US781430A - Garment-supporter. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.-

SAMUEL (J. KELLOGG, OF NEW YORK, N .Y.

G ARMEN'i' -SUPPORTER.

SPEGiFIGATIONforming part'of Letters Patent No. 781,430, dated January 31, 1905. Application filed March 31, 1904, Serial No. 200,878.

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Be it known that I, SAMUEL O. KELLOGG, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Greater New York,jborough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The present improvements, while adapted for embodiment in a garment-supporter generally, relatemore particularly to that type of hosiery supporters wherein one suspended member is provided with aheaded button, while a second member suspends a coactive loop containing a slot larger at one end than at the other, the larger portion of" said slot being. adapted for the passage'of the buttonhead with the garment fabric disposed thereon, whereby the subsequent relative move.- ment of the button-shank within the narrower part of the slot will result in the fabric being clamped between the shank and adjacent edges of the loop forming such narrower slot portion, the clamping effect being promoted by downward tension exerted. on the fabric.

Where the parts between which thefabric isclamped in the manner stated are both of metal, there is a liability of the fabric being torn, and where the relation of the gripping parts is such as to avoid such tearing then the conditions obviously do not provide for efliciently clamping fabrics of varyingthickness.

A construction to remedy the objections noted is presented by a garment-supporter wherein the button-shank is of yielding character to cooperate with the slot portions in accommodating different thicknesses of fabric and avoid injuring the same. The yielding clampingeffect in this construction is limited. By my improvements I not only secure increased yielding gripping-surfaces, but coincidently attain other advantages highly important in this class of devices.

. In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front or face view of agarment-supporter embodying my invention and representing the same;

as clamping a fabric. Fig. 2 is a somewhat similar vlew of the supporter, but showing the same 1n -.a dlsengaged position. Fig. 3 1s a side edge view of the supporter as it appears manner.

section being close to the button-supporting plate. Fig- 8 is a detail transverse section of the parts illustrated in the preceding figure, the plane of section being on the broken line 8 8 looking in the direction of the arrow.

Similar reference characters are employed to design ate corresponding parts of the several figures wherein they occur. p

The suspended member A, carrying the forwardly-projected headed button A, may be arranged and conditioned in any suitable Thisbutton may be of metal or any desirable rigid material and embodies the shank a and outer enlarged head (t, the latter preferably rounded to conduce to the regular conformation of the fabric C when surrounding the same.

The clamping-loop B is swingingly supported in operative relation with respect to the button, said loop comprising a light but strong frame B of a material involving both stiffness and resiliency. In practicethis frame will preferably be formed of a single piece of wire bent to present the pear-shaped loop configuration familiar in this class of articles.

Instead of relying on the pear-shaped slot within this frame for receiving and clamping the fabric-covered button said frame is contained within the marginal portions of a section B of sheet-rubber, which is blanked or cut out to possess the same general outline as the frame exterior, but of such larger dimensions as to resultin a considerable portion of the section laterally extending outside of the frame at all points thereof, (see Fig. 4,) from which figure it willbe comprehended that with the section B applied as therein illustrated a major portion of said section is immediately at the back of and spans. the slot within the frame to forma web 6 for the latter. Previous to the application of the sheet-rubber section, as aforesaid, the frame B, which is preferably of wire, is subjected to a swaging or other compression operation,

whereby it will have imparted thereto two parallel flat faces and rounded inner and outer edges, thereby bringing such wire to the somewhat flattened condition illustrated in cross-section in Figs. 5 and 6. The marginal portion 6 is then folded over the flattened frame thus provided, the section B being slightly stretched, so that the inner web I; will not be unduly flexible, and the frame and the rubber section B, the latter with its marginal portion folded over, is subjected toa vulcanizing action along the points of contact of the overfolds, with the web immediately interior to the frame, and thereby uniting the edge portions of the fold upon said web to confine and mask the frame. When the rubber section and frame have been connected as explained, an extended longitudinal slot B is centrally cut in the web 6, said slot being of the shape indicated by full lines, Fig. 2, and dotted lines. Fig. 4, in both of which the slot is indicated as terminating at its upper end in a small circular perforation Z2 the lower part Z2 of the slot contiguous to the contracted portion of the frame B gradually widening and merging in a lower eye 6. As disclosed, the web 5 immediately at the upper corners of the loop B, at points just inside of the rubber-covered top bar of the frame B, contains perforations 6 within which are engaged bent fingers (Z (Z, integrally depending from a plate D, attached to the webbing. This provides the requisite swinging connection for the loop B. Any other satisfactory manner of securing this connection Will serve.

From the description thus far it will be appreciated that with the parts in a disengaged position the fabric can be drawn up in front of the button-head and the parts suspending the button, together with the loop B, can be so manipulated that the fabric-covered button can be pushed forward through the slot B at the upper under part of the rubber web 6, whereby the fabric-covered button-head will be in advance of the loop B and the fabricembraced shank of the button occupy a position Within the slot. The button and loop B can then be relatively shifted to bring them to their normal positions and cause the fabricembraced shank to move down into the lower part of the slot within the loop contraction, and thereby firmly and positively clamp and support the fabric. Obviously the extended rubber portions forming the sides of the slot provide greater yielding clamping-surfaces than is afl'orded by the yielding covering for the button-shank. Furthermore, the rubbercovered frame will bear against the limb of the wearer without discomfort, will not chafe, and is not subject to corrosion.

Manifestly the rubber section B can be secured to the frame B by arrangements different from that shown. For instance, the frame B can be positioned with a mold and the rubber section molded in position relative thereto and in a manner to cover said frame.

The circular perforations 71 at the upper end of the slot not only admits of the required flexibility of the adjacent part of the web to enable the convenient insertion and introduction of the fabric-covered button-head, but also reduces the liability of the tearing of the rubber at the slot end.

With a view of strengthening the web 7) at the lower rounded end of the eye If therein such web is provided at such rounded end with a semicylindrical block or enlargement b of rubber, the inner concave face of which is designed to serve as a bearing for the fabric-covered shank below the button-head, and thereby serve the further function of increas ing the clamping effect.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown and described, but reserve the right to all modifications within the scope of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A clamping-loop for garment-supporters comprising a frame having a contracted lower portion and a rubber section spanning said frame and having its marginal portions enlbracing said frame and secured to the rubber section, the spanning portion of the latter containing a vertically-extended slot.

2. A clamping-loop for garment-supporters comprising a metal frame having a contracted. lower portion, a rubber section spanning said frame and having its marginal portions embracing said frame and secured to the rubber section, the spanning portion of the latter containing a vertically-extended slot terminating at its upper end in a perforation and at its lower end in a larger eye.

3. The combination with a clamping-loop for garment-supporters comprising a frame having a contracted lower portion and attached slotted rubber section spanning said frame, of a suspendingplate provided with fingers passing through said rubber section at points inside of the frame-top.

4. A clamping-loop for garmentsupporters comprising a rubber section containing a vertically-extended slot terminating in a lower shank-bearing eye, and a block or enlargement carried by said section contiguous to the lower part of said eye to strengthen the material and provide an increased clamping-bearing for the eye.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 24th day of March, A. D. 1904- SAMUEL C. KELLOG Gr.

Witnesses:

CHAs. L. WOLF, M. BENDER.

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