IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTE-ROBES OR DRESS SUSPENDERS, AND ALBO IN APPARATUS FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1861

page_text: Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTE-ROBES OR DRESS SUSPENDERS, AND
ALBO IN APPARATUS FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 4th April 1862, and dated the 14th October 1861.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Benjamin Taylor and Charles
Edkins at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition
and Declaration, on the 14th October 1861, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
We, BENJAMIN TAYLOR, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, and
CHARLES EDKINS, of the same Place, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of our said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTE-ROBES OR DRESS SUS-
PENDERS, AND ALSO IN APPARATUS FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS, DRAPERIES,
AND OTHER ARTICLES," and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement.
reference being made to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters
and figures marked thereon (that is to say);-
Our Invention consists, firstly, in improvements in porte-robes or dress sus-
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page_text: penders, by making such dress suspenders a part of, or combined with a waist
belt of the ordinary description worn by ladies employing hooks or dress clips
suspended by a cord or chain running through eyelet holes in the waist belt,
so that the cord upon which the hooks or dress clips are hung is easily adjust-
able to a greater or less length to suit the convenience of the wearer, as will
be seen in the accompanying Drawing, in which a waist belt (a), having a
cord with three hooks or dress clips suspended, is shewn.
It will be evident that a greater or less number than three may be employed
as advantageously. Figure (2) represents a small chain and spring hook,
which may be attached to the eyelet holes without a cord. The waist belt (a)
which may be formed of any suitable material, is perforated with the eyelet
holes (b, b.) The cord (c) secured at both ends by knots (d), is threaded
through the eyelet holes (b, b,) in loops (e, e, e.) to which any description
of hook or dress clip may be attached. The looped cord (c) also passes through
the beads or runners (,,,) thus keeping together the two parts of the
loop at the head of the hook. If desired, either of the hooks or dress clips
can hang lower than the others, and clip or suspend a lower portion of the
dress, or suspend one portion of the dress higher than another.
Secondly, our Invention consists of improvements adapted for the suspension
of curtains and draperies used with French bedsteads, a tubular ring of metal
being substituted for the belt already described; this ring is to be screwed in
the manner usual with such draperies into the ceiling or other joists, the cord
or chain passing in the interior of the tubular ring, and the loops for the
hooks through perforations in the ring, from these hooks the curtains are to
hang, or the chain and hook seen in Figure (2) may be employed if desired.
Our invention is also applicable to the suspension of articles required to be
displayed in shops and shop windows, and in other like places. Also to the
suspension of pictures upon walls, and for this purpose a perforated metal rod
or tube is to be employed for the cord or chain to pass through, using if
necessary small friction pulleys upon the rod or tube. It is also desirable
that a small roller should be attached to each eye upon the picture frame to
lessen the friction upon the cord. To prevent accidents arising from the cord
breaking, knots can be made upon the cord in such positions at the back of
the rod or in the tube, that should the cord break in any part, the knots check
the cord from running through and precipitating the pictures.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we claim, without limiting ourselves to
these precise details, the improvements in porte-robes or dress suspenders, by

page_text: combining the waist belt with the suspender as herein shewn, and also in
apparatus for the suspension of curtains, draperies, and other articles as herein
more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whercof, we, the said Benjamin Taylor and Charles Edkins,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.