US749959A - Garment-holding attachment for trunks - Google Patents

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- PATENTED JAN. 19, 1904-. I D. W, OURTISS; GARMENT HOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR TRUNKS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31, 1903.

No MODEL;

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PATENT. OFFICE.

DOROTHY W. CURTISS, OF BROOKLYN, NEWYORK GARMENT-HOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR TRUNKS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,959, dated January 19, 1904.

Application filed lllaroh 31, 1903. Serial No. 160,365- No mode- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DOROTHY W. (learns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Garment-Holding Attachments for Trunks, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same;

The object of this invention is to provide a trunk with attachments by means of which a skirt or other garment may be held in proper shape and will not be pressed out of condition or tumbled about or crumpled or folded up; and with this and other objects in viewthe invention consists in.a device or devices of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the sepa rate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a trunk provided with my improvement with the top or cover removed; Fig. 2, a similar view showingone side removed; Fig.3, a view of a detail of the attachment which I employ; Figs. 4 and 5, a plan and side view,'respectively, of an-,.

other part of the attachment; and Fig. 6, a sectional side view of the device as shown in Fig. 5 and showing the parts extended.

In the drawings forming part of this specification I have shown at It an ordinary trunk or the bottom portion thereof, and said trunk may be of any desired dimensions and ispreferably of such size as to admit of the placing of a skirt therein without foldingit in any way.

To the oppositeends a of the trunk are secured vertical rods 1 one of which is shown in detail in Fig. 3, and "these rods are provided at their ends with loops or eyes 5 through which are passed screws or other fasteuiugdevices If, and the ends of said rods are formed in such a manner that the body portions thereof set inward from the ends of the trunk, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Mounted on the rods 6 are a number of .the elastic strap 0 is secured to skirt-holdingdevicesc,wmchconsistofaloop- I v shaped member a, through which the rodsb pass, an elastic strap 0 and buckle 0, connected with said strap, and a spring-clamp 0 also connected with'said strap at c. The buckle c is provided with a clamp ci, and one end of the spring clamp c-at c and then passed through the buckle andthrough the link 0 and then back through the buckle, and the end thereof projects therethrough, as shown at a", means of this construction the'elastic strap 0 or that part thereof with which the springclamp c is connected,'may be shortened or. lengthened, as may be desired.

and by s The spring-clamp 0 may be of the usual or any preferred construction, and the buckle c may also be of the usual or any preferred con. struction, all that is necessary in this connection being to provide an attachment Ver tically movable on the rod or rods 6 and having spring-clamps or similar devices adapted to engage and hold a skirt d. Four. of the skirt-holding devices 0 are employed for each skirt, and all of these devices are connected with and movable on b, and it will be apparent that any desired number of skirts may bethus supported within the trunk, the number of skirts supported depending on the height of the trunk, and by means of this improvement the skirts may be held closely adjacent or be placed directly on i the corresponding rods" or over one another, and the rods 6 may be connected with the trunk in such a manner that the bottom skirt will be closely adjacent to or lie on or approximately on the bottom of the trunk and the top skirt be flush with the top portion ofthe trunk or the body thereof,

Other garments may be supported in the trunk in a manner similar to that herein shown and described, and other, articles may also be so supported, if necessary, and changes in and modifications of the construction herein de' scribed may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages. 4

It is not absolutely necessar Y that the skirtholding device be movable on rods 6, and other means for securing said devices may be employed.

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described my invention, what Having fuily by Letters 1 claiin'as new, and desire to secure Patent, is-- 1. A. trunk provided at'tlie ends with verticalipai'i'anged rods and skirtdiolding devices vertically movable thereon and comprising a link through which said rods pass, it buckle, an elastic stinp passing thei'etln'ough -ind connected with said link, and a spring-clamp connected with said elastic stmp,- substantially as shown and described 9.. A trunk provided at the corners with voriLiCEilllY-fiPTfiDgd rods, and garment-holding devices vertically movable on said rods, and

comprising a linl: through which said rods I 5 pass, a buckle, an elastic strap connected with said buckle and a spring-claim) connected with said elastic strap, substantially as shown and described.

in testimony my invention 1 have signed my name,

a that i claim the foregoingas s once of the sul'isci'ibing witnesses this in presday of March, 1903. v

DOHQTHY W,UURT1SS.

\Vitnesses:

F. A. STEWART, J. C. Luann.

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