A New or Improved Suspender for Clothes, Fabrics, Patterns, Rugs, Papers, and other Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Suspender for Clothes, Fabrics, Patterns, Rugs,
Papers, and other Articles.
I ALFRED PROVOST, of 7 Rue d'Alsace, Angers in the Republic of France,
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 relates to a clothes suspender as hereinafter described and
represented in the annexed drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side view of the holder partly in section with its tongs extended.
Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof partly in section with one of the tongs extended and
the other not extended. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same with tongs open.
Fig. 4 is a detail view of the attachment of the suspending hook at the centre.
Fig. 5 shows a modification being a section across the shanks of one of the
tongs.
Fig. 6 is an end view and Fig. 7 a side view of a modified construction of
holder.
In Figs. 1 to 4 the tube a consists of wood and serves to embody or enclose the
shanks of the tongs of the apparatus.
In order to impart to it the necessary solidity and to prevent the wood from
splitting a metallic collar 6 has been attached to each of its extremities, said collar
being held in place by means of a set screw f which latter at the same time, fulfils
the purpose of guiding the two shanks of the said tongs by engaging in a slot
formed between them, (half in each) and preventing them from slipping wholly out
of the tube (Fig. 2). Where the steel shanks c of the tongs d are enclosed or
embraced by the tube a they are filed off or smoothened as at e so as to form the
above mentioned slot. Moreover one of the said shanks at the part near the elbow
is made crescent shaped or provided with a recess, bed or channel, (Fig. 5) to allow
the other shank to lie within it to keep the two shanks together. The two shanks
are rectangularly bent at the before mentioned elbow and their downwardly
directed ends are shaped as shown in Fig. 3 and provided with blocks at the ends
and recesses along their length to receive and hold the ring by which the ends are
pressed together. I do not however claim any novelty in respect of these parts of
the tongs. The suspension hook g is adapted to turn about its axis in the socket g²,
the method of fastening which socket to the handle is shown in the drawing; it is
effected by means of a screw g² screwed into the socket from below, the socket
serving as chamber and seat for the head in which the lower end of the hook
ends.
This device may serve as an ordinary clothes suspender to be adapted for any
size by increasing or diminishing its dimensions by pulling out the shanks. It may
also serve as a handle for carrying in the hand a folded garment, rug, papers and
the like; it is further suitable for display of clothes, stuffs, patterns etc., and may
form a stretcher to extend a creased article of clothing by suspending the latter
from one of these holders and attaching another holder to the lower part of said
clothing and weighting it according to the pull required.
The same holder may also be constructed in a different manner, and still
auswering the same purpose. It may consist of two distinct parts as shown in
Figs. 6 and 7 the one part is bent at m and n so as to form three sides of a nearly
regular square or oblong. Its extremities i; are flattened for the purpose of

page_text: rivetting them on to the board k which is to form the tongs. This wire h is, at
the centre of its upper edge provided with a hook adapted to turn about
its axis, and resting in a socket in the middle of the wire h. The other part o
forms a similar square or oblong, it also being flattened at its extremities for
the purpose of rivetting it on to a board k but it differs from part h in having two
peculiar scroll twists at x and y for receiving the part which enables the two
It is evident that on
parts h and o to turn one on the other about the axis A. B.
lifting the locking rings p the downward branches of the apparatus may be opened
or relocked according as required. The said shanks are curved or bent so that
the boards attached thereto are parallel when at a distance of about ope
centimeter. The inner side of these boards may be rounded and covered with
cloth while the extremities may be padded so as to assure a more energetic
closure in contact with the interposed staff. This apparatus is cheaper than
those hitherto known, simpler, and more portable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A holder comprising the body a holding the sliding shanks c, of tongs & the
whole constructed substantially as described.
2. A holder comprising the parts h and o, carrying boards k and connected
together by scroll twists and y as described.
Dated this 10th do of Avous 1895
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.