Improvements in Dress Fastenings.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
Improvements in Dress Fastenings.
I, SARAH ISABEL BLEECHMORE, of East St. Kilda, in the Colony of Victoria,
Married Woman of no occupation, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and the manner in which the same is to be used to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to fastenings for wearing apparel and consists of a stud
holder and stud. The stud holder is adapted to be secured permanently to the
apparel, and the stud is adapted to be inserted into the stud holder and to be locked
therein or to be removed therefrom as may be desired. When the stud is in place
other articles of wear may be fastened to it, dispensing with the use of tapes,
hooks, buttons &c. The stud holder and the stud may each be used in various
modified forms.
Referring now to the accompanying drawings,
Figures 1 and 2 show a front elevation of a stud holder in open and closed
positions respectively.
Figures 3 and 4 sbow side elevations of a modified form of stud holder in open
and closed positions respectively, and
Figures 5 and 6 show end sectional elevations on the lines W and X in Figures 3
and 4 respectively, a stud being also shown in place in Figure 6.
Figure 7 is a plan view of the stud holder in Figure 3 also showing a stud in
position.
Figures 8 and 9 are front elevations of modified forms of stud holders, and
Figures 10 and 11 show end sectional elevations on the lines Y and Z in
Figures 8 and 9 respectively.
Figures 12 and 13 show two modified forms of stud in perspective.
Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures. The parts are
not necessarily so large or so thick as shown.
The stud holder consists of a (metal or other) back plate A, and a front plate F,
both slotted at D and D¹ respectively the slots so overlapping as to have a part E
in common in both the open and closed positions of the front plate which is secured
movably to the other as by flanges C' brazed or secured to A, or by rim pieces C¹
which may be stamped out of A as at C, and bent over the rim of F, as shown in
the drawings.
The plates A and F are curved slightly (to fit the figure of the wearer or the
curve of the corset to which A is adapted to be attached) as shown in Figure 7 but
in some cases where the plates are small they may be made plane.
The perforatious B inay be used to sew the plate A to the apparel, or the back
stay laces may be so passed through the same as to fasten A in position to support
a skirt by its band, or keep down a blouse likewise by its band at the centre of
the back.
In Figures 1 and 2 the plate F is adapted to be set by a turning motion, and in
Figures 3 and 4 by a sliding one. In Figures 8 and 9 the front plate is marked K
and is centrally pivoted at L, rim or guide pieces being dispensed with whilst the
slot in A is not straight but is curved as at D' but so arranged that when the
plate is brought to its locked position the stud may be securely fastened so that it
cannot work loose. In Figures 9 and 11, D³ shows the part of K which locks the
stud in place and D shows the openings which the stud occupies when locked in.
The stud shown in Figure 6 has its shank partly of one diameter as at H and
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page_text: partly of smaller diameter as at 1, and has two discs viz.: at front, and back as
shown.
The distance between the shank part H and back disc O is slight being regulated
by the combined thickness of the plate A and the front plate and the purpose
of the part H is to hold the stud against any pressure on its head which might
otherwise cause the back disc to be pressed uncomfortably inwards towards
the body.
Figure 12 also shows one of my studs without two thicknesses of shank but with
a centre disc N which is larger than either of the end discs M or O. In Figure 13
instead of a head and centre N there is a hook P on the shank front. This form
of stud hook may be used with the stud holder when a skirt is to be supported and
no upper garment such as a blouse requires keeping down.
It may be here stated that my stud holder might be used with other kinds of
studs than are described and illustrated or the heads of the special studs I use
might be made detachable.
My forms of studs might be used also apart from the stud holder for other
purposes. One article of apparel would in some cases be connected to the stud on
one side of the medial disc and another article on the other side. In the hook or
loop stud shown P is a loop made of spring steel, and the limbs at such distance
apart that any article such as part of a necktie or of a bow, will be firmly held
between said limbs. In this hook or loop stud there is sufficient shank to receive
such apparel as a shirt and collar, and the loop P may be turned to have its
opening above or below as may be required by the wearer. The part P may be
made detachable from the shank according to known methods.
In the foregoing description suitable stud or button holes are presumed to exist
in the garments or articles which are to be fastened by means of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In dress fastenings the combination of front and back plates, constructed and
arranged substantially as described with reference to Figures 1 and 2.
2. In dress fastenings the combinations of front and back plates constructed and
arranged substantially as described with reference to Figures 3 and 5.
3. In dress fastenings the combination of front and back plates, constructed and
arranged substantially as described with reference to Figures 4 and 6.
4. In dress fastenings the combinations of front and back plates constructed and
arranged substantially as described with reference to Figures 8 and 10.
5. In dress fastenings the combination of front and back plates constructed and
arranged substantially as described with reference to Figures 9 and 11.
6. A dress fastening consisting of the combination of a stud constructed in one
of the forms substantially as set forth, with a stud holder constructed in one of the
forms substantially as set forth.
7. As dress fastenings for the purposes set forth studs constructed substantially
as described and illustrated.
Dated this 9th day of April 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.