IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS OR CLIPS FOR SUPPORTING STOCKINGS AND FOR FASTENING GLOVES AND PURSES AND FOR FASTENING OR SUPPORTING OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Tew at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 26th May 1882.
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FREDERICK TEW of Castle Street Falcon Square in the City of London.―
IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS OR CLIPS FOR SUPPORTING STOCKINGS AND FOR
FASTENING GLOVES AND PURSES AND FOR FASTENING OR SUPPORTING OTHER
ARTICLES OF DRESS
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This invention has for its object improvements in fastenings or clips for
supporting stockings and for fastening gloves and purses and for fastening or
supporting other articles of dress.
My improved clip or fastening as made for a stocking clip consists of two pieces
of sheet metal suitably formed and jointed together. One of these pieces which
I call the "plate" is approximately oblong in form and it has at one end an eye to
receive the end of the tape or elastic band to which it is to be attached. At the
other end of the plate there is a portion turned upwards at right angles to form a
tooth to aid, with the other part of the clip which I term "the dap" in holding the
stocking. On either side of the plate an ear is turned up and it is perforated to
receive the pivots of the flap. Finally slits are made along the plates so as almost
to detach a strip which is thus adapted to serve as a spring. The spring remains
attached by its end adjacent to the tooth, it extends nearly to the eye where its
end is turned up in order that it may more readily receive the pressure of the finger
or thumb to open the clip as presently explained.
Or in some cases a spring formed in a separate piece of metal may be applied.
The piece of sheet metal which forms the flap is also approximately oblong in form;
near one of its ends there is a hole to receive the tooth of the plate and at the sides
near the other end the pivots project. The portion of the flap beyond the pivots is
turned down at right angles. The spring of the plate has an incline upon it and
as the clip is closed the bent end of the flap presses upon this incline and the spring
is forced back. But as the closing is completed the bent end of the flap passes the
shoulder of the incline and the spring flies back locking the parts together so that
the clip cannot open until the spring is made to release the flap by pressing back
its projecting end.

page_text: For a glove or purse fastener a pin may be inserted at the tooth end of the plate.
to serve as the tooth. The part which the fastener is to retain is provided with
an eyelet or metal ring which goes over the tooth or pin and the flap folding down
retains it. It is not necessary that the flap should be perforated to receive the
tooth upon the plate.
The plate does not require the eye which it has in the stocking clip but in lieu
thereof the plate is pierced with two or more small holes for sewing to the glove.
For ladies and childrens gloves where a smaller fastening is required the spring
is more conveniently formed by folding or doubling over a piece of metal of suitable
form at the tooth end of the plate.
In lieu of the shoulder on the spring, a perforation is made in it, the other end
of the flap being made to drop into the perforation.