Improvements in Clothes Suspenders.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1899***
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clothes Suspenders.
I, VALLJ HILLER, of 86, Potsdamerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
Spinster, 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;-
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This invention relates to an improvement in that kind of clothes holders or
gatherers (erimpers) in which two-armed levers hold the material like pincers by
the spring pressure of the longer lever arm on the shorter arm. If such clothes
holders or gatherers are not to fail in their object, they must be so constructed as
to be in a position not only to compress the material as mentioned with a pincer-
like action but also to support or carry the same. In gathering the cloth, it is
however always a question of a considerable quantity of material and the pull
resulting from the weight of this quantity of material, not infrequently causes
the pressure produced by the pincers and their spring, to cease to act. By this
means of course the actual object of a clothes gatherer is rendered illusory, and it
must be mainly ascribed to this drawback that clothes holders or gatherers of the
kind hereinbefore described have not come extensively into use.
In the clothing gatherer or holder described in the present invention in
addition to the ordinary spring pincers-like construction, an arrangement is also
adopted by which the material after it has been gripped by the two jaws is held
by means of a needle or pin so firmly together, and supported that even where
there is a great strain, the gatherer never ceases to act.
The accompanying drawings are intended to more particularly explain the
invention,
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of the clothing gatherer;
Figure 2, an elevation of the same when in use; and
Figure 3, a side view of the pin showing the spring and knob.
The clothing gatherer or holder consists in the ordinary way of a set of
levers a abb. The intermediate parts are pressed apart when not in use by
means of springs suitably arranged in their ends, and thereby the pincers are
operated in the ordinary manner. The two lower (longer) arms a are formed as
tubes, and in this consists a portion of the present invention. In the interior of
one of the two tubes, there is a pin d the form of which is suited to the form of
the tube, and which is maintained in its position by means of a weak spring e.
The tubular levers a connect as usual with jaws i.
The pin d has at its head f (Figure 3) a knob k the neck g of which is carried
between the walls of a slot h (Figure 2).
When this clothes gatherer is to be used, the clothing s is first folded together
and then inserted between the jaws i, as shown in Figure 1. The gatherer clamps
the material thus between its jaws after the manner of pincers. The pin is then
passed through the material to the length of the slot h by means of the knob k
so that the point of the pin engages in the opposite tube a¹ (Figure 2). By this
means, the material is secured in its position and can resist even a strong pull. In
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page_text: such cases, the pin is supported on the lower wall of the tube and is thereby enabled
to bear greater weights. The spring pressure merely serves to return the pin
again into the tube after its withdrawal from the material and to secure it in its
position in said tube. The pressure of the spring is therefore only very small in
order that it may never draw the pin out of the material. The spring has thus
only a subsidiary function.
It is evident that instead of one pin as shown in the drawings several such may
be employed simultaneously. In this case they are united at their head so that
they may be operated in common by the knob k. The pins themselves are made
of best steel so that very thin pins which easily perforate the material without
leaving any conspicuous mark may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is -
A clothing gatherer or holder having a series of levers acting like pincers,
characterised by the under (longer) lever arms (a) being formed of tubes in one of
which a pin adapted to the shape of the tube is located and guided by means of a
knob and slot, and adapted to penetrate the material or article of clothing held
firmly between jaws, so far that the pointed end of the pin engages in the opposite
tube in order to bear on the lower wall of the tube when the holder is exposed to
strain and thereby to enable the latter to carry a greater load, substantially as
herein before described..
Dater this 3rd day of March 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.
Of G, Lord Street Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.