US729165A - Safety garment-supporter. - Google Patents

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.No. 729,165. PATENTED MAY 26,1908.

E. E. HEILBRON. SAFETY GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17, 1902.

I0 MODEL.

' WITNESSES WMK/QWM% 7 2 6 UNTTED STATES Patented May 26, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD EUSTACE HEILBRON, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR, BY

MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO LOUISVILLE NOVELTY COMPANY, INCORPO- RATED, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

SAFETY GARM ENT-HSUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,165, dated May 26, 1903.

Application filed February 1'7, 1902. Serial No. 94,547. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD EUSTACE HEIL- BRON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefi'erson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Safety Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment-supporters in which pointed pins and barbs are used; and the objects of myimprovement are, first, minimum cost of manufacture; second, facility of use; third, effectiveness; fourth, durability; fifth, avoidance of constricting bands and straps. I attain these objects by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- 7 Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device; Fig. 2, a vertical central section on the line A B of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a perspective view of a modification with the barbs below the pins; Fig. 4, a perspective view of a modification of the top of Fig. 1; Fig. 5, a view of the top edge of Fig. 3, and Fig. 6 a perspective view of a modification with curved top and barbs on the curved portion.

Similar reference-numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The body portion 1, with its integral pins 3 and the safety-slide 2, constitutes the body of the device.

1 is the guard-hump above the supportingbarbs.

5 represents the garment-s11 pporting barbs.

6 is the lower expanded end of body portion 1.

7 is the convexity on the shank of the body portion 1 in the path of the safety-slide 2.

8 is a loop for tape or fabric strip.

9 represents the pockets in slide 2 for receiving the points of the pins 8.

The body portion 1 is punched from sheet metal and consists of a single piece. Its middle portion is a shank narrower than the top and bottom, which has smooth edges in order that the safety-slide 2 may slide thereon. Near the lower end of the shank is a relatively small depression 7 and a corresponding convexity on the opposite side for the purpose of holding the slide 2 in position after it has passed over. The lower end 6 of the shank is somewhat enlarged laterally in order to prevent the slide 2 slipping off. The upper end of the body portion 1 is expanded laterally, so that the whole forms a T,with the pins 3 depending from the ends of the cross-arm. This upper end may be provided with a transverse slot 8 for a tape or a strip of fabric to be put arou nd the leg or waist or over the shoulders; but it is not likely that these will be resorted to, since one of the objects of my improvement is to dispense with these constricting expedients. Modifications without the slot 8 are shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 6.

The broad upper portion of the body portion 1 has the barbs 5 punched out of the metal in such a manner that their points protrude and their bases remain integral with the body of the metal. In Fig. 4 the metal immediately about the barb is removed, leaving a clear space. These barbs 5 are for the purpose of supporting closely-fitting garments, such as socks and stockings, by merely drawing them up over the barbs and releasing them. When the device is used as a supporter for the socks, the barbs, slightly protruding through the fabric of the sock, would catch the trousers and cause them to creep up; but in order to prevent the catching and creeping of looselyfitting garments applied over those to be supported a hump 4 is formed on the body portion, which serves as a guard to keep such garments from contact with the barbs. In the modification shown in Fig. 4 this guard is shown as a roll. A cord may be put through this roll, and thus attached for any purpose that may be desired. The pins 3, extending from the expanded body portion 1, are of sufficient length to take a good hold of the fabric of the garment to which the supporter is applied and are parallel with the shank and a little to the rear of its plane, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the hump and the barbs are formed on the lower end of the body portion 1. In all these forms the safety-slide 2 embraces the central shank and is slidable thereon and may be made of a band of sheet metal bent into the form shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 6, with pockets or sheaths 9 for receiving the points of pins 3. The slide 2 is made-preferably of spring material, so that it may hug the faces of the shank closely, pass over the convexity 7, and close in after passing it, so as to remain in place over points of pins 3.

In the modification shown in Fig. 6 the expanded upper end is bent over in the form of a hook, the top portion forming the protecting-hump at and the barbs 5 formed on the end immediately below. This makesa shorter and more compact form of the device.

To use my device, the safety-slide 2 is slid from engagement with the points of the pins 3, so as to expose them. When used to support the socks, the supporter is laid on the leg of the drawers over the shins, with barbs 5 up and the pins 3 in contact with the fabric. By pushing downward the pins enter the fabric. When it is judged that the pins have taken s-ufficient hold, the points are run out. Safety-slide 2 is then pushed over the points, which locks the supporter on the drawersleg. All that is then necessary is to draw the top of the sock up over the barbs 5 and release it, when it will hang securely where placed. If the socks are subsequently found to be too loose, they may be drawn up in an instant without releasing any pins, and they will slip up easily over the barbs, but hang as soon as released. When undressing, the sock-top is drawn up slightly and held free from the barbs 5 and stripped down. The supporters may be' left on the drawers-legs or removed by simply pressing upward on the lower end 6, when they will spring 0H.

' The trousers or other loosely superimposed garment cannot catch on the barbs 5 on account of the guard 4 just above them.

Having thus fully described my invention and explained its operation and application, so that any one skilled in the art pertaining thereto may make and use it, I desire not to be confined to the special construction indicated.

Iam aware of Patent No. 378,238 for a device having a sliding cover to pass over the points of wire hooks and of Patent No. 249,659, in which the points of pins are prosaid body portion, and relatively short barbs disposed immediately below said protectinghump, substantially as specified.

2. In a garment-supporter, the combination of a sheet-metal body portion, relatively long pins on said body portion, a relatively narrow shank as part of said body portion, relatively short barbs protruding from the expanded part of said body portion for the purpose of supporting a merely superimposed garment, a guard-hump in immediate proximity to said barbs, and a cover for aforesaid points slidable on aforesaid shank, substantially as specified.

3. In a garment supporter, which is punched from spring sheet metal, the fol lowing combination: a body portion formed of one piece, a relatively narrow shank 1, a relatively expanded end on said shank, relatively short barbs 5 protruding from and integral with said expanded end, an integral guard-hump 4 in immediate proximity to said barbs, relatively long pins 3 integral with and extending from the expanded end of the body portion and disposed parallel to and to the rear of the plane of aforementioned shank, a sheet-metal safety-slide 2 embracing and slidable on said shank and having pockets 9 adapted to ensheath the points of the pins 3, and a relatively small convexity 7 on the shank of body portion 1 in the path of the safety-slide 2, substantially as specified.

EDWARD EUST'AOE HEILBRON.

Witnesses:

HENRY Y. OFFUTT, RALPH BRISTOL.

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