Stay Snapped Suspenders1

Abstract

This redesigned suspender clasp alleviates the problem of suspender clasps coming unfastened when the wearer slides across a surface such as a vehicle seat by extending the middle toothed plate upward beyond the top (lever) plate.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

Provisional Application number U.S. 61/690,179 as filed Jun. 21, 2012 with title Suspender buckle. Also related to Provisional Application number U.S. 61/744,586 as filed Oct. 01, 2012 with title Unknown

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The Stay Snapped Suspender 1 is an invention which addresses suspender clasps. The USPT office classification is Class DO2 subclass 626. Suspenders often come loose when the wearer sits down especially in a vehicle. Many people think this is caused by the cloth pulling out from the suspender clasp. As witness to this the Holdup Suspender Company makes a clasp that has a spear that penetrates the cloth and Mars Suspender Company has a clasp that grips the cloth very hard. This is not what happens. Ask wearers how often they find the clasp closed when the suspenders have come loose. The clasp is nearly always open. I have a set of suspenders that I purchased from the Walmart. If I close the clasp on even a thin piece of cloth like a handkerchief it is very hard to pull loose by hand.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Commonly used suspenders are frequently made with three plates hinged together. The bottom and middle plates are toothed. The top plate serves as a lever to force the middle toothed plate toward the bottom plate. What happens when suspenders become loose when a wearer is moving across a surface such as a vehicle seat or sliding across a couch is that the free end of the top lever-plate is lifted by friction between the plate and the seat back or couch. This invention redesigns the clasp by forming a side or sides of the middle plate turned upward and extending above the top plate on one or both sides, when the clasp is closed. This holds the top plate away from the surface the wearer is sliding across so as to prevent the surface from contacting the top plate and opening the clasp.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

FIG. 1A Side view of standard suspender

FIG. 1B Front view of Stay Snapped Suspender 1

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Commonly used suspenders are frequently made with three plates hinged together [see FIG. 1A]. The bottom and middle plates are toothed. The top plate serves as a lever to force the middle toothed plate toward the bottom plate. What happens when suspenders become loosen when a wearer is moving across a surface such as a vehicle seat or sliding across a couch is that the free end of the top (lever) plate is lifted by friction between the plate and the seat back or couch. This invention redesigns the clasp by forming a side or sides of the middle plate turned upward and extending above the top plate on one or both sides, when the clasp is closed [see FIG. 1B]. This holds the top plate away from the surface the wearer is sliding across so as to prevent the surface from contacting the top plate and opening the clasp.

Claims

1. A commonly used suspenders clasp, consisting of three plates hinged together, two of which are toothed, and the third of which (called the top plate) acts as a lever to push the middle, toothed plate onto the bottom toothed plate is altered by having the middle plate extended on one or both sides and turned upward so as to reach above the top plate. The turned upward portions are extended beyond the end of the top plate and curved slightly around the free corners of the top plate. This design results in the suspender clasps staying closed when the wearer slides across a surface.