USRE8146E - Improvement in garters - Google Patents

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c. C0ESTER,J1-., & J. L.'M 00RE.' Assignors, by mesne Assignments, to F. Amls'mom. Garter.

No. 8,146 Reissued March 26, I878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GOESTER, JR, AND JAMES L. MOORE, OF BBlIDGEPORT, CONNECTI- OUT, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO FRANK ARMSTRONG, OF

SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN QGARTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lil 6,328, dated August 16, 1870 Reissue No. 8,148, dated March 26, 1878; application filed January 23, 1878.

To all whom itinay concern Be it known that we, CHARLES Gonsrnn,

L Jr., and JAMES L. MOORE, of Bridgeport, in

the county of Fairficld and State of Connecticut, have; invented certain Improvements in Garters and other elastic bands,.of which the following is aspeciflcation:

I. This inventionrelates to a new article adapted to take the place of the ordinary elastic now used for garters to hold the stocking, and as armlets to holdin place the shirt or other sleeves on .the person of the wearer;

' and consis ts in making elastic bands (adapted to such purposes) of wire or a strip of metal coiled into a spring, which may be either circular, elliptical, or of a flattened form in crosssection, and with its ends united or adapted to be clasped together, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view of an elastic band or garter formed of a helically-wound wire, and having its ends clasped together. Fig. 2 is a view of the same unclasped and ma distended condition.

' The band illustrated in the drawing is made by coiling a wire of brass or other metal having sufficient elasticity into the-form of a helical spring, and so bending up the ends as to form of one an eye, a, and of the other a hook,

Instead of the band being constructed as shown in the drawing, it may be so formed as to present an elliptical or flattened shape inv cross-section, and in lieu of having its ends bent into hook-and-eye form, as shown, it may have attached to its ends a fastening device of difi'erent construction. The ends of the coil may, however, be perfectly united or connect; ed, in which case the band has to be stretched over the foot or hand, as the case requires, in the same manner as in the use of a band formed of elastic with its ends sewed together.

, It will be understood that bands adapted to v be usedfor the purposes mentioned, when made of metal springs according to this invention, will retain their elasticity much longer than thosenow generally used for garters and sleeveelastics, and it will be seen that this invention is subject to various modifications without losing its main advantages.

Having sufliciently described the invention to enable one skilled to make and understand the use of the improved elastic metallic bands what is claimed as a new article, and desire to be secured by Letters Patent, iss 1. An uncovered longitudinally elastic metallic spring garter or sleeve elastic, as hereinbefore set forth.

2. A metallic spring band longitudinally elastic, having a clasping device formed of the bent ends of the band, substantially as described CHAS. oonsrnn, JR. JA MES L. MOORE.

Witnesses:

Tnnononn Ooonrnren'r, WILLIAM OMALLEY, vJ. H. Oseoon,

CHARLES R. GoUL'n.

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