Improvements in Means for Hanging Up Trousers.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Hanging Up Trousers.
I, GEORGE G. WILLIAMS, of Charlevoix, Michigan, U.S.A., Inventor, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to improvements in means for suspending trousers and
more particularly to that class which are arranged to crease the lower parts of
the legs and suspend the inverted trousers clear of the floor; and the object is to
provide a simple, inexpensive and convenient, as well as durable device of this
kind.
This invention comprises two parallel strips of wood in each end of one of
which a metal plate is recessed and secured by screws or other means. Lugs
project upwardly from the plate, pass through perforations in the other strip,
and a metal plate recessed into and secured on the outer surface thereof. A disc
is eccentrically pivoted between the lugs and the metal plate, last mentioned,
and has a handle whereby it may be partially rotated to press the two bars
together when depressed. A projection on the plate, engaging a slot in the
disc, serves to cause the strips to separate when the lever handle is raised.
bent lever may take the place of the disc if desired.
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In an alternative form, the two strips are united by spring hinges which
tend to keep them together. In order that they may be separated with their
inner surfaces parallel, links or strips of metal are pivoted to the ends of the
wooden strips obliquely thereto and parallel to each other. Wire loops, pro-
jecting from the wooden strips, provide convenient means for separating them
when required.
The trouser legs are clipped between the wooden strips and the device is then
hung from a hook or the like; the weight of the suspended trousers serving to
keep them in good shape.
R. RAINSFORD,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement;-
My invention relates to means for hanging up trousers, and more particularly
to that class which are arranged to crease the lower ends of the legs and suspend
the inverted trousers clear of the floor; and the object is to provide a simple,
inexpensive, and convenient, as well as durable device of this kind.
To this end the invention consists in the construction combination, and
arrangements of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and
particularly pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings:
Figure 1 is a front view, in part, of my improved trousers hanger; and Fig. 2
is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an alternative form
of my improved trousers hanger as it appears in use Fig. 4 is a transverse
section.
My improved trousers-hanger comprises two parallel clamping bars 16 2.
Lugs 3 are recessed in the bar 2 and extend therethrough and also through
apertures 4 in the bar 1. A disc 5 is eccentrically mounted on a pin 6 in the
lugs 3 and normally rests upon a bearing plate 7 recessed into the bar 1. Pins 8
extend from the inner faces of the lugs 3 into concentric grooves 9 in the
opposite faces of the disc 5. A handle 10 is secured to the disc as shewn.
Trousers to be suspended have the extremities of the legs placed between
the bars 1 and 2, and the lever handle 10 being drawn down, causes the bars
to clamp the material between them, in the manner clearly shewn in Figs. 2
and 3. The hanger is then suspended from a hook inserted through the eye 11.
When the handle is raised the pins 8 engaging the grooves 9 will cause the
bars to separate. Although I have only shewn one of the clamping devices, yet
it will be understood that a device of the kind is provided at each end of the bars.
In the alternative form illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, 11 & 2 denote the parallel
bars or clamping jaws, connected at their upper edges by the spring hinges 14,
both hinges being similar in construction and formed with the prongs 15,
which are secured in the upper edges of the clamping jaws. so as to permit the
jaws to separate and approach each other as pressure is applied to or released
from the handles 17.
17 represents the looped wire handles, fixed at acute angles, to each other
in the upper parallel edges of the jaws.
The handles are pressed together to open the jaws while the lower ends of
the trousers are being properly adjusted in place between them. The jaws are
now brought together and by combined tension of the spring hinges 14 firmly
clamp and press the trousers-legs between them, so that they are creased and
pressed at the same time. The trousers, with the hanger attached, are now
reversed and suspended by one or the other of the looped handles 17 from a
suitable hook or peg, so that the entire weight of the trousers is sustained by
the hanger, and it will thus be seen that while they remain in this position the
device performs the combined office of a hanger, presser or creaser, and stretcher.
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) The hereindescribed improvements in means for hanging up trousers com-
prising the parallel jaws 1, 2, formed with contiguous plane faces, the clamping
devices consisting of lugs projecting from the lower jaw or bar through coincident
apertures in the upper bar, an eccentric pivotally mounted between the lugs and
having an operating handle, and pins projecting from the lugs into concentric
grooves in the eccentric, all substantially as and for the purposes herein before
set forth.
(2) The hereindescribed improvements in means for hanging up trousers com-
prising the parallel jaws 11 & 2, formed with contiguous parallel plane faces, the

page_text: spring hinges 14 connecting the upper edges of the outer ends of said jaws, and
the independent diverging looped handles secured to the upper edges of the
jaws, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 13th day of June 1899.