Improvements in Clips for Trousers, Dresses, and for like purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st Sept., 1892-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Trousers, Dresses, and for like purposes.
1, RICHARD COMINGS THOMPSON, of 34 Anglesey Street, Lozells, in the
County of Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manner in which I construct clips or holders for
use in drawing together trousers, for convenience in riding bicycles or when
walking, in places where looseness of fit would be inconvenient; also for holding
dresses and for other like purposes.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct my fastener or holder for
trousers in the form of a double catch or pair of pointed ends, having an elastic
spring of metal, or band of india rubber or other elastic material between them, so
that one pointed end is engaged with the material to be caught up or drawn
together, the other can be pulled or stretched out to engage with another portion
of the material, and by the elastic nature of the connection between the points, the
material will be held in a smaller space.
I make the hook or pointed ends of metal or other suitable material with a spring.
of wire connecting them together or with a piece of rubber or elastic arranged
between the ends. The metal ends 1 prefer to form with rings or serrations
around their cap or tube portions which receive the rubber, and when closed
in these serrations or rings serve to securely hold the soft material within the
metal covers.
When forming my points with a wire centre or spring I make an ordinary, loop
connection on to the end caps or hooks and cause them to be held together when
not in actual use by springing or snapping one hook or point over or within the
other. Sometimes I drill or provide a hole within a portion of one cap or hook
case into which I cause the point of the companion hook to engage for protection
when being carried.
I make the point ends of my clips either as simple pin hooks or single points,
or I form them with claws or prongs for the better security of the material that
is to be engaged.
Dated this 1st day of December 1891
ว
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Trousers, Dresses, and for like purposes.
I RICHARD COMINGS THOMPSON of 34 Anglesey Street, Lozells in the County
of Stafford Manufacturer 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 :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in clips for trousers dresses and
for like purposes the object being to provide means for holding together, or taking
up slackness in articles of textile material such as the lower portions of the legs of
trousers by bicyclists, the fulness or length of the sleeves of shirts in wear (for
writers, draughtsmen, billiard players) ladies' dresses, or garments, hangings,
draperies, and for like purposes.
These improved clips consist of metal hook pieces united at their shank ends by

page_text: a spring union-piece which may be of elastic webbing or round elastic cord or spiral
or flatted wire-spring. The hook-pieces may have but one point each or more.
One of the hook-pieces of each clip is to be provided with an indentation or hole
so that when not in use, or in the pocket, one hook-piece may be laid in under the
other hook-piece and the point of the other hook-piece will spring over and take
position in the said hollow indentation or hole thus sheathing the hooks and
rendering the clip safe for portability.
In order that the said invention may be well understood there is annexed hereto
a sheet of drawings, showing a clip." made according to this: invention. like letters
referring to similar parts in all the figures.
Figs. 1 and 2 are blanks of sheet steel for forming the hook-pieces.
Fig. 3 is a section showing the indentation or hole in one of the said.
hook-pieces.
Fig. 4 shows the clip complete and extended ready for use.
Fig. 5 represents such clip with the points of the hook-pieces sheathed the one
within the other.
a, a', are blanks (conveniently stamped out of pen steel) the shanks whereof are
serrated at their edges 6, and the points are graduated off as shown, to afford
strength to the hook-pieces and yet to allow of the hook being brought to a
proper point.
In the blank a, Fig. 1, there is indicated at c, the indentation or hole to aid
together with the yield or spring of the hooks proper in the sheathing of the hooks
when out of use or in the pocket.
Fig. 3, shows the same in sectional view.
In Fig. 4, (showing the clip complete) d is the spring union-piece shown as an
elastic cord and the shanks of the hook-pieces with their serrated edges are
brought round to secure and hold the spring-piece d.
The points of the hooks are rounded off and sharpened as indicated.
Fig. 5, represents the clip in sheathed condition and requires no further
description.
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:-
In a clip-holder the combination of the hooks a b, a¹ b, with the intermediate
spring portion d; (held by the serrations and the shanks) together with the
indentation or hole, as at c, for the purpose of sheathing, and protecting the point
of the hooks, as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dated 31st August 1892:
RICHD. C. THOMPSON.