A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR SUSPENDING STOCKINGS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry William Everard, of the Firm of Everard and
Steains, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers,
for an Invention of A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR SUSPENDING
STOCKINGS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry William Everard at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd June 1880.
HENRY WILLIAM EVERARD, of the Firm of Everard and Steains, of the City of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers. 'A NEW OR IMPROVED
FASTENING FOR SUSPENDING STOCKINGS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
My Invention consists of a new or improved fastening for suspending stockings
and for other purposes, the parts of the said fastening being constructed, arranged,
and used in the manner hereinafter described.
The object of my Invention is so to construct the fastening as to fit it to fasten
or hold with great facility and security the edge of an article, such as the edge
of a stocking, or the edge of a dress, or band, or other article which it is incon-
venient or undesirable to pass through the frame of the fastening after the manner
of fastening a band or belt by a buckle.
My Invention has the further advantage that the edge or part to be fastened
can be readily placed in the position to be held by the fastening.
My Invention is especially useful as a stocking suspender, and I will describe it
as applied to that purpose.
I make the fastening of a frame open at its top and of a pronged tongue jointed
to the open top of the frame. The said frame and pronged tongue may either be
made of wire or of sheet metal. The upper end of the pronged tongue is made
into a loop, by means of which the fastening may be connected to an elastic band
or other connection. The ends of the loop of the tonguo turn in eyes on the top
of the frame. The bottom of the frame is folded upon or turned up parallel to
the other part of the said frame, so as to form at the bottom of the frame an open
loop or pocket, that is to say, a hook is made at each side of the frame, which
hooks are connected together by the cross bar of the frame. This open looped or
pocketed end of the frame permits the edge of the article to be fastened to be
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page_text: readily placed in position to be acted upon by the pronged tongue of the fastening.
The pointed ends of the prongs extend to the cross bar described, and when
tension is put upon the band to which tho pronged tonguo is connected, the prongs
of the said tongue are pressed into contact with the raised cross bar in position
to enter the articlo placed in the pocket of the fastening.
In using the fastening as a stocking suspender, the band passing from the waist
of the wearer is connected with the loop of the pronged tongue, and the top edge of
the stocking is passed over the raised cross bar into the looped or pocketed end of
the frame and drawn between the ends of tho prongs and the raised cross bar. On
loosing the band the pronged tongue is pressed towards the raised cross bar, and
the prongs entering the edge of the stocking bear against the cross bar, and the
stocking is thus suspended. To release the stocking it is only necessary to relax
the tension on the band when the pronged tongue may be separated from the
cross bar and the edge of the stocking withdrawn from tho prongs so as to
release it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry William Everard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th December 1880.
"
HENRY WILLIAM EVERARD, of the Firm of Everard and Steains, of the City of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers. A NEW OR IMPROVED
FASTENING FOR SUSPENDING STOCKINGS ANd for other PURPOSES."
My Invention consists of a new or improved fastening for suspending stockings
and for other purposes, the parts of the said fastening being constructed, arranged,
and used in the manner hereinafter described.
The object of my Invention is so to construct the fastening as to fit it to fasten
or hold with great facility and security the edge or other part of an article, such
as the edge or other part of a stocking, or the edge or other part of a dress, or
bund, or other article which it is inconvenient or undesirable to pass through the
frame of the fastening after the manner of fastening a band or belt by a buckle.
My Invention has the further advantage that the edge or part to be fastened
can be readily placed in position to be bold by the fastening.
My Invention is especially useful as a stocking suspender, and I will describe it
as applied to that purpose.
I make the fastening of a frame open at its top and of a pronged tongue jointed
to the open top of the frame. The said frame and pronged tongue may either bo
made of wire or of sheet metal. The upper end of the pronged tongue is made
into a loop by means of which the fastening may be connected to a band or other
connection. The ends of the loop of the tongue turn in eyes on the top of the
frame. The bottom of the frame is folded upon or turned up nearly parallel to
the other part of the said frame, so as to form at the bottom of the frame an open

page_text: loop or pocket, that is to say, a hook is made at each side of the frame, which
hooks are connected together by the cross bar of the frame. This open looped or
pocketed end of the frame permits the edge of the article to be fastened, to be
readily placed in position, to be acted upon by the pronged tongue of the fastening.
Tho pointed ends of the prongs extend to the cross bar described, and when
tension is put upon the band to which the pronged tongue is connected, the prongs
of the said tongue are pressed into contact with the raised cross-bar in-position to
enter the article placed in the pocket of the fastening.
