Improvements in Appliances for Stretching and Removing Creases from Trousers, and Bringing them to their Original Shape, Form, and Length.
Year: 1889

page_text: ´ate of Application, 21st Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Stretching and Removing Creases
from Trousers, and Bringing them to their Original Shape, Form,
and Length.
We JOSEPH JEFFREY BENNETT of No. 2 Loddiges Road Saint Thomas's Square
Hackney in the County of Middlesex Civil Engineer and HENRY KNIGHT SIMSON of
No. 62 Sheen Park Richmond in the County of Surrey 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 :-
By reference to the accompanying drawings it will be seen that this invention
consists of the configuration of the clamps A A and B B the inner sides A of which
are curved and are so formed as to secure the trousers placed therein, admitting of
the extra thickness of the trousers at or near the seat or other requisite parts, caused
by a number of seams being brought together in folding or by other causes; the
clamps gripping the trousers in order to obtain sufficient tension for the purpose of
stretching. Independent of the curve in the inner sides of the bottom clamp B B an
oblong curved recess B is also formed so as to prevent creasing the trouser legs at
the back.
A pipe stud screw C is placed in the centre, end, or other suitable position on the
clamps to be worked by a lever handle, nut, or otherwise, thereby pushing the arm or
arms J into the slot or slots D in order to obtain compression and thus secure the
trousers therein; the one action sufficing for the several screws and nuts usually
employed, thereby reducing labour in manipulation and materia! in construction.
Attached to the top clamp A A is a stud E which receives a tension rod F by its
being inserted therein or it may be fixed thereto, and attached to the bottom
clamp B B is a spring latch G, or drop bolt with balance weight, in either case so
arranged as to ensure its automatically fixing the bottom clamp to the tension rod at
any point or distance when the requisite tension has been obtained; the tension
rod F being provided with a slot and distance grooves formed as a bayonet. catch or
with notching H H at intervals..
The top clamp is secured at right-angles to the tension rod F and the bottom
clamp B B locked either parallel to the top clamp A A or obliquely to the tension
rod so as to suit trousers of any shape at the bottom.
The tension rod F may be either of one or more pieces which may be separate,
pointed, or telescopic for convenience in packing.
Fig. 1 shows the configuration of the bottom clamps when closed by the action of
the screw being placed in the centre, and the locking spring.
Fig. 2 shows sections of both top and bottom clamps with the tension rod locked
to the bottom clamp and the method of connecting the rod by means of a stud
attached to the top clamp being inserted into the end of the tension rod and by this
means secured in position.
Fig. 3 shows in all respects the same as Fig. 1 but with the action of the screw
by being placed at the end of the clamp in lieu of the centre which is considered
preferable.
Fig. 4 shows a front view of the bottom and top clamps with the tension rod
secured in position as described in Fig. 2 and the bottom clamp shows in the oblique
position and locked to the tensiou rod by means of the spring.
Fig. 5 shows the apparatus as applied in stretching trousers both lengthways and
crosswise.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The configuration of the clamps, the means of obtaining compression and spreading
the trousers crosswise by the oblique action of the screws causing the arm or arms.J
to be pushed into the slot or slots D; the sloping position of the clamp B B and its
automatic connection with the tension rod For their respective equivalents
mechanically or otherwise substantially operating for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 21st day of November 1889.
JOSEPH JEFFREY BENNETT.
HENRY KNIGHT SIMSON.