Year: 1899

page_text: 1, CLEMENT LAIRD STEPHENSON, of 49, West Nineteenth Street, New York,
County and State of New York, United States of Amenca, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be peiformed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement.
My invention relates to combined shirt waist holders and skirt supporters of
that class in which a waist belt is provided with hooks to hold the two garments
together
The object of my invention is to construct a simple, and inexpensive device of
this character, which will fold up into a small compass, will require no pre-
paration of the shirt waist or shut, will securely hold the two gaiments in
proper relation to each other, will leave the waist line smooth and be convenient
and comfortable to the wearer
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig 1 is a perspective view of a waist belt provided with my improvement
Fig 2 is a perspective view of one of my improved attachments.
Fig 3 is a section through one of the plates and the belt. and
Fig is a view of a modification
One of the features of my invention consists in making the hook-carrying
part or parts in the form of a plate or plates separate from the belt proper and
provided with slots or other such means by which the plate or plates may be
easily applied to textile, leather or other such flexible belt Another feature of
my invention consists in the manner of mounting the hooks in the plates
While the hook-carying part may be a sungle plate, I prefer to make it of three
plates A, A, A³, Fig. 1 The hook part B consists of a U-shaped wue with
sharpened points bb bent up into the form of a pan of hooks
Two holes for the
passage of these hooks are formed in the plate, so that when the U-shaped part
les up agamst one side of the plate the two sharpened points will project at
an angle from the other side, as shown in Fig 3' The plates are so applied
or secured to the flexible belt C that the latter will lie outside the U-shaped
part of the hook and hold the latter in the position shown in Fig 3, with the
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page_text: sharp points projecting on the other side of the plate When not so held by
the belt C, the hooks can swing to the position indicated by dotted lines in
Fig. 3, but cannot work entirely out.
The two outer of the three plates, A, A1, A2 are shown as with their sharpened
pans of hooks projecting outwards from the belt and upwards to support the
band of the skut The middle plate has its sharpened hooks projecting inwards
of the belt and downwards at the inner face of the belt to engage with and hold
down the waist.
The hook-carving plate or plates should be provided with slots a a through
which the belt will be placed When thier such plates are used, they need have
no other mechanical connection with each other than through the belt itself, as
illustrated in Fig 1 In that event the plates will be all alike and each plate
will have two vertical slots a, oue near each edge, as shown in Fig 2
preferred, the plates may be hinged together as at a¹, Fig 4, and in that case
but four slots a, instead of six will suffice for the three plates
If
Owing to the main part of the belt being of textile of other flexible material
the belt is not only convenient and comfortable to the wearer, but it can also
be folded up into a very small space
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 18.
1. A waist belt attachment consisting of a plate adapted to be secured to a
belt and having a hook piece with a pair of bent points passing through openings
in the plate and to be held in operative position by the belt, substantially as
described
2 A waist belt attachment consisting of a plate provided with a pair of
sharpened hooks and also provided with slots through which the belt may be
passed, substantially as described
3. A waist belt provided with three plates secured thereto and having hooks,
one plate with its hooks projecting inwards of the belt and the others with
their hooks projecting outwards
4 A waist belt provided with plates having slots through which the belt 18
threaded and said plates provided with hooks some projecting inwards and some
projecting outwards of the belt
5. An attachment for a waist-belt to be inserted between the waist and skirt,
consisting of a plate provided with sharpened hooks adapted to project from
both faces of the belt, those on one face projecting upward and those on the
other face projecting downward, substantially as descubed
6. An attachment for a waist-belt to be inserted between the waist and akut,
consisting of a supporting plate comprising a plurality of parts hinged together
and having sharpened hooks on the different parts adapted to project on both
faces of the belt, those on one face projecting upward and those on the other
face projecting downward, substantially as described
Dated this 2nd day of November 1899.
BOULT, WADE & KILBURN,
Agents for the Applicant.