Improvements in or relating to Skirt Grips.
Year: 1894

page_text: Cate of Application, 3rd Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Feb., 1894-Accepted. 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Skirt Grips.
I, LEWIS MARKS of 107 London Road, Leicester in the County of Leicester,
Fruit Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to grips or holders chiefly for skirts of ladies' dresses and
may be carried out in the following manner, although the precise construction of
the holder may vary.
One form of holder which I have found to give satisfactory results consists of a
piece of metal, preferably steel punched so as to provide any desired number, say
three or four points or hooks, which may be sufficiently sharp to hook into the
material of the dress or waist band. This plate may be provided with holes and
stitched to the inside of a belt adapted to fit round the waist and the waist band of
the skirt hooked upon the projecting points, thus preventing the skirt from being
pulled out in an unsightly manner. The plate would be specially useful for the
back of the dress as skirts are not infrequently pulled out there.
If desired instead of punching the points as above described the plate may be
provided with hooks or equivalent and the skirt or waist band with eyes or
equivalent, so as to avoid using sharp points which may tear or damage the waist
band or skirt. Also a number of single hooks and corresponding eyes or equivalent
may be employed and these may be placed wherever required around the skirt.
The plate or hooks may be secured to an outside or an inside belt or to the dress
bodice, blouse or other support.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Skirt Grips.
I, LEWIS MARKS of 107 London Road, Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Fruit Merchant, 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 grips or holders chiefly for skirts of ladies' dresses and
may be carried out in the following manner, although the precise construction of
the holder may vary.
One form of holder which I have found to give satisfactory results consists of a
piece of metal, preferably steel punched so as to provide any desired number, say
three or four points or hooks, which may be sufficiently sharp to hook into the
material of the dress or waist band. This plate may be provided with holes and
stitched to the inside of a belt adapted to fit round the waist and the waist band of
the skirt hooked upon the projecting points, thus preventing the skirt from being
pulled out in an unsightly manner. The plate would be specially useful for the
back of the dress as skirts are not infrequently pulled out there.
The plate or hooks may be secured to an outside or an inside belt or to the dress
bodice, blouse or other support.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings
Figures 1, 2 and 3 are perspective views of three different forms of the device
constructed according to this invention, and
Figure 4 is a perspective view showing it attached to a belt.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
The device shown in Figure 1 comprises a sheet metal plate A formed at one edge
with any desired number of hooks B and holes A¹ the latter for enabling it to be
sewn to a belt or skirt or bodice-band.
The device shown in Figure 2 is substantially similar to the preceding example
excepting as regards the hooks B which are here formed at a central part of the
plate A.
The devices shown in Figures 1 and 2 may both be stamped out of sheet metal
the hooks B being conveniently bent up, those of Figure 2 at the same operation,
and those of Figure 1 at a subsequent operation, although if desired the devices
may be produced in any other convenient manner.
The device shown in Figure 3 is formed of wire bent or twisted and at its ends
pointed as indicated so as to provide the openings A¹ necessary for stitching or
securing it to a belt or equivalent and the sharp-pointed hooks.
The skirt grip constructed according to this invention in whatever form it may
be made may either be stitched or otherwise secured to the inside of a belt or bodice
band or equivalent or to the outside of the skirt band. Figure 3 shows an example
of the first named arrangement-here the hooks Bare presented upwards and when
the belt is placed outside of the skirt band will penetrate said band and thereby
prevent it from sagging or pulling down at the part thus supported. When the
device is stitched to the inside of the bodice or bodice band the hooks will, similarly
to the last described arrangement, be presented upwards but when stitched to the
outside of the skirt band it must be inverted so that the hooks will be presented
downwards to properly engage with the inside of the bodice or bodice-band or
equivalent.
It will be obvious that one or more of the before described skirt grips may be
stitched or secured to the same belt or equivalent and if desired some of these may
present the hooks upwards and some downwards; this latter may be found a con-
venient arrangement in connection with an outside belt which under such an
arrangement would be secured by the hook to both the bodice and skirt and thus
absolutely prevent any of these parts being pulled apart.
The device if desired may be formed considerably longer than represented in the
drawings.
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 :-
1. A skirt grip or holder substantially as described.
2. A grip or holder for supporting a dress skirt comprising one or more hooks
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The skirt grip or holder substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 3
of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of January 1894.
LEWIS MARKS.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.