US2857645A - Suspender - Google Patents

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OC- 28, 1958 H. voGELsANG 2,857,645

SUSPENDER Filed Deo. 15, 1955 /NVENToR HEDWI G VoaELsnNer SUSPENDER Hedwig Vogelsang, Wilhelmshaven, Germany Application December 15, 1955, Serial No. 553,358

Claims priority, application Germany, .annary 4, 1955 3 Claims.. (Cl. 24-245) This relates to stocking suspenders of the kind wherein a button having the fabric ofthe stocking over it is pushed through a slot in a plate or flexible material to which plate the button is coupled by a flexible connector.

In one known construction, the fabric is gripped by the edges of the slot so that, when the pull on the stocking fabric relaxes, the button does not tend to shift and thereby release the material. On the other hand, if there is very considerable longitudinal pull on the fabric, or even a little pull laterally, the slot tends to open readily and thereby allow the button to disengage and release the stocking.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved construction whereby the slot, whilst readily permitting forcing through of the fabric covered button, will not open under any longitudinal or lateral pull likely to be exerted on the stocking fabric.

An embodiment of a stocking suspender is illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

In this drawing:

Figure l shows a plan view of the suspender and Figure 2 shows a section along the line 2-2 in Figure 1.

As is illustrated in the drawing, the suspender consists of a plate 1 of slightly resilient but substantially unstretchable material, the edge of which is reinforced by a rim 8, and wherein between the plate 1 and the rim S there is disposed a loop 9 of, for example, steel wire. The plate has a longitudinal slot 4 with bendable edges and serving for the reception of a retaining button 3 suspended from a string 2 and coated with a layer 3a of foam rubber. The slot 4 terminates at one end in a circular aperture 5 to receive the string, and at the other end in two short oblique cuts 6a, 6b. For the reception of a suspender strap, the plate 1 has at one end a recess 7 enclosed by the edge reinforcements 8, 9 and semi-circular in shape.

I claim:

l. A stocking suspender comprising a plate of resiliently deformable material, a peripheral reinforcing bead about part of said plate, said plate being wider at one end than at the other and having its narrower end rounded and having a semi-circular aperture defined by the bead and the wider end of the plate adapted to receive a suspender strap, said plate having a round hole at the center of curvature of its narrower end and a central longitudinal slit commencing at said hole and passing towards the wider end and terminating short of the strap aperture, said plate having two shorter divergent slits extending away from the end of the central longitudinal slit obliquely towards the strap aperture and terminating short of said aperture, a flexible connector secured at one end United States Patent lCC to the plate, and a button secured at the other end of the flexible connector, said button being circular and having a radius slightly less than the radius of the narrower end of the plate within the reinforcing bead, and the diameter of the button being approximately equal to the length of the central longitudinal slit.

2. A stocking suspender comprising a plate of resiliently deformable material, a peripheral reinforcing bead about part of said plate, said plate being wider at one end than at the other and having its narrowerend rounded and a semi-circular aperture being defined by the bead and the wider end of the plate to receive a suspender strap, said plate having a round hole at the centre of curvature of its narrower end and a central longitudinal slit commencing at said hole and passing towards the wider end and terminating short of the strap aperture, said plate having two shorter divergent slits extending away from the end of the central longitudinal slit obliquely towards the strap aperture and terminating short of said aperture, a flexible connector secured at one end to the plate, and a button secured at the other end of the exible connector, said button being circular and of a radius slightly less than the radius of the narrower end of the plate within the reinforcing bead, and the diameter of the button being approximately equal to the length of the central longitudinal slit, and a covering of spongy material on the button.

3. A stocking suspender comprising a plate of resiliently deformable material, a peripheral bead about part of said plate, a loop of spring metal wire enclosed in said bead to serve as a reinforcement, said plate being wider at one end than at the other and having its narrower end rounded and a semi-circular aperture being defined by the bead and the wider end of the plate to receive a suspender strap, said plate having a round hole at the centre of curvature of its narrower end and a central longitudinal slit commencing at said hole and passing towards the wider end and terminating short of the strap aperture, said plate having two shorter divergent slits extending away from the end of the central longitudinal slit obliquely towards the strap aperture and terminating short of said aperture, a flexible connector secured at one end to the plate, and a button secured at the other end of the flexible connector, said button being circular and of a radius slightly less than the radius of the narrower end of the plate within the reinforcing bead, and the diameter of the button being approximately equal to the length of the central longitudinal slit.

References Cited in the le of this patent Uh iTED STATES PATENTS 151,914 Rice lune 9, 1874 183,829 Wattles Oct. 31, 1876 552,470 Gorton Dec. 31, 1895 682,543 Gorton Sept. 10, 1901 696,626 Cohen Apr. 1, 1902 696,912 Ross Apr. 1, 1902 875,142 Binney Dec. 31, 1907 977,564 Smith Dec. 6, 1910 1,237,232 Wing Aug. 14, 1917 1,340,985 Sanders May 25, 1920 1,836,770 Pugniet Dec. 15, 1931 2,093,231 Broadwell Sept. 14, 1937r FOREIGN PATENTS 122,101 Great Britain Jan. 16, 1919

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