Improvements in Clips for Holding Articles of Wearing Apparel and for similar Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Holding Articles of Wearing Apparel
and for similar Purposes.
1, JOSEPH WALKER, of Augusta Street Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Die Sinker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to secure and suspend dresses; to clip and tighten
trousers legs for convenience when riding horseback or upon a bicycle or tricycle; to
fasten aprons; girdles cloaks and for similar purposes.
In carrying my invention into effect. I construct a slide or frame of metal or other
suitable material, which rests upon a similar slido or frame; the ends of both frames
or slides being bent over to form points and also to prevent one slide from becoming
disengaged from the others. I prefer to form the slide or frame with two bearers or
guides which rest one on the other; and I place over these guides thus resting upon
each other, spiral springs, so that the points of the guides are drawn together by the
action of the springs. The connecting bar from one guide of each slide or frame
serves as a thumb and finger manipulating surface, for opening or extending the
points of the clip.
Thus when the top and bottom connecting bars are pushed or compressed by the
hand, the springs are compressed and the points of the guides are extended so that
they may engage the fabric or material in such a manner that upon the hand being
released from the clip-the springs extend and thereby draw or tighten up the fabric
within its points.
I do not always shape the points of my slides as simple pins or hooks, but some-
times form the ends as a roughened surface having a number of teeth or points to
engage the material without damaging it, and in other cases I depend upon the
pressure of the surfaces upon the fabric or material rather than to cause any hole to
be made by the points.
I employ the same system of constructing my clip for articles of wearing apparel
generally, and form the teeth or points to suit the particular kind of material or fabric
that is intended to be held by my improved clip.
D31 dose Can 1000
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Holding Articles of Wearing Apparel
and for similar Purposes.
I, JOSEPH WALKER, of Augusta Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Die Sinker 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 :-
My invention has for its object to secure and suspend dresses; to clip and tighten
trousers legs for convenience when riding horseback or upon a bicycle or tricycle; to
fasien aprons, girdles, cloaks, and for similar purposes.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct a slide or frame of metal or other
suitable material, which rests upon a similar slide or frame; the ends of both frames
or slides being hont over to form points and also to prevent one slide from becoming
disengaged with the other. I prefer to form the slide or frame with two bearers or
guides which rest one on the other; and I place over these guides thus resting upon
each other, spiral springs, so that the points of the guides are drawn together by the

page_text: action of the springs. The connecting bar from one guide of each slide or frame serves
as a thumb and finger manipulating surface, for opening or extending the points of
the clips.
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Thus when the top and bottom connecting bars are pushed or compressed by the
hand, the springs are compressed and the points of the guides are extended so that
they may engage the fabric or material in such a manner that upon the hand being
released from the clip-the springs extend and thereby draw and tighten up the fabric
within its points.
I do not always shape the points of my slides as simple pins or hooks but sometimes
form the ends as a roughened surface having a number of teeth or points to engage
the material without damaging it, and in other cases I depend upon the pressure of
the surfaces upon the fabric or inmaterial rather than to cause any hole to be made by the
points.
I employ the same system of constructing my clip for articles of wearing apparel
generally, and form the teeth or points to suit the particular kind of material or fabric
that is intended to be held by my improved clip.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a plan of my improved clip when
extended; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same when compressed, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 are
details of the slides, and Figs. 5 and 6 details of the springs.
In Figs. 1 and 2, A A B B are the slides or frames placed one above the other
and having springs D D surrounding and binding the pointed arms or forks Bb, B'b1
in position, and having also for the more secure connection of the two sliding bars BB',
collars or rings CC placed over them and against which the springs thrust. The
cross bars A A' I do not always form in one piece with the sliding pointed arms or
guide bars, but sometimes make them independent and capable of being thus
fashioned or worked into ornamental shape with greater facility than when in one
with the side bars. When thus made separately 1 attach the cross bar to the side
bars by means of rivets, screws or by any well known mechanical method of connec-
tion such as soldering or brazing. Similarly I make two or more bars having several
tooth like points instead of the single pointed bars as illustrated, to suit any kind of
material.
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 1
claim is
1. Constructing clips for wearing apparel, for use by bicyclists and for similar
purposes, having one portion sliding above the other; and kept in tension by means
of springs surrounding the sliding portions substantially as hereinbefore described
and as illustrated.in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination and arrangement of spiral springs with pointed or forked
sliding bars, such bars being joined together or formed in one piece, for the purposes
hereinbefore described and substantially as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of June 1890.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for Applicant.