Improvements in or connected with Skirt Band and Belt Grips or Fasteners.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Skirt Band and Belt Grips or
Fasteners.
1, WILLIAM ARTHUR THORNTON, of Belper House, Market Place, Wetherby,
in the County of York, Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or connected with grips or fasteners
for ladies' skirt bands, and belts, and its object is to secure the skirt band and belt
or the skirt and bodice or blouse more readily together or releasing the parts at the
will of the wearer, at the same time providing nieans for their easy adjustment.
According to this invention I provide two plates or strips of suitable length,
width, shape, and inade of any suitable material such as for example say thin sheet
brass, zinc, or other metal, or of xylonite, celluloid. The two plates are made to
fit one upon the other, such as say one is concave and the other convex and they
may be either flat plates or strips or partly flat and partly recessed. In one of the
plates, the face of which may or may not be provided with a recess-is formed
one, two, or more holes or apertures say circular, or hexagonal or square or other
angular device capable of being enclosed by a circle.
When the face of the said plate is provided with a recessed part the said hole or
holes would be formed or provided in such recess otherwise the said hole or holes
will be formed or provided in the flat plate itself and said hole or holes may or may
not be surrounded by strengthening pieces with or without a back covering piece;
they may also, if required, but not necessarily so, be formed or provided in a
sliding piece mounted on the face or back of the plate so as to be capable of
adjustment.
On or to the face of the other plate is formed, mounted, or otherwise attached
one, two, or more projecting studs or heads. These studs or heads may be attached
either directly to the face of the plate, or be mounted upon a sliding piece mounted
on the back or face of the plate or arranged to work in a slot in the plate itself so
as to be capable of adjustment.
The studs or heads are preferably formed spherically or to correspond with the
shape or coutour of said holes and are either split, or made in one or inore portions,
Eo as to present a solid or skeleton forin, but at the same time they are so arranged
and attached together and to the said plate, slide, or to a retaining ring or rings
fixed to either of them, that each head will be sufficiently yielding and flexible that
when pressed into the before named hole it will afterwards spring outwards for
automatically fixing itself therein. The two plates can be readily separated by
simply pulling them apart.
The two plates may be sewn or otherwise fixed as for example say by prongs or
pins, to the articles to be attached together.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of February 1896.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Skirt Band and Belt Grips or
Fasteners.
I, WILLIAM ARTHUR THORNTON, of Belper House, Market Place, Wetherby,
in the County of York, Draper, 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 improvements in or connected with grips or fasteners
for ladies' skirt bands, and belts, and its object is to secure the skirt band and belt
or the skirt and bodice or blouse more rendily together or releasing the parts at
the will of the wearer, at the same time providing means for their ensy adjustment.
In the drawings I have shown several methods of carrying this invention into
practice, but wish it to be clearly understood that they are to be taken as
examples only, as other arrangements containing the essential principle of my
invention may be used.
Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively an elevation and transverse section of the male
portion of the grip fixed to a strengthened flexible or other band.
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively an elevation and transverse section of the female
portion of the same grip fixed to a strengthened flexible or other band.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively an elevation and transverse section of the male
portion of a grip in plate form capable of being sewn directly to a garment er to a
strengthened flexible or other hand.
Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively an elevation and transverse section of the female
portion of the same grip.
Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively an elevation and transverse section of the male
portion of an adjustable grip capable of being sewn directly to a garment or to a
strengthened flexible or other band.
Figs. 11 and 12 are respectively an elevation and transverse section of the female
portion of the same grip.
Fig. 13 illustrates the application of the two portions of the grip respectively to
a Indy's bodice (partly turned hack) and skirt band.
Fig. 14 an illustration showing the application of the two portions of the grip
respectively to a lady's belt (partly turned back) and skirt band.
Like parts in all the views are marked with the same letters of reference.
A is the male portion of the grip and 13 the female portion.
The two portions A and B may be made in the circular form as shown at Figs. 1
to 4; or the stationary plate form as shown at Figs. 5 to 8; or in the adjustable
plate form shown at Figs. 9 to 12; but in all cases it is preferred, though not
necessarily so, to fix the male portion to the Indy's bodice C or belt D and the
female portion to the skirt band E as shown at Figs. 13 and 14.
