Improvements in Apparatus for Stretching and Suspending Trousers, and other Garments.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug., 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1899
IBUITIVATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Stretching and Suspending
Trousers, and other Garments.
I, HARRY VON ELBE, of 10, Neuer Wall, Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, 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 reference to improvements in trouser stretchers, the object
being to provide an apparatus which while being suitable for stretching trousers is
also capable of carrying other articles of clothing upon it.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and
Figure 2 a side elevation of my improved apparatus.
Figures 3 and 4 being modifications of one portion of the apparatus which I
sometimes employ.
In carrying my invention into effect I form a bed-plate or base 1 as shown in
Figures 1 and 2 and on this base or back I carry a projecting arm or bracket 2 on
the lower end of which I hinge a board or table-like carrier 3 by means of the
hinge 4 attached to the arm 2 in any ordinary manner. The board or carrier 3 I
arrange to hold the trousers and by reason of its movement upon the hinge I am
able to press the trousers against the door, wall or other surface to which the
apparatus is attached by means of screws or ordinary nails or pins 8. I make the
board 3 of a length suitable for the trousers which are to be stretched and I form
the upper portion of the arm with a coat or other carrier curved piece 5 from which
a coat or other garment can be suspended. Instead of forming the arm 2 in one
piece with à curved carrier 5 I sometimes attach the carrier 5 to the arm 2 by means
of a screw or pin 9. The trousers are gripped flat (folded or unfolded) by the
board 3, and their weight keeps them stretched.
I modify the form of hinge for carrying my trouser board 3 from the arm 2
sometimes by making the board 3 to work in a drilled hole as shown in Figure 3 in
which a curved piece suitably turned over to form a pivot or pin can move as
at 6. By another modification I attach the board 3 to the arm by means of a
screw such as 7 by which the hinged plate is carried.
I make the arm 2 with a hook-like end or I may attach other hooks or supporting
pegs thereto for carrying other garments when desired.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any particular shape of the
carrying arm 2 or its attachments but I modify the same to suit the various articles
which are to be carried and to suit the materials employed in the construction,
making the various parts of wood, metal or other suitable material as may be
desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1 Improvements in trouser stretchers and annaratus for hanging th

page_text: substantially as hereiubefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a trouser stretcher the arrangement of a bracket or bed-platė such as 1
having an arm or projecting member such as 2 with a board or ledge such as 3
hinged at the lower end of the same substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.