Improvements in Stretchers for Trousers and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stretchers for Trousers and the like.
SAMUEL ELLIS PHILLIPS, 249, High Holborn, London, Manufacturer, JAMES
PLATT, 77 and 78, St. Martin's Lane, Westminster, Woollen Warehouseman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to make a stretcher, that will keep the knees
of the trousers in shape, by the simple method of connecting two straight strips
of wood together of a given length (having rounded edges outside, and also
rounded ends) with steel flat bands or hoops made of crinoline hardened and
tempered steel these being shaped into the form of a bow, and fastened to the
wooden strips on their inner flat edge by nails or screws. The stretcher on these
lines can be made exceedingly cheap and also effective, as there is no waste, in
their manufacture, either in the wood or iron, as all expensive processes of
bending (as in wire) or screws and fly nuts (as in screw stretchers) is done away
with.
The steel also is hardened and tempered in the coil, and only requires cutting
off and piercing.
We claim also another great advantage in this stretcher viz.--for advertizing
purposes on the surface of the wooden strips giving great advantages for this
purpose.
Dated Novemba 1041 1000
S. ELLIS PHILLIPS.
JAMES PLATT.
Improvements in Stretchers for Trousers and the like.
We, SAMUEL ELLIS PHILLIPS, of 249, High Holborn, in the County of London,
Manufacturer, and JAMES PLATT, of 77 and 78, St. Martin's Lane, Westminster,
in the County of London, Woollen Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The object of our invention is to make a stretcher that will keep the knees
of the trousers in shape by the simple method of connecting two straight strips
of wood together of a given length (having rounded edges and also rounded
ends) with steel flat bands or hoops made of crinoline hardened and tempered
steel. These being shaped into the form of a bow and fastened to the wooden
strips on the inner flat edges, by nails or screws. The stretcher on these lines
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page_text: can be made exceedingly cheap and also effective, as there is no waste in their
manufacture either in the wood or iron as all expensive processes of bending (as
in wire) or screws and fly nuts (as in screw stretchers) is done away with. The
steel also is hardened and tempered in the coil and only requires cutting off and
piecing.
We claim also another great advantage in this stretcher (viz.:) for advertising
purposes on the surface of the wooden strips, giving great advantages for the
purpose.
We also claim that by the arrangement of the steel springs, the shape of the
trouser is retained, and all creases in the crutch or the top part of the leg
removed.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 represents the form of trouser stretching
apparatus we prefer to use. Fig. 2 shows the stretching apparatus applied
inside the trousers.
The apparatus consists of two strips of wood AA 1 which are forced apart by
means of the two steel flat bands B B 1 or any other suitable spring, these bands
are fastened by means of screws CC1 to the flat edges of the wooden sides DD1
the wooden strips can be made with rounded or bevelled edges preferably with
bevelled edges EE 1.
Figure 3 represents the end view of the strips of wood in Figure 1.
Figure 4 represents the method of attaching the steel bands BB1 to the flat
edges of wooden sides D D 1.
In its simplest form the stretching apparatus will consist of two strips of wood,
secured together by means of two steel flat bands as shown in drawings.
To introduce the stretching apparatus into the leg of the trouser, it will only
be necessary to grasp the two wooden strips with the hand, compress them and
insert the same into the leg of the trouser, it can then be easily pushed to the
end of trouser leg.
For greater convenience in transport we may make the stretching apparatus
to fold in two parts by means of a double hinge fastened to the jointed surface
of the divided parts.
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;-
1st. The application inside the legs of trousers of a stretching apparatus sub-
stantially as herein shown and described for the purpose set forth.
2nd. In apparatus for applying expansive pressure inside the leg of a trouser,
consisting of two strips or bars of wood having a flat surface and bevelled edges
in combination with two steel flat bands or any other suitable springs for forcing
the said strips or bars apart substantially as herein shown and described and for
the purpose set forth.
3rd. The particular construction of trouser stretching apparatus as herein
described and shown in the drawings filed herewith.
Dated this 7th day of April 1899.
S. ELLIS PHILLIPS,
JAMES PLATT.