US796696A - Double clasp. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED AUG. 8, 1905.

F. 0. BROGKHAU S.

DOUBLE CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED MB. 6, 1905.

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FREDERICK O. BROCKHAUS, OF PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON.

' DOUBLE-CLASP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1905.

Application filed February 6, 1905. Serial No. 244,309.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK O. BROOK- HAUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Angeles, in the county of Clallam and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Double Clasps, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to clasps; and its object is the provision of a simple and inexpensive device of this character which is capable of reliably sustaining a persons drawers to his trousers, for hanging the latter or other articles of wearing-apparel in a closet, and for many other useful applications of a somewhat similar nature.

The invention, stated in general terms, consists of a double clasp'of which the gripping members are formed of a single resilient piece of metal contained in a case and actuated by bent lever devices hinged to and extending through thecase.

In the accompanying drawings, showing an embodiment of my invention, Figures 1 and 2 are respectively enlarged front elevation and a cross-sectional view. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of the invention shown attached to portions of the fabric of garments. Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of the inclosing case. Fig. 6 is a similar view, of one of the clamping-levers, and Fig. 7 is a front elevation of the clamping-jaws. Y

The reference-numeral 1 designates clamping-jaws which are formed of a single piece of sheet spring metal doubled at 2 and extending upwardly to bends 3, thence downwardly in the outer folds 1, severally provided with apertures 4 5, and which are preferably provided with indentations 6. An inverted-U- shaped metal plate 7is placed over the said jaws and is fixedly secured thereto by internally-projecting lugs 8, bent onto the apertures 4, and which are pressed upwardly to embrace the portion thereabovc.

Below the lugs the plate is cut away, as at 9, and the lower edge of the perforations are formed to provide upwardly-projecting lugs 10, which are bent to furnish hinge-sockets 10 for the reception of the cross-bars 11, formed or provided at the angle of the rectangularly-bent clamping-levers 12. These levers are each made of two arms, of which the longer ones 13 are shaped to have their lower portions register within the openings9 of the case part, so that when the levers are operatively engaged, as will be presently explained, their outer surfaces will be flush or even with thelike surface of the case excepting their upper extremities 13, which are desirably curved outwardly to furnish fingergripping points. Extending from the outer extremity of the shorter arms 14 of these levers are projections 14, which slide in the slots 5, and the intermediate portions 14 are adapted to contact with the adjacent surfaces of the outer folds of the clamping-jaws, so that as the lever-arm 13 is raised to its posi tion shown at the left-hand side of Fig. 2 it will press the respective contacted fold inwardly and clasp the article to be held therebeneath.

In Fig. 4 I represent the device as supporting a pair of drawers by having one of its clamping-jaws engaged to the waistband 15 thereof, while the other jaw is engaged to a like part 16 of a pair of trousers, both of the engaged parts being shown fragmentary.

In Fig. 3 is illustrated the devices attached to the lower ends of trouser-legs 17 for suspending the article from closet-pegs or a display-rack and for which purpose is included a wire hook 18, which is desirably formed with two reversely-bent ends 18, which are sprung into the openings 19 between the spring and its frame.

The invention can advantageously be used in addition to those already enumerated for many other useful purposesfor example, in hanging drapery, like dry goods, in a shopwindow or lace curtains where they can be displayed more effectively by securing the individual folds in pairs, for securing cuffs to a shirt, in which each are held by a separate clasp, thus allowing of the removal of the former without interfering with the fasteners connected with the shirt.

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

1. As a new article of manufacture, a double clasp consisting of a spring-plate formed with two inner folds and two reversely-bent outer folds, a U-shaped case or frame for said spring provided with inwardly projecting lugs adapted to engage and secure the said spring within the frame, and bent levers for the outer folds of the said spring hinged to the frame by inwardly-projecting lugs thereof, the shorter arms of the said levers being each provided with two projections which fit said frame and severally provided with a in corresponding slots of the respective folds short arm adapted to operatively engage with of the said spring, substantially as described. the adjacent fold of the said spring, substan- 2. In a device of the class described, the tially as described.

combination with the frame, of a spring rig- In testimony whereofI affix my signature in idly secured therein, said spring being formed l presence of two witnesses.

of a single piece of plate metal which is FREDERICK O. BROCKHAUS. doubled at its mid-length to form two folds Witnesses:

which folds are each doubled to form two PIERRE BARNES,

more folds, and bent levers fulcrumed to the ALFRED GFELLER.

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