Year: 1887

page_text: I CHARLES ARTHUB PRESTON of Cambridgeport in the State of Massachusetts one of
the United States of America, Machinist 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 has for its object to construct a simple and efficient garment
supporting device adapted to engage and remain in place upon a button, such for
instance as a button attached to a waistband or other part of wearing apparel.
The garment supporter is composed of a button engaging loop, and a locking
device, hinged one to the other, and a strap receiving loop or portion, that end
of the said locking device opposite the hinge connection terminating more or less
short of the end of the button engaging loop, the distance between the end of the
locking device and the end of the button engaging loop being less than the diameter
of the button.
The garment supporter is preferably composed of wire in which instance it consists
essentially of a button engaging loop bent or formed to present a strap-receiving
portion, a broadened or expanded portion to pass the head of a button, a narrowed
portion to receive the shank or fastening of the button; and of a locking device
swiveled thereon and co-operating therewith to prevent the disengagement of the loop
from the button, said locking device consisting of a bale or loop having at its ends
eyes which encircle the wire of which the button engaging loop is composed, at the
strap receiving portion thereof, thereby forming a hinge like connection, that end of

page_text: the said bale or loop opposite the hinge connection terminating more or less short
of the end of the button engaging loop according to the class of button used, the
distance between the end of the locking device and the end of the button engaging
loop being less than the diameter of the button.
The eyes at the ends of the locking device are turned at an angle slightly towards
each other to bind against the material of the button engaging loop more strongly.as
the loop or hole is turned away from the said button receiving loop to permit appli-
cation to or the removal of the button engaging loop from the button, the yielding of
the material acting as a spring to normally keep the locking device in position to close
the passage between the narrowed and broadened or expanded portions of the button
engaging loop.
Figure 1 shows in front elevation a garment or hose supporter embodying this
invention.
Figure 2 a side view of the supporter shown in Figure 1, the dotted line showing
the locking device turned out into its other position, and
Figure 3 a modification to be referred to.
The button engaging loop A is preferably made of a piece of wire bent to present
a strap receiving eye or portion 2, a broadened portion 3 to pass the head of the
button, and a narrowed portion 4, see dotted lines Figure 1, to pass under the head
and engage the shank of the button, or if the button be a flat disc button to engage
the thread or other fastening by which the button may be attached, the thread or
other fastening constituting a shank.
The locking device C consists preferably of a piece of wire bent into loop like
form, substantially as shown, and having its ends as c¹ bent to form eyes or loops to
loosely encircle the material of the button engaging loop at the strap receiving portion
the opposite or outer acting end of the locking device terminating substantially at the
point where the button engaging loop A commences to diminish in width toward its
narrow end, the locking device thereby effectually closing the passage between
the narrowed and expanded portions of said button receiving loop, as shown in
Figure 1.
The eyes
c¹ of the locking device are bent inwardly toward each other to enable
them to bind more firmly against the wire or material of the button engaging loop,
as the said locking device is turned away from the loop A, as shown by dotted lines
Figure 2, the wire of the loop A slightly yielding and acting as a spring to aid in
keeping the locking device in the position shown by full lines, or bearing against the
loop A to bridge or close the passage between the narrowed and broadened portions
thereof, as shown.
By making the button engaging loop of wire, as herein shown and described, it
does not act to cut the thread employed to fasten a button as would be the case were
the loop made of sheet metal.
Referring to Figure 3 the locking device C is provided with the strap receiving
portion 2, and the loop like eye A is provided with the eyes c' encircling the strap
receiving portion, which construction is substantially the reverse of the construction
shown in Figures 1 and 2, and which I desire it to be understood comes within
the scope of my invention, the results gained by the modified construction being
substantially the same as that gained by the construction shown in said figures 1
and 2.
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 :-
1. In a garment supporter, a button engaging loop A, composed of wire bent as
shown and described to present a strap receiving portion 2, a broad or expanded
portion 3 to pass the button, and a narrowed portion 4, combined with a locking
device consisting of a loop of wire the ends of which are provided with which
encircle the material of the loop A at or near the strap receiving portion, the outer
end of the locking device terminating at a point between the narrowed and broadened
portions of the said loop A, substantially as described.
eyes

page_text: 2. In a hose supporter, the button engaging loop A, combined with a locking
device consisting of a loop of wire, having eyes c¹ turned at an angle, all arranged
to operate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. The herein described garment supporter, composed of the button receiving
loop A, and the locking loop C, one of which is provided with eyes which encircle
the material of the other, all arranged to operate, as and for the purposes set forth.
4. The herein described garment supporter, composed of the button engaging loop,
having the expanded portion 3, and the narrowed portion 4, and the locking device,
hinged one to the other, said locking device terminating short of the end of the
button engaging loop, and the strap receiving portion, substantially as described.
Dated the 16th day of August 1887.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.