An Improved Appliance or Retainer for Enabling Coats, Jackets, Cloaks, Mantles, and like Garments to Fit Closely to the Body of the Wearer.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Applica..on, 25th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 27th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance or Retainer for Enabling Coats, Jackets,
Cloaks, Mantles, and like Garments to Fit Closely to the Body
of the Wearer.
I RICHARD HOWARD WALL of The Ashby Busk Works Hackney Road in
the County of London Busk Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to devices for enabling ladies coats and jackets to fit close
to the figure at the back waist and back when such jackets or coats are not
fastened down the front and the object thereof is to construct a retaining device
for the above purpose which shall hold the garment to which it is attached close
and down to the figure without discomfort to the wearer.
Now according to this invention I take a strip of metal or other suitable material
celluloid for example either straight or curved of any suitable width and in length
preferably about half the circumference of the wearers waist and I cover the same
if necessary with any suitable material. If the strip is covered I prefer to leave
enough material at the edges of the strip to receive stitches by means of which
the retainer is secured to the coat or jacket.
If the strip is uncovered 1 form holes therein through which the stitches
pass. Attached to or formed integral with the strip are one or more hooks to
pass under the waistband or belt to hold the coat down at the back.
To each end of the strip or cover I attach an eye or hook by means of which
the retainer may be attached to hooks or eyes secured to the skirt band or
waist belt. Instead of or in addition to the eyes or hooks I provide clips or
safety pins to enable the retainer to be attached to the skirt band without the
aid of hooks.
The retainer is sewn to the inside of the coat at the back and the eyes clips or
pins are secured either to hooks or eyes attached to the waistbelt or skirt band or
to the skirtband itself and holds the garment firmly to the figure without the least
discomfort to the wearer.
The retainer may also be used with cloaks mantles dolmans and the like
garments.
Dated this 25th day of June 1894.
T. E. HALFORD,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, Londou, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
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An Improved Appliance or Retainer for Enabling Coats, Jackets,
Cloaks, Mantles, and like Garments to Fit Closely to the Body
of the Wearer.
I RICHARD HOWARD WALL of The Ashby Busk Works Hackney Road in the
County of Middlesex, 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 devices for enabling ladies coats and jackets to fit close

page_text: to the figure at the back waist and back when such jackets or coats are not fastened
down the front and the object thereof is to construct a retaining device for the
above purpose which shall hold the garment to which is attached close and down to
the figure without discomfort to the wearer. Now according to this invention
take a strip of metal or other suitable material celluloid for example either straigh
or curved of any suitable width and in length preferably about half the circum
ference of the wearers waist and I cover the same if necessary with any suitable
material.
If the strip is covered I prefer to leave enough material at the edges of the
strip to receive stitches by means of which the retaining device is secured to the coat
or jacket.
If the strip is uncovered I form holes therein through which the stitches pass.
Attached to or formed integral with the strips are one or more hooks to pass
under the waistband or belt to hold the coat down at the back. To each end of
the strip or cover I attach an eye or a hook by means of which the retaining device
may be attached to hooks or eyes secured to the skirt band or waistbelt or the hooks
may be hooked into the said band or belt.
Instead of or in addition to the eyes or hooks I provide clips or safety pins to
enable the retaining device to be attached to the skirtband without the aid of
hooks.
The retaining device is sewn to the inside of the jacket or coat at the back and
the eyes, clips or pins are secured either to hooks or eyes attached to the waist-belt
or skirt band or to the said belt or band itself and holds the garment firmly to the
figure without the least discomfort to the wearer.
The retaining device may also be worn with cloaks, mantles, dolmaus and the
like garments and in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will
proceed to explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings
in which :-
Fig. 1 represents a coat retaining device constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 2. is view of the same with hooks at the end to fasten into the waistband
or belt.
Fig. 3. is view of retaining device with cover removed.
Fig. 4. is view of a retaining device made from one pieca of material.
Fig. 5 is plan of the device.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figs.
a is a strip of metal celluloid or other suitable material covered with any suitable
material L.
ce are hooks attached to the strip a or to the cover by stitching as shewn at
Figs. 1 and 2 or by rivets as shewn at Fig. 3 or the said hooks may be formed in
one piece with the strip as shewn at Fig. 4.
d. d: are hooks to engage with eyes fastened to the waistbelt or skirtband as shewn
at Fig. 1 or to hook into the waistbelt or skirtband itself as shewn at Figs. 2 and 5.
ee are pieces of elastic material to which the hooks d d are attached. The retaining
device is secured to the inside of the back of the garment by stitches passing
through the cover or if the strip a is not covered holes ff are formed in the
material through which the stitches pass to secure the retaining device to the
garment and to secure the hooks d or clips to the strip a.
When the garment is put on the hooks c. c. are passed under the waistbelt or
skirtband and the hooks d d fastened into the band or belt or to eyes or loops
attached thereto thus holding the garment down and close to the figure of the
wearer at the back.
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. In a device for holding ladies coats and other garments down and close to the
figure at the back the combination of a strip of metal or other suitable material

page_text: such as a either covered or not with hooks c c attached to or formed in one with
the said strip or attached to the covering thereof and hooks d d or clasps all
substantially as hereinbefore specified and for the purposes stated.
2. In a garment retaining device as claimed in Claim 1 attaching the
hooks d d to the device by means of elastic material e substantially as herein before
specified.
3. The construction of a device for holding ladies coats and other garments
down and close to the figure substantially as hereinbefore specified and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1895.
T. E. HALFORD,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.