An Improved Device for Supporting Skirts and similar Garments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1896-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Supporting Skirts and similar Garments.
I, LEON NAPOLEON LOEB, President of The Anglo-American Trading Co., of
Wool Exchange, Coleman Street, London, E.C., do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for supporting skirts and similar
garments, which device can be very easily and conveniently applied and detached.
My improved device comprises a brooch, safety-pin, or the like for attachment
to the skirt or other garment, combined with a hook which is so arranged that it
can be very readily slipped over or caused to engage with the belt of the wearer,
either before or after the said safety-pin or the like is secured to the skirt or other
garment, which operation can be very readily performed even behind the back.
My improved device may, moreover, be easily removed or detached.
I find it advantageous to make the hook and the bar or frame of the brooch or
safety-pin by stamping the same out of a single piece of metal, the pin being
secured thereto by soldering or in any other convenient manner, and the catch for
the said pin being either formed on or attached to the said bar or frame. Suitable
ornaments may also be secured to the said bar or frame, if desired, or it may be
embellished in any other suitable manner.
It is obvious that my improved supporting device may be made of any suitable
design, materials or size without departing from the nature of my said invention.
Dated 21st day of November 1895.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Device for Supporting Skirts and similar Garments.
I, LEON NAPOLEON LOEB, President of The Anglo-American Trading Co.,
of Wool Exchange, Coleman Street, London E.C., 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 an improved device for supporting skirts and similar
garments, which device can be very easily and conveniently applied and detached.
My improved device comprises a brooch, safety-pin or the like for attachment
to the skirt or other garment, combined with a hook which is so arranged that it
can be very readily slipped over or caused to engage with the belt of the wearer
after the latter has been fastened around the waist, and either before or after the
said safety-pin or the like is secured to the skirt or other garment, which operation
can be very readily performed even behind the back. My improved device can,
moreover, be easily removed or detached without taking off the belt.
D

page_text: Figure 1 is a front elevation, and
Figure 2 a side elevation of one form of my improved device for supporting
skirts.
Figures 3 and 4 are different views hereinafter referred to, illustrating a detail
of construction.
a, a indicate the hook and b the bar or frame of the brooch or safety-pin, which
parts, in the example shown, are formed, with suitable ornamentations, by stamping
from a single piece of sheet-metal. The tongue a¹ of the hook a passes over and
engages with the waist-belt c of the wearer, whilst the skirt or similar garment
to be supported is attached to the bar of the brooch or safety-pin by means of
the pin d thereof. The pin d may be attached to the bar b by means of a hinge-pin
or rivet in the usual manner; in the device shown, however, it is attached thereto
without the use of a separate hinge-pin or rivet. For this purpose, lugs e,
Figure 3, are formed at one end of the bar b, each of which lugs has a projection
or stud formed thereon, by stamping, so that, when the luge e are bent up into
the position shown in Figures 2 and 4, with the eye d¹ of the pin d between them,
the projections or studs extend into the said eye and meet or nearly meet each
other, thus forming a pivot about which the pin d can turn. The clip g, under
which the end of the pin d rests when in its closed position, is made integrally with
the bar b, so that the whole device consists of two parts only, viz. :-the
piece a, a, b, e and the pin d. The device is preferably lacquered or finished in any
suitable manner.
Suitable ornaments may also be secured to the said bar or
frame, if desired, or it may be embellished in any other convenient manner.
It is obvious that my improved supporting device may be made of any suitable
design, materials or size without departing from the nature of my said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it understood
that I make no claim to a device provided with a loop or belt-slide intended to be
threaded upon the belt before the latter is fastened around the waist or before the
two parts of the buckle are secured to the belt, as I am aware that such a device is
not new but my improved device differs therefrom inasmuch as, in place of a
belt-slide, I use a hook, so that my device can be first attached to the skirt and
then simply hooked on to the belt of the wearer after the latter has been put on in
the usual manner; and I declare that what I claim is :-
The combined hook and brooch or safety-pin adapted to be attached to a skirt
and to engage with the waist-belt of the wearer after the same has been fastened
around the waist, substantially as, and for the purposes, hereinbefore described.
Dated the 27th day of July 1896.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.