US1560415A - Stocking form - Google Patents

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Nov. 3, 1925,. 1,560,415

C. E. DENNISON STOCKING FORM Filed April. 6, 1923 2 Sheets-Shae: 2

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Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. DENNISON, 0F IHILADELI'HIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PROCTOR & SCHWARTZ, INC., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

STOCKING FORM.

Application filed April 6, 1923. Serial No. 630,293.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. DENNI- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Stocking Forms, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in forms on which stockings and like articles are dried.

The object of my invention is to hold the open end of a stocking in position on the form during the drying process and to prevent the rolling of the edge of the stocking when it is on the form.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of a stocking form with a stocking thereon, illustrating my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the lower portion of the form;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 33, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a sectional View on the line 44E,

, Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is aperspective view of the lower end of my improved form;

Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view of one of the perforated sliding bars; and

Figs. 7 and 8 are detached perspective views of two of the plates.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a stocking form made of metal. At the lower end of the form are notches 2 to receive the means for clamping the forms to a support, which may be movable or stationary, depending upon the type of drier used. The form has two longitudinal slots 3 at each side near the lower end, as shown in Fig. 5, and located in each slot is a perforated bar 4, which is attached to upper and lower plates 5, 6, by countersunk screws 7 and 8, respectively. The plates are located on each side of the form, as shown in Figs. 2 and 8.

The plates and bars form a frame 10, which is capable of sliding longitudinally on the stocking form.

9 designates pieces of fabric, such as cotton duck, which forms the friction means. The fabric is secured to the bars 4 of the frame by means of stitches 11. The stitches pass through the fabric and through perforations in the bars 4:, as shown in Fig. 4:. The upper edges of the pieces of fabric extend under the plate 5 and the lower edges of the fabric extend under the plate 6. When a stocking is placed on a form, the frame 10 carrying the pieces of fabric is in a raised position, as shown in Fig. 2, and is drawn down after the open end of the stocking is in position on the fabric pieces 9 on each side of the form.

The edge of a stocking at the open end, has a tendency to roll under the body of the stocking, but, as the frame is drawn down, the edge is unrolled, and the end of the stocking is held fric-tionally during the drying operation.

When a stocking is dried, the form passes a cam-shaped device, which enters the notch 12 in the lower end of the form and pushes the frame into the raised position. This action releases the open end of the stocking so that the stocking can be readily removed from the form, and leaves the form raised to receive another stocking to be dried.

WVhile fabric has been shown as the friction means, other means may be used without departing from the essential features of the invention.

I claim:

1. The combination in a stocking form of a body portion having longitudinal slots therein; and a sliding frame extending through the slots of the body portion and on each side of said body portion, said frame having a broad friction surface on each side. arranged to engage a stocking at its open end.,

2. The combination in a stocking form of a body portion having longitudinal slots therein at-a point where the open end of the stocking is located; and a frame arranged to slide on the stocking form, said frame consisting of side bars located in the slots of the body portion and upper and lower plates secured to the bars, and friction material secured to the frame arranged to engage a stocking at the open end.

3. The combination in a stocking from, of a body portion having longitudinal slots therein; a perforated bar mounted in each slot; upper and loWer plates attached to the bars; and friction materials secured to the bars.

4. The combinationin av stocking form, of

5 a body portion having longitudinal slots therein; a perforated bar mounted in each slot; upper and lower plates located in each l side of the body portion and secured to the bars; and a fabric piece on each side of the body portion between the plates and secured 10 to the bars by stitches passing through the perforations in the bars.

CHARLES E. DENNISON

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