Device for Holding Up Under-garments.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1892-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1892
. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Device for Holding Up Under-garments.
1. THOMAS MANNING, of 50 Colfax Avenue, West Denver, Colorado, United
States of America, Gentleman, 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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My invention relates to improvements in "Device for holding up under-garments,'
and consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts, as will be more
fully hereinafter described and designated in the claims.
In the drawings:
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of my complete invention detached from the
garments.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the application of the same, and
Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the wire from which the article is made.
The object of my invention is to construct a novel and simplified fastener for
supporting a suitable under-garment to which the same is removably attached, and
is adapted to be hooked over the upper edge of the waist-band of the trousers.
My invention consists of a hook, constructed from a single piece of metal of
suitable shape and size, and bent in the form hereinafter described, and which also
provides a means for attaching the same to the under-garment.
Referring to the drawings:
1 represents a single piece of wire from which the supporter is formed, and is
preferably constructed of elliptical-shaped wire.
The length of wire 1 is bent in two places intermediate of its length, and leaving
a straight portion 2 at the center of said length of wire, and the remaining
portions 3 bent in alignment with each other at 4 and 5 thus leaving the straight
central portion 2 nearly at right angles with the main portion 3 forming a hook 6,
which is adapted to fit over the waist-band of the trousers.
The depending portions 7 formed by the bending of the main portions 3 at 4 are
parallel with said portions 3, in cross-section.
The remaining depending portions 3 are bent at a suitable distance below the
bend 5 at a point 8 thus leaving an upwardly extending portion 9 in parallel
alignment with said portions 3. The free-ends 10 of the wire are sharpened and
turned inwardly towards said portions 3 thus forming two hooks. The object in
turning in said points is to prevent the ends of the wire from coming in contact with
the trousers.
In Fig. 2 is shown the device as applied, and in the appliance the sharpened
ends 10 are passed through the belt portions of the garment from the inside and the
points imbedded in the outside of said belt thus insuring a perfectly smooth surface
on its outer side.
When the device is properly attached the upper portion of the same will extend
above the upper portion of the belt or may be on a level with the same as may be
found desirable, and which to some extent depends upon the length of the device.
When the hook 6 is in a position to receive the upper edge of the waist-band of the
trousers the application of my invention is complete as shown in Fig. 2, and the
under-garment supported by the device.
I do not wish to limit myself to the precise construction shown in the accom-
panying illustration and described herein the main object in view being to provide
a supporter that is detachable from the under-garment, but carried thereby, and a
hook formed with said device and adapted to be secured over the upper edge of the
waist-band of the trousers for supporting said under-garment.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A device for holding up under-garments adapted to be removably attached to
said under-garments, and a hook formed thereon and adapted to be hooked over the
upper edge of the trousers, substantially as set forth.
2. A device for holding up under-garments constructed of a single length of wire,
the ends of which are adapted to be inserted through the under-garments, and a
hook formed in the said length of wire intermediate of its ends, and adapted to be
hooked over the upper edge of the trousers for supporting said under-garment,
substantially as set forth.
3. A device for holding up under-garments consisting of a single length of wire,
hooks formed by the terminal ends of the same, and adapted to be passed through
said under-garments from the inside, and a hook 6 formed in said 'length of wire,
intermediate of its ends and adapted to be hooked over the upper edge of the
trousers for supporting said under-garment, substantially as set forth.
4. A device for holding up under-garments consisting of a length of wire, a
straight portion 2 formed in the same intermediate of its ends, bends 4 formed at a
suitable distance from said straight portion 2 and bends 5 forming a hook 6, straight
portions 9 formed by the bends 8 providing hooks for attaching the device to the
under-garment, and the terminal ends of said wire bent inwardly and pointed,
substantially as set forth.
Dated this 21st day of July 1892.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.