Improvements in Dress Holders or Suspender Attachments.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress Holders or Suspender Attachments.
1, GORDON MCDONALD of 27 Milton Street, in the City of London Fancy
Goods Manufacturer, 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 dress holders or suspender attachments as hereinafter
described, whereby ladies dresses or other garments may be held up, supported or
suspended.
The said holder or attachment consists essentially of a pair of arms, which open
and close in manner somewhat alike unto a pair of callipers, and which arms are
opened and closed through the instrumentality, or by the aid of a swivelling and
rotating screw head, which is so mounted or connected, that the rotation of it in one
or other direction, closes and opens the levers or arms.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in side elevation, a dress
holder or suspender attachment closed, and constructed and arranged according to
my invention.
It will be seen that the said holder consists of a pair of gripping levers,
terminated at their outer ends by nipping bosses, and at their inner ends by short
arms, which have their fulcra carried by body attachments, whilst the said arms
are closed or opened out by a traversing stalk or screwed inside part, which is
moved to and fro by means of a turning head or rotating nut, which is swivelly
connected to the outside body part as aforesaid.
Figure 2 represents an end elevation of the said holder Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the same, and Figure 4 is a like section as
Figure 3, but with the levers fully opened out, and thus showing the relative
positions of the component parts.constituting the operating mechanism of the
levers.
Figure 5 shows an edge view of the stalk or interior part of the holder separately
showing the cross slot within its bottom, wherein the short arms of the levers work,
and are there connected.
Figure 6 is a section of the said stalk or middle part Figure 5, showing the
direction of the gap, and the holes for the pins, which take through the elongated
holes in the short arms of the gripping levers.
Figure 7 shows the gripping levers separately.
Figure 8 shows the rotating head and body part, the former connected swivelly
to the latter.
Figure 9 is a vertical section of Figure 8, and Figure 10 is an elevation of the
said last named combined parts, showing the slot and the fulcra ears of the outside
hody part.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
are gripping levers, jointed at a³, to fulcra ears b², directed from the bottom
and opposite sides of an outside body part or casing b, which is connected by a
turned in part 3, see Figures 3, 4, 8 and 9, to a swivelly connected and rotating
screw head or nut c, which takes upon a screwed stalk or inside body part d, which
has a threaded ring at its upper end, and at its lower end a cross gap d³, wherein
short arms a', of the levers a, take and are there connected, by pins d', taking
through elongated holes a', respectively of them.
Thus the connection of the inside stalk or middle part. d, to the extreme inner
ends of the levers, or otherwise to the short arms of them, is made by fast pins of
the one part, taking through elongated holes of the other part, so that on the stalk

page_text: or inside body part being traversed, or raised and lowered by the rotation of the
head or mute, the said short arms are pulled inwards or pushed outwards, hence
the closing or the opening of the.gripping levers or arms, and the bringing together
of the bosses a, terminating them.
The said short arms of the levers, as will be seen in the several figures, work
and pass through gaps between the fulcra ears 6, of the outside body part or
casing, which is connected to the head, by turning the metal at the top boundary
edge into an annular and circumferential groove, in the lower part of the
head C", which is screwed up its middle at c¹.
:
Assuming now that the arms are open as in Figure 4, then place the dress to be
held between the nipping bosses a², when by rotating the swivelling head or nut c,
from right to left, the inside body part or stalk d, is raised by the screw action,
when by such raising, the short arms are drawn inwardly, and the levers a,
turned upon their fulcra a³, and closed thereby.
The turning of the head in the reverse direction, traverses the stalk towards the
arms, which are pressed outwardly, hene. the opening.
The angular movement made by the short arms is.allowed for by the elongated
holes, wherethrough the pins & crossing the gap ³, pass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is
First In a dress holder or suspender attachment, consisting essentially of a
pair of levers or arms, respectively jointed to an outer body part, and with inner
and short arms of them, connected to a traversing stalk or inside body part, which
is operated by a swivelly connected screw head or nut taking upon the said stalk
or middle part, substantially as described as described and set forth.
:
Secondly In a dress holder or suspender attachment, carrying and jointing the
inner ends of the levers, to fulera ears of a fixed body part, whilst the short arms
or inner ends of the said levers are connected by elongated holes to a traversing
stalk or middle body part, substantially as set forth.
Thirdly: In a dress holder, operating the rising and falling middle part by
means of a screw head or screw nut, swivelly connected to an outside body part, as
set forth.
Fourthly
The means as herein described for operating the levers or arms.
Fifthly The general construction arrangement and combination of the parts as
described and set forth.
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GORDON MCDONALD,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.