Improvements in or relating to Spreading Devices for Maintaining Neck Bands, Dress Collars, Cuffs or other Pieces of Flexible Material in an Extended State.

摘要

6646. Lilley, F. M. March 29. Collars; cuffs stays or stiffeners; neckbands.- Relates to a device for keeping in a spread state bands or strips of fabric likely to crumple. A pointed wire C is passed through one limb of a tubular frame A and is bent over at both ends, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the pointed ends are sheathed in thehollow tube A'. In a modification, Fig. 2, two U-shaped wires C are united in the tube by a spring E. When placing the spreader in position, the pointed ends of the wire are sprung out of engagement with their sockets, passed through the material, and then sprung back. The apparatus may have three or more tubes, or the wires C may be made hollow so as to slide over a solid wire frame.