Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Attaching or Securing Portions of Garments or Wearing Apparel together, applicable also for various other purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1898-Accepted, 30th July, 1898
Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Attaching or
Securing Portions of Garments or Wearing Apparel together,
applicable also for various other purposes.
We, JAMES EDWARD SCHUMACHER, of 67 Union Terrace, York, in the County
of York, Engineer, and WALTER RICHARD MAKINS, of 33 to 37, Parliament Street,
York aforesaid, Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for attaching or
securing say two portions of a garment or wearing apparel, such as for example a
belt to a skirt, or a blouse to a skirt, but it may also be used for a variety of other
purposes, such as for instance for braces, stocking suspenders, bag carriers, and the
like.
The object of this invention is to construct neat, light, simple, and inexpensive
means or apparatus hereafter termed the grip or retainer, for the above pur-
poses, that will not damage the article to which it is applied, but at the same time
will firmly and securely attach the two parts together.
According to this invention the grip or retainer consists of two plates made of
any suitable thickness, size, shape, and material, such as for instance of thin metal,
wood, papier mache, xylonite, celluloid, or the like, or a combination of two or more
of them, suitably pressed, cast or moulded to the desired shape.
The plates may be made either flat or curved, but in either case they are so
arranged that, when placed one upon the other, they will engage and lock with
each other. As for instance, one of the plates may be provided. or armed at its
ends or other convenient portion with hooks or clips arranged to taper slightly in
a vertical direction into which the wedged shaped ends, (with or without projec-
tions) or portions of the second plate are made to pass and engage. Or hooks or
clips may be arranged near the centre of one plate and to engage with a recess at
or about the centre of the other plate, and horizontal hooks or clips are provided
near one edge of one plate to engage or pass into recesses in the other plate so as
to form carriers. When both horizontal and vertical hooks or clips are used it is
preferred that the vertical hooks or clips shall be on one plate, and the horizontal
ones on the other plate.
The plates are provided with suitable holes or apertures for sewing, rivetting, or
otherwise fixing or attaching the plates respectively to the parts of a garment or
other article that are to be secured together.
By constructing and arranging the plates as herein described they may, when in
use, be easily and readily detached from each other.
Doted this Eighth day of September 1897.
JAMES EDWARD SCHUMACHER.
WALTER RICHARD MAKINS.
By W. Fairburn-Hart,
Agent.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Attaching or
Securing Portions of Garments or Wearing Apparel together,
applicable also for various other purposes.
We, JAMES EDWARD SCHUMACHER, of 67 Union Terrace, York, in the County
of York, Engineer, and WALTER RICHARD MAKINS, of 33 to 37, Parliament Street,
York aforesaid, Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for attaching or
securing say two portions of a garment or wearing apparel, such as for example a
belt to a skirt, or a blouse to a skirt, but it may also be used for a variety of other
purposes, such as for instance for braces, stocking suspenders, bag-carriers, and
the like.
The object of this invention is to construct neat, light, simple, and inexpensive
means or apparatus hereafter termed the grip or retainer, for the above purposes,
that will not damage the article to which it is applied, but at the same time will
firmly and securely attach the two parts together.
In the drawings hereunto annexed several illustrations are given, showing how
the invention may be carried into practice.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a skirt grip with its parts shown in position when in
use.
Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the back portion of
same.
Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the front portion of
same.
Fig. 6 an elevation of a skirt grip with parts in position showing the retaining
hooks arranged on the back portion so as to engage with recesses in the front
portion.
Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the back portion of
same.
Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the 'front portion of
same.
Fig. 11 an elevation of a skirt grip with parts in position showing the retaining
hooks arranged on both the front and the back portions to engage with recesses
respectively in the upper edge of the front portion, and a central recess in the
back portion.
Figs. 12 and 13 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the back portion of
same.
Figs. 14 and 15 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the front portion of
same.
Fig. 16 an elevation of a skirt grip, with parts in position showing the retaining
hooks on the upper edge of the back portion with a headed stud on the front portion
arranged to engage with a central recess in the back portion.
Figs. 17 and 18 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the back portion of
same.
Figs. 19 and 20 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the front portion of
same.
Fig. 21 an elevation showing method of disengaging the portions of the skirt
grip.
Fig. 22 a part elevation of a skirt and belt partly turned up to show the parts
of the skirt grip in position.

page_text: Like parts in all the views are marked with similar letters of reference.
We will first describe the invention generally, and then briefly the several views.
The grip or retainer consists of two plates, that is to say a front plate A and a
back plate B of any suitable thickness, size, shape, (preferably as shown in the
drawings), and material, such as for instance of thin metal, wood, papier mache,
xylonite, celluloid, or the like, or a combination of two or more of them, suitably
stamped, pressed, cast, or moulded to the desired shape.
