US674559A - Duplex stocking-supporter. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. HUDSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE I. B. KLEINERT RUBBER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DUPLEX STOCKlNG-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,559, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed November 24, 1899. Serial No. 738,179. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ing parts or devices are connected to it, if de- Be it known that 1, JAMES A. HUDSON, a sired, be covered with any suitable fabric. citizen of the United States, and a resident of An examination of the accompanying draw- New York, in the county of New York and ings and following description ofthe same will State of New York, have invented certain new fully reveal the nature and construction of and useful Improvementsin Duplex Stockingthis invention.

Supporters, of which the following is a speci- Figure 1 shows my improved connection defication. vice for duplex stocking-supporters applied This invention relates to garment-supportto a corset. Fig. 2 is a-detached perspective IO ers; and it consists of a supporting connecview of the metal garment-supporting contion device adapted for use in a duplex stocknection device. Fig. 3 illustrates the maning-supporter and constructed for attachment nor in which the device may be attached to to the clasp of a corset. the loop or eye of acorset-clasp after the parts The garment-supporting connection device of the clasp are hooked together. Fig. 4 is a 15 shown in this application is provided at its front view of the device, showing a form of upper part with a book so formed as to be the same when made of sheet metal; and Fig. applied to, by hooking into, the loop or eye 5 is a side view of Fig. 2, showing also the of a corset-clasp either before said loop or loop or eye of a corset-clasp in section. eye is placed over its cooperating stud or af- In Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5 the connection device 20 ter the corset has been applied to the person. or suspension-piece a is shown formed of wire, The hook of the device is provided with an its upper part being doubled and bent into upwardlyextending tongue or limb arranged hook form I), the downwardly projecting to lie behind the loop or eye in such manner tongue or limb c of which performs the holdas to prevent the hook becoming disengaged ing function of ordinary hooks, and the up- 25 from the loop or eye when the garment-supwardly projecting extension or retention porter is in normal operative position, the tongue or limb d is formed in line with the whole being so formed as to provide for its part c and so lies back of the loop or eye of ready application to and detachment from the the clasp of the corset h, when the device is corset. in position thereon, that its upper end bears 30 The supporting connection device or susagainst theback side of the loop, and so prepension-piece, including the hook at its upvents accidental displacement of the hook. per end, is made of a single piece of material, The parts are so proportioned that should the with its lower part of sufficient width to overdevice by the rubbing of the clothes thereon lap the lower ends of the two sides of the coror otherwise be raised up the retention-tongue 35 set-fastener, thus acting thereon to hold this d will slide up against the back of the loopf part of the corset down and against the body to the limit of such movement and the point of the wearer when the device is in operative or end of the limb a will still be behind the position, and so also acts as a lock to prevent loop. To remove the hook I) from the loopf the accidental unclasping of the corset-clasp. with the corset-clasp closed, it is necessary to 0 This suspension-piece thus formed, while it swing the connecting device a into an angumay be made light and strong, is a rigid nonlar position, as shown at Fig. 3, so that the yielding frame that will maintain its shape end of the limb 0 maybe moved out of the and always lie snugly against the corset. Its elongated opening of the loopf alongside of lower part isformed to receive the upper ends the stud g of the corset-clasp. This also illus- 45 of the elastics or tapes of a pair of stockingtrates how the device may be applied in opsupporters which are permanently secured erative position after the corset is fastened on thereto. 7 the person, It will of course be readily un- This garment-supporting connection device derstood that this retention-hook device can may be made of wire or sheet metal suitably readily be caughtin the loop f before the clasp 50 formed into shape and may after the attendis closed by passing it horizontally through the loop and that when in the loop it in no wise interferes with the loop being .placed over the stud g. p v

The sides of the piece of wire a are bent outwardlyand downwardly and then inwardly to form the bars 6 e for the attachment thereto of the Wehhingsjj of the stocking-support ers, the ends of the wires'heing then brought together, forming a central brace, and bent or folded around the sides, thus constituting a light, strong, and rigidframe, with the suspension-hook at its upper central part. The suspension-hook by its connection with the, loop f of the corset-clasp provides one swinging point of suspension for the rigid frame, by which it accommodates itself to all move-' ments of the wearerand equalizes the strains on the two stocking-supporters.

In making the rigid-frame suspension-piece of sheet metal it may partake of the form shown at Fig. 4, having a neck at its upper central partshaped and bent to form the downwardly-projecting part Z of the hook and the with any other form of book or catch than that shown at its upper part for attachment toi thefastener of a corset, and comprising in; one piece of metal such fastening hook or; catch; and the bars or loops at its lower edge: for the attachment thereto of the webbings or hands of stockings or other garment-sup-g porters result in a rigid frame and produce a; strong and unyielding connection between in Fig. 1 of the drawings, over and pressing against the lower parts of the two sides of the corset-fastener.

A-covering of fabric or other suitable material, as shown at t', maybe applied tothi's supporting connection device in whatever form it may be made.

I claim as my invention- 1. In astocking-snpporter, in combination, a rigid frame provided at its upper part with a hook, which comprises a downwardly-projecting limb and an upward extension thereof, said hook being adapted to engage with the loop of a corset-fastener, the upward extension lying behind "the loop to prevent the accidental disengagement of the hook therefrom; and a pair of stocking-supporters connected to the rigid frame.

2. A stocking-supporter,comprising a front member or part adapted to lie against the lower part of the front of thecorset, a pair of stocking-supporters depending by their elastics or tapes from-the bottom or lower part of said member, anda hook extending upwardly and rearwardly from the central upper part of the'front memberor part, consisting of a downwardly-projecting limb and an'upward extension, said hook being adapted to engage with the loop of a corset-fastener, the upward extension lying behind the upper part of the loop to prevent the accidental disengagement of the hook from the loop. Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 11th day of November, A. D. 1899.

JAMES A. HUDSON. Witnesses:

JAs. L. BARGER, WILLIAM J. BYRNE.

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