US929863A - Garment-retainer. - Google Patents

Description

. J. LMBLRIXG GARMENT BETAIHBR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1a. 190s.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

NETE STATES MAY JOHNSTON LAMBRIX, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

Gamestar-RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented Aug. 3, 1909.

-pplcattlu). filed 311118 13, 1908. Serial. No. l85359.

To all whom it may con-cern:

Be it lrnown that I, MAY JOHNSTON LAM- BRIX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, inthe county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Retainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garment holder or retainer' designed more particularly `for holding the donnees or lower portions of ladies drawers down in place, so as to prevent their rolling upd which is liable to occur with 'the undergarinents of stout persons, especially in warm weather.

The object of my invention is the provision of an etlicient and inexxensive retaining device of this character which causes no discomfort to the wearer and is not liable to tear the garment.

In the accompanying drawings. Figure l a sectional front view of a drawer-leg,i provided with the retainer. Fig. 2 is an inside view of the garment-leg, showing a face view of the retainer. Fig. 3 is a face View of a modified construction of the device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.`

rl`he retainer is preferably worn on the inside of the garment-leg, facing the inner side of the wearer`s leg, and in a broad sense consists -of one or more strips, preferably of elastic material, provided at their upper ends with safety-pins or similar attachments adapted to engage the lower portion of the drawer-leg, and similar attachment adapted to engage the stocking.

ln the-form shown in Figs. l and 2, the dc'ice comprises a pair of comparatively long; strips or tapes A., fr preferably of elastic nmterial. attached at their opposite ends of a spreader or rigid metallic cross bar il, by which they are held at a suitable distance apart. ri`his cross bar has end-loops 7) to which the tapes fr are attached by metal clips o or other suitable connections. At their upper ends said tapes are provided with .safety-pins D or other suitable attachments adapted to engage the upper portion of the drawer-llounce. The upper portions of these tapes are prefe ably doubled and provided with adjusting rings, cla ,1 or hncliles c of any suitable or ordinary construction by which the tapes may be at their lower ends with a' iower ends to shortened or lengthened according to the I depth of the flounce.

F, F indicate a pair of downwardly-converging strips or'tapes preferably of elastic material attached at their upper ends to the end-loops of the spreader-har B by clips f and carryingl at their lower ends a satetypin G or other suitable attachment adapted to engage Athe stocking, as shown in the drawings.

In addition to the upper garment-attachments D, the retainer is preferably provided ata point between the tapes A and below said attachments with a supplemental attachment consisting of a pair of upwardlyconverging elastic tapes zfastened at their lower ends to the clips c and terminating at their upper ends in a safety-pin or other suitable `fastening 'H adapted to engage the lower portion of the tlounce of the garment. As shown, the retainer is about as long as the depth of the draver-l'lounce, and the stocking-attachment G of the retainer preferabiy does not e end bei. Vhe tlo'unce, so as 'to be praeticaiiy concealed by the same. To obtain the most satisfactory results, the upper tapes fr should be attached to the garment in anupwardly diverging position, as

shown.

rihis improved device efectually checks the tendency of-the clra\ven-ioiunre to roll or Workup, while the several tapes when of elastic material., permit the relainer to yield and follow the movements of the leg, avoiding undue strain upon the garment and preventing tearing of the same.

rihe spreader bar Bl prevents the strips A from drawing` together, thusI avoiding gathering of the portion the ment between the sy A vvenient. mama f Various cl i be made in the device within the scope of the appended claims and l do .not thereftn'e wish to be limited to the particular construction shown. For example, the spreader li though desirable, is not indispensable and may be omitted, as shown in Fig. 3, and the lower safety-pin or garment attachment H1 may be carried by a single tape lil attached at its lower end to the adjoining lower ends of the main tapes A, A1, which in this case extend lcontinuously from the upper pins D to the stocking,` attachment GL.

and also pcrnntting consafety IS t) fasteners, and a supplemental garmentfastener attached to said connections andi,

arranged between the same and interme iate of their upper and lower ends. A garment retainer of the characterl described, comprising a pair of strips provided at their upper ends with garment attachments, a stochingattachment,connected with the lower ends of said strips, and means for spreading said strips, substantially as set forth.

3. A garment retainer of the character de scribed, comprising a pair of strips provided at their upper ends with garment-attachments, a stocking-attachment connected with the lower ends of said strips, and a rigid spreader-bar connected to said strips, sub- Stantially as set forth.

et. A garment retainer of the character described, comprising a pair of upper strips provided y spreader-bar connecting the lower portions of said strips, and a lower strip attached to said ha r and carrying a stocking-attachmcnt,

substantially as set forth.

5. A garmentretainer of the character described, comprising a pair of upper strips provided with garment-attaclnnents, a spreader-bar connecting the lower portions of said strips, and downwardly-converging with garment attachments, aV

lower strips attached to said bar and carry- 40 ing a stocking-attachment, substantially as set forth. I Y

6. A garment retainer of the character de scribed, comprising a pair of upper strips provided at their upper ends with garinentattachments, a spreader-bar provided With end-loops engaging .the lower ends of said strips, and a pair of downwardly-convergin strips attached at their upper ends to sai loops and provided at their lower ends with a stocking-attachment, substantially as set forth.

7. A garment retainer of the character dei 'I scribed, comprising a pair of strips provided at their upper ends with garment-attach 55 ments, a stockingattachment connected with their lower ends, a spreader-bar for said strips, and an intermediate garment-attachment arran ed between said strips and above said bar, su stantiallya. set forth.

8. A garment retainer f the character described, comprising a pair of upper strips provided at their upper ends with garment-il attachments, a spreader-bar connecting the lower' ends of said strips, a pair of lower 65 j strips converging downwardly from theends of the spreader-bar and carrying a stockingattachment, and a pair of intermediate strips converging upwardly from the ends -of the spreadcr-bar and carrying a ysupplemental garment-attaCliment, substantially as set forth.

`MAY JOHNSTON LAMBRIX. lVitnesses FRANK O. JOHNSTON, E. M. GRAHAM.

fitness my hand this 11th day of Julie,

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