Improvements in Clips or Grips for Garters and such like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 27th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips or Grips for Garters and such like.
WALTER-ROWBOTHAM MARY PRYDE DICKSON both of Tintern Lodge Upper
Chorlton Road Whalley Range Manchester Engineer and of no occupation do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
We stamp a piece of sheet brass or other known sheet metal, or tough material,
such as vulcanite fibre; in a suitable form, having a square or oblong, then a stem,
then a disc. In the aforesaid square or oblong we stamp two or more slots (teethed)
at right angles to the stem, through which the elastic or tape is passed. In the
aforesaid disc we stamp a tapered slot, between right angles & parallel to the stem
having the mouth or wide part of the slot facing the above mentioned square or
oblong at the tapered end of the slot we sometimes stamp a hole through which
we fit india-rubber, or hemp or such for a cushion.
The action being as follows; we take up a small portion of the stocking or
garment between thumb & finger, then hook the slot on the disc, onto it, & by
means of the slot being tapered the more it is pulled the tighter it will grip.
Dated this 28th day of June 1894.
WALTER ROWBOTHAM.
MARY PRYDE DICKSON.
We, WALTER ROWBOTHAM, Engineer, and MARY PRYDE DICKSON, Spinster,
both of Tintern Lodge, Upper Chorlton Road, Whalley Range, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, 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 means of support for stockings and the like.
The object of this invention is to cause a stocking or like article of wearing
apparel to be narrowed around the leg or other part of the body of the wearer so
as to be tightened thereon and obviate the necessity of a garter or band encircling
the limb.
We attain this object by the means hereinafter described, reference being made
to the accompanying sheet of drawings. In the several views shown thereon,
similar letters refer to similar parts.
In this invention, we stamp, press, mould, or otherwise produce from sheet brass
or other preferred material a slotted disc or flat hook as a in which is a slot 6 Fig. 1.
and with a rectangular shank d forming a part of said disc or hook, which is
curved as shown by the edge view represented in Fig. 2. The edges of the slot b
and the outer edges of the disc or hook a are formed with a bead c by which round
smooth edges are obtained and cutting edges are avoided. The edge of the extreme
inner end of the slot b may be further protected by an india rubber pad as g Fig. 3,
fitted therein, said inner end being enlarged for the reception of the pad g. The
aforesaid rectangular shank is formed with slots and serrated bars f through and
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page_text: around which to pass the end of an elastic or other band or strap as m Fig. 6, by
which two of the aforesaid discs or hooks are united.
In applying our invention when employed as a garter, the belt or strap m
represented in Fig. 6 is placed on the upper portion of the leg below the knee, and
a small piece of the stocking is nipped up and twisted into one of the slots 6: the
opposite hook is then held firmly and the stocking pulled round the leg so as to
complete the circuit and secured in like manner to the opposite hook as is repre-
sented by Fig. 7.
Pants or other garments may be secured in like manner.
The hereinbefore described bead or thickened edge c may be formed separately
from the disc or hook a and fitted thereto as shown in Fig. 4 so that the part
contained within the slot may act as a spring in order to grip or clip the material
drawn into said slot.
In a modification of our invention we form the disc a and the slot in the
manner shown in Fig. 5 on the drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
1st. For supporting stockings, pants, or other garments the use of a metallic or
other disc in which is a tapered slot as band with a shank as d, having serrated
bars therein, in combination with an elastic or other band, in the manner
substantially as herein before described.
2nd. In a garter or as a support for stockings, pants, and the like, the use of
a metallic or other disc as a in which is a slot as b with thickened edges c fitted to
or forming a part thereof, substantially as herein before described.
3rd. In a garter or as a support for stockings, pants and the like, the use of a
metallic or other disc in which is a slot as b with the thickened edge e fitted to the
disc a so as to spring in the slot and close on or grip any material inserted
therein in the manner substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 20th day of March 1895.
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicants.