Improvements in fastenings for wearing apparel, bandages and the like / [Gabriel Schröder].

  • Schröder, Gabriel.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Improvements in fastenings for wearing apparel, bandages and the like / [Gabriel Schröder]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 16,989 A.D. 1896 Date of Application, 31st July, 1896—Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Fastenings for Wearing- Apparel, Bandages, and the like. We, Gabriel Schroder Modeller, of 17 Winkelsfelder Strasse and Simon Cohen, Merchant of 17 Schadowstrasse, both of Diisseldorf in the German Empire, 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 5 following statement:— The ordinary devices for fastening garments, boots, gloves and the like have the great disadvantage of requiring a considerable amount of time in their use. The object of this invention is to remedy this inconvenience while securing the advan¬ tage of greater simplicity and more certain action compared with other similar 10 fastenings. The improved fastening consists essentially of a number of rigid or elastic clamps fixed upon a band, cord, chain or their equivalent, which with their hook shaped ends embrace or grip headings or ledges formed or arranged at the edges of the opening to be closed. The said clamps are advantageously so attached to the 15 band, cord chain or the like that they can be brought into any position thereon independently of each other, whereby the invention is rendered specially applicable for bandages for orthopaedic and surgical purposes, as at particularly painful places, such as boils or swellings, where a one-sided pressure is to be avoided, the clamps can be so shifted that they do not touch these places. 20 On the drawing appended hereunto the subject of this invention is represented in several modified forms of execution. Figs. 1 and 2, show one form of the improved fastening with opened and closed edges of the article to be fastened, Fig. 3, a section of the same along line x x of Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale and 25 Fig. 4, a perspective view of the fastening ; Fig. 5, represents a special form of the clamp in perspective view. Fig. 6, represents the fastening with the clamps arranged so that they can be shifted on the band or its equivalent carrying the same. Figs. 7, and Figs. 8 and 9, show two modified arrangements of the improved 30 fastening. As seen from Fig. 3, the ends of the clamp a are formed as hooks a1 which embrace or grip the headings or ledges b on the edges to be fastened together. In the fastening represented by Figs. 1, 2 and 4, these clamps a are fixed upon a chain c or its equivalent at certain distances from each other. At the point where 35 the closing of the opening commences one end of the chain c or its equivalent is attached to the article. In the opened position the clamps as shewn by Fig. 1, are pushed together, so that the edges below them can be opened out. When the free end d of the fastening is pulled, the clamps a slide along the headings or ledges and draw the edges together, the intermediate lengths of chain being successively 40 stretched thereby as shewn by Fig. 2. To unfasten the article the clamp next to the free end d of the chain c is pushed in the opposite direction and takes the other clamps successively along and pushes them together into the positions Bhown by Fig. 1, whereby the edges of the opening are unfastened. The clamps a are preferably provided with tightening springs / on their inside, 45 as shewn by Fig. 5, which may be fixed to any convenient part on the underside of the clamps and effect a secure gripping and pressing of the edges of the \ Price 8cL'l