A New or improved Garter.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
A New or improved Garter.
I, BERNHARD DREYFUS, Merchant of 52 Lispenard Street in the City of New
York, County of New York, State of New York, United States of America do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is.
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide a new or improved garter which is
simple in construction and holds the article which it surrounds, such as a stocking,
sleeve etc. firmly and securely in position without exerting undue inconvenience,
or unpleasant pressure on the leg, arm or other part of the body on which said
applied.
garter
The invention consists in a garter provided on its inner surface with a lining
strip of vulcanized soft rubber provided on its exposed surface with numerous
minute projections which engage the article around which the garter is passed
and thereby hold the same.
In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this Specification:
Figure 1, is a perspective view of my improved garter, opened.
Figure 2, is a top view of the same closed, parts being in section.
Figure 3, is a detail view of the outer surface of the rubber lining.
The garter is composed of a suitable piece of webbing A, either elastic or
non-elastic or of rubber, woven metal or any other material usually used for
making garters.
To the ends of the same the expansible or elastic pieces B are attached which
are composed either of elastic webbing a¹, as shown on the right hand end of
the garter Figure 1, or of a series of helical springs a suitably grouped and
connected as shown on left hand end of the garter, in Figure 1.
One end of the garter thus formed is provided with a hook 6 and the other
end with an eye d or any other well known fastening or closing device can be
applied to the ends of the garter in any well known manner.
The garter is provided on its inner surface with a lining strip D of soft
vulcanized rubber or an analogous substance, suitably fastened to the garter and
provided on its exposed face with minute protuberances preferably so shaped and
arranged as to give the exposed face of the rubber a surface like that of a coarse
file and as shown more fully in Figure 3.
The projections on the exposed surface of the rubber engage the meshes of
the stocking or other article on which the garter is applied and are pressed a
greater or less distance into the same and thus hold the said article in place on
the limbs.
The elastic garters used heretofore depended entirely on the tension in the
direction of the length of the garter and on the transverse or inward pressure
exerted and the scant friction produced thereby for holding the article in place.
On smooth garments this pressure has to be very great and as a result thereof
the garters very frequently cut deeply into the skin and flesh and are very painful
and inconvenient especially during warm weather.
If the tension in the garter is decreased, the garter no longer exerts sufficient
pressure to hold the article and both the garter and article which it is designed.
to hold slip from their places.

page_text: In my improved garter only sufficient tension is required to hold the garter
snugly on the article on which it is applied as the garter does not hold the
article by exerting a great inward pressure, but holds it by slightly pressing the
protuberances on the rubber lining of the garter into engagement with the slight
recesses or meshes of the article.
Belts, sleeve holders and similar articles can be made in the same manner as the
garter herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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11. A garter having its inner surface composed of soft vulcanized rubber having
numerous protuberances on its inner surface in the manner as a coarse file
substantially as herein set forth.
2. In a garter the combination with a body piece of elastic end pieces and
fastening device attached thereto and a soft rubber lining on such body piece
which lining is provided on its exposed surface throughout with small pro-
tuberances substantially as herein set forth.
This 10th day of T 1905
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.