In using the fastening as a stocking suspender the band passing from the waist of
the wearer is connected with the loop of the pronged tongue, and the top edge of
the stocking is passed over the raised cross bar into the looped or pocketed end
of the frame and drawn between the ends of the prongs and the raised cross bar.
On loosing the band the pronged tongue is pressed towards the raised cross bar,
and the prongs entering the edge of the stocking presses the latter against the
cross bar, and the stocking is thus suspended. To release the stocking it is only
necessary to relax the tension on the band, when the pronged tongue may be
separated from the cross bar and the edge of the stocking withdrawn from the
prongs so as to release it.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side olovation and front elevation a stocking suspender
drawn to a large scale constructed according to my Invention; Figuro 2 is front
elovation of the same with a band or connecting pieco attached to the loop of the
pronged tongue; and Figure 3 is a vertical section of the suspender exhibiting tho
manner in which it effects the suspension of the stocking.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts.
a, a, is the frame of the suspender having an open top, the upper ends of the
sides of tho said frame being formed into eyes b, b; c, c, c, is the looped or pocketed
end of the frame a, in which pocketed end the edge of the stocking (or other
articlo) to be suspended is placed. In making the said pocketed end, the bottom
of the framo is folded upon or turned up nearly parallel to the othor. part, so as
to form at each side of the frame a hook c, c, which hooks are connected together
by the cross bar c³ as represented. Jointed to the frame a is a pronged tongue &
having a looped top d², the ends of the loop of the said pronged tongue d turning
in the eyes b, b, at the top of the frame a. The pointed ends of the prongs of the
pronged tongue & extend to the cross bar c³ of the pocketed end of the framo a,
as best seen in the front elevation of Figure 1: To the loop d² of the pronged
tongue da band, tape, or other connecting piece e is secured, as seen in Figures 2
and 3. When tension is put upon the band, tape, or connecting piece 6, the pointed
ends of the prongs of the tongue d are pressed into contact with the raised cross
bar of the pocketed ond of the frame ready to enter the article placed in the
pocket c, c, c, of the fastening.
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In applying the fastening to the suspending of a stocking it is used in the
following way- -The band, tape, or connecting picce e passing from the waist of
the wearer is connected to the loop d² of the pronged tongue d, and the top edgo
of the stocking f. Figure 3, is passed over the raised cross bar c³ into the looped or
pocketed end of the frame, and drawn between the ends of the prongs of the
tongue and the said raised cross-bar, the tension on the band e being relaxed. On.
loosing the band e the tension put upon it causes the prongs of the tongue d to be
pressed towards the raised cross bar c, and the prongs entering the edge of the
stocking presses it firmly to and grips it against the cross bar c, and thus fastens
it securely in the pocket c, c; the stocking is thereby suspended. To release the
stocking the tension on the band e is relaxed when the pronged tongue & may be
pressed from the cross bar. c.of the pocketed end, and the edge-of-the stocking
withdrawn from the prongs so as to release the stocking...
The-stocking-suspender-represented-is-made-of-wire, but it may be made of sheet

page_text: In applying my Invention to the suspending of dresses, curtains, and other
articles, I construct and arrange the parts, substantially in the manner described
and illustrated, with respect to a stocking suspender; and although my Invention
is principally useful for suspending articles by gripping them at their edges placed
in the pocket of the fastening, yet the article to be secured to the fastening may
be held by it at any other convenient part. For example, the skirts of a dress or
other article may be secured to the fastening by the pronged tongue being passed
through the inaterlal of the dress or other articlo, instead of the dress or article
being folded and placed in the pocket of the fastening; Figure 4 illustrates my
Invention applied to the suspending of a dress or article, in which the pronged
tongue dis passed through the material of tho dress or article marked f so as to
secure it to the frame, the said dress or article ƒ passing over the bar c³ of tho
pocket.
When my Invention is used as a dress or curtain suspender, or used for any
other purpose in which it is exposed to viow, it may be made ornamental.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
Invention.
The new or improved fastening for suspending stockings and for other purposes,
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to
say, a fastening consisting of a frame to which a pronged tongue having a looped
end is jointed at the top, the bottom of the said frame being furnished with an
open loop or pocket of the construction described and illustrated, the edge or part
of the stocking, dress, or other article being secured to the fastening, substantially
in the ways described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry William Everard, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Witness,
JAS. STEAINS,
Manchester.
HENRY WILLIAM EVERARD. (L.S.)