An Improved Garment Fastener and Supporter.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 14th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
An Improved Garment Fastener and Supporter.
AGNES ERNESTINE HARRIS, of No. 114 West 116th Street, New York City,
in the County and State of New York, United States of America, Gentlewoman,
do hereby declare the nature and operation of my invention to be particularly
described in the following statement :-
My invention relates to supporters and fasteners for garments and like articles,
and consists of a suspensory safety-pin and eye or eyes complemental thereto, the
two parts being adapted to engage each other from opposite sides of and through
the fabric of which the garment, to be supported, is composed; its object is to
provide a ready means whereby various articles of wearing apparel may be adjust-
ably fastened or sustained without the danger of tearing the material of which they
are composed, when a tension is exerted thercon.
In order to more fully describe my invention, I refer to the accompanying
drawings in which like letters refer to like parts in each.
Figure 1 is a view of my device as it appears when in use, showing sections of
the
garments to which it is attached by the short flexible band D.
Fig. 2 is a view of the parts thereof detached.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the invention as it appears when out of use
showing a section of the garment to which it is attached by the short flexible
bands D.
In the drawings A is the safety pin provided with a rectangular bend A', on its
shank, offering a means of attaching the pin to the garment by a connecting
piece D, of flexible material as shown in Figures 1 and 3; the other parts of the
safety pin, the pin A, and shield A³, and the spring A', are of the ordinary form
found in safety-pins.
B, is the eye bearing frame having upon it the eyes b, b, which are preferably
made integral therewith; the frame also is preferably rectangular in form, the
side B', opposite the eyes being adapted to be secured to the garment or band in
the same manner as the shank of the pin A. The operation of this device is as
follows,
The safety-pin and eye-bearing frame, having first been secured to one
garment or to a sustaining band by means of the parts A and B respectively
are placed one upon each side of the cloth or other material of which the garment
to be sustained is composed, so that the eyes b, b, and the pin A2, will come opposite
each other, with the eyes projecting inwardly against the material, the pin A' is
inserted through the material so that it at the same time passes through the eyes
and is then secured in the shield A³, as shown in Fig. 1.
In the drawing I have shown the two parts, A and B, as being each constructed

page_text: of a continuous piece of material, with the exception of the shield A³; this is my
preferred method of construction; it is obvious, however, that my device could be
constructed as well, or nearly as well, by other methods.
The particular shape of the parts also is unimportant.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the enme is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A garment fastener and supporter consisting of a suspensory pin and eye
or eyes complemental thereto; said pin and eye or oyes adapted to be connected
by a piece of flexible material, substantially ns and for the purpose herein set
forth.
Dated this with day of October 1905
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, E.C., Agent for Applicant.