US641669A - Display-clasp for garments. - Google Patents

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No. 64!,669. Patented Jan, 23 1900; .A, J. BENNER & w. A. PLOCK.

DISPLAY CLASP FOR ennmams.

(Application filed Apr. 13, 1899 (N0 Modal.)

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DISPLAY-CLASP FOR 'GARM ENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,669, dated January 23, 1900.

Application filed April 13, 1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, ARTHUR J. BENNER and WILLIAM A.PLocK,citizens of the United States, and residents of Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Clasps for Garments; and we do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is aside elevation of the invention as in application. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the invention unclasped and partlybroken away. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of a modification of the invention.

This invention is designed to provide a device of simple, novel, and useful character for holding and displaying or simply holding ladiesskirts, as well as other garments and goods, and suitable for use in stores, residences, or wherever a device of the kind may be found useful and convenient.

Vith this object in view the invention consistsin the novel construction and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the body portion or member of the device, which in Fig. 1 is' shown as constructed from a piece of wire doubled upon itself in elongated form, with end loops or loop-arms a a, the end portions of the wire being brought together at the central portion of the member, projected at right angles, intertwisted, as shown at a and one of said end portions further extended and bent to form a suspension-hook A.

B designates a clasp member, also formed of wire, which should be of spring character. This member is of about the same length as the member A, and the end portions of the doubled wire which composes it are formed into loops or eyes I), which loosely and slidingly engage the arms of the loop a of the member A. The loop-arm a of said member A is pressed and slid through the closed Serial No. 712,919. (No model.)

, or loop end of the clasp member B, as shown.

As thus constructed and connected the tendency of the two members is to hug each other more or less closely throughout their length, so that when separated or forced apart against this tendency by the insertion of the edge portion of a garment or other article of goods of a comparatively thin character inserted between them they clasp and hold the garment or other article in a secure manner.

The device, with the garment or other article thus held therein, may then be suspended by means of the hook A wherever desired.

In Fig. 3 we have shown a modification wherein the body member of the device is composed of a straight piece or bar H of wood or other desired rigid material as distinguished from wire. To the central portion of this bar is secured a suspension-hook K. The clasp member consists of a single piece of wire of spring character, with a loop or eye at one end which loosely and slidingly engages one end portion of the said bar and with a similar loop or eye 70 at its opposite end portion, through which the opposite end of the bar is loosely passed. A pin p prevents the loop it from slipping off that end of the bar. The straight portion of the wire intermediate of the said loops 70 7c lies underneath the bar-H, which it hugs more or less closely, and forms therewith a clasp to hold an article inserted between it and the said bar, the operation being precisely similar to that of the construction first described.

Having thus described ourinvention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The clasp for the purpose herein described consisting of an elongated body member provided with a centrally-projecting suspension-hook, and a parallel side-clasping member of spring character adapted to make a clasping contact with the body member throughout its entire length, and formed with end loops or eyes which slidingly engage op posite end portions of the'body member, substantially as specified.

2. The clasp for the'purpose herein described, comprising a body member constructed of wire having each end portion bent upon itself to form closed loop-arms and it central projecting suspension-l1ook,and a parallel side-clasping member also formed of Wire of resilient character bent upon itself and having eyes or loops at its free ends whichslidinglyengageoneofsaidlooparmsof the body member, and through Whose opposite large looped end portion the other smaller loop-arm of the body member is pressed and I0 slid, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

ARTHUR J. BENNER. VILLIAM A. PLOOK. Witnesses:

D. EVERETT, GEORGE HILL.

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