USRE4289E - Improvement in shawl-straps - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE CROUCH, OE WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT.

vIMPROVEMENT IN SHAWL-STRAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE GRoUoH, of Westport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented and made an Improvement in Straps for Shawls, &c. and

the following is declared to bea correct de. scription thereof.

Before my invention, strapsvhad been used to confine a shawl or similar article in a bundle, and a leather cross-piece, with loops at the ends, had extended irom one strap to the other, and above, and attached to, this leather beneath the handle, combined with suspend ing-straps that are to be passed around the shawl or bundle, such straps passing through loops at the ends ofthe handle.

In the drawing, Figure ll is an elevation of theshawl-stmpasin nse,and Fig.2is a:ection at the line :c w.

The cross-bar A is made of rigid materiahand connected to the same is the handle B. C C are loops for the suspending-straps D D to pass through. This rigid cross-har A prevents the handle B drawing the loops C C and straps D toward each other, and keeps the ends of the handle at the proper distance apart, and,

No. 82,606, dated September 29, 1868; reissue No. 4,289, dated March 7, 1871.

consequently, the shawl or bundle is suspended and preserved in the proper shape in transportation.

The loops C are shown as made from the leather of the handle B, extending beyond the end of such handle, and folded to form the loops. This is much-preferable to the loops 'made at the ends of the leather strap heretofore used below the handle.

The straps D D are to be of any usual charaeter; and Iprefer to make the rigid crossbar ot' thin sheet metal, stamped up in the corrugated form shown sectionallyin Fig. 2'at a a, and covered with leather, as this form insures strength and stiffness with but little weight.

I claim as my invention- 1. The rigid cross bar A, connecting the ends ofthe handle l, and provided with loops C for the straps D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The loops C C, made ofthe leather of the handle, and secured to the rigid cross-bar A, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The rigid cross-har for a shawl-strap, made of sheet metal, corrugated, and covered with leather, as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this '3d day of February, A.

GEO. CROUCH. Witnesses:

CEAS. H. SMITH,

GEO. T. PINCKNEY.

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