Improvements in Stocking Suspenders.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1899-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1899
Improvements in Stocking Suspenders.
We, REDDIN WEST PARRAMORE, and VICTOR GUINZBURG, both of 401 West 124th.
Street, in the City, County and State of New York, United States of America,
Manufacturers, 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 :-
My Our invention relates to improvements in stocking suspenders or supporters
of that class which are used in connection with corsets, and the object of the inven-
tion is to provide an improved construction especially designed to be connected with
a stud or clasp of the corset, thus dispensing with the use of safety pins and other
attaching devices which have been found injurious to the corset and enabling a
tight-fitting skirt to be clasped around the corset without hindrance from the hose
supporter. Another object of the invention is to utilize the stocking supporter as
a means for reducing the prominence of the stomach, the supporter being connected
with the corset at a point where the sections of the corset ineet, the pull on the
supporter serving to keep the corset down in front.
A further object of the invention is to provide means which may be used advan-
tageously on corsets of large size, and to construct the entire device in a simple and
inexpensive manner.
With these ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction,
arrangement, and adaptation of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and
particularly pointed out in the claims.
To enable others skilled in the art to understand the invention, we have illus-
trated the same in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification,
and in which-
Figure 1 is a view illustrating the hose supporter connected in-operative-relation
to the clasp of a corset.
Figure 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the hanger detached from the corset
and-from-the-tapes-of-the-hose-supporter.
Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view of the hanger.
Figure 4 is a detail view of the metallic hanger-piece.
The same numerals of reference are used to designate corresponding parts in each
of the several figures of the drawing.
The hanger 5, of the stocking supporter of my our invention is a composite
device consisting of a fabric body 6, and a metallic hanger-piece 7. This plate is
stamped in a single piece from a metallic sheet, and it is curved or arched in order
to provide a convex upper edge from which may extend the means by which. the
hanger may be connected with the stud at the lower end of a corset clasp. This
hanger-piece is formed with an elongated loop or eye 8, which extends from the

page_text: centre of the upper convex edge thereof, and at its ends, the hanger-piece is enlarged
to form the ears 9. The body of the hanger consists of two pieces of fabric 1C, cut
to proper shape and dimensions and a binding 11, which is stitched at 12 around
the edges of the fabric body-pieces. The metallic hanger-piece is fitted in between
the pieces of fabric which form the body, and in a position to have the central loop
or eye 8 protrude beyond the edges-of the body, after which the binding 11 is fitted
or applied to the layers of fabric, and the parts are united together by the stitches.
To confine the hanger-piece against displacement within the layers of the fabric, a
row of stitches united the fabric layers together within the inner concave edge of
said hanger-piece, as at 13. The lower straight edges of the layers of fabric form-
ing the body are united by the straight rows of stitches 14, and the eyelets 15 are
attached to the ears of the hanger and to the layers of fabric.
My Our stocking supporter employs comprises a pair of suspension elastics or
tapes 16, the upper ends of which are fitted between the layers of fabric forming the
body and said elastics or tapes are attached to the body by the stitches 14, which
unite the lower edge of the fabric layers. The connecting tapes or elastics 17 are
connected by the adjustable slides 18 to the suspension elastics 16, so that the
length of the suspension devices may be varied in a manner well understood by
those skilled in the art. The connecting tapes or elastics 17, are each provided
with the attaching clasp: 19, by which the stocking may be attached to the
supporter.
The hanger is adapted to be fitted applied to the lowermost stud of the series of
studs forming a part of the clasp on an ordinary corset, and in Figure 1 of the
drawing, this stud is indicated by the numeral 20.
To use my our improved hose supporter, the eye or loop 8 of the hanger is fitted
te caused to engage the stud 20, after which the corset clasp is closed over the eye or
loop and connected to the stud, thereby attaching the hanger 5 to the corset in a
inanner such as to prevent the hanger from being disengaged accidentally from the
The slides 18, are adjusted properly on the suspension elastics, and the
clasps 19 are attached to the stockings.
corset.
