IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR SUPPORTING OR HOLDING TROUSERS WHEN OUT OF USE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Garforth Stone of Cavendish Place Bath in the
County of Somerset for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR
SUPPORTING OR HOLDING TROUSERS WHEN OUT OF USE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Garforth Stone at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th June 1882.
WILLIAM GARFORTH STONE of Cavendish Place Bath in the County of Somerset
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR SUPPORTING OR HOLDING TROUSERS WHEN OUT
OF USE.
"
The Invention has for its object improvements in means for supporting or
holding trousers when out of use whereby the trousers are held in a hanging
position by the bottoms of the legs and are thereby kept in proper shape.
For this purpose I employ clamps or holders arranged so that they can be
readily opened for inserting or removing a pair of trousers when required and
readily closed and locked or sprung in position for holding or supporting a pair of
trousers when out of use.
These clamps I prefer to form with one fixed limb or leaf and with one hinged
limb or leaf on each side thereof thereby enabling a pair of trousers to be held on
each side of the central limb or leaf.
Clamps thus constructed may be hung on nails or may be screwed or otherwise
fixed to a wardrobe, wall, frame or other support.
The meeting faces of the clamps I prefer to cover with thick felt or other soft
lining material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said William Garforth Stone
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th December 1882.
WILLIAM GARFORTH STONE of Cavendish Place Bath in the County of Somerset.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR SUPPORTING OR HOLDING TROWSERS WHEN OUT
OF USE
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in means for supporting or
holding trowsers when out of use whereby the trowsers are held in a hanging
position by the bottoms of the legs and are thereby kept in proper shape
For this purpose I employ clamps or holders arranged so that they can be
readily opened for inserting or removing a pair of trowsers when required and
readily closed and locked or sprung into position for holding or supporting a pair
of trowsers when out of use These Clamps I prefer to form with one fixed limb
or leaf and with one hinged limb or leaf on each side thereof thereby enabling a
pair of trowsers to be held on each side of the central limb or leaf. Clamps thus
constructed may be hung on nails or may be screwed or otherwise fixed to a
wardrobe wall frame or other support The meeting faces of the Clamps I prefer
to cover with thick felt or other soft lining material
In some cases the clamps may be arranged on a back piece to form a bracket
which may be hung in any desired position.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and how the same is to be
worked I would have it understood that my Claim is for Clamps or holders for
trowsers made substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof I the said William Garforth Stone have hereunto set my
hand and seal this sixth day of December in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Signed sealed and delivered by the
above named William Garforth
Stone in the presence of
EDWARD HUTCHINSON
Solicitor,
Darlington
WILLIAM GARFORTH STONE (L.S.)