New or Improved Apparatus for Holding, Piling, or Suspending Trousers and other Foldable Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1900-Accepted, 9th June, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Holding, Piling, or Suspending
Trousers and other Foldable Articles.
I, JULIO DANIEL AMENÁBAR, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., London, of The Eye Infirmary,
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for holding foldable articles and has for
one of its objects to allow of any one folded article being withdrawn from a
number of such articles, arranged in a pile or hanging together without dis-
arranging the others.
In constructing apparatus according to my invention for holding gentlemen's
trousers, I take a length of stiff wire and bend it so as to somewhat resemble
a safety pin, the same being hereinafter referred to as the pin. On the middle
of the back bar of the pin I mount a narrow necked spring clip or ring. To
this bar or a subsidiary bar linked or otherwise connected thereto, I secure one
end of a piece of material hereinafter referred to as the slip. The said slip
may be conveniently made of window-blind material, or some other material
of a suitably flexible and slippery nature. The breadth and length of the slip
are preferably about equal to and somewhat greater than the breadth and length
respectively of the trousers when folded face to face and doubled across the legs.
The trousers when thus folded are adapted to be threaded on to the front bar
of the pin, the two ends of which are then hooked together or otherwise engaged.
The free end of the slip is preferably stiffened by a rod or otherwise.
The above described pin and ring are adapted to act in conjunction with a
pillar much as described in the Specification of my prior Letters Patent No. 4845
A.). 1898, of which the present invention is in some respects a development.
The diameter of the pillar is greater than the normal width of the opening in
the spring ring. The pillar may consist of a rod or tube adapted to be secured
to a suitable upright or horizontal object so as to be parallel thereto and at a
suitable distance therefrom, by strips of metal or the like brought close together
between the pillar and the said object. The pillar may be secured by screws
passing through wings of the metal strips, or otherwise, to an upright secured,
fixedly or detachably to one end of a base on which the trousers are to be piled;
or it may be secured to one end of a drawer; or, if the trousers are to be sus-
pended, it may be secured to the roof of a wardrobe or the like. The trousers
may be pressed at the same time by laying a sheet of cardboard or other semi-
rigid material upon them and then exerting pressure on the said sheet by straps,
cords, elastic bands or the like connected to the base or its equivalent.
Instead of using the pillar in the manner above described it may be arranged
and employed as follows: One end of the pillar is adapted to receive a screw
hook, and to this same end is jointed a rod whose free end if formed as or pro-
vided with a hook. The other end of the pillar is provided with a transverse
socket adapted to receive the two ends of a wire bent into approximately triangular
form, with a ring or loop at the apex and the said ends meeting in the middle

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention relates to apparatus for holding foldable articles and has for
one of its objects to allow of any one folded article being withdrawn from a
number of such articles, arranged in a pile or hanging together without dis-
arranging the others.
And in order that my invention may be properly understood I will describe
the same with the aid of the accompanying drawings, wherein
Figure I is a general view of apparatus for holding gentlemen's trousers
fitted up in a drawer.
Figure II shows a modified form of pillar fitted to a base.
Figure III shows the same form of pillar suspended from a hook.
Figures IV and V show the latter form of pillar employed with apparatus for
holding ladies' skirts and jackets respectively.
Like numerals indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
Referring to Figure I, I take a length of stiff wire and bend it so as to some-
what resemble a safety pin, the same being hereinafter referred to as the pin.
On the middle of the back bar 2 of the pin I mount a narrow necked spring
clip or ring 3. To this bar, or preferably to a subsidiary bar 4 linked or other-
wise connected thereto, I secure one end of a piece of material 5 hereinafter
referred to as the slip. The said slip may be conveniently made of window
blind material, or some other material of a suitably flexible and slippery nature.
The breadth and length of the slip are preferably about equal to and somewhat
greater than the breadth and length respectively of the trousers 6 when folded
face to face and doubled across the legs as shown. The trousers when thus
folded are adapted to be threaded on to the front bar 7 of the pin, the two ends
of which are then hooked (8) or otherwise engaged together. The free end of
the slip is preferably stiffened by a rod 9 or otherwise.
The above described pin and ring are adapted to act in conjunction with a
pillar 10 much as described in the Specification of my prior Letters Patent
No. 4845 A.D. 1898, of which the present invention is, in some respects, a
development. The diameter of the pillar is greater than the normal width of
the opening in the spring ring. The pillar may consist of a rod or tube adapted
to be secured to a suitable upright or horizontal object so as to be parallel
thereto and at a suitable distance therefrom, by strips 11 of metal or the like
brought close together between the pillar and the said object. The pillar may
be secured by screws passing through wings 12 of the metal strips, or other-
wise, to an upright secured, fixedly or detachably, to one end of a base on
which the trousers are to be piled or it may be secured to one end of a drawer 13
as shown; or, if the trousers are to be suspended, it may be secured to the roof
of a wardrobe or the like. The trousers may be pressed at the same time by
laving a sheet 14 of cardboard or other semi-rigid material upon them and then
exerting pressure on the said sheet by straps 15, cords, elastic bands or the like
connected to the base or its equivalent.
Instead of using the pillar in the manner above described it may be arranged
and employed, as follows: One end of the pillar is adapted to receive a screw
hook 16, (Fig. III) and to this same end is jointed a rod 17 whose free end is
formed as or provided with a hook 18. The other end of the pillar is provided
with a transverse socket 19 adapted to receive the two ends of a wire 20 bent
into approximately triangular form, with a ring or loop 21 at the apex and the
said ends meeting in the middle of the base 22. On to the ends of the wire are
threaded the arms of a Y plate 23, the above mentioned socket being inter-
posed between the said arms. A hole 24 is pierced through the junction of
the Y plate and a notch is formed in the end of the stem which is curved or
recessed somewhat in side elevation as shown. The pillar may be fitted detachably
on a base 26 (Fig. II) or in a drawer or the like by turning out the Y plate
and hooking the hook 18 of the rod 17 into the notch 25, turning up the

page_text: the other end of the said pillar, a hole and a notch in the plate, and a hook-
screw or the like, all constructed, arranged and adapted to be employed, sub-
stantially as herein set forth.
4. The apparatus for holding foldable articles in such a way that any one such
article may be withdrawn from a number arranged in a pile or hanging together
without disarranging the others, substantially as herein described with reference
to the accompanying drawings.
DOUGLAS LEECHMAN,
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
18, Hertford Street, Coventry,
9, Exchange Chambers, New Street, Birmingham, and
75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agent for the Applicant..