The use of a supporter constructed in accordance with my our invention entirely
overcomes the necessity for attaching the supporting or suspension elastics 16, to
the corsets by means of safety pins, clasps, or other devices which have a tendency
to injure the corsets by pulling out of place and tearing the fabric of the corsets.
The improved supporter has a hanger which takes up but very little room at the
point where it is attached to the corset so that the hanger may be connected to
the best advantage to the clasp-stud, and at the same time the hanger is prevented
by the corset clasp from accidental detachment aeeidentally from the corset.
improved hanger has a pliable fabric body which fits closely against the corset or
the person so that a tight fitting skirt may be worn around the waist of the person.
The hanger forining the leading feature of my our invention is simple in construc-
tion, and the metallic hanger-piece serves to strengthen and reinforce the fabric
body of the hanger. The entire device is simple and cheap in construction, easy of
use and application, and can be manufactured very cheaply.
The
The employments of the eyelets 15 in the hanger of my our improved stocking
supporter enables the hanger to be connected to studs especially provided on a
corset of a large size for the connection of the stocking supporter to the corset, and,
at the same time, these eyelets tend to strengthen the hanger because they fasten
the ends of the hanger-piece to the fabric body.
By On reference to Figure 1, it will be noted that the hanger is connected to the
corset in such a manner as to lie outside of the overlapping section of the corset,
and thus the hanger is made to press the meeting edges of the corset sections
together, to further ensure the snug fitting of the parts. When the device is in
position, the lower front end of the corset will be held close against the body so
that the skirt will fall gracefully from the waist of the wearer.
Although we have said that the metallic element of the hanger is made by
stamping it from a piece of sheet metal, we do not strictly confine myself

page_text: ourselves to this sheet metal construction, because it is evident that the metallic
element of the hanger may be made from a piece of wire which is bent to the
proper shape. It will be understood that by reason of the fact that the hanger
is connected to the corset at the particular point claimed, the pull on the tapes
serves to keep the corset down in front, thereby greatly reducing the promi-
nence of the stomach without causing any harmful results, as the pressure on
the stomach is only when needed, i.e. when walking or standing.
Changes in the forms, proportion, size, and the minor details of construction,
within the scope of the appended claims, may be made by a skilled constructor
without departing from the spirit, or sacrificing the advantages of the invention.
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 :-
1-A-stocking-suspender-consisting-of-the-duplicate-suspension--tapes-or--elasties,
and-a-single-hanger-to-which-the-upper-ends-of-the-tapes-or-elasties-are--connected
said-hanger-being-provided-with-an-eye-or-loop-adapted--to--be--detachably-engaged
2A-steeking-suspender-consisting-of-the-dupliente-stocking--engaged--members,
and-means-for-permanently-uniting-the-two-members-at-their-upper-ends,said-means
being-in-the-form-of-a-hanger-piece-which-is-adapted-to-be-engaged-with--the--corset
with-the stud-of-a-corset-elasp-substantially-as-described.
at-the-point-where-the-seetions-of-the-corset-meet,
substantially-as-described.
1-In a stocking suspender, a means for connecting the suspension tapes or
elastics to a corset, consisting of a fabric body and a metallic hanger-piece, which is
united to said body, said hanger-piece having a central loop or eye which is
prolonged or extended beyond the fabric body, and is adapted to be held on
the stud of a corset clasp by the eye thereof, for the purpose described, sub-
stantially as set forth.
24-A stocking suspender consisting of a hanger-having-the metallic hanger-
plate provided with a central loop or eye and the ears at the ends of said plate and
the a fabric body having its layers united to the hanger-plate to enclose the latter,
the eyelets secured to the ears of the hanger-plate and to the layers of said body,
the and suspension elastics united to the fabric body at the edge opposite the
hanger-plate, and the connecting tapes or elastics connected adjustably to the
suspension elastics and provided with the clasps, substantially as described.
Dated this 13th day of July 1899.
For the Applicants
J. G. LORRAIN,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, London, W.C.
Chartered Patent Agent.