An Improved Device for Attaching a Lady's Skirt to a Waist-belt, or for similar purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Attaching a Lady's Skirt to a Waist-belt,
or for similar purposes.
I FRANK ANDREWS PRIDMORE, of 22, Burnley Road, Stockwell S.W.
Clerk, 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 an improved device for attaching a skirt to a waist-belt,
or for similar purposes, and has for its object to provide means for connecting a
ladies' skirt or similar garment, to a waist-belt or the like, so as to dispense with
the use of tapes and other imperfect means heretofore employed for keeping
the upper part or waist-band of a skirt in position around the waist, or for like
purposes.
In order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one form of my invention,
Fig. 2 being a side view of same.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation of another form of the invention while
Fig. 4 shows in actual use a slightly modified form of the device illustrated in
Fig. 1.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout the figures, a (Figs. 12 and 4) is a metal or other plate having
one or more bent down or hooked portions a', at the top of same, and the lower
extremity bent or otherwise turned up to form a clip or hook a', between which,
and the plate proper a, the upper shank 6 of a safety-pin is passed, the latter being
held securely in the position shewn, by the resiliency of the material composing the
bent plate a.
In lieu of the above arrangement, the said upper shank 6 of the safety-pin, may
be soldered, or otherwise, fixed to the lower end of the plate a, if found desirable
or convenient.
The device as described, is intended for use where a belt formed of leather or
other material having the necessary rigidity is employed in conjunction with such
device.
In operation the lower or pointed shank 1 of the safety-pin arrangement is
inserted into the waist-band e' (shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 4) of the skirt c and
the pin then shut or secured, whilst the hook or hooks a¹ are then brought into
position over the upper edge of the waist-belt e, thereby affording a perfect support
for the said skirt c.
In the form of device shewn in Fig. 3, which is intended for use with belts or
bands formed of silk, cloth, or similar flexible material, eyes a³ are formed in the
plate a, in any desirable part of same, for the purpose of sewing or similarly
securing such plate to the silk or similar belt or band.
Any desirable number of the above described devices may be employed.
I do not wish to confine myself strictly to the form of the plates a shewn, but
may vary same as found desirable.
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 :-
1. The improved device for attaching a skirt to a waist-belt, or for similar
nurnoses consisting of a plate booked at the unner part, and at the lower extremity.

page_text: to which latter is secured a safety-pin arrangement, substantially as described with
reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 4 of the drawings.
2. The improved device for attaching a skirt to a waist-belt, or for similar
purposes, consisting of a plate, having eyes formed in same, and means for attaching
a safety-pin arrangement to the lower extremity, substantially as described with
reference to Fig. 3 of the drawings.
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HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, Agents for the Applicant.