Improvements in or connected with the Securing of Blouses, Bodices,.. and the like to Skirts.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Securing of Blouses, Bodices,..
and the like to Skirts.
I, WILLIAM ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY of Nunthorpe Avenue, York, in the County
of Yorkshire, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention..
to be as follows:-
Hitherto the blouses, bodices, or the like have been pinned or hooked behind to
the waistband of the skirt presenting an untidy appearance besides being somewhat
difficult to perform. Now according to this invention the lower part of the blouse-
or bodice at the back is secured to the waistband by means of an insertion or ball
and eyelet fastening, the ball or rounded projection being secured to one part say
the waistband and the eyelet to the blouse or bodice of the skirt and either the ball
being split to spring inwards or the eyelet to spring outwards. In use the ball is.
simply forced into the eyelet and holds the blouse or bodice in position.
Dated this 30th day of June 1896.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Securing of Blouses, Bodices,.
and the like to Skirts.
I, WILLIAM ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY of Nunthorpe Avenue, York, in the County
of Yorkshire, Commercial Traveller, 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 :-
Hitherto the blouses, bodices or the like have been pinned or hooked behind to.
the waistband of the skirt presenting an untidy appearance besides being somewhat
difficult to perform. Now according to this invention the lower part of the blouse
or bodice at the back is secured to the waistband by means of an insertion or ball
and eyelet fastening, the ball or rounded projection being secured to one part say
the waistband and the pear shaped eyelet to the blouse or bodice of the skirt. In
use the balls are inserted through the enlarged parts of the eyelets and draw up to.
the smaller parts, and hold the blouse or bodice in position.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a view showing the parts of the fastening in position on the skirt and
blouse, the lower edge of the blouse being turned up to show the inside with the
fastening.
Fig. 2 is a view showing the eyelet part of the fastening secured to the outside.
of the back of the waistband of the skirt.

page_text: Fig. 3 is a view of the insertion or ball part of the fastening secured inside of
the bodice with the balls inwards.
Fig. 4 is a view from the inside showing the two parts secured together.
The part a of the fastening having the two projections b with ball heads is secured
inside the back of the bodice c. The part d of the fastening having two pear shaped
eyelets openings e at the same distance apart as the projections b is secured to the
outside of the back of the waistband with the enlarged part of the eyelets or
openings e downwards.
When desired to secure the bodice, the ball heads are pressed through the
enlarged parts of the eyelets e and then the drag on the skirt draws them up to
the smaller parts and thus prevents them from becoming unfastened. To unfasten,
the edge of the bodice is pulled downwards and then outwards.
When the fastening is used on a loose blouse that is tucked inside the skirt band,
the part a is used on the outside of the blouse and the part d on the inside of the
skirt band.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in or connected with the securing of blouses bodices and the
like to skirts substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of March 1807
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.