Improvements in Skirt Grips or Suspenders.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 9th Mar.. 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 1897
Improvements in Skirt Grips or Suspenders.
I THOMAS HENRY PICKIN of 83 Bridge Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Taxidermist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to appliances or means for holding the skirtbands of ladies
dresses and belts worn over them together in their relative positions, commonly
called skirt grips, and consists in an improved mauufacture or formation of said
appliances, the object of my invention being to produce them in a cheaper manner
and render them more convenient in use and neater in appearance than the safety
pins and other appliances at present in use for the said purpose.
In carrying out my invention I form a slide out of sheet metal through which
the belt is drawn having the inside part or parts sufficiently broad to allow of a
tongue being cut out of the same or each of them which tongue remains connected
to the inside part or bar at the root and is pressed back at the same time so as
to form a hook, into which an eyelet sewn to the skirt band is hooked and thus
holds the belt and skirt band together. Preferably I form the slide by stamping
it out of sheet metal so as to be of greater depth than the breadth of the belt
and divided by two vertical slits thus forming three bars between the top and
bottom, at the same time pressing back either the middle bar or the two outer
bars and stamping out a tongue and pressing it to form a hook as aforesaid, on
the bars pressed to the back, thus forming the whole skirt grip at one stamping
operation.
The slide may be formed with more than three vertical bars, five for instance,
each alternate bar being pressed back and formed with a hook.
The parts of the skirt grip showing on the outside when it is put on may be
ornamented in any convenient way, preferably by embossing them by the stamping.
dies at the same time when punching out the skirt grip from a metal sheet.
Dated this 8th day of July 1896
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 6, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.
Improvements in Skirt Grips or Suspenders.
I, THOMAS HENRY PICKIN of 83 Bridge Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Taxidermist, 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 appliances or means for holding the skirtbands of
ladies' dresses and belts worn over them together in their relative positions,
commonly called skirt, grips, and consists in an improved manufacture or formation
of said appliances, the object of my invention being to produce them in a cheaper
manner than has hitherto been done and to render them more convenient in use or
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page_text: neater in appearance than the safety pins and other appliances in use for the said
On the drawing appended hereunto
purpose.
Fig. 1 shows a front view and Fig. 2 à side view of one form of my improved
skirt grip.
Figs. 3 and 4 similar views of a modification, and
Figs. 5 and 6 similar views of another modification.
In carrying out my invention I form the improved skirt grip by punching and
stamping it out of sheet metal in one operation. The grip consists of a slide of
greater depth than the breadth of the belt and sufficiently broad to allow its
being divided by vertical slits or slots stamped through it ordinarily into three
bars a, b and c the central oue or the outer ones of which are preferably pressed
back, so that the belt can be readily drawn through the slide. The part or parts
pressed back or inside the belt is or are made sufficiently broad to admit of a
tongued being cut out of the same or each of them, which tongue remains
connected to the bar at the root and is pressed back at the same time so as to
form a hook, into which an eyelet sewn to the skirt band is hooked and thus holds
the belt and skirt band together. In the skirt grip shewn by Figs. 1 and 2, the
central bar farmed with a hook is pressed back at the top and hottom, so that
the belt can be threaded through the slide. In the modification shewn by Figs. 3
and 4 the central bar is pressed back at the top and separated at the bottom from
the lower part e at the operation of stamping the same, which allows the belt to be
readily slipped into the grip from the bottom and out of the same.
In the modification shown by Figs. 5 and 6 the outer bars a and c are pressed
or bent back and formed with hooks into which two eyelets sewn to the skirtband
are hooked, whereby a better support of the band and fall of the skirt are obtained.
The central bar, or the two outer bars, may be separated from the bottom e to slip
the belt in from below.
The slide may be formed with more than three vertical bars, five for instance,
each alternate bar being pressed bac:: and formed with a hook. Obviously the
outlines of the bars may be varied from those shewn on the drawing.
The parts of the skirt grip shewing on the outside when it is put on may be
ornamented by embossing them by the stamping dies at the same time when
punching out the skirt grip from a metal sheet.
In each case the grip is formed in one piece and by one punching and stamping
operation, whereby the cost is reduced in comparison with other appliances for the
same purpose composed of two or more pieces, or having to undergo two or more
operations to complete them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The manufacture of a belt and skirt grip or suspender formed out of one piece
of sheet metal at one punching and stamping operation and consisting of a plate
divided by slots into vertical bars alternately pressed back and a hook on each of
the pressed back bars substantially as herein before described and illustrated by
the drawings.
2. As an article of manufacture a belt and skirt grip punched and stamped at
one operation and shaped and adapted to act substantially as hereinbefore described
with reference to Figures 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 or 5 and 6 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated the 8th day of March 1807
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 6, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.