An Improved Dress Holder or Lifter.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1890-Accepted, 21st June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress Holder or Lifter.
HARRY CASTON Lorne Villa Mackenzie Road Beckenham, Kent Traveller do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A dressholder that can be attached to the waistband of any dress, and can be
easily operated upon with one hand.
The dressholder or "lifter" according to my invention, can be made as follows
I take a piece of webbing or other suitable material, along which I insert eyelets,
at convenient places, one end of this webbing is attached to the band of the skirt,
and the other end is attached to the skirt, or its foundation, at a distance a little
short of the length of the webbing, there can also be attached to the webbing, near
its lower end, two or more branches, which are also attached at their free ends, to the
skirt or foundation, in the same way at suitable places.
A specially constructed hook buckle or fitting, engages any two eyelets, in such a
way that a loop in the webbing is formed, larger, or smaller as required, this naturally
shortens the holder, and holds up the skirt of the dress at any heigth required by the
wearer.
The holder can be operated upon by putting the band through the placket hole, at
the back or side, or any other convenient opening in the skirt, then by letting out or
taking up one or more, of the eyelets, the skirt is raised or lowered as required.
Further, it is possible to move the hook, buckle, or fitting, higher or lower, along
the eyeleted webbing, so that it can be operated upon at the most convenient part,
according to the wish of the wearer.
If instead of a hook buckle or fitting requiring an eyeleted webbing a fitting be
used acting as a kind of grip, the same arrangement can be used as described, either
with plain webbing, cord braid or other suitable material.
The hook or buckle I use is shewn in Figs. I and II.
Fig. I shews the front view, D D is a ferrule over which the webbing runs, A E is
the prong having a sort of neck at A, the direction it then takes is better seen in
Fig. II, where it passes through the plane of the buckle at C ending a little below
the ferrule at E.
Fig. II the light line shews the position taken by the webbing G L K. An eyelet
is passed over the prong as at A, and the prong is hooked into another eyelet as at H,
forming the loop shewn at L.
The webbing is attached to the waistband at G and to the skirt at K as before
described.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress Holder or Lifter.
1, HARRY CASTON, of Lorne Villa, Mackenzie Road, Beckenham, Kent, Traveller,
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:
My invention has reference to an improved dress holder or lifter that can be
attached to the waistband of any dress, and can be easily operated upon with one
hand so as to draw up the skirt of a dress at several points simultaneously as I will
hereinafter more fully explain with reference to the accompanying illustrative
drawings in which

page_text: Fig. 1 shews in elevation part of a dress with my improved dress holder or lifter
applied to it.
Fig. 2, is a separate view of my improved buckle or hook, hereinafter referred to
as a buckle, and, forming part of the dressholder or lifter represented in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an edge view of part of the dress holder or lifter.
Fig. 4 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1 but illustrating a modification, and
Fig. 5 is a corresponding edge view.
I take a piece of webbing or other suitable material G L K, hereinafter referred to
as webbing, along which I insert eyelets 1 at convenient places; one end G of this
webbing is attached to the band 2 of the skirt 3 and the other end K has attached to
it a ring K to which there are attached branches of webbing 4, 5, 6, and 7, (I have
shewn four which I consider best but there might be a greater or smaller number not
less than two); these branches have also at their free ends rings 4*, 5*, 6×, 7×
which are attached to the skirt 3 or its foundation, at suitable places.
8 is a specially constructed buckle the construction of which I will now describe.
It is shewn clearly in Figs. 2 and 3 where a is the frame and A E is the tongue
or prong hereinafter referred to as the prong.
D is a ferrule or small tube surrounding the lower part of the frame; over this
the webbing runs; the prong has a sort of neck at A ; and thence takes the direction
indicated in Fig. 3 passing at C through the plane of the buckle frame and ending
at E a little below the bottom of the frame a. In the same figure is indicated the
course taken by the webbing G L K. An eyelet is passed over the prong as at A¹
and a second eyelet is passed partly over the prong as at H forming the loop shewn
at L. Thus it will be understood that the buckle engages any two eyelets in such a
way that there is formed in the webbing a loop which is larger or smaller according
to requirement. This naturally shortens the holder and holds up the skirt of the
dress at any height required by the wearer. In Figs. 1 and 3 the skirt is supposed
to be partly lifted.
The holder can be operated upon by putting the hand through the placket hole, at
the back or side, or through any other convenient opening in the skirt; by letting
out or taking up one or more of the eyelets the skirt can be raised or lowered as
required.
The prong is shewn through the top eyelet ; but it is possible to move the buckle
lower along the eyeletted webbing so that can be operated upon at the most
convenient part according to the wish of the wearer.
In the modification illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 I dispense with the eyelets in the
webbing and substitute either plain webbing, cord, braid, or other suitable material,
hereinafter referred to as plain webbing. For this purpose in lieu of the improved
buckle or fitting hereinabove described as forming part of the holder illustrated in
Figs. 1 and 3 I employ a fitting in which there is combined with the frame a* a cross
bar or piece A* E* that is adapted to slide along the frame whose two vertical sides
pass through holes in the cross bar which serves as a grip. The plain webbing in this
case like the eyeletted webbing in my previously described arrangement has attached
to its lower end a ring K' from which there are branches of webbing 4, 5, 6 and 7,
having at their free ends, rings 4× 5× 6× 7* secured to the skirt or foundation, and
the upper part of the frame a is secured in any suitable manner to the band 2 it
may be by a piece of webbing. The course taken by the plain webbing is indicated
by the double line marked G* L* K*. The plain webbing is gripped between the
cross bar A* E* and the bottom part of the frame a*. To raise the skirt the part G*
of the webbing is pulled; to lower the skirt the cross bar is raised or caused to move
from the bottom bar of the frame and the weight of the skirt will cause it to draw
the webbing through till arrested.
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 :-
1. The combination of narta constituting the improved nags holden
lifton

page_text: hereinabove described with reference to and illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive of the
accompanying drawings and comprising a piece of webbing (as hereinabove defined)
GLK with eyelets and branches such as 4, 5, 6 and 7 and the buckle 8.
2. The improved dress holder or lifter buckle or fitting comprising the frame a in
combination with the peculiarly formed prong made with a neck at A, passing at (
through the plane of the said frame and ending at E below the bottom of the frame a
as shewn in and described with reference to Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings annexed
for the purpose set forth.
3. The combination of parts constituting the improved dress holder or lifter shewn
in and described with reference to Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings annexed and
comprising the piece of plain webbing (as hereinabove defined) G* L* K* with
branches such as 4, 5, 6 and 7 in combination with frame a* and bar A* E* adapted
to grip the said plain webbing in the manner and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 15th day of May 1890.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.