Device for Retaining Ladies' Skirts and the like in Position.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Retaining Ladies' Skirts and the like in Position.
I CAROLINE AUGUSTA WILLIAMS of No. 2 Royston Gardens Richmond in the
County of Surrey do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The principal object of my invention is to retain the skirt portion in position
relatively to the body portion of a dress when the two portions are made separately
in which case there has hitherto been a tendency of the skirt to descend at the
back part and leave a gap between itself and the body. To obviate this I provide
a metal claw piece or piece provided with prongs or pointed pieces which can be
sewn or otherwise attached to one portion of the dress so as to retain the skirt in
position. For example the claw piece or the like may be secured to the inside of a
waist-band with the claws pointing upwards so that when the waistband is put on
the claws or the like are engaged with the band or top portion of the skirt to retain
it in position. Or the claw piece or the like may be secured to the upper portion
or body part of the dress or it may be reversed in position and be placed on the top
or band of the skirt so that the claws or the like can be made to engage with the
body part of the dress.
The claw piece or the like may be made in any suitable shape and there may be
any number of claws, prongs, or pointed pieces. A convenient form is to make the
claw piece of sheet metal provided with holes for sewing to the dress and with
serrations or teeth formed in one edge which edge is turned up into hook form.
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J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Retaining Ladies' Skirts and the like in Position.
I CAROLINE AUGUSTA WILLIAMS of No. 2 Royston Gardens Richmond in the
County of Surrey Married Woman 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 principal object of my invention is to retain the skirt portion in position
relatively to the body portion of a dress when the two portions are made separately
in which case there has hitherto been a tendency of the skirt to descend at the
back part and leave a gap between itself and the bodice. To obviate this I provide
a metal claw piece or piece provided with prongs or pointed pieces which can be
sewn or atherwise attached to one portion of the dress so as to retain the skirt in
position. For example the claw piece or the like may be secured to the inside of a
waist-band with the claws pointing upwards so that when the waist-band is put on
the claws or the like are engaged with the band or top portion of the skirt to retain
it in position. Or the claw piece or the like may be secured to the upper portion
or body part of the dress or it may be reversed in position and be placed on the top
or band of the skirt so that the claws or the like can be made to engage with the
body part of the dress.
The claw piece or the like may be made in any suitable shape and there may be
any number of claws prongs or pointed pieces. A convenient form is to make a
claw piece of sheet metal as shewn in the accompanying drawing and to provide it
with holes a for securing to the dress and with serrations pointed prongs or teeth b

page_text: formed in one edge which edge is turned into hook form as shewn. I do not how-
ever limit myself to the precise form shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Figures 1, 2 and 3 are respectively a front view, an edge view and a perspective
view.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is―
A device for retaining ladies' skirts or the like in position the said device being
made substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the example shewn
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 30th day of May 1893.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47; Lincoln's Inn Fields.