An Appliance for Raising and Lowering Ladies' Skirts.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 20th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Raising and Lowering Ladies' Skirts.
1, JAMES LAMB EADIE Woodbine Terrace Newport East Fifeshire Merchant do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To enable ladies' skirts to be raised or lowered to any convenient height.
I carry my invention into effect by affixing a rack or pierced or indented piece of
metal provided with a slide and pawl, or a mechanical equivalent theroto, to any con-
venient portion of the dress which may be reached by hand. To the slide, or to a ring
attached thereto, the ends of tapes or cords are attached the other ends of which are
attached to the dress.
To operate the invention the slide with attachments is raised or lowered by hand,
the pawl engaging with the rack arrangement and thus sustaining the skirt at the
desired height.
JAS. L. EADIE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Raising and Lowering Ladies' Skirts.
I, JAMES LAMB EADIE, of Woodbine Terrace, East Newport, in the County of Fife,
North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performned, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:
The object of this invention is to enable ladies skirts to be raised or lowered to any
convenient height, thus keeping them to a certain extent, from being soiled by the
mud and dust which may be on the roadway.
The accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings illustrates the method of carrying
out my invention according to one modification.
Figures 1. and 2. represent a front and a side view respectively of the appliance,
and
Figure 3. a section at A. A., while
Figure 4. illustrates how, and at what place it may be affixed to the ladies
apparel.
In these drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
I carry my invention into effect by affixing a rack, or pierced, or indented piece of
metal 5., provided with a slide 6. and pawl 7. or a mechanical equivalent thereto, to
any convenient portion of the dress which may be reached by the hand.
In my drawing (Figure 4.) I have shown the appliance affixed to the material
which forms the foundation of the back of a ladies skirt, and have therein shewn the
drapery cut open, and laid back in order that the appliance and its appurtenances may
be inore clearly seen. To the slide 6. or to a ring or rings 8. attached thereto, the
ends of tapes or cords 9. are affixed, the other ends being attached to the dress at 10.
Instead of fastening the cords 9. to the rings 8. I may only pass a cord through each
ring and fasten both ends of same to the dress. 11. is a backing piece made of the
same material as 5. but it does not have the holes 12. in it, and is for the purpose
of keeping the dress material from contact with the slide 6. Both parts 5. and 11.
are preferably made of very thin tempered steel, so as to give considerable flexibility,
and the pawl 7. and rings 8. are preferably made from the one piece of round
wire.
The two pieces of metal 5. and 11. are bound together by rivets passing through
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page_text: them and through the parts 13. said paris being designed to fasten the applianca by
sowing it to the dress, and also to act as distance pieces between the before mentioned
pieces 5. and 11.
To operate the appliance, the slide 6. with attachments is raised or lowered by hand,
the pawl 7. engaging with the rack arrangement or holes 12. and thus sustaining the
skirt at the desired height.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is
(1) In an appliance for raising and lowering ladies skirts, the use of the rack or
pierced or indented piece of metal 5. substantially as described.
(2) In an appliance for raising and lowering ladies skirts, the combination of the
rack or pierced or indented piece of metal 5. with the slide 6., pawl 7., rings 8., and
cords 9., substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(3) In an appliance for raising and lowering ladies skirts, the general construction,
combination and arrangement of parts, substantially as and for the purposes herein set
forth.
Dated this 8th day of October 1890.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
Applicant's Agents.