An Improved Suspensory Device for Skirts and like Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1899
Complete Specification Left. 27th Dec., 1899--Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspensory Device for Skirts and like Articles of
Wearing Apparel.
I, MINNIE LOUISA SCOTT, of Heath Park, Blairgowrie, in the County of Perth,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in suspensory devices for skirts and
like articles of wearing apparel, the object being to provide for such suspension
in a more simple and effective manner, while rendering such devices less harmful
to the dress, less liable to observation, and more comfortable to the wearer than
hitherto.
In carrying my invention into effect or practice, I form my suspensory device
from a thin plate of metal or like material not readily susceptible to deformation.
Essentially the device consists of a comb or toothed bar on one of whose edges
one or more prongs or teeth are formed, and in or from whose root piece or back-
bone, I provide means for the ready attachment of the device as a whole to a
waistband, or belt, or their equivalent.
The said teeth or prongs when stamped or otherwise conveniently formed from
a thin plate of metal or the like, may be of acute angular form, whose apex or
point will readily penetrate an article of clothing and to prevent possible injury
to the texture, while at the same time strengthening the tooth, the edges or sides
of the angle may be " upset or turned in the one upon the other, so as to give
it an acute conical instead of a plane or flat form.
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The means of attachment to the waistband or the like may consist of holes or
eyelets or their equivalent punched or otherwise formed in the root piece or
backbone of the device to permit of its attachment by sewing or the like, or a
portion of such backbone may be passed into or through the band and riveted
or similarly secured thereto.
In the use or application of my device, I attach it to the inside of the band at
or nearly at the lower edge thereof, and with its prongs or teeth free and pointing
upwards. On these teeth being passed into the band or equivalent part of the
article to be supported, and the aforesaid band tightened round the figure; the
supported and supporting articles become practically incorporated; the supporting
band covering and concealing the device, and the whole so disposed in planes or
layers approximately parallel to the figure, as to prevent the uncomfortable
pressure of the device upon the wearer or external bulging or protrusion.
Dated this Seventeenth day of June 1899.
MINNIE LOUISA SCOTT,
Applicant

page_text: An Improved Suspensory Device for Skirts and like Articles of
Wearing Apparel.
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I, MINNIE LOUISA SCOTT, of Heath Park, Blairgowrie, in the County of Perth,
Gentlewoman, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in suspensory devices for skirts and
like articles of wearing apparel, the object being to provide for such suspension
in a more simple and effective manner, while rendering such devices less harmful
to the dress, less liable to observation, and more comfortable to the wearer than
hitherto.
In order that my said invention may be the better understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, in which the same reference numerals
are employed to denote the same or like parts where shown.
Fig. 1, of the drawings is an elevation of my improved device, drawn to an
enlarged scale for purposes of clear illustration; while Figs. 2, and 3, are end
elevation and sectional plan at A A respectively, both projected from Fig. 1.
Fig. 4, is an elevation showing the application of my device to a waist belt or
the like; while Figs. 5, to 8, are cross-sectional or end elevations of the same
hereinafter described in detail.
Figs. 9, 10, and 11, illustrate alternative methods of attachments for my
device, Fig. 11, being a cross-sectional or end elevation projected from Fig. 10.
In carrying my invention into effect or practice, I form my suspensory device 20
from a thin plate of metal or like material not readily susceptible to deformation.
Essentially the device consists of a comb or toothed bar on one of whose edges 21,
one or more prongs or teeth 22, are formed, and in or from whose root piece
or backbone 23, I provide means 24, and 25, for the ready attachment of the
device as a whole to a waistband or belt 26, or their equivalent.
The said teeth or prongs 22, when stamped or otherwise conveniently formed
from a thin plate of metal or the like, may be of acute angular form, whose apex
or point 22, will readily penetrate an article of clothing 27. To prevent possible
injury to the texture, say by the cutting action thereupon of the edges or
sides 22b, while at the same time strengthening the tooth mainly against bending
stresses at right angles to the plane of the device, the said edges or sides may be
upset" or turned in the one upon the other, as shown more particularly by
Fig. 3, and so as to give the penetrating portion an acute conical instead of a
plane or flat form.
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The means of attachment to the waistband or the like, 26, may consist of
holes or eyelets 24, or their equivalent, punched or otherwise formed in the root
piece or backbone 23. of the device, to permit of its attachment by sewing 28,
or the like. In Fig. 4, I show how such sewing may be passed over the edges of
the device so as to more firmly brace or secure it to its band, than when the
form shown in Fig. 9, is employed; while in Figs. 10, and 11, I show how a
pocket piece 29, carrying the device, with its prongs only protruding, may be
stitched to the band so as to provide the attachment.
Again as illustrated in connection with such pocket piece, a portion 25, of the
backbone may be passed into or through the band or the like and rivetted over
thereon or similarly secured thereto.
In the use or application of my said device, I attach it to the inside 30, of the
hand 26, or the like, at or nearly at the lower edge thereof, and with its prongs
or teeth 22, pointing upwards as shown more particularly by Figs. 4, and 5. On

page_text: these teeth being passed into the band or equivalent part of the article 27, to be
supported, somewhat in the manner illustrated by Fig. 6, and the aforesaid
band 26, tightened round the figure; the supported and supporting articles
become practically incorporated, substantially as shown in Fig. 7, with relation
to a separate waist band, and in Fig. 8, with relation to the waist band or
equivalent part of a bodice 31,-the supporting band covering and concealing
the device, and the whole so disposed in planes or layers approximately parallel
to the figure as to prevent the uncomfortable pressure of the device upon the
wearer, or external bulging or protrusion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be clearly
understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details of construction or
arrangement herein set forth, but that I hold myself free to make such alterations
thereupon as conform with the spirit and scope of my said invention, and I
declare that what I claim is:-
A suspensory device for attachment to a waist band or the like consisting of a
thin plate having prongs or teeth in or practically in the same plane therewith,
formed for ready, non-injurious, and concealed engagement with the article to
be supported, together with the means for the simple and secure attachment of
such device to the waist belt or the like, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the appended sheet of drawings.
Dated this 15th day of Dasambor 1800