Improved Skirt Holding Device
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Skirt Holding Device,
I, ADOLPH GOLDSTAND, of No. 5, Lichterfelderstrasse, Berlin, Germany,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The present invention consists of a skirt holder and its object is to provide
a device by means of which the skirt may be effectually held without altering
the arrangement of the folds of the same." This object is attained by attaching
the lower or gripping device to the upper or retaining pin or hook by means of
two cords or chains instead of one, as has hitherto generally been the case.
In order to render the present specification easily intelligible reference is had
to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote similar
parts.
Fig. is an elevation of the device and
Fig. 2 a part elevation showing the upper or retaining pin and modified means
for attaching the chains thereto.
The upper or retaining pin B, which may be in the form of a stout safety pin
or any other suitable device, has a chain or cord A attached to each end of the
same, the lower ends of said chains being attached to a pin C in which the folds
of the skirt are gathered. One of the members of the pin Ceither the back
or the pin itself is advantageously bulged out to make room for a number of
folds, or if desired both members may be thus bulged. In the drawing the pin
only is shown bent outwardly, the chains A. A being attached to rings formed at
each end of each pin by means of swivel hooks D D.
In Figure 2 ordinary rings are employed to attach the chains to the pins instead
of swivel hooks.
If swivel hooks are employed the two pins may be detached from the chains
and used for any other purpose, when the skirt holder is not in use.
It will be obvious that the employment of two chains A A enables all the
folds embraced by the pin C to lie between the chains and thus their position
may be exactly adjusted according to the position of the upper or retaining
device at the waist, or at another part of the skirt. Thus the position of the
folds embraced by the pin C will not be influenced by the suspending cords or
chains, as is the case if only one chain or cord is employed, in which latter case
the whole set of folds is liable to swing to one side or the other of the cord, which
generally lies transversely across a certain part of the folds.
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:―
1: In a skirt holder, the combination of an upper retaining pin B and a
lower holder pin C said pins being connected together by means of two suspending
chains or cords located as specified for the purpose substantially as described.

page_text: 2: In combination with the skirt holder covered by Claim 1, a lower holder
pin having either the pin or the back of the same or both parts bulged outwardly
so as to enable the pin to embrace several folds of the skirt substantially as
described.
8: In the device covered by Claims 1 and 2 the combination of swivel
hooks DD to connect the ends of the chains to the ends of the pins substantially
as described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 95th
T
1900
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent,
56, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.