining-piece performing in addition the function of preventing the stud-shank from escaping from the loop, as hereinafter described.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of one of the details of my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the completed article, and'Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line a; m, Fig. 2.

A A are curved arms meeting at the upper end of the loop and separated at their lower ends, as shown. The space between arms A A is broadest toward its upper end to admit the stud-head ordinarily used with garment-fasteners of this description and shown in my prior patent above referred to. At an intermediate point in the length of the arms A A, which constitute the sides of the loop, the said arms approach each other, so as to form an intermediate narrowed throat through which it is necessary to pass the shank of the stud. The distance between these arms at this point is substantially the same, or less, than the diameter of the stud-shank, so that when said shank and the garment around the same is passed therethrough the arms spring apart slightly, being permitted to do so by the separation at their lower ends, and the stud passes into the seat at the lower end of the loop.

A curved lining-piece B, corresponding substantially to the curve of the lower inner edge of the arms A A, is provided for the purpose of affording a smooth seat for the-stud-shank. This lining-piece also acts as a sheath for the lower ends of the arms A A and prevents the stud-shank from being pulled through the space between the said lower ends of the arms A A.' The particular feature of my invention consists in the novel way in which this lining-piece is held in place.

Recesses D D are provided in the inner edge of the arms A A, toward the lower ends thereof, to a depth I corresponding substantially to the thickness of the lining-piece B. The ends of the curved lining-piece rest in these recesses, which, as will be readily seen, prevent it from slipping from engagement with the loop unless the side arms A A are forced apart to an entirely unnecessary degree. To obviate this emergency an additional means for securing the lining-piece may be afiorded, which consists in bending the two lower edges of the lining-piece toward each other into a recess formed in the lower end of the loop, (indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 2 and clearly shown in Fig. 1,) so that the ends of the arms A A are sheathed there in. This forms a very satisfactory and desirable article and prevents the garment from being pinched between the ends of said arms and torn thereby.

In addition to the above it will be clearly seen that the upper ends of the lining-piece cannot Wear the garment for the reason that they lie in the recesses D D so that the upper surface of the lining-piece is flush with the inner edge of the loop.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I v In a garment fastener a loop, the side arms of which meet at one end of said loop and are disunited at the opposite end of said loop, lining piece loosely rest therein, the lower opwith a lining piece shielding the disunited posite edges of the lining piece being pinched ends of the said side arms, said lining piece toward each other underneath said 100p.

being loosely held in position by recesses ED WARD S. SMITH. 5 formed in the inner edge of said side arms to Witnesses:

a depth equal substantially to the thickness R. H. SMITH,

of the metal lining piece,-the ends of which CHARLES F. BRONSON.

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