Improvements in Skirt-attachments and Waist-belts.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1899 -Accepted, 10th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Skirt-attachments and Waist-belts.
I, ELIZABETH BICKFORD HAINES, of Orwell Villa, Melford Road, Sudbury, in
the County of Suffolk, Married Lady, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in skirt-attachments and waist-belts, and
is designed with the object of providing a simple, effective, and inexpensive device
to be attached to a skirt for the purpose of retaining the upper part of such skirt
in a correct and tidy position necessary for the proper setting or hanging of such
skirt, and to prevent the latter slipping down, or otherwise becoming displaced;
and a further object being to provide means for stiffening the waist-belt worn
with a skirt provided with my attachment, at the part where the said skirt-attach-
ment bears upon same.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein;
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of one form of my skirt-attachment. Figs. 2
and 3, being views of modifications thereof, while, Fig. 4, is a front view of the
waist-belt stiffener.
In the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parta
throughout the various figures, a represents the back of the skirt-attachment,
which may be in the form of vertical and horizontal bars as shewn, or it may
take the form of a plate provided with eye-holes for ready attachment to the
upper part of a skirt.
The said back a is provided with end loops b (Fig. 1) through which the waist-
belt is passed, or such back a may be provided with end hooks c (Fig. 2) or with
a central hook as in Fig. 3.
The back a of the attachment is preferably given a somewhat curvilinear form,
so as to cause it to adapt itself to the shape of the figure.
d (Fig. 4) represents the stiffening device to be applied to the inner side of the
waist-belt.
The said device consists of a curved plate d having eye-holes d' provided in its
four corners so as to enable it to be sewn to the waist-belt e.
In operation, the skirt-attachment is sewn to the top of the skirt (preferably
at the back thereof) and the stiffening device d similarly secured to the corre-
sponding part of the waist-belt.
The said waist-belt e is passed through the loops b (Fig. 1) or under the hooks c
(Figs. 2 and 3) and the said loops or hooks grip and rest upon the waist-belt at
the point where same is stiffened by the device & the latter preventing the waist-
belt from creasing or doubling while the skirt attachment effectually maintains
the skirt in the desired position.
I preferably fashion the skirt-attachment of suitable non-corrodible metal and
the belt-stiffener of celluloid, xylonite or other suitable material.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
CLAIMS.
1. The improved form of skirt-attachment, consisting in a back of grid or
plate or any other form, having end loops or depending hooks through, or beneath
which, the waist-belt passes, substantially as and for the purpose described and
as illustrated.
2. The improved form of skirt-attachment comprising a back having either
depending hooks or end loops; in combination with a stiffening plate having eye-
holes for attaching said plate to the inner side of a waist-belt at that part where
the said skirt-attachment bears, all arranged, combined and operating substantially
as and for the purpose described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.