USRE9155E - Suspender-end - Google Patents

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Reissued AprilI3,18 8O.-

B. J, GREELY. Suspender-Ends.

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. UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN J. GREELY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUSPENDER-END.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 9,155, dated April 13, 1880. Original No. 209,559, dated November 5, 1878.- Application for reissue filed February 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J. GREELY, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State-of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Suspender-Ends, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart hereof.

- My improvement consists in a suspenderend in which the loop is secured by a sheetmetal fastening device, which when formed about the cords resembles two connected cylinders, one surrounding each part of the cord, which, held in loop form, constitutes the button-hole part.

Each half of the sheet-metal fastening device has a cord-entering prong struck up or formed as a part of it, which enters and holds the cord, so that it cannot slip out from the fastening device.

Figure 1 represents one of my suspenderends, it being composed of cord bent and fastened to form three loops to serve as button-holes. Fig. 2 is a section on the line as w, the cord being omitted; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 y Fig. 4, the blank to produce the fastening for the loop at the middle of the cord, and Fig. 5 the blank for the fastening device at the ends of the cord.

The suspender-end is composed of a cord, A, of suitable size and length, folded at its center to form a center loop, I), and at each end to form end loops, 0 d. The parts of the cord composing the said loops are held together by fastening devices B, cut and formed from sheet-metal blanks, as shown at Figs. 4 and 5, the blank represented in Fig. 5 difl'ering from that in Fig. 4 only in having at one of its edges the end-covering lip 41, to cover and inclose the end of the cord.

Each blank is cut as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 and turned at right angles to the main body of the blank to form prongs c e, which, when the blank is subsequently folded about the cord, as shown, penetrate and hold the cord firmly in place.

The fastening devices B are applied by means of proper dies, which lap them closely about the contiguous portions of the cord, forming, as it were, two connected parallel cylinders. (See Fig. 2.)

The car 01 is bent over the end of the cord (see Fig. 3) to cover the end of the cord at the end loops.

The prongs c are herein shown as so cut that their flat sides are in the direction of the width of the blank, the saidprongs being thereby adapted to penetrate the cord more nearly in the direction of its length than if I do not broadly claim a Suspender-end formed of a loop and a metallic device for holding the parts together, as I am aware that that is old.

I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a Suspender-end composed of the cord A, folded at or near its center, and held together by a sheet-metal fastening device to form a central loop, and bent into loop form at each end and secured by fastening devices, thus making in the cord three loops, all substantially as described.

2. The cord bent upon itself at its end to form a loop, combined with the sheet-metal fastening device B, provided with cord-penetrating prongs struck from the sheet metal, the fastening device being applied about the two contiguous parts of the cord-loop and bent to form two connected cylinders, each of which contains one member of the cord-loop, the prongs penetrating the cord, substantially as described.

3. In a Suspender-end composed of cord, the combination, with the end loop, of the sheet-metal fastening device provided with neoted hollow cylinders, each one containing. cord-penetrating prongs and with the cordand holding one member of the said cord-loop, 10 covering lip, substantially as set forth. substantially as described.

4. A Suspender-end composed of a cord doubled or returned to form a button-hole, BENJAMIN GREELY' and secured in button-hole or loop shape by Witnesses: v a metallic clasp having, when applied, the G. W. GREGORY, form substantially of a double or two oon- L. F. CONNOR.

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