Improved Appliance for holding Skirts down when Cycling and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1896
Complete Specification I Aft 21st July 1897-Accented 21st Aud
1807
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for holding Skirts down when Cycling and
the like.
I, BLANCHE EMILY THOMPSON, Dispenser and Registrar, of the Hospital for Women,
Upper Priory, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of an improved means for securing a dress of a lady cyclist
during riding and for other like purposes, my object being to effectually fasten or
hold the dress in position without impeding the freedom of muscular action.
In carrying any invention into effect I employ an elastic strip or strips eyeleted or
otherwise secured together to form a loop or sandal for fitting over the boot or shoe of
the rider and provided with two ends or extensions to which I attach suitable clips or
attachments for engaging with safety pins secured to the lower part and on the inner
side of the dress. The pins are fixed in such a position to the dress as to permit the
clips or attachments to be secured within the eye or coil forming the spring of the
safety pin and in this manner the pull or strain of the sandal is imposed upon
the pin in a longitudinal direction and thus has a minimum tendency to distort the
pin or to force it open.
By means of my sandal fastening the dress of a lady cyclist is effectually held
down in its usual position against the strongest wind without impairing the necessary
movement for pedalling.
To protect the portion of the sandal beneath the boot I preferably cover it with a
strip of leather or other suitable material, and I make such modifications in the
construction of my fastener and in the arrangement of its parts as may be necessary
to meet varying requirements.

page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention consists of improved means for securing the dress of a lady cyclist
during riding and for other like purposes, my object being to effectually fasten or
hold the dress into position without impeding the freedom of muscular action.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to.-
Figure 1, represents my improved dress holder, whilst Figure 2 illustrates to a
smaller scale, the position of the holder when in service.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ an elastic strip or strips eyeleted or
otherwise secured together to form a loop or sandal as A for fitting over the boot or
shoe of the rider, and having two ends or extensions on the upper ends which
I provide suitable clips or attachments B for engaging with safety pins C secured to
the lower part and on the inner side of the dress. The pins are fixed in such a position
to the dress as to permit the clips or attachments to be secured within the eye or
coil forming the spring of the safety pin as illustrated, and in this manner the pull
or strain of the sandal is imposed upon the pin in a longitudinal direction and thus
has a minimum tendency to distort the pin or to force it open.
By means of my sandal fastening the dress of a lady cyclist is effectually held
down in its usual position against the strongest wind without impairing the necessary
movement for pedalling.
To protect the portion of the sandal beneath the boot I preferably cover it with a
strip of leather or other suitable material, and I make such modifications in the
construction of my fastener and in the arrangement of its parts as may be necessary
to meet varying requirements.
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.-
A dress holder substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated.
Dated this 19th day of July 1897.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.