As above mentioned the skirt grip consists essentially of two plates or strips
hereafter termed plates A and B, of suitable length, width, shape, and made of any
suitable material such as for example, say thin sheet brass, zinc, or other metal, or
of xylonite, celluloid, sewn, or otherwise attached or mounted either directly on the
portions of the garments, the blouse or beit, and the skirt band, or onto a
piece of flexible woven or other material (with or without a metallic, whalebone, or
other strengthening strip F on one or both edges) which in turn may be sewn or
otherwise attached or mounted on the said parts of the garments.
The two plates A and B are made to fit one upon the other, such as say one
is concave and the other convex, or they may be, as preferred, either flat plates
or strips, or partly flat and partly recessed. In one of the plates, the face of
which may or may not be provided with a recess-is formed one, two, or moro
holes or apertures b say circular, or hexagonal, or square, or other angular device
capable of being enclosed by a circle.

page_text: When the face of the said plate B is provided with a recessed part the said hole
or holes would be formed or provided in such recess otherwise the said hole or
holes will be formed or provided in the flat plate itself and said hole or holes may
or may not be surrounded by strengthening pieces with or without a back covering
piece. The said holes b may also, if required, but not necessarily so, be formed or
provided in a sliding piece mounted on the face or back of the plate so as to be
capable of adjustment.
On or to the face of the other plate A is formed, mounted, or otherwise attached
one, two, or more projecting studs or heads a but preferably not exceeding two.
These studs or heads are either attached directly to the face of the plate A and
may form a part of the plate as at Figs. 1 and 5, or it or they may be mounted
upon a sliding piece a' mounted on the back or face of the said plate, or arranged
to work in a slot a' in the plate itself as shown at Fig. 9 so as to be capable of
adjustment.
The studs or heads a are preferably formed spherically or to correspond with
the shape or contour of said holes and are either split, or made in one or more.
portions, so as to present a solid or skeleton form, but at the same time they are so
arranged and attached together and to the said plate, slide, or to a retaining ring
or rings fixed to either of them, that each head will be sufficiently yielding and
flexible that when pressed into the before named hole 6 it will afterwards spring
outwards for automatically fixing itself therein. Or the stud or head a may be
made solid, and the hole or recess b made to spring thereon when the two parts are
fixed together. The two plates A and B can be readily separated by simply
pulling them apart.
The two plates A and B may be sewn or otherwise fixed, as for example say by
prongs or pins, directly to the bodice C or belt D, and skirt band E, or be first
sewn or attached to a piece of woven material with or without a flexible or
strengthening piece, and afterwards sewn on to the bodice C or belt D, and skirt
band E.
I would also have it understood that the above described grip may also be
used for preventing the trousers or other portions of cyclists' garments from coming
in contact with the wheels of the machine when riding.
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 I am.
aware that spherical or globular spring studs arranged to fit into a circular recess
have been previously used for fastening and closing the edges of of the vent of
gloves, as well as for closing the adjoining edges of other articles; I therefor make
no claim broadly to such fasteners, or to skirt grips consisting of a long raised.
projection arranged to fit and spring into a corresponding long recess, but what I
do claim is:-
A skirt grip for attaching a lady's bodice or belt to the skirt band substantially
such as herein described and illustrated, consisting essentially in the combination
of two plates such as A and B, armed respectively with one or more heads or studs
and recesses, but preferably not exceeding two fixed or adjustable heads or studs,
Euch as u, each arranged to engage with a corresponding recess, such as b, and be
retained therein by spring tension of the said two parts, with the bodice or belt
and skirt band to which the said plates are sewn or otherwise directly attached,
or alternately first sewn or otherwise attached to a piece of woven
flexible material, with or without strengthening strips or pieces, and then fixed as.
described in position to the said parts of the garments, all substantially as described
and illustrated.
Dated this Tents sirth day of November 1896.
or other
WILLIAM ARTHUR THORNTON.