AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF STOCKING AND SOCK SUSPENDER CLASPS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Blinkhorn and Frederick Arthur Christopher
Groebert, trading as F. A. Groebert & Co., of 69 & 71, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.,
for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF STOCKING AND SOCK
SUSPENDER CLASPS." A communication from abroad by Herman Axmann, of
Vienna, in the Empire of Austria.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Blinkhorn and
Frederick Arthur Christopher Groebert at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 18th May 1881.
EDWARD BLINKHORN and FREDERICK ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER GRŒBERT, trading
as F. A. Grobert & Co., of 69 & 71, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. "AN IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF STOCKING AND SOCK SUSPENDER CLASPS." A communication
from abroad by Herman Axmann, of Vienna, in the Empire of Austria.
According to this Invention a plate or strip is hinged to a back piece, or vice
versa, and slots are so arranged that a double headed button can be slid along and
become fixed with the fabric nipped between it and the two plates or strips when
moved in one direction, and the fabric be released, and also the button on a
movement in the reverse direction; the button is fitted that it is always in
connection with one of the strips, one portion of the other strip being shaped
that the head may pass through to permit the two plates to be unfolded or opened
out.
Tho suspender can be attached to a waist band by straps (elastic or otherwise),
as found convenient.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Blinkhorn and Frederick Arthur Christopher Græbert in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th November 1881.
EDWARD BLINKHORN and FREDERICK ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER GROBERT, trading
as F. A. Grobert & Co., of 69 and 71, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. "AN IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF STOCKING AND SOCK SUSPENDER CLASPS." A communication
from abroad by Hermann Axmann, of Vienna, in the Empire of Austria.
According to this Invention a plate or strip A is hinged to a back picce B, or
vice versa, and slots C, C¹, are so arranged that a double headed button D can be
slid along and becomes fixed with the fabric nipped between it and the two plates
or strips A, B, when moved in one direction, and the fabric be released, and also
the button on a movement in the reverse direction; the button D is fitted that it
is always in connection with the strip A, one portion of the other strip B being
shaped that the head may pass through at C to permit the two plates to be unfolded
or opened out.
The apparatus as a stocking suspender can be attached to a waist band by
straps I (elastic or otherwise) by the adjustment buckle E attached to the link F
to enable it to be lengthened or shortened as desired.
Figure 1 shows the apparatus in perspective in an open state; Figure 2 with the
top of a stocking G inserted ready for the front plate A to be pushed close to the
plate B, and for the button head to be pushed in to force the fabric G into the
slot C, which kinks it over the back head H, the button being then pushed
downwards to nip the fabric in and between it and the slot C¹, as in Figure 3,
where it is held secure.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention so communicated to us, we
declare that we claim,-
The combination of the appliances marked A, B, D, H, and the slots C, C¹, the
whole forming an apparatus or clasp, as shown, for suspending stockings and socks,
as herein before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Blinkhorn and Frederick Arthur
Christopher Groebert, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty one.
EDWARD BLINKHORN. (L.S.)
F. A. GROBERT.
(L.S.)