NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS FOR LOOPING OR TYING-UP THE SLEEVES OR OTHER PARTS OF CHILDRENS' OR OTHER FROCKS OR DRESSES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Waltor William Tambs, of Aston, in the County of
Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS FOR
LOOPING OR TYING-UP THE SLEEVES OR OTHER PARTS OF CHILDRENS' OR OTHER
FROCKS OR DRESSES"
Sealed the 6th December 1878, and dated the 25th June 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter William Tambs at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th June 1878.
WALTER WILLIAM TAMBS, of Aston, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller. "NEW
OR IMPROVED MEANS FOR LOOPING OR TYING-UP THE SLEEVES OR OTHER PARTS OF
CHILDRENS' OR OTHER FROCKS OR DRESSES."
The objects of this Invention, which relates to the looping, or tying-up, or fastening,
or securing the sleeves or other parts of childrens' or other frocks or dresses, are to
do away with the usual method of fastening or securing the same by the use of
ribbons, silk, cord, cotton, or textile fabrics (in the form of rosettes, bows, or
otherwise), which easily slip and get untied and soiled in the necessary and
frequent re-tying, and so need constant renewal, and to substitute in lieu thereof
certain means, both useful and ornamental, by which the desired looping, fastening,
and unfastening may be more conveniently effected, and which will not need much
constant renewal.
In carrying out the Invention, in practice I employ suitable metal or non-
metallic substances other than of the textile nature above referred to, and I make
the improved fasteners thereof of any desired ornamental or other shape, in the
form of brooches, studs, solitaires, and similar articles of jewellery, and I adapt
to such articles at either the back, front, or sides, and externally or internally, a
spring, catch, bolt, pin, clasp, hook, or other suitable contrivance, so as to enable the
fastener to open at a part so that the sleeve or other part of a frock, dress, or
garinent can be inserted therein and securely held upon the retaining part being

page_text: closed, and released from the frock on the part being opened, and without creasing
or disarranging the garment.
It will be obvious that such improved fasteners can be made in various forms and
patterns, whilst still preserving the same general idea and attaining the same
object, and that they will be more efficient and durable, and more easily applied
than ribbons or like means that have been heretofore employed, and the use of
which means the improved fasteners are intended to supersede.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Walter William Tambs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
December 1878.
WALTER WILLIAM TAMBS, of Aston, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller.
"NEW
OR IMPROVED MEANS FOR LOOPING OR TYING-UP THE SLEEVES OR OTHER PARTS OF
CHILDRENS' OR OTHER FROCKS OR DRESSES."
The objects of this Invention, which relates to the looping, or tying-up, or
fastening, or securing the sleeves or other parts of childrens' or other frocks or
dresses, are to do away with the usual method of fastening or securing the same by
the use of ribbon, silk, cord, cotton, or textile fabrics in the form of rosettes, bows,
or otherwise, and which easily slip and get untied and soiled in the necessary and
frequent re-tying, and so need constant renewal, and to substitute in lieu thereof
certain means, both useful and ornamental, by which the desired looping, fastening,
and unfastening may be more conveniently effected, and which will not need such
constant renewal.
In carrying out my Invention in practice I employ any suitable metal or non-
metallic substances other than of the textile nature above referred to, and I make
the improved fasteners thereof of any desired ornamental or other shape in the form
of brooches, studs, solitaires, and similar articles of jewellery, some of which forms
.are illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings; and I adapt to such
articles at either the back, front, or sides, externally or internally, a spring, catch
bolt, pin, clasp, hook, or other suitable contrivanco, so as to enable the fastener to
be opened at a part to allow of the sleeve or other part of a frock, dress, or other
garment being inserted thereinto, and securely held upon the retaining part being
closed, and released from the frock on the part being opened, and without creasing
or disarranging the garment.
It will be obvious that such improved fasteners can be made in various forms
and patterns, whilst still preserving the same general idea and attaining the same
objects, and that they will be more efficient and durable, and easily applied than
ribbons or like means that have been heretofore employed, the use of which means
the improved fasteners are intended to supersede.

page_text: As above referred to some of the very numerous forms in which such improved
fasteners may be made are illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
Figure 1 represents a plain metal fastoning, ring, or band 1 with an ornamental
front 2.
Figure 2 represents an ornamental shell cap or blank 2, with a chain fastening 1
made of beads or links.
Figure 3 represents an ornamental or plain form of brooch 2, which may be
enamelled or set with stones as jewellery ordinarily is, the catch 1 engaging with a
slot, ring, or other fastening in or upon the back of the shell or brooch 2.
And Figures 4 and 5 represent front and back views respectively of a fastening 2,
which may be plain or of any desired configuration or design, and from which are
suspended ornamental rows of beads 3, and to the back of which is suitably
connected a coiled piece of wire 1, the free end of which engages with the catch
hole 4.
Having now described the nature and objects of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I do not restrict myself to the
precise forms of fastenings illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, as
the same are only intended as illustrations of some of the very numerous
applications of which the principle of my Invention is susceptible, and not as
illustrations of the only methods of carrying the same into practice, but what I
claim as the Invention secured to me by the horein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the manufacture of useful and ornamental fasteners for securing the
sleeves or other parts of childrens' or other frocks or dresses of any suitable metallic
or non-metallic substances other than of the textile nature above referred to, such
improved fasteners being made of any desired ornamental shape in the form of
jewellery or otherwise, and provided with suitable catching, holding, or fastening
contrivances, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter William Tabs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK.
WALTER WILLIAM TAMBS. (L.S.)