An Improved Holding Device for Suspending Stockings and Socks from Knickers, Trousers, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holding Device for Suspending Stockings and Socks
from Knickers, Trousers, and the like.
I, ALBERT GEORGE BOTWRIGHT, of 24, Fairfax Road, Bedford Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a simple, inexpensive and easily applied holding
device, suitable for holding up stockings and socks from trousers and the like.
It comprises a strip or piece of suitable flexible material, such as sheet steel,
iron, tin, vulcanite or like material formed at one edge or side with suitably
spaced upwardly turned hooks or projections and adapted, as for example by
forming it with perforations, to be readily sewn or otherwise attached to the outer
or inner side of a leg portion of a pair of knickers, trousers or the like, so that
when so applied and the latter are in use, a person can easily engage the upper
ends of his stockings or socks with the hooks or projections of the holding device
so that the said stockings or socks will be held up neatly in place, without inter-
fering with the circulation of the blood, as garters are liable to do, and can be
readily disengaged from the said holding device when desired. The free ends of
the hooks or projections may in some cases be made ball-like.
A holding device of the kind described can be made of a flexible strip of sufficient
length to extend around or nearly around the inner or outer surface of a leg of a
pair of knickers or trousers, or two or more strips or pieces constructed as described
may be used for each leg.
Holding devices of the kind described, excepting the hook portions thereof,
may be enclosed in a covering or sheath of woven fabric or other suitable material.
My improved holding devices are specially suitable for cyclists use.
An Improved Holding Device for Suspending Stockings and Socks
from Knickers, Trousers, and the like.
I, ALBERT GEORGE BOTWRIGHT, of 24, Fairfax Road, Bedford Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has reference to a simple, inexpensive and easily applied holding
device for holding up stockings, socks and the like.
Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings illustrate front and end views
respectively of my improved holding device. It comprises a strip or piece of
suitable flexible material a, such as sheet steel, iron, tin, vulcanite or like material
formed at one edge or side with suitably spaced upwardly turned hooks or pro-
jections 6 and adapted, as for example by forming it with perforations c, to be
readily sewn or otherwise attached to the outer or inner side of a leg portion of a
pair of knickers, trousers or the like, so that when so applied and the latter are in
use, a person can easily engage the upper end of his stocking or sock with the
hooks or projections of the holding device so that the said stocking or sock will be
held up neatly in place, without interfering with the circulation of the blood, as
garters are liable to and frequently do, and can be readily disengaged from the
said holding device when desired. The free ends of the hooks or projections may
in some cases be made ball-like, and the hooks may be spaced at any convenient
distance apart, for instance, they may be widely spaced as shown to the left of
Fig. 1 or they may be spaced close together as shown to the right of that figure.
A holding device of the kind described can be made of a flexible strip of sufficient
length to extend around or partly around the inner or outer surface of a leg of a
pair of knickers or trousers. Fig. 3 illustrates such a holder attached to the outer
side of the leg of a pair of knickers. Fig. 4 is a similar view to Fig. 3, but with
the holding device attached to the inner side of the leg of the knickers.. Or two or
more strips or pieces constructed as described may be used for each leg.
Holding devices of the kind described, excepting the hook portions thereof,
may be enclosed in a covering or sheath of woven fabric or other suitable material.
My improved holding devices are specially suitable for cyclists' and sporting
men's use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
My improved holding device for suspending stockings and socks from knickers,
trousers and the like as described with reference to and shown in the accompanying
drawings.