Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 12th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Dec., 1887
I HANNAH WORSLEY of Beech Lawn Audenshaw near Manchester in the County
of Lancaster Wife of George Worsley Junior do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to make a dress suspender which shall not be liable
to become loosened and let down the dress of the wearer accidentally and which
at the same time shall not be injurious to the material of which the said dress is
made.
For this purpose I provide a ring or other suitably shaped frame and I form
thereon a loop or eye, and diametrically opposite to this loop or eye I form or fix on
the said ring or frame, a small hook or its equivalent.
To this ring or frame I attach by a chain or other suitable connection a pin some-
what longer than the diameter or breadth of the ring or frame and I provide this
pin with an eye or loop at or near its blunt end.
The ring or frame is suspended by a strap, ribbon or other suitable attachment
to the belt or waistband of the wearer, and the suspender is used in the following
manner.
The dress is caught up, so that when a portion of the fabric of the skirt is
pulled a little way through the ring or frame, the said skirt is at the required
height.
The pin before named is passed through that part of the fabric which has been
pulled through the ring or frame.
The point of the pin is then passed through the eye or loop on the ring or frame,
and the eye or loop on the pin is hung upon the hook or equivalent projection on the
opposite side of the said ring or frame.
Thus the dress will be effectually suspended and will not accidentally fall, but it
can be released by disengaging the pin from the frame and withdrawing it from the
fabric.
Dated this 11th day of February 1887.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: 1 HANNAH WORSLEY of Beech Lawn, Audenshaw, near Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Wife of George Worsley Junior 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:—
The object of this invention is to make a dress suspender which shall not be liable
to become loosened and let down the dress of the wearer accidentally and which at
the same time shall not be injurious to the material of which the said dress is
made.
The nature of my said invention will be readily understood on reference to the
annexed sheet of drawings marked with figures and letters of reference corresponding
with those in the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawing is an edge view Fig. 2'a face view and Fig. 3 a section of
my improved dress suspender.
According to my invention I provide a ring or other suitably shaped frame a. a.
and I form thereon a loop or eye b. b. and diametrically opposite to this loop or eye I
form or fix on the said ring or frame a small hook c. c. or its equivalent.
To this ring or frame a. a. I attach by a chain d. d. or other suitable connection a
pin e. e. somewhat longer than the internal diameter or breadth of the ring or
frame a a and I provide this pin with an eye or loop f. f. at or near its
blunt end.
The ring or frame a a is suspended by a strap g. g. or by a ribbon or other
suitable attachment to the belt or waistband of the wearer, and the suspender is used
in the following manner.
The dress is caught up so that when a portion h. h. of the fabric of the skirt is
pulled a little way through the ring or frame a. a. as shown at Fig. 3. the said skirt
is at the required height."
The pin e. e. before named is passed through that part h. h. of the fabric which
has been pulled through the ring or frame a. a.
The point of the pin e. e. is then passed through the eye or loop b. b. on the ring or
frame a. a. and the eye or loop f. f. on the pin e. e. is hung upon the hook or
equivalent projection c. c. on the opposite side of the said ring or frame a. a.
Thus
the dress will be effectually suspended and will not accidentally fall but it can be
released by disengaging the pin e. e. from the frame a. a. and withdrawing it from
the fabric. To prevent the pin e. e. from being lost or mislaid it is preferable to
suspend it from the ring or frame a. a. by means of the small chain d. d.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved dress suspender consisting of a ring or open frame provided with a
loop or eye at one side and a hook or equivalent projection at the other, in com-
bination with a pin provided with an eye or loop at its blunt end, substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and described and illustrated by the drawings
annexed.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.