IMPROVEMENTS IN STOCKING AND SOCK SUSPENDERS."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Manning Knight, of Surbiton, in the County of
Surrey, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOCKING AND SOCK
SUSPENDERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Manning Knight
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st February 1881.
HENRY MANNING KNIGHT, of Surbiton, in the County of Surrey. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STOCKING AND SOCK SUSPENDERS."
My Invention refers to suspenders for stockings and socks, and particularly to
the gripping action of such suspenders, whereby I obtain simplicity of construction
and security and comfort when in use. Heretofore the jaw or jaws of such
suspenders has or have gripped metal on metal; now this is inconvenient and not
secure, and sometimes unsafe.
According to the first part of my Invention I apply a pad of india rubber or other
equivalent material to one of the gripping jaws, so that the grip is caused by two
jaws, one overlapping the other; on the projecting jaw the piece of india rubber or
other equivalent material is fixed, into which rubber or the like is received the
edge of the other jaw, thus causing the grip of the jaws to be much tighter, and
at the same time not calculated to damage or cut the stocking or sock, the edge of
which latter, that is the shorter jaw, may be serrated or otherwise, as desired.
The second part of my Invention refers to the construction of the suspenders
themselves by making the grippers from one piece of metal stamped and bent over
towards the gripping edges of one another. The bearing for the compressing lever is
also formed from the same piece of metal as the grippers. The short arm of the
compressing lever when pressed over tightly holds the metal jaw on the india
rubber bed piece of the other jaw. The india rubber or other pad may be used
with the suspender just described, and preferably so, or with stocking or sock
suspenders of other constructions.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Manning Knight in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th July 1881.
HENRY MANNING KNIGHT, of Surbiton, in. the County of Surrey. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STOCKING AND SOCK SUSPENDERS."
My Invention refers to suspenders for stockings and socks, and particularly to
the gripping action of such suspenders, whereby I obtain simplicity of construction
and security and comfort when in use. Heretofore the jaw or jaws of such
suspenders has or have gripped metal on metal; now this is inconvenient and not
secure, and sometimes unsafe. According to the first part of my Invention I apply
a pad of india rubber or other equivalent material to one of the gripping jaws, so
that the grip is caused by two jaws, one overlapping the other; on the projecting
jaw the piece of india rubber or other equivalent material is fixed, into which
rubber, or the like, is received, the edge of the other jaw thus causing the grip of
the jaws to be much tighter, and at the same time not calculated to damage or cut
the stocking or sock, the edge of which latter, that is the shorter jaw, may be
serrated, or otherwise, as desired.
The second part of my Invention refers to the construction of the suspenders
themselves by making the grippers from one piece of metal stamped and bent
over towards the gripping edges of one another. The bearing for the compressing
lever is also formed from the same pieco of metal as the grippers. The short arm
of the compressing lever when pressed over tightly holds the metal jaw on the
india rubber bed piece of the other jaw. The india rubber or other part may be
used with the suspender just described, and preferably so, or with stocking or sock
suspenders of other constructions.
The accompanying Drawings more fully illustrate the manner in which I prefer
to carry my Invention into effect. Figure 1 is a view in plan of a stocking or
sock suspender made according to one inodification of my Invention; Figure 2 is a
longitudinal section of the same suspender shewing it fastened or secured; Figure 3
is another longitudinal section shewing the suspender open or unfastened; Figure 4
is a side elevation shewing the suspender fastened; and Figure 5 is an end
view of same of the end opposite to the gripping or fastening end; Figure 6
shews plan of metal before bending; Figure 7 is a perspective view of the fastening
made out of one piece of metal shewing the same open; Figure 8 is a similar
perspective view shewing the same closed or fastened; Figure 9 is a plan shewing
fastening closed; Figure 10 is a side elevation of same fastening shewing it closed;
Figure 11 is a longitudinal vertical section of same shewing fastening closed; and
Figure 12 is a similar view shewing fastening opened; Figure 13 is an end view;
and Figure 14 shews the metal in plan from which the fastening or suspender is
bent up. Similar letters of reference refer to like parts in all the Figures.
a is the india rubber or other gripping pad; 6, the metal clip stamped out of
one piece of metal, as illustrated by Figure 6 for securing the india rubber or other
flexible pad in position (the remaining parts of the fastener shewn at Figures 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, and 6 are old); the outer edge c of plate clips the india rubber on the
other edge; d is the gripper which is pressed on the material placed between it and
the pad; e is the compressing lever; J bearings in which the trunnions of saine
work, and e short ariu of compressing lever e, which operates as shewn in the
Drawings before referred to. With reference to Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
and 14, the gripper d is made in one piece of metal bent over, as shewn; from the
same piece of metal is formed base plate gripper bearings for compressing lover and
clips to hold the flexible pad. The Drawings clearly shew how the material is
bent to obtain the desired result.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improvements in stocking
and sock suspenders,―
First. The application to and the employment with such articles of a pad of
india rubber or equivalent material secured to samo by metal clips, the gripping
action being effected substantially in manner set forth.
Second. The construction of suspenders out of one piece of metal for the
gripping portion in combination with or without the india rubber or other pad,
substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Manning Knight, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty eighth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
HY. MANNING KNIGHT. (L.S.)