An Improved Skirt Placket Fastening.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1898-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Skirt Placket Fastening.
I, DELBERT CRANMER GOODSPEED, of 115, Main Street, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Michigan, United States of America, 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:
My invention relates to improvements in skirt placket fasteners and consists
in suitable stiffening pieces for the opposite edges of the placket, with means for
fastening the stiffening pieces together at two or more points and for engaging
one or both of said stiffening pieces with the belt to support the skirt.
My invention is shown in accompanying drawing in which A, and A represent
the opposite stiffening pieces. These stiffening pieces are preferably made of
steel and pivoted together at the lower end on the loose rivet a. The steels are
shown, con-
sewed into, or on the inside of the skirt at the opposite edges of the placket, so
that when the skirt is in place and fastened around the wearer the steels lie one
over the other and close the opening made by the placket. To hold
the steel in this closed position I employ the fastenings
sisting of the hooks a¹ and the eye a². The hooks a¹ are riveted
to the inside steel and is bent outward to adapt it to embrace the outer
or opposite steel A'. The outer steel is provided with the eyes a² which are
riveted to the outside of the steel but bent, or outset, to bring the end b out to
clear the point of the hook and to allow the hook to enter the opening in the
eye. The point b, also serves as a guide to aid in engaging the hook with the eye.
The outer steel A¹ I provide with the supporting hook B. This hook may be
integral with the steel and be formed from its upper end or it may form a part
of the upper eye.
In either case it should preferably extend above the end of
the steel proper and above the end of the opposite steel, so that when the hook
embraces the upper edge of a belt, or an eye under the waist belt the upper
ends of the steel will lie under the belt. By the use of the hook the skirt is
supported on the steel and for the whole length of the steel, without the liability
of tearing out the hook or injuring the garment as in the case of ordinary sup-
porting hook. By the same means the upper hook and eye of the fastener are
held up underneath the belt and in engagement.
As the belt extends some distance down along the steels, when they are held
up on the hook, they are held to the body of the wearer and prevented from
swinging outward, when the lower portion of the skirt is raised.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a skirt placket fastener the combination of the pivoted steels, the hook
and eyes, and the supporting hook on the end of one of said steels, substantially

page_text: 2. In a skirt placket fastener the combination of the pivoted steels the hooks a¹
and the eyes a² provided with the outset end b, substantially as described.
3. In a skirt placket fastener the combination of the steels and the supporting
hook b, attached to the upper end of one of said steels, substantially as described.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1898.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.