An Improved Suspensory Belt for Ladies.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 30th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspensory Belt for Ladies.
I, EMMA JANET PIKE trading as Madame Dupont of 23 Colcherne Road,
Brompton in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved suspensory belt for ladies' wear, and it has
for its object to provide an improved means of securing the ends of the napkin or
pad without the use of buckles, and of retaining the same in position with a light
elastic pressure which permits of complete freedom of motion without discomfort.
The belt comprises a waist-band of elastic or partially elastic material either
endless or provided with a suitable fastening to the front and back portions of
which are attached pendant tabs or gussett pieces of elastic or non-elastic material,
and of such form as to distribute over the belt any strain which may come upon
them, the said tabs terminating in attachments preferably of indiarubber in the
form of rings or otherwise having orifices of small diameter such that when the
ends of the napkin or pad are threaded through the said apertures, they will be
gripped by the constriction of the rubber and securely held without the use of
safety pins, buttons, buckles, or other fastenings of any kind.
Instead of the said terminal attachments being made of indiarubber, they may be
of non elastic material and formed by a series of holes pierced in the tabs or small
rings of unyielding material, in which case the belt and tabs themselves should be
made of elastic material to yield to the movements of the wearer and avoid undue
strain. Again, instead of indiarubber attachments to non-clastic tabs, the tabs
themselves may be of indiarubber and have holes pierced in them through which
the ends of the pad would be threaded.
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EMMA J. PIKE.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspensory Belt for Ladies.
I EMMA JANET PIKE, trading as Madame Dupont, of 23 Coleherne Road,
Brompton, in the County of Middlesex, 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 relates to an improved suspensory device for ladies' sanitary
napkins or pads, and it has for its object to provide improved means of securing
and retaining the same in position with a light elastic pressure and without the use
of buckles, safety pins, buttons, or other similar fastenings. To this end the
invention consists of tabs or their equivalent of indiarubber which are adapted as
hereafter described to act as holdfasts for the ends of the napkin or pad without
the use of any other fastening. These tabs may either be permanently fixed to,
or be made a part of the belt, or be made movable thereon, and the belt may either
be wholly or partly elastic and may be endless or provided with a buckle or other
means of fastening the ends together when the belt is applied round the waist.
The accompanying drawing forming part of this Specification represents various
modes of applying the tabs to the belt for the abovementioned purpose.

page_text: Figure 1 represents an endless belt made wholly of a strip of indiarubber, the
ends being cemented together and the tabs being of the same imaterial permanently
cemented to the belt.
Figure 2 shows a similar belt made of the same material as before, the tabs being
made movable along the belt, to which, however, they are permanently attached.
Figure 3 shows the tab attached to the belt through the medium of an india-
rubber ring.
Figure 4 shows a tab to be attached to the belt by sewing and
Figure 5 shows a modification of the tab.
In each of these forms the waist belt a made wholly or partly of elastic material,
is provided with a pendent tab or its equivalent, both at front and back made of
a strip of indiarubber having two or more small holes c punched in it at intervals
in its length. Through one or more of these holes the ends of the napkin or pad
are to be threaded, the rubber readily stretching to allow of this being done, and
by its constriction securely retaining the ends when thus inserted.
In Figure 1 the belt and tabs are made wholly of strips of vulcanised sheet
indiarubber, the belt being about an inch broad by and of an inch thick, and the
tabs about twice that thickness, more or less.
In Figure 2 the tabs are in all respects similar to those in Figure 1 except that
they are made separate from the belt and are attached thereto by the belt being
passed through slits d in the tab which is free to be slid along the belt.
In Figure 3, each tab is united to or formed in one with an indiarubber ring
which is introduced in the length of the belt a, the two halves of the belt being
attached to the rings by lapping and sewing the ends as shown. In this case the
belt need not be of elastic material as the rubber rings introduced into the belt
afford the necessary elasticity.
In Figure 4 the india rubber tab is made T shaped, pieces of canvas being
introduced in the thickness of the cross piece at the ends as indicated by the cross
hatching to admit of being directly stitched to a belt of any suitable material.
In Figure 5 the tabs are constituted by broadening the belt at front and back
these broadened portions having holes in them for the passage of the ends of the
diaper as in the case of the tabs before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. In a suspensory belt, the use of tabs or their equivalents of indiarubber
having holes punched therein and adapted by the elasticity of the rubber to act as
holdfasts for ladies' sanitary towels or diapers as specified.
2nd. The manufacture of tabs of indiarubber with holes punched therein, said
tabs being adapted for attachment to a belt and to act as holdfasts for ladies
sanitary towels or diapers, as specified.
Dated this 28th day of April 1891.