IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS OR APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING OR HOLDING DRESSES OR OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Thomas Weaver, of Brighton, in the County of Sussex,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS OR APPARATUS FOR
SUSPENDING OR HOLDING DRESSES OR OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 13th August 1878, and dated the 16th February 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Thomas Weaver at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th February 1878.
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JOHN THOMAS WEAVER, of Brighton, in the County of Sussex. IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENERS OR APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING OR HOLDING DRESSES OR OTHER
ARTICLES."
My Invention is specially applicable to apparatus for holding up ladies' dresses,
and for preventing them trailing on the ground, but it is also applicable for other
holding or suspending purposes, such as for holding curtains.
A convenient way of carrying the Invention into effect is as follows:-There are
provided two levers crossing one another, one jointed to a plate, and the other
having its fulcrum in or on the first, to which it is jointed by piu, and works at
its end in a quadrant shaped guide in or on plate, the aperture being regulated
in length according to the distance the jaw connected to the long end of the levers
may be required to open. The long arms of the two levers terminate in these jaws,
which may be of any desired shape, one may be provided with a pad of india-rubber,
the other with a roughened surface. To hold up a dress, for example, with this
apparatus, press to one side the long ends of the levers, one arm will travel down
the quadrant guide, and the jaws open or come apart, put in the dress, press the
jaws in the contrary direction, and the fastening is secure, the weight keeping it
fast until the jaws are pushed in the contrary direction, when the dress by its own
weight falls out.
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page_text: A spring may be used if desired to keep the stud of the lever up in the quadrant
shaped aperture. The short ends of the levers may be hidden behind an ornamental
plate of any suitable form or device, to which a ring or other appliance is connected
for attaching the apparatus to body of wearer, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Thomas Weaver in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
August 1878.
JOHN THOMAS WEAVER, of Brighton, in the County of Sussex.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENERS OR APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING OR HOLDING DRESSES OR OTHER
ARTICLES."
My Invention is specially applicable to apparatus for holding up ladies' dresses,
and for preventing them trailing on the ground, but it is also applicable for other
holding or suspending purposes, such as for holding curtains.
A convenient way of carrying the Invention into effect is as follows:-
-There are
provided two levers crossing one another, one jointed to a plate, and the other
having its fulcrum in or on the first, to which it is jointed by pin, and works at its
end in a quadrant shaped guide in or on plate, the aperture being regulated in
length according to the distance the jaw connected to the long end of the levers
may be required to open. The long arms of the two levers terminate in these jaws,
which may be of any desired shape, one may be provided with a pad of india-rubber,
the other with a roughened surface.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate the manner in which I carry this my
Invention into effect.
Figure 1 is a front view of the appliance, fastener, or apparatus; Figure 2 is a
view of the back portion of the same open; and Figure 3 is a view of the same
.closed.
Similar letters of reference refer to like parts in the three Figures.
a and b are the two crossing levers; c, the plate to which the lever a is jointed;
d is the fulcrum of the lever b; e, quadrant shaped guide in plate c; f, f, are the
long arms of the levers, the ends of which grip the dress or other article to be
suspended. To hold up a dress, for example, with this apparatus, press to one side
the long ends of the levers, the arm b will travel down the quadrant guide e, and
the jaws open or come apart, as shewn at Figure 2, put in the dress, press the jaws
a and b in the contrary direction, and the fastening is secure, as shewn at Figure 3,
the weight keeping it fast until the jaws are pushed in the contrary direction, when
the dress by its own weight falls out.
A spring may be used if desired to keep the stud of the lever up in the quadrant
shaped aperture. The short ends of the levers may be hidden behind an ornamental
plate of any suitable form or device, to which a ring or other appliance is connected
for attaching the apparatus to body of wearer, or otherwise. g shews such an
ornamental plate, and h the ring.

page_text: Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the construction and employment
of fasteners or apparatus for suspending or holding dresses or other articles consisting
of two levers, one of which is free to travel in a groove or guide formed in the plate,
substantially in the manner and for purposes herein-before described, and illus-
trated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Thomas Weaver, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 14th day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
JOHN THOMAS WEAVER
(LS)