A New or Improved Cycling Skirt Fastener or Adjuster.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1898-Accepted, 25th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Cycling Skirt Fastener or Adjuster.
I, CHARLES DAWSON, of 23, Ilminster Gardens, Lavender Hill, London, S.W.,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved cycling skirt fastener or adjuster
and has for object to hold the skirt in its proper position without the incon-
venience caused by other so called skirt fasteners or adjusters.
In the fasteners now generally in use, are employed, safety pins to fix the
fastener to the skirt, which are a source of inconvenience and annoyance to the
wearer by the continual breaking off of the pins and the requirement of a new
fastener.
My present invention consists of a double piece of elastic material having at
one end a suitably shaped loop of metal or other suitable material, for the purpose
of being sewn upon the inside of the skirt.
There is provided a slip buckle intermediately of the attaching end, for the
purpose, of regulating the size of loop and length of strap. The loop serves to
receive the foot of the wearer, and can be adjusted by the slip buckle to suit
requirements.
Two fasteners are employed one on each side of the skirt.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., for the Applicant.
I, CHARLES DAWSON, of 23, Ilminster Gardens, Lavender Hill, London, S.W.,
Gentleman, 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 a new or improved cycling skirt fastener or adjuster
whereby the skirt is held in its proper position without the inconvenience caused
by other so called skirt fasteners or adjusters.
In the fasteners now generally in use, are employed, safety pins to fix the
fastener to the skirt which are a source of inconvenience and annoyance to the
wearer by the continual breaking off of the pins and the requirement of a new
fastener.
The object of my invention is to overcome the said defects and in order that the

page_text: same may be. more fully understood I have caused to be appended hereunto one
sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating like parts in the
various figures, Fig. 1 being a side view and Fig. 2 an edge view of my new or
improved cycling skirt fastener or adjuster, and Fig 3 shows the same applied.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally, I form a
double piece A of elastic material, having at one end a suitably shaped loop B of
metal or other suitable material, for the purpose of being sewn upon the inside
of the skirt C (Fig. 3.)
There is provided a slip buckle D intermediately of the attaching end, for the
purpose of regulating the size of loop a and length of strap a¹ formed by the said
buckle. The loop a serves to receive the foot of the wearer, and can be adjusted
by the slip buckle D to suit requirements.
Two of the described fasteners are employed, one on each side of the skirt.
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
claim, is: -
1st. In cycling skirt fasteners or adjusters, a double elastic band A. one end of
which serves as a strap a¹ to be secured to the skirt and the other end as a loop a
for the reception of the foot of the wearer, all substantially as set forth.
2nd. In combination with the double band A, specified in the preceding claim,
a slip buckle D adapted for regulating the length of strap a¹ and size of the loop a,
all substantially as set forth.
Dated this 4th day of Ma 1900
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.