Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887.
I, WORTHWORKS WALL, of 36 Market Street, Bradford in the County of York
Tailor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved device for the purpose of stretching
and straightening the leg parts of trousers and thereby removing the creases and
"bagginess" produced by wear.
To carry out my invention I make use of a flat bar of wood rather longer than the
leg part of the trousers to be stretched, and across one end of this bar is fixed a cross
piece fitted with screw cramps-This cross piece is for the purpose of holding the
bottoms of the trousers to be stretched which are placed flat upon the cross piece and
over them is a short flat bar of wood which is screwed down firmly holding the
bottoms of the trousers by means of the screw cramps hereinbefore mentioned.
About midway on the long bar of wood is attached, by means of hooks or an
adjustable hinge, another short bar of wood which is also fitted with a cross piece and
screw cramps in which the thigh part of the trousers is fixed in a similar manner to
the bottom part as before described.
The bottoms and the thigh parts of the trousers are secured by means of the cramps
while the hinged bar is at an angle to the longer bar-The hinged bar is then pressed
down flat upon the longer bar whereby the trousers are forcibly stretched and the
hinged bar is held down in this flat position by means of a bolt or catch.
The long bar may be made in halves and put together when in use by means of a
socket joint or other suitable device and the cross pieces may be made to take off sc as
to pack into smaller compass if necessary.
WM. JAS. BAKER,
Town Hall Chambers, Bradford,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: 1 WORTHWORKS WALL, of 36 Market Street, Bradford, in the County of York Tailor
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:
This invention consists in an improved device for the purpose of stretching and
straightening the leg parts of trousers, and thereby removing the creases and bagginess
produced by wear.
To carry out my invention I make use of a flat bar of wood rather longer than the
leg part of the trousers to be stretched, and across one end of this bar is fixed a
cross-piece fitted with screw cramps.
This cross piece is for the purpose of holding the bottoms of the trousers to be
stretched, which are placed flat upon the cross-piece and over them is placed a short
flat bar of wood, which is screwed down firmly, holding the bottoms of the trousers
by means of the screw cramps herein before mentioned.
About midway on the long bar of wood is attached by means of hooks, or an
adjustable hinge, another short bar of wood, which is also fitted with a cross piece and
screw cramps, in which the thigh part of the trousers is fixed in a similar manner to
the bottom part, as before described.
The bottoms and thigh parts of the trousers are secured by means of the cramps,
while the hinged bar is at an angle to the longer bar.
The hinged bar is then pressed down flat upon the longer bar, whereby the trousers
are forcibly stretched and the hinged bar is held down in this flat position by means
of a bolt or catch.
The long bar may be made in halves and put together when in use by means of a
socket joint or other suitable device, and the crosspieces may be made to take off so as
to pack into smaller compass if necessary.
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In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents
a side elevation of the improved trousers stretcher, having pair of trousers screwed
into the cramps, and with the hinged bar resting at an angle with the long bar.
Figure 2 represents a similar view but with the hinged bar pressed down flat upon
the long bar whereby the required strain is put upon the trousers.
Figure 3 represents a plan of the whole apparatus with the cross pieces or cramps
in position.
and
Figure 4 a plan of the long bar.
Figure 5 a side elevation on a larger scale of the hinged bar.
Figure 6 an elevation of the cramp intended to hold the bottom part of the trousers
Figure 7 a view of the underside of Figure 6.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.

page_text: The long bar A may be made in one piece or with a hinge as at B to enable the bar
to be folded for convenience in packing. The cramp C which holds the bottom parts
of the trousers is attached to the long bar A by means of a headed stud D, which
fits into a hole and slot in a metal plate E fixed to one end of the long bar A, and thus
forming a swivel in order to enable the cramp C to assume an angular position with
regard to the line of the long bar A when required.
Upon the end of the hinged bar F is fixed the double hook or hinge-like hook G,
the two fingers or projections of which are placed in the required holes in the plate H,
which is fixed to the long bar. This adjustment is effected when the trousers are
screwed fast in both cramps and when so adjusted the hinged bar is pressed down
upon the long bar and held in that position by means of the sliding bolt J.
K is a ring by which the stretcher can be suspended.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim'is:-
In a trousers stretcher, the hinged bar F, the plate H, having several holes therein,
combined with the hinge, like hook G for the purpose of adjustment and the bolt J
all substantially as described and represented in the accompanying drawings.