An Improved Suspending or Stretching Device for Trousers.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspending or Stretching Device for Trousers.
I, AUGUST TAESCHNER, Jr., of No. 2, Lindenstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, 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 :—
The subject of this invention is an improved suspending, or stretching device
for trousers, so arranged, that the ends of the trousers to be stretched are tightly
clamped or gripped between two rods, which are, for the purpose, compressed with
yielding pressure, but are capable, when required, of being displaced in relation to,
or moved away from, each other.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a front view of the device with the clamping rods moved asunder
or open,
Figure 2 is a front view of the improved trouser stretcher with the clamping rods
compiessed or closed;
Figure 3 is a section on line x, x, Figure 1, and
Figure 4 18 a section on line y, y, Figure 2 with the "leg" ends of a pair of
trousers clamped in between the rods.
The improved trouser stretcher consists of a cross-piece a (preferably of wood)
and of any convenient shape, to the lower side of which, in the vicinity of its ends,
are secured two resilient forks b, b' by means of a ring or staple c.
A od d is fitted to one prong or arm (6) of each fork, by means of suitable
perforations, the lower ends of these fork-arms being bent in the shape of hooks at e,
so as to prevent the said rod d from slipping off. The other prong or arm (6') of
each of the forks is so bent as to sui round a second rod f, so that the parts and f
nie firmly joined together. The arms and of the forked pieces respectively
have the tendency, owing to their resilient nature, to draw near to each other in
the direction of the arrows II (Figures 3 and 4).
In the centre of the cross-piece a there is arranged a hook g enabling the
trousers' stretcher to be hung up in a wardrobe in the usual manner.
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When it is desired to "stretch a pair of trousers by means of this improved
dovice, the 1od d is first moved upwards along the arms 6 of the forks in the manner
illustrated in Figure 1, when the ends of the trouser-legs, on being placed upon
each other, o joined, are passed through the space between the rods d and ƒ.
The rod is then lowered again until, after springing over the rod, owing
to the resiliency of the arm b, it takes up its position upon the hooks of the
arms (Figures 2 and 4). And the said arms bare so proportioned, that the
rod d, when it meets the hooks e, is situated somewhat below the rod f, as
indicated in Figure 4. The object of this arrangement is to enable the trousers
(which, when the rods d and fare in the position shown in Figures 2 and 4,
are gripped between such rods, as will be readily understood) to be so placed round
the rod as to occupy as large a portion of its periphery as possible, so that the
trousers may be held in position, not only by the gripping or compressing action
of the forks, but also by the friction existing between the trousers and the
Lod f.
The trousers, when in this position, are suspended from the rod f, waist
downwards, and nic, in consequence stretched by their own weight, thereby
obviating the formation of baggy folds at the knees, or straightening them out
when formed.

page_text: The cross-piece a may, as shown, assume such a shape as to be fit also for
suspending coats.
It should funther be observed, that it may be advantageous either to make that
portion of the arm 6', which engages with the rod f, integral with such rod, or to
provide the rod d, as shown in the diawings, with a notch d' into which the portion
of the arm b', which is wound around the rod f, may be embedded; so that
the rods and d lo close to each other when in the position indicated in
Figures 2 and 4.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said
invention, and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A suspending or stretching device for trousers, consisting of resilient forks b b
secured to the yoke a, upon the extended arms b, of which, a rod d is adjustably
arranged, while another rod f, is rigidly connected with the other arm b, of each
of the forks; so that when the movable rod d is moved upwards along the aims b
of the forks, the trousers may be passed through the interstice between the two
rods, while, owing to the resilient nature of the forks bb, the trousers are com-
pressed or clamped between the two rods, when the rod d is moved down along
the arms &' of the forks, so that it lies next to, or below, the fixed 10d f.
Dand thio 7th day of May 1805
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.