Improvement in Trousers-Stretchers.
Year: 1889

page_text: Cate of Application, 21st Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1890-Accepted, 5th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Trousers-Stretchers.
I CHARLES WARRICK DEVONSHIRE of Alwington House Stonehouse in the County
of Devon Bank Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The chief object of my Invention is the simplification of the apparatus so that it
may be made at a less cost. In my Invention the appliance consists mainly of two
parts arranged so as to be applied as clamps and two other parts arranged so as to
allow of an extending or stretching action being exerted on the two clamps. These
two extending pieces I make as a toggle joint one end of each joint being attached to
a clamp and the free ends being jointed together and pivotted so as to allow of their
being fastened in any desired position of the toggle this may be effected by any con-
venient means. Instead of using two toggle levers one at each end of the clamps I
may use one lever only fixed in the middle of the clamps. In my Invention I use a
combination of iron and wood.
Dated this Twenty-first day of August 1889.
CHARLES WARRICK DEVONSHIRE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Trousers-Stretchers.
I CHARLES WARRICK DEVONSHIRE of Alwington House Stonehouse in the County
of Devon, Bank Clerk, 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 object of my invention is the simplification of the apparatus so that it may be
made at a less cost. In my invention the appliance consists mainly of two parts
arranged so as to be applied as clamps A. B & C. D. Figs. 1 & 2, and two iron bars,
one at each end of the clamps so as to act on the lever principle. One iron bar E.
as a pin in. The other iron bar F, as nine holes in G. The trousers being placed in
the clamps each_clamp is separated from the other by the lever apparatus. The bar
with the pin in E, is fixed into one of the holes of the other bar F, and are then
adjusted in any desired position until the clasp or clasps made of brass when pressed
down grips and holds both bars together I. Fig. 4. or one or more ferrels H. Figs. 1
& 2 will cover and hold the joints in a firm position so as to give the required tension.
The clamps made in wood are varied in thickness A. B. Figs. 3. so that in warping
through great pressure, the thin woods B & D Figs. 1 & 2. can be reversed by
re-adjusting the screws thus giving increased pressure in the middle to firmly grip
the trousers. The apparatus before described I make of iron and wood nicol-plaited
or painted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:

page_text: 2nd. The use of one or more clasps I. Fig. 4. also one or more ferrells H. Figs. 1
& 2. in connection with the lever arrangement for obtaining tension.
3rd. The use of a thick and thin wood in clamps A. B & C. D. Figs. 1 & 2 so as
to reverse and give extra tension.
Dated this Seventeenth day of May 1890.
CHARLES WARRICK DEVONSHIRE,
Applicant.