Improvements in Ladies' Dress Stands.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ladies' Dress Stands.
I, PHILIP NEIL, of 35, Sigdon Road, in the County of Middlesex, Electrical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of stand for holding the skirts of
ladies' dresses while being draped, the object of the improvements being to provide a
dress stand which, when not in use, can be folded up so that it can be easily packed
in a small space.
In manufacturing my improved stand for ladies dresses I employ a hoop of suitable
material such as wood forming the waist or skirt-band portion of the stand; below
this hoop are arranged a number of rings of metal wire or of other suitable material;
the said rings are arranged one under the other at certain distances apart and they are
of varying diameter or shape so as to give the required set to the dress. The rings
are connected to the said hoop by a number of tapes or bands, the other ends of the
said tapes or bands being connected to a bottom cut ring or hoop of a suitable
diameter to properly extend the lower part of the dress or skirt. The said parts
forming the frame of the stand are expanded or extended by means of a number of
rods, the upper ends of which bear against a cross-piece in the upper hoop while the
lower ends or parts are provided with hooks which bear against the lower hoop so as
to stretch the said tapes, the lower ends of the rods projecting below the hoop so as to
form feet for the stand.
Dated the 20th day of November 1880
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ladies' Dress Stands.
I PHILIP NEIL of No. 35 Sigdon Road, in the County of Middlesex, Electrical
Engineer 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 an improved construction of stand for holding the skirts
of ladies' dresses while being draped, the object of the improvements being to provide
a dress stand which when not in use, can be folded up so that it can be easily packed
in a small space.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the dress stand showing one vertical half of the same
without the stretching apparatus.
Figure 2 shows the stretching apparatus, the dotted lines being the outlines of the
dress stand as expanded and ready for actual use.
In both these figures the same parts are indicated by the same letters respectively.
In manufacturing my improved stand for ladies' dresses I employ a hoop b of
suitable materiál such as wood forming the waist or skirt bind portion of the dress
stand below this hoop are arranged a number of rings c, d, e, f, g, of metal wire
or other suitable material; the rings c, d, e, f, g, are arranged one under the other at
certain distances apart and they are of varying diameter or shape so as to give the
required set to the dress. The rings c, d, e, f, g, are connected to the hoop by a
number of tapes or bands a, the other ends of the tapes or bands a being connected to
a bottom cut ring or hoop h of a suitable diameter to properly extend the lower part
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page_text: of the dress or skirt. The bottom cut ring or hoop is joined by a ferrule i so as to
be connected when required for mounting the dress stand or disconnected to contract
the perimeter of the bottom cut ring or hoop when required for packing the dress
stand within a small compass.
The said parts forming the frame of the stand are expanded or extended by means
of a number of rods, preferably three, hinged together at their upper ends, which bear
against or are hinged to a cross piece j in the hoop b, while the lower ends or parts
are provided with hooks qrs which bear against the bottom ent ring or hoop h
so as to stretch the tapes or bands a, the lower ends of the rods projecting below
the hoop so as to form feet for the stand.
The three hinged rods forming the tripod upon which the frame of the stand is
expanded may each consist of any number of sections; k l m n o p respectively
show two articulations in each of the rods, which in this case consist of three.
sections eacb. Those articulations are stiffened when the apparatus is to he in
actual use, by means of ferrules k. l. m. n. o. p, the shifting of which allows of folding
up the rols when the apparatus is dismounted.
Folding up the rods of the stretching apparatus causes the dress stand to collapse,
the hoop and the rings c. d. e. f. g falling down within the perimeter of the bottom
cut ring or hoop so that the whole apparatus becomes a flat mass, the tapes and
folded rods not taking up any appreciable room.
The three hinged rods forming the tripod upon which the frame of the stand
is expanded may be made of articulated sections of unequal lengths in which case
one suitably elongated ferrule may be sufficient for two or inore joints.
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 collapsable dress stand, the combination of a vertically collapsable frame,
with stretcher-rods substantially as described.
2. In a collapsable dress stand, the cut ring or hoop joined by a ferrule i
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. In a collapsable dress stand, jointing the expanding or extending rods sub-
stantially as and for the purpose specified.
4. The improved dress stand substantially as described and shown in the accom-
panying drawings folding up within a compass smaller in diameter than the
perimeter of the stand and of a depth not exceeding the vertical depth of the
hoop b.
Dated this 18th day of August 1890.
F ma
THOMAS,
AIRION & THOM
Agents for the Applicant.