A New or Improved Combined Sanitary Towel and Stocking Suspender for Women.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Aug., 1890-Accepted, 13th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPĘCIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Sanitary Towel and Stocking
Suspender for Women.
We, ALFRED SOUTHALL and THOMAS BARCLAY and WILFRED FRANCIS SOUTHALL
of No. 17 Bull Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Pharmaceutical
Chemists and co-partners do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention consists of a new or improved combined sanitary towel and stocking
suspender for women the parts of which suspender are combined or arranged and
used in the following manner:-
The sanitary towel suspender which we employ consists of a belt secured around
the waist the said belt being made of sateen or calico or other flexible material
preferably lined with flannel.
The ends of the belt are fastened together at the front of the person by buttons
and buttonholes or otherwise fastened together and the length of the belt if desired
may be made adjustable to suit women of different sizes by sets of buttons and button-
holes or otherwise. To the front and back of the belt or suspender and at the lower
edge thereof depending loops of sateen, calico or other flexible material are fixed by
their upper ends. It is by means of these depending fixed loops that the sanitary
towel is secured to the suspending belt. Midway between the sanitary towel
suspending. loops described the stocking suspenders are secured the said stocking
suspenders being situated at the sides of the person when the belt is fastened around
the waist. The elastic and adjustable bands of the stocking suspenders are secured
to pieces of sateen calico or other flexible material sewn to the opposite sides of the
belt at the lower edge thereof the extreme lower ends of the elastic bands of the
stocking suspenders being connected to the stockings by lever clips or other
fastenings.
We do not limit ourselves to the shape of the suspending belt nor to the method
described of fastening the same as the essence of this invention consists in the
combination in one article of the means of both suspending the sanitary towel and the
stockings.
When an ordinary sanitary towel suspender is used it is difficult or inconvénient
to use at the same time a stocking suspender but by the combination of parts
constituting this invention the suspending of the stockings as well as the suspending
of the sanitary towel can be conveniently and readily effected by the same article.
Dated this 11th day of December 1889.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Sanitary Towel and Stocking
Suspender for Women.
We ALFRED SOUTHALL and THOMAS BARCLAY and WILFRED FRANCIS SOUTHALL
of No. 17 Bull Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Pharmaceutical
Chemists and co-partners do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists of a new or improved combined sanitary towel and stocking
suspender for women the parts of which suspender are combined or arranged and
need in the following manner

page_text: The sanitary towel suspender which we employ consists of a belt secured around
the waist the said belt being made of sateen or calico or other flexible material
preferably lined with flannel. The ends of the belt are fastened together at the front
of the person by buttons and button holes or otherwise fastened together and the
length of the belt if desired may be made adjustable to suit women of different sizes
by sets of buttons and button holes or otherwise.
To the front and back of the belt or suspender and at the lower edge thereof
depending loops of sateen calico or other flexible material are fixed by their upper
ends. It is by means of these depending fixed loops that the sanitary towel is secured
to the suspending belt. Midway between the sanitary towel suspending loops
described the stocking suspenders are secured the said stocking suspenders being
situated at the sides of the person when the belt is fastened around the waist. The
elastic and adjustable bands of the stocking suspenders are secured to pieces of
sateen calico or other flexible material sewn to the opposite sides of the belt at the
lower edge thereof the extreme lower ends of the elastic bands of the stocking
suspenders being connected to the stockings by lever clips or other fastenings and
the elastic and adjustable bands of the stocking suspender may be made capable of
detachment.
We do not limit ourselves to the shape of the suspending belt nor to the method
described of fastening the same as the essence of this invention consists in the com-
bination in one article of the means of both suspending the sanitary towel and the
stockings.
When an ordinary sanitary towel suspender is used it is difficult or inconvenient
to use at the same time a stocking suspender but by the combination of parts
constituting this invention the suspending of the stockings as well as the suspending
of the sanitary towel can be conveniently and readily effected by the same article.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in perspective a combined
sanitary towel and stocking suspender for women constructed according to this
invention and Figure 2 represents in front and edge view one of the stocking
suspenders detached.
a is the belt of the suspender secured around the waist of the person and made
preferably of the materials herein before described the ends of the belt a being
secured at the front of the person by the buttons and button holes at b, b, but other
means of fastening the ends of the belt together may be adopted and the length of
the belt may be made adjustable ; cc are the depending loops sewn to the lower
edge of the belt or suspender a at the back and front. By means of these depending
loops c, e the sanitary towel is secured to the belt a in the ordinary way: dd are
the depending pieces to which the elastic bands of the stocking suspenders e, e are
connected. The said pieces d, d are fixed on the belt a midway between the sanitary
towel suspending loops c c and when the belt a is fastened around the waist the said
stocking suspenders e, e and pieces d, d are situated at the sides of the person.
We prefer to make the elastic hands e, e of the stocking suspenders capable of
detachment from the pieces d, d of the belt. For this purpose we provide the top of
each elastic stocking suspender e with a wire loop fand the front of each of the
pieces d with a button g with which buttons the loops ff can be engaged by passing
the wide part of the loop over the button and sliding its narrow end behind the
button the contrary motion of the loop detaching the elastic stocking suspender
from the belt. The stocking suspenders are made adjustable by means of the sliding
buckles h, and the extreme lower ends of the elastic bands are connected to the
stockings by the lever clips at i, i but other means of fastening the bands to the
stockings may be used. Shoulder straps may be connected to the top edge of
the supporting belt a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention :-
:-
The new or improved combined sanitary towel and stocking suspender for women

page_text: herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say,
a suspending belt to be worn around the waist in which belt the parts for suspending
the sanitary towel and the stockings are combined so that the suspending of the said
towel and the stockings is effected by the same article substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated the First day of August 1890
ALFRED SOUTHALL.
THOMAS BARCLAY.
WILFRED FRANCIS SOUTHALL.