Improved Dress Suspender.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 16th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improved Dress Suspender.
HENRY GEORGE ATKINS 1 Mordaunt Street Brixton Surrey Gunfinisher do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A combination of wire clasps metal and cord, to attatch to the hind part of ladier
dress to tilt the skirt from the action of the heels in the act of walking.
The wire clasp has two projecting arms to receive the lower part of spring clip
retaining a portion of garment at will. The clip is attatched to a cord which is
passed through a tube containing a spring that the cord and wire clip retaining the
portion of garment can be lowered or raised by drawing the cord more or less.
Dated this 10th day of March 1890.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improved Dress Suspender.
HENRY GEORGE ATKINS No. 1 Mordaunt Street Brixton Surrey Gunfinisher 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:-
I hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows.
A combination of wire clasps metal, tube, and cords attatched to a spring hook, to
attatch to the hind part of a ladies dress to tilt the skirts from the heels that the gown
may not come into contact with the feet in the act of walking.
Refering to the drawing, the combination of wire, clasps, metal, tube, and cords
attatched to a safely pointed spring hook Fig. 1.
The wire on the metal plate A, Fig. 1 bas two projecting arms B. B. The ends are
flattened out and turned up to form clips C. C. The arms B. B. are from seven to ten
inches in length and spread out eight to ten inches apart. To the clips C. C. is
fastened a short cord with a wire loop C¹ in its centre.
Fastened to the loop C¹ is a cord about 12 inches long with a safely pointed spring
hook D. (this cord I term a suspending cord).
The body of the wire clips C. C. and arms B. B are firmly secured to metal plate A.
To this plate is fixed a pointed hook a¹, the hook a' is to insert into the under-garment,
Fig. 3, inside and at the hind part and at a sufficent height that the clips C. C. may
have a portion of the hem of under garment Fig. 3 inserted between the clips C. C.
The suspending cord with hook D. is brought up outside the said garment and the
hook inserted some two inches above the fulcrum of look a', on Fig. 3, at a sufficent
height to raise the arms B. B. that the parts of the under garments resting upon the
arms B. B. is thereby tilted from the perpendicular.
The gown covering the garments can be further tilted from the feet to avoid
dit &c.
A small tube Fig. 2 with a broach fastening haveing a spring inside to press upon
a fine cord which is passed through the tube Fig. 2. The fine cord has a ring E
attatched which ring protrudes from the tube Fig. 2. To the other end of the cord is
attatched a safely pointed hook D¹. The tube Fig. 2 is secured by its broch fastener F.
to the front part of gown Fig. 4. where the hand can readily command the ring E.
The safely pointed hook D', with the fine cord of Indian twist or other materiai, is
passed to the hind part of gown and through wire loop C¹, and hooked on the gown
Fig. 4 six or eight inches above the loop C¹, that by drawing the ring E further

page_text: from the tube Fig. 2, the fine cord will raise the hind part of gown Fig. 4 with the
under garment Fig. 3 further from the feet at will.
Haveing now particularly described and assertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is performed, I declare that what I claim is
Suitably formed wire haveing projecting arms with clasps secured to metal plate,
with cords to raise the arms, as applied with safely pointed spring hook, to attatch
and fasten as above described. The whole as a combination to effect the object
in view.
Dated this Sixteenth day of October 1890.
HENRY GEORGE ATKINS.