Improvements in Ladies' Belts.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan.,
1899
Improvements in Ladies' Belts.
I, WILLIAM HUMPHREY WHEATLEY, of the Firm of Wheatley and Mackenzie,
Engineers and Patent Agents, of 40, Chancery Lane, in the County of London, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement: -
The object of this invention is to provide an improved form of belt for ladies,
to be employed in keeping the articles of clothing worn by them attached to the
body. The invention consists in fastening on to the said belt a fixed or sliding
tab, with the object of attaching thereto the various adjacent parts of the articles
of clothing, without injuring the belt or altering the shape which it should assume
when put on.
The tab, which may be applied to any kind of belt, is made of leather or of a
substitute for leather, of some textile material, metal, metallic alloy, shell, ivory,
celluloid, or other composition adapted for the ornamenting of the belt.
The tab and the belt may be made of the same material or of different materials.
The fixed tab may be fastened or sewed permanently to the belt, or be remove-
ably attached thereto by means of buttons, clasps, or other removeable fastening
contrivances.
The sliding tab, which slides along the belt, may be left free, or be arranged
so as to be capable of being supported thereon at any suitable point by means of
a button, clasp, or any other means.
The article, or articles, of clothing which are to be supported by the tab may
be attached thereto by means of a pin, clamp, clasp or the like. In the case of
a pin being used, such pin passes through the material of which the tab is made,
preferably into eyes or holes.
As the fixed or sliding tab should be adapted to the ornamenting of the belt,
it may be embellished to a larger or smaller extent being out out, or decorated
with designs, cut and polished stones, or polished stones only appliquée work or
waved work etc. It may be of the same colour as the belt or of different colours.
The improved belt is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate a belt in front view and section respectively with a fixed
tab sewed on to it.
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a belt with freely sliding tab.
Fig. 5 shows part of a belt with fixed tab.
In these examples, the belt a is supposed to be of leather, it is furnished at one
end with an ordinary buckle b provided with a tongue b¹ and a leather slide f, the
other end is pierced with holes a¹ for the insertion of the tongue.
In the case of the fixed tab (Fig. 1, 2) the tab g is sewed on or fastened by any
other means at h in the belt a, in such a manner that it extends beyond the edge
of the said belt. The tab is pierced with holes which may be round, oval, or

page_text: otherwise, and furnished or not furnished with an eye or loop ³, Fig. 5. These
holes serve for inserting the fastening pin j.
In the case of the sliding tab (Figs. 3 and 4) the tab encircles the belt « and
can slide thereon freely. It is provided with a more or less cut out part, which
projects beyond the edge of the belt, below the seam h; this projecting piece is
pierced with holes through which the pin jis inserted.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
An improved form of belt for supporting the articles of clothing worn by ladies,
consisting in placing on a belt of any kind, a permauently fixed or immoveable tab,
or a tab which is either moveable, or capable of being held in place; the said tab,
which projects from the edge of the belt, being pierced with holes, or arranged in
such a manner as to serve as a means for fixing a pin, a brooch, clasp, or other con-
trivance capable of being fixed, at the same time to the tab and to the adjoining
article of clothing.
Dated this 16th day of November 1808
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,.
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.