A Combined Belt and Skirt Supporter.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Belt and Skirt Supporter.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co. Patent
Agents of 18 Buckingham Street Strand W.C. London, Civil Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by
Freund Brothers, of New York, United States of America to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a combined belt and skirt supporter and has for its
object to combine in a single article means for both supporting a ladies skirt
securely and smoothly about the waist of the wearer and at the same time prevent
the belt from working up so as to expose the top of the skirt, the supporter being
laterally adjustable upon the belt, the means for fastening the device to the skirt
being concealed from view, and the whole forming a highly ornamental and useful
attachment to the belt.
The invention embraces a belt slide consisting of an oblong slotted plate having
a longitudinal central bar that extends across the slotted portion of said plate and
projects slightly above the face of the same. Projecting in opposite directions
from the lower end of the belt slide, and at right angle thereto, is a safety pin
consisting of a bar which at one end is bent up rear-wardly at a right angle, and
perforated to form a bearing for the fastening pin, and at its other end is bent
up rear-wardly and laterally inwards and provided with turned lips to form a
catch adapted to receive and embrace the point of the pin after the manner
usual in safety pins: the fixed end of the pin is bent back parallel with the body
of the pin, and is inserted through the peforation of the upturned end of the bar
and soldered or otherwise firmly fastened to the rear side of said bar. The belt
slide and bar of the safety pin are formed integrally and are struck up from a
blank formed in a single piece, the pin being afterwards attached thereto in the
manner described.
Dated this 11th day of March 1895.
H. J. HADDAN.
1, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan and Co., Patent
Agents of 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by the Firm of
Freund Brothers of 415 Broadway, New York, in the United States of America
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a combined belt and skirt supporter, and has for its object
to combine in a single article means for both supporting a ladies skirt securely and
smoothly about the waist of the wearer and at the same time prevent the belt from
working up so as to expose the top of the skirt, the supporter being laterally
adjustable upon the belt, the means for fastening the device to the skirt being

page_text: concealed from view, and the whole forming a highly ornamental and useful
attachment to the belt.
To these ends my invention consists in the combined belt and skirt supporter
hereinafter fully described and afterwards definitely pointed out in the claim
following the description due reference being had to the accompanying drawings
forming a part of this Specification wherein ;-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a belt showing my improved device placed
in position thereon.
Figure 2 is a horizontal section on the line x, x, Fig. 1, and
Figure 3 is a rear perspective view of my improved device attached.
Referring to the drawings the letter B indicates a belt slide consisting of an
oblong slotted plate having a longitudinal central bar b that extends across the
slotted portion of said plate and projects slightly below the face of the same as
shown. Projecting in opposite directions from the lower end of the belt slide B,
and at right angles thereto, is a safety pin A consisting of a bar C which at one
end is bent up rearwardly at a right angle, as at e, and perforated, to form a bearing
for the fastening pin A¹, and at its other end is bent up rearwardly and laterally
inwards and provided with turned lips c¹ to form a catch adapted to receive and
embrace the point of the pin after the manner usual in safety pins. The fixed end
of the pin A is bent back parallel with the body of the pin, as most clearly shown
in Fig. 3 of the drawing, and is inserted through the perforation of the upturned
end c of the bar C and soldered or otherwise firmly fastened to the rear side of
said bar. The belt slide B and bar C of the safety pin are formed integrally and
are struck up from a blank formed in a single piece, the pin A' being afterwards
attached thereto in the manner described.
In practice the device is applied to the belt by slipping the latter between the
body of the belt guide B and the bar b and sliding the belt slide to the centre of
the belt. In applying it to the person the safety pin A is fastened to the top of
the skirt and the belt buckelled about the waist of the person, the loose engage-
ment of the belt slide with the belt permitting it to be adjusted laterally upon the
latter to the desired position to cause the skirt to fall gracefully and symmetrically
about the person.
The safety pin being arranged at a right angle to the belt slide
provides an extended bearing for the skirt, effectually preventing the latter from
being torn or stretched; it also prevents the folds of the skirt from being drawn
up into a bunch or knot, as they would be if they were supported from the end of
the pin or by a hook, but instead thereof permits the folds to be draped naturally
and smoothly in the most effective manner. The pin operates to hold up the skirt
snugly beneath the belt in such manner that the skirt can by no possibility slip
down and expose the waist, the belt at the same time is prevented from slipping or
working up. Moreover, the belt is engaged at both the top and bottom in such
manner that it can have no movement in either an upward or downward direction
and is engaged also across its entire width, thereby preventing the belt being
wrinkled by the weight of the skirt or through the movements of the body, or
from other causes. By forming the belt slide and the bar C integrally, the slide
and safety pin are held rigid with respect to cach other, thereby holding the belt
and clothing fixed in the position in which they are arranged and draped and
preventing any movement of the one with respect to the other which would have a
tendency to cause the top of the skirt to work loose from beneath the belt.
I am aware that heretofore a safety pin has been flexibly connected to a belt
slide to form a support for a garment, and that a safety pin has in like manner been
secured to a hook adapted to engage the waist-band to form a support for drawers,
and I therefore do not claim such construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
As a new article of manufacture
a
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page_text: a belt slide adapted to be adjustably supported upon a belt and engaging the top
and bottom and both sides of the latter, and a safety pin formed rigid with said
belt slide and projecting in opposite directions at right angles thereto.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.