The plates A and B may be made either flat or curved longitudinally as shown
in the drawings, to bed itself to the wearer's back, but in either case they are so
arranged that, when placed one upon the other, as, say at Fig. 1, they will engage
and lock with each other. As for instance, one of the plates may be provided or
armed at its ends or other convenient portion with hooks or clips C, formed out of
the plate or attached thereto, arranged to taper slightly in a vertical direction
into which the wedged-shaped ends D, (with or without projections) or portions of
the plate B are made to pass and engage. Or hooks or clips E, Fig. 15 may be
arranged near the centre of the plate A, as at Fig. 11 and to engage with a
recess at or about the centre of the plate B, and horizontal hooks or clips Care
provided near one edge of one plate to engage or pass into recesses G, Figs. 9 and 14,
which take the place of the wedges D in the plate B so as to form carriers.
both horizontal and vertical hooks or clips or studs C and E are used it is pre-
ferred that the vertical hooks or clips E shall be on one plate, say plate B and the
horizontal ones C on the plate, say A or vice versa.
When
The plates A and B are provided with suitable holes or apertures H for sewing,
rivetting, or otherwise fixing or attaching the plates respectively to the parts of a
garment or other article that are to be secured together. In the skirt grip, as
shown at Figs. 1 to 5 inclusively, the hooks C are inclined and provided at the ends
of the plate A, which are bent over, as shown, to fit the wedges of the plate B.
Into these hooks C the wedged-shaped portions 1) of the plate B are made to pass,
the projections
act as stops as well as for assisting in retaining the two plates A
and B in engagement when assisting in carrying the weight of the skirt. The
wedge portions D may be slightly thickened by, say, bending over the plate.
In Figs. 6 to 10 inclusively the hooks C are formed by bending over a portion
of the plate A in a horizontal direction, and which pass into the vertical recesses G
of the plate B.
At Figs. 11 to 15 inclusively the hooks C are formed out of the top edge of the
plate A so that the recesses G in the upper edge of the plate B may engage there-
with. In addition to the said hooks C and recesses G a pair of central hooks E,
Fig. 15 formed out of the plate B on its inner side,-are made to pass into and
engage with the central recess F..
At Figs. 16 to 20 inclusive the hooks C are provided on the top of plate A so
that the straight portion of the upper edge of plate B may pass under the same
and engage therewith. A headed stud or pin on the inner side of plate B in this
arrangement takes the place of the hooks E and is lettered with the same letter of
reference. The stem of the headed stud E passes into central recess F in plate
so that its head may overlap the walls or edges of the same for retaining purposes.
In the foregoing descriptions we have described the parts of the skirt grip as
being formed of metal stampings, but it may also be made of any of the other
mentioned materials as well as in the manner herein before named.
The grip, when used say for skirts and belts or blouses, is applied to the parts
of the garment as follows:
The plate A is sewn or otherwise fixed to the band of the skirt, and the plate B
to the belt as shown at Fig. 22, or vice versa, or for a blouse the plates A and B
would be twined the opposite way to that shown at Figs. 1 and 22; with the curved
portion of each plate to be at the back of the user. The plate B is then placed over
the plate A with the top of, say, the wedges 1) below the hooks C so that the plate B
can be drawn between the plate A and hooks C for engagement therewith as at
Fig. 1.
When hooks C and E, recesses F and G, are used as at Figs. 6, 11, and 16 they

page_text: are made to engage with each other in a similar manner whilst the plates A and B
are sliding over each other.
To release the plates A and B from engagement with each other, the pro-
tuberances a b or the projecting portion of each plate is placed between the finger
and thumb, as at Fig. 21. By closing these members of the hand together, that
is to say, pressing plate A upwards, and pressing plate B simultaneously down-
wards until the wedge D or other equivalent part, is separated from its engage-
ment with, say, the hooks C, the plates will be readily separated.
When in use the grip, by being very thin, yet strong, produces no unsightly
appearance to the wearer's dress as it beds itself to the wearer's person.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is;-
1. In a grip for attaching and securing two parts of a garment together the
combination of a plate A fixed to one part of a garment and armed with hooks C,
with a plate B fixed to another part of a garment and provided with wedge shaped
portions and a stop d, said plates being adapted to slide one upon the other and
the wedges 1) to engage with the hooks C, as and for the purposes set forth.
2. In a grip for uniting two parts of a garment together the combination of the
two plates A and B adapted to slide one upon the other after being fixed to the
parts of the garment, the hooks C formed on one plate adapted to engage and lock
with a portion of the outher plate when the two plates are placed together, and
to be separated by simultaneously pressing one plate upwards whilst the other
plate is pressed downwards, as set forth and illustrated.
3. In a grip for attaching and securing two parts of a garment together, the
combination of a plate A fixed to the skirt band of a garment and provided with
hooks C, with a plate B fixed to a belt part of a garment and provided with
recesses G in the upper portion thereof for engagement with said hooks as and
for the purposes set forth.
4. In a grip for uniting two parts of a garment together, the combination of a
plate A, fixed to one part of a garment, provided with hooks C near its upper edge,
and a central recess F extending from its lower edge upwards, with a plate B fixed
to another part of a garment and provided on its inner portion with hooks E, said
plates being adapted to slide one upon the other and to be locked together by the
engagement of the said hooks with the respective portions of the plates, as and for
the purposes set forth.
Dated this 17th day of May 1898.
JAMES EDWARD SCHUMACHER.
WALTER RICHARD MAKINS.