Improved Means for Attaching Articles of Wearing Apparel to Waist-belts.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1899-Accepted, 23rd Sept,, 1899
Improved Means for Attaching Articles of Wearing Apparel to
Waist-belts.
I, FLORENCE EMILY FABIAN, of 35, Poplar Grove, Shepherd's Bush Road,.
London, W., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved means for attaching articles of wearing
apparel to waist-belts, and consists in providing a simple and inexpensive device
to be sewn or otherwise secured to a waist-belt, for the purpose of maintaining
blouses, shirts and similar articles of wearing apparel in the desired position, and
preventing them working up outside the belt, or otherwise becoming disarranged,
while at the same time means are provided for attaching a skirt to the waist-belt
in such a manner as to cause it to set well and maintain the correct position.
In accordance with this my invention I provide a rectangular or other suitably
shaped metal or other plate on the inner side of which are formed a number of
semi-circular or other projecting sockets or eyes, preferably open at the top
and bottom, for the purpose of receiving suspending-hooks, fixed to the skirt, a
corresponding number of similar sockets or eyes being formed in the said plate
immediately above the sockets aforesaid, for the purpose of allowing inverted
hooks attached to the lower part of a blouse or the like, to be inserted in the
under opening of such sockets or eyes, for the purpose of holding down such
blouse or like and retaining it in the correct position.
The plate aforesaid, (which is preferably given a somewhat curved form) may
conveniently be formed by stamping it out of a metal blank, the said sockets or
eyes being produced by forming a number of pairs of horizontal and parallel
slits, the strip of metal between each pair of slits being bent inwardly. By this
means recesses are provided for the hooks to lie in and be flush or approximately
so, with the plate.
Perforations are provided in the plate for the purpose of allowing the latter
to bo sewn or otherwise secured to the inner side of the belt.
Dated this 18th day of May 1899.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improved means for attaching articles of wearing-
apparel to waist-belts, and consists in providing a simple and inexpensive device
to be sewn or otherwise secured to a waist-belt, for the purpose of maintaining
blouses, shirts and similar articles of wearing apparel in the desired position, and
preventing them working up outside the belt, or otherwise becoming disarranged,
while at the same time, means are provided for attaching a skirt to the waist-belt
in such a manner as to cause it to set well and maintain the correct position.
In accordance with this my invention I provide a rectangular or other suitably
shaped metal or other plate on the inner side of which are formed a number of
semi-circular or other projecting sockets or eyes, preferably open at the top
and bottom, for the purpose of receiving suspending-hooks, fixed to the skirt, a
corresponding number of similar sockets or eyes being formed in the said plate
immediately above the sockets aforesaid, for the purpose of allowing inverted
hooks attached to the lower part of a blouse or the like, to be inserted in the
under opening of such sockets or eyes, for the purpose of holding down such
blouse or the like and retaining it in the correct position.
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The plate aforesaid, (which is preferably given a somewhat curved form) may
conveniently be formed by stamping it out of a metal blank, the said sockets or
eyes being produced by forming a number of pairs of horizontal and parallel
slits, the strip of metal between each pair of slits being bent inwardly. By this
means, recesses are provided for the hooks to lie in and be flush or approximately
with the plate.
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Perforations are provided in the plate for the purpose of allowing the latter
to be sewn or otherwise secured to the inner side of the belt.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of the plate shewn attached to the inner side of a
waist-belt, and
Fig. 2, an elevational view of the inner side of the plate with the hooks in
position, the position of the skirt and blouse being indicated by dotted lines.
Referring to the drawing wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in both figures, a is the plate having formed on the inner side thereof a
number of projecting sockets or eyes b, open at the top and bottom, as shewn.
The upper set of these projecting sockets or eyes is designed to let inverted
looks e attached to the lower part of a blouse or the like d to take under the lower
edges of same, while the lower set of projecting sockets or eyes is for the purpose
of receiving suspending hooks cl, attached to the waistband of the skirt e, in such
a manner as to cause the said hooks to be suspended from the upper edges of the
projecting sockets or eyes and so provide for the skirt, to which the said hooks c¹
are attached, being suspended in a correct position.
f represents the perforations in the plate a (which is preferably given a some-
what curved form to conform to the shape of the wearer's waist) such perforations
being for the purpose of allowing the said plate to be sewn or otherwise secured to
the inner side of the waist-belt g.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The improved means for attaching articles of wearing-apparel to waist-belts,
consisting in a plate having a number of projecting sockets or eyes under the
lower edges of the upper set of which, inverted hooks, attached to a blouse or
the like, take, suspending hooks upon a skirt being suspended by the upper edges
of the lower set of projecting sockets or eyes, substantially as described and
illustrated.

page_text: 2. In means for attaching articles of wearing apparel to waist-belts,
the combination with inverted hooks upon a blouse or the like and suspending
hooks upon a skirt, of a curved plate having perforations for ready attachment
to the inner-side of a waist-belt, and an upper and a lower set of projecting
sockets or eyes, and sockets or eyes being formed by pairs of parallel slits in the
plate, the material between each pair of slits being bulged inwardly, all sub-
stantially as described and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 13th day of July 1899.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,-Agents_for_Applicant.-