An Improved Dress or Skirt Suspender.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress or Skirt Suspender.
I, ANNIE TOMKINS of 6 Mount Pleasant Road Crouch Hill London N., Dress-
maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved suspender intended to be worn by women
to hold up the skirts of their dress at a desired height. The improved suspender
consists of a bar having suspended from it, preferably one at each end and one in
the middle, three clamps designed to seize and hold the skirt in any place at which
they may be fixed and thus enable the skirt to be lifted and upheld at these three
places, or less if desired, by a cord secured to the bar and suitably attached or
fastened at or around the waist of the wearer. The clamps may be formed each of
two discs of metal connected by a bent wire on which slides a clip by which the
wire may be pressed together so that the discs are firmly pressed together on the
cloth lying between them. The inner faces of the discs may be covered with rubber
or cloth and may be made so that they are convex towards each other. By
attaching the suspending cord to the bar by means of a safety hook the suspender
may be worn inside the skirt by attaching the clamps or holders to the inside of
the skirt previous to putting on the same. The suspender may then be detached so
as to allow the skirt to fall or raised and attached to uphold the skirt without being
visible outside the skirt and without imparting a pulled or wry appearance by reason
of the three separate points of attachment.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1891.
TIED DRD3
HIND DRDO
HERD
ĐT & O
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress or Skirt Suspender.
I ANNIE TOMKINS of 6 Mount Pleasant Road, Crouch Hill, London N. Dress-
maker 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 follow-
ing statement :—
This invention consists in an improved suspender intended to be worn by women
to hold up the skirts of their dress at a desired height. The improved suspender
consists of a bar having suspended from it, preferably one at each end and one in
the middle, three clamps designed to seize and hold the skirt in any place at which
they may be fixed and thus enable the skirt to be lifted and upheld at these three
places, or less if desired, by a cord secured to the bar and suitably attached or
fastened at or around the waist of the wearer. The clamps may be formed each
of two disks of metal connected by a bent wire on which slides a clip by which the
wire may be pressed together so that the disks are firmly pressed together on the
cloth lying between them. The inner faces of the disks may be covered with
rubber or cloth and may be made so that they are convex towards each other. By
attaching the suspending cord to the bar by means of a safety hook, the suspender
may be worn inside the skirt by attaching the clamps or holders to the inside of the
skirt previous to putting on the same. The suspender may then be detached so as
to allow the skirt to fall or raised and attached to uphold the skirt without being
visible outside the skirt and without imparting a pulled or wry appearance by
reason of the three separate points of attachment.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
A dress suspender consisting of a bar having two or more clips freely slung
thereon each consisting of a bent wire terminating in two convex disks and having
thereon a sliding fastener substantially as set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., Agents to Applicant.