An Improved Dress Support.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 28th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress Support.
I, WILLIAM JOHN MORTON, of 39, Lombard Street, in the City and County of
London, Stockbroker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
My invention relates to supports or dummy forms upon which dresses, mantles or
other articles of apparel are supported either during their manufacture or at other
times to prevent the creasing of the said garments as would be the case were they
folded.
My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of such a dress
support which is adapted to fold into a small compass when not required for use,
and further to be capable of being swivelled upon its support or stand to facilitate
its manipulation such as when draping a dress thereon.
To carry my invention into effect, I arrange a frame of wood or other suitable
material preferably round in shape to support the waist of the garment; a thin lip
or ledge being attached to the frame around its edges to support that part of the
dress which rests upon the hips.
This frame is supported upon a telescopic stand (hereinafter more fully described,)
so as to swivel thereon.
From this said frame I append by means of tapes or other flexible material a
series of diaphragms or frames of cardboard, wire or other similar material.
These diaphragms are so shaped to correspond to the required shape of the dress,
at the relative heights at which they are suspended I may provide holes in these
diaphragms or equivalently rings in the frames when made of wire through which
the upright of the stand can be passed in order to prevent the suspended diaphragms
from swinging on their flexible supports.
The stand upon which I support the shape or dummy form I make of tubes
telescoping into one another, tripod legs being provided at the lower end of the
tubes, and adapted to fold into such a compass as to permit of them being slid into
the said tubes where they are telescoped into one another.
The length of the stand when collapsed will not then be more than the width of
the largest diaphragm.
As the diaphragms or frames are flat and flexibly suspended, when lifted off the
stand and collapsed they occupy very little space.
Dated this 28th day of October 1890.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dress Support.
I, WILLIAM JOHN MORTON, of 39 Lombard Street, in the City and County of
London, Stockbroker do hereby declare the nature of my 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 supports or dummy forms upon which dresses, mantles,
or other articles of apparel are supported either during manufacture or at other
times to prevent the creasing of the said garments, as would be the case were they
folded

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My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of such a dress
support which is adapted to fold into a small compass when not required for use
and further to be swivelled upon its support or stand to facilitate its manipulation,
such as when draping a dress thereon. In order that my invention may be the
better understood I will now proceed to describe the same in relation to the
drawings hereunto annexed reference being had to the letters and figures marked
thereon, like letters refer to like parts throughout the drawings.
Figure 1 is a view in elevation of my improved dress stand fully expanded.
Figure 2 is a plan of one of the diaphragms formed as a wire frame.
Figures 3, 4, & 5, show various methods of locking the telescopic standard in
position.
Figures 6, 7, & 8, show different forms of bosses to which the tripod legs are
hinged.
Figure 9 is a view of the tripod expanded and so arranged as to permit of the
legs being folded up and inserted in the tube of the stand.
Figure 10 is a sectional plan of samme taken through the tube.
Figure 11 is a view of the tripod folded up and inserted into the telescope tube.
Figure 12 shows a further modification in the tripod legs.
To carry my invention into effect a frame A. of papier machier, wood, or other
suitable material is arranged of such a form as to support the waist of the garment,
a thin lip B or ledge being provided around the frame on its edges to support that
part of the dress which rests upon the hips.
This frame is supported on a telescopic stand C (hereinafter more fully described)
so as to swivel thereon.
From the frame A I append by means of tapes D or other flexible material, a
series of diaphragms or frames E of wire cardboard or other suitable material.
These diaphragms are so shaped as to correspond to the required shape of the
dress, at the relative heights at which they are suspended.
I provide holes F in these diaphragms or equivalent rings in the frames when
made of wire, through which the upright of the stand can be passed, in order to
prevent the suspended diaphragms or frames E from swinging on their flexible
supports.
The lowest frame may have a larger hole than the rest should it be low enough
to come in contact with the tripod legs.
The stand C upon which I support the shape or dummy form I make of a
telescopic nature having tripod legs N at its lower end forming the base of
support.
This stand may be constructed in many equivalent ways in order to fulfil the
necessary requirement of compactness aimed at in this invention.
I will now
describe a few ways of carrying this out which may be modified without departing
from the essence of my invention.
The tubes G G of the stand C telescope into one another and may be two or
more in number.
Means are provided to lock them in their expanded condition such as a set
screw Has shewn in Fig. 3 or a bayonet joint I in Fig. 4 or the outer tube G in
Fig. 5 may be made taper at the end into which the smaller tube G is inserted,
the tapered end is split and a ring K is arranged upon the outside of it and adapted
to be forced down the taper so as to jam one tube on the other by reducing the
diameter of the outer tube which is allowed for by the longitudinal splits.
I may form a thread on the taper of the tube and make the ring as a nuit to
screw thereon.
Upon the lower end of the telescope tubes G I arrange tripod legs N these legs
may fold upon the tube or be inserted within the same.
In Figures 6, 7, & 8, I show a collar L having lugs M to which the legs N are
hinged.
The collar L as shown in Fig. 6 is adapted to slide up the tube so that the legs
can fold down and be inclosed proximity to the outside of the tube G.

page_text: A jamming nut engaging on a taper screwed split end is arranged to effect the
locking of the collar on the tube.
In Figures 7 & 8 the mode of attachinent shewn is that of screwing the collar on
the end of the tube, so as to be removed and reversed on the tube when the stand is
folded up.
This attachment may be effected in an equivalent manner by a bayonet joint as
shown in Fig. 4 in which case the collar slides up the tube in the same manner as
the collar shown in Figure 6.
In Figures 9, 10, & 11 the legs are arranged so that when open the tops form a
spigot on to which the lower tube G can engage as a socket.
When folded up the legs are inserted within the tube G as shewn in Fig. 11.
Or the legs may be hinged to the lower part of the tube so as to turn back
thereon, and when opened out for supporting the upright, may be prevented from
spreading by a ring or collar O embracing them as shewn as Fig. 12.
The back of the legs butting against the tube which projects below the hinge
piece, will prevent the legs being forced in too far by the embracing ring.
The ring may be utilised to maintain the legs in their folded position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of any said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1st. A dress stand consisting of a frame swivelling upon a telescopic stand
having tripod legs, and a series of diaphragms or frames suspended one above the
other by tapes or other flexible material.
2nd. In a dress stand, a skeleton collapsable form for draping the garment upon
in combination with a telescopic upright or standard having tripod legs which are
adapted to be folded upon the telescopic upright or within the same substantially
as described.
3rd. In a dress stand an upright stand in combination with a frame from which
a series of diaphragms or frames are appended one over the other by means of tapes
or flexible material.
4th. The arrangement and construction of a dress stand substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of August 1891.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.