US810948A - Garment-clasp. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

o. KBMPER. GARMENT CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24. 1905.

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OTTO KEMPER, OF BLOOMSBURG,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH TO J. T. TRACY, ONE-FOURTH TO H. W. DIETTERICK, AND ONE-FOURTH TO FRANK IKELER, ALL OF BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYL- VANIA.

GARNIENT-GLASP.

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Patented.` Jan. 30, 1906.

Application led July 24,1905. Serial No. 271,049.

zen of the United States, residing at Bloomsburg, in the county of Columbia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Olasps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of garment clasps employed as a supporting or holding means for garments, and has special reference to an improved form of clasp possessing special utility as an engaging. and supporting clasp for suspender-ends to take the place of the buttonhole-tabs and buttons usually employed for the support of trousers.

To this end the invention contemplates a simple, quick-acting, and easily-manipulated clasp capable of being readily adjusted to any part of the trousers and comprising means for supporting both trousers and drawers with a rm grip. In this connection the improved clasp embodies means for clasping the garment in such a manner as to positively secure the same against slipping out of the clasp and without danger of tearing or snagging the garment, which is a common objecltion to many forms of clasps now on the marret.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clasp havin a simple and practical form of lock-lever for effecting the clasping action, while at the same time embodying fastening means for securing or holding the lever in its closed or locking position.

With these and many other objects inview, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

The essential features of the invention are susceptible to structural modification without departing from the scope thereof but a preferred embodiment thereof is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a-perspective view of a garmentclasp constructed in accordance with the present invention and shown in its applied position. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the clasp with the parts in the positions shown in Fig. 1. l Fig. 3 isa perspective view of the clasp, showing the lock-lever released or opened and also illustrating the clasp-body fitted with a connecting-loo for releasable engagement with the cast-o of a suspenderen Like references designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out the invention the body of the clasp (designated by the numeral 1) is preferably formed of spring metal bent into U form to provide the opposite resilient cheek-pieces 2 and 3, respectively. It is also desirable and preferable to provide the U- shaped spring-body 1 with strengthening or reinforcing beads 4, extending entirely about the body at the closed end thereof and upon both sides. These beads strengthen the clasp sufficiently to permit the same tobemanufactured in small but effective sizes. The opposite cheek-pieces 2 and 3 are arranged in substantially parallel relation, and near what may be properly termed the outer end thereof. One of the cheek-pieces-for instance, the piece 2-is provided therein with a depression or cavity 5, constituting a keeper-socket for receiving the garment or goods forced and held therein by the swinging lock-lever 6, carried byA the opposite resilient cheek-piece 3. The keeper-socket 5 is formed at its outer side with a bindingshoulder 7 and with an inclined or oblique clearance-wall 8, leading to said shoulder to accommodate the engaging end of the lever 6. This lever is in the form of a right-angled member or plate having at its angle the opposite pintles 9, pivotally mounted in the bearing-eyes 10, formed at the outer extremities of the side arms 11 of the lever opening or bifurcation 12, formed in the resilient cheekpiece 8 for the accommodation of the lock-lever.

The swinging lock-lever 6 has its inner engaging arm 13 arranged to sweep over the inclined clearance-wall 8 in its movement toward and from the binding-shoulder 7, while the outer operatin arm 14 of said lever moves toward and om the outer side of the cheek piece' 3. The said outer operatingarm 14 carries a punched-out or equivalent fastening tongue 15, having a frictional or spring engagement with one end of the leveropening or bifurcation 12 when the lock-lever is moved to a closed position, carrying IOO the goods into the keeper-socket and against the binding-shoulder thereof. To release the clasp, it is simply necessary to place the nail of a finger behind the end of the operating-arm 14 and to draw the same outward, thereby disengaging the fasteningtongue 15 and drawing the engaging arm 13 out of the socket 5.

The clasp-body may be applied to a suspender-end in various ways. For instan'c'e," as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the said body may have fitted to the closed end thereof a swiveled socket 16, to which is suitably fastened the Suspender-end 17, or, as shown in Fig. 3, the clasp-body may be provided at its closed end with a wire or equivalent connectingloop 18 for releasable engagement with the cast-off 19 of a suspender-end 2 0. This latter arrangement permits the Suspenders to be removed Without unfastening or detaching the clasp.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, action, and many advantages of the herein-described clasp will be readily apparent without further description, and it will be understood that changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, s`

A garment-clasp comprising a body having opposite resilient cheek-pieces, one of which is provided therein with a lever-opening, and the other of which piece is provided in its inner side with a depression constituting a keeper socket and having a fiat bindingshoulder near one end ofthe cheek-piece, and astraight inclined wall sloping to the base of the shoulder, and a swinging lock-lever pivoted on the cheek-piece opposite the socket and having an inner engaging arm whose point swings over the inclined wall of the socket in opposition to the flat shoulder, said lever also having an outer operating arm provided with a fastening-tongue having a snapping engagement with an edge of the lever-opening.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OTTO KEMPER.

Witnesses:

MILES BETZ, J. G. WELLs,

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