US55258A - Improvement in attaching hoop-skirt wire - Google Patents

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NiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING HOOP-SKIRT WIRE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,258, dated June 5, 1866.

To all whom it may concer/n:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. EARLE, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clasping Hoops for Skirts g and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings vand the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, an edge view of the wire as prepared for clasping, enlarged; Fig. 2, an edge view ot' the same two pieces of wire clasped together; and in Fig. 3 a like view, showing a different manner of clasping.

' My invention relates to an improvement in the manner of securing two ends of the Wire to form hoops for hoop-skirts 5 and it consists in forming a shoulder upon one or both of the two ends, so that the end of the one will rest l against the shoulder of the other, and thus placed together, are securely clasped.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A B represent the two ends of a single hoop, each bent so as to form a shoulder, a, and thus formed the two ends are placed together, as seen in Fig. 2, and a clasp of any convenient form placed around the two ends, extending so as to clasp rmly onto the wire back of each or" the shoulders and over the two ends to hold them together, as denotedin red, Fig. 2. The two shoulders prevent the wire from being forced the o ne onto the other, and the clasp being secured back of each of the shoulders prevents the two wires'from bein gdrawn apart.

I prefer to use a single clasp, as described,

yet a short clasp may be used at each of the shoulders. 4

By this manner of elasping the wires need lap each other but very little, and much less than when clasped in the common manner, whereby a saving both in weight or' the skirt and cost of material is made. A shoulder formed upon one end only would prevent the two ends from being forced one onto the other, but would not so securely prevent the withdrawal of one end after the two were clasped together. Or the two shoulders may be placed the one over the other, as seen in Fig. 3, and clasped, as denoted in red, which would doubtless be the strongest manner of uniting 5 but the iirst mode would be the most finished.

Having therefore'fully described my inven- Y JOHN E. EARLE.

Witnesses H. O. PEGK, H. H. PEGK.

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