An Improved Appliance for use in connection with Waistbands and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1898--Accepted, 10th Sept., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for use in connection with Waistbands
and the like.
I, AMY CROSS, Manager, Palace Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an improved appliance for use in connection with waist-
bands and the like and the objects are to provide means for holding down the waist-
band behind and to cause it to overlap the skirt. It is intended to supersede the
unsightly and ineffective nursery pin commonly used for the purpose.
The invention
provides an appliance which is preferably attached to a webbing band firmly but not
necessarily tightly, and to this appliance any ribbon or band can be fixed in a moment,
adjusted to the correct waist line and held in position. Thus ribbons and the like
of all kinds can be at once converted into a well fitting band and if tied in a bow at
the front will remain in position without need of any buckle.
To more clearly disclose my invention I make reference to the accompanying sheet
of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a front view of the appliance,
Fig. 2 a perspective view showing how the waistband is inserted into the
appliance,
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the band and appliance when the former has
been put in and pressed on the pins or projection hereafter mentioned.
Similar letters denote the same parts wherever occurring.
A piece of wire a is bent in the middle of its length as at a¹. The two limbs of
this bent piece of wire are kept a short distance from one another, as at 6 but remain
in the same plane. The free ends of the limbs are bent and turned up so as to form
the small loops or tongues c, which are not in the same plane as a but a slight
distance rearward of it so as to overlap the band or belt-as hereinafter described.
Sharp projections d are provided on a. The appliance has eyes at e by which it can
be attached to the upper edge of a webbing band f having a buckle or other contrivance
by which it can be kept round the wearer's waist. The appliance may be attached in
any other manner if desired.
The appliance is used by buckling the webbing round the waist. The ribbon or
waistband h is then folded on itself and the doubled part g put through the space b
between the limbs of a. The upper edge of h is overlapped by the tongues c and is
thus located between them and the limbs of a as indicated in Fig. 2. The doubled
part is then pushed over the points d so as adjust the band to the wearer's waist
and its free ends are then tied or otherwise fastened together. If preferred the band can
be inserted in the appliance before fastening the webbing round the wearer's waist.
In the case of leather belts or flat bands they are passed under the tongue c and thus
kept for working upwards.
The appliance can also be used by omitting the webbing and attaching a directly
to the back of the band of the skirt, but the webbing is to be preferred as it is of
great service in holding the blouse or shirt in position and renders one appliance
applicable to any number of skirts.

page_text: Instead of making the appliance of wire it might be made from sheet metal
in one piece or in any other suitable manner and from any other suitable
material.
As the appliance can be varied in form without departure from its essential
features I do not confine myself to the precise shape relative proportions or dis-
positions of the various parts shown in the drawings.
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. An appliance for use in connection with waistband and the like, the said
appliance consisting essentially of a piece of wire or other suitable material bent
on itself at or at about the centre of its length so as to form two parallel or
more or less so limbs at a short distance apart, the free ends of the said limbs
being looped and bent down somewhat out of the plane of the limbs, on which
limbs are provided sharp projections, the whole substantially as described in the
above specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
2. Appliances such as are the subject matter of the preceding Claim 1, but
constructed from sheet metal or material or otherwise than from a piece of bent
wire.
3. Appliances for use in connection with waistbands and the like, the said
appliance being constructed and operating substantially as described in the above
specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 98th day of June 1898
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents.