Improvements in Clasps for Securing Waistbands and other Articles of Dress.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clasps for Securing Waistbands and other Articles
of Dress.
I, LEWIS LLOYD PRICHARD, of Millbrook Cottage, Millbrook, St. Lawrence
Parish, Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
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My Invention has for its object to provide a clasp which can readily be applied
to waistbands or other articles of dress and as readily removed therefrom and
applied to other waistbands or articles of dress so that for instance various kinds
of or coloured waistbands can be readily adapted for use with any particular dress.
According to my Invention the clasps are made in two parts capable of engaging
together and each part is provided at its inner side and towards or at the outer
edge thereof with sharp pointed curved hooks with their points directed towards
the portions of the clasp which engage together. These hooks are situated parallel
or about parallel with the general body of the clasp and are of a length to give
sufficient hold upon the material of the band or article with which they are used.
The parts of the clasp may take any suitable form but preferably are respectively
a broad hook on the one part engaging with a long eye or slot on the other part.
The parts of the clasp may however be otherwise formed for instance each part
may be of hook form adapted to hook into or engage with each other when they
may be shaped like two hands with the fingers partly closed to form the engaging
parts to resemble when fastened Irands clasped together the sharp pointed curved
hooks by which the parts are secured to the respective ends of the waistband or
the like being in this case fixed to the inside of the wrist portions of the hands.
Holes may if desired be provided in the parts of the clasp, to be used in stitching
the said parts to the band or outside of dress when so required.
Dated this 27th day of Anril 1897
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clasps for Securing Waistbands and other Articles
of Dress.
I, LEWIS LLOYD PRICHARD, of Millbrook Cottage, Millbrook, St. Lawrence
Parish, Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object to provide a clasp which can be readily applied

page_text: to waistbands, or other articles of dress, and as readily removed therefrom
and applied to other waistbands, or articles of dress, so that, for instance, various
kinds of, or coloured, waistbands can be readily adapted for use with any particular
dress.
According to my Invention the clasps are made in two parts capable of engaging
together and each part is provided, at its inner side and towards, or at, the outer
edge thereof, with sharp pointed curved hooks with their points directed towards
These hooks are situated
the portions of the clasp which engages together.
parallel, or about parallel, with the general body of the clasp, and are of a length
to give sufficient hold upon the material of the band, or article, with which they 1
are used.
The clasp and the parts thereof may take any suitable form, for
instance they may be respectively, a broad hook on the one part engaging with. a
long eye, or slot, on the other part. The parts of the clasp may however be other-
wise formed; for instance, each part may be of hook form adapted to hook into,
or engage with, each other, when they may be shaped like two hands with the
fingers partly closed to form the engaging parts, so that, when the clasp is fastened,
it resembles two hands grasped together; the sharp pointed curved hooks by which
the respective ends of the waistband are secured to the parts of the clasp being
fixed to the parts of the clasp so as to project from the inside of the wrist portion
of the hands.
Holes may, if desired, be provided in the parts of the clasp to be used in
stitching the said parts to the band, or other article of dress, in case it be desired
to fix the parts more securely, or permanently, thereto.
On
In the accompanying Drawings I have illustrated clasps made in accordance
with the principle of my Invention. Figure 1 shews in elevation and Figure 2
shews in longitudinal section the two parts A and B of the clasp attached to the
two ends of the the band C, the parts of the clasp being shewn engaged together in
these two figures. Figure 3 shews in perspective the two parts of the clasp
separated. The parts of the clasp are shewn as being shaped like hands.
each part of the clasp near the inner end are sharp pointed hooks d projecting at
the inner side towards the outer ends of the respective parts of the clasp. These
are readily passed through the substance of the band, or the like, the pull there-
upon, when the parts of the clasp are joined, tending to hold the band, or the like,
securely. Formed out of the substance of, or otherwise secured to, one part of the
clasp is a loop-shaped piece of wire, or other form of metal, a, and secured to, or
formed out of the substance of, the other part of the clasp, is a bent, or hook, piece
of wire, or other form of metal b, which can be engaged with the piece a to secure
the two parts of the clasp, and consequently the two ends of the band, or the like,
together. In Figures 2 and 3 the parts a and b are shewn as being constituted
respectively by a loop-shaped piece of metal, and a piece of metal wire bent into
book form, these being respectively secured to the parts A and B of the clasp
by Figure 4 is a view corresponding to Figure 3 shewing the engaging parts of
the portions of the clasp made by bending back in reverse directions the ends of
each of the parts of the clasp constituted by the fingers of the hands which the
clasp is made to represent, so that, when the clasp is fastened, it represents clasped.
hands.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
declare that what
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
I claim is:-
1. A clasp for securing waistbands, or other articles of dress, the said clasp
consisting of parts provided with means for engaging them together and with
sharp pointed hooks which are turned towards the outer ends of the said parts of
the clasp for readily securing the said parts to, and enabling them to be as readily
removed from, the band, or the like, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A clasp for securing waistbands, or other articles of dress, the said clasp
consisting of parts provided with means for readily attaching them to, and

page_text: removing them from, the band, or the like, and having, at their inner sides,
reversely hook-shaped, or hook, or loop, and eye-shaped, attachments; substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and of the accompanying
Drawings.
3. A clasp for securing waistbands, or other articles of dress, the said clasp con-
sisting of parts shaped like hands, with the fingers bent in reverse directions so
that they can be engaged together to represent clasped hands, each part being
provided with means by which it can be readily attached to, and removed from,
the waistband, or other article of dress; substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in Figure 4 of the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this 13th day of October 1897.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.