IMPROVEMENTS IN GARTERS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR OTHER FASTENING OR HOLDING PURPOSES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugénie Victoria Emery, of Canonbury, in the County
of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GARTERS, APPLICABLE
ALSO FOR OTHER FASTENING OR HOLDING PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugénié Victoria Emery at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th June 1880.
EUGÉNIE VICTORIA EMERY, of Canonbury, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GARTERS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR OTHER FASTENING OR
HOLDING PURPOSES."
My Invention relates more particularly to garters for keeping up socks or
stockings, the said garters being worn under the socks or stockings instead of over,
as is the case with garters of ordinary manufacture.
The garter may be made of elastic or other suitable material and with any
suitable fastening, but according to my Invention I fit to the material of which the
garter is made two or more short hooks, pins, or points, or I may attach small metal
plates having projections or points thereon, so that when the garter is fastened on
the leg, and the sock or stocking is drawn or stretched over, the said sock or
stocking will be held up by the hooks, pins, or points catching therein.
The sock or stocking can easily be taken off by stretching it slightly at the top
and thus disengaging it from the hooks, pins, or points.
According to this Invention in some cases I fit a slight spring inside the garter
in order that it may retain its position on the leg. By making and wearing
garters as above they will be invisible, being under the sock or stocking. It is
obvious that this Invention will also be applicable for various other fastening or
holding purposes, for instance, a belt may be made with the aforesaid pins, points,
or projections, and be used as a substitute for braces, or a band may be similarly
made and fastened round a table to keep the cloth in place.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Eugénie Victoria Emery in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th December 1880.
EUGENIE VICTORIA EMERY, of Canonbury, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GARTERS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR OTHER FASTENING OR
HOLDING PURPOSES."
My Invention relates more particularly to garters for keeping up socks or
stockings, the said garter being worn under the socks or stockings instead of over,
as is the case with garters of ordinary manufacture.
The garter may be made of elestic or other suitable material and with any
suitable fastening. According to my Invention I fit to the material of which the
garter is made two or more short hooks, pins, or points, or I may attach small metal
plates having projections or points thereon, so that when the garter is fastened on
the leg, and the sock or stocking is drawn or stretched over, the said sock or
stocking will be held up by the hooks, pins, or points catching therein. The sock
or stocking can easily be taken off by stretching it slightly at the top and thus
disengaging it from the hooks, pins, or points. According to this Invention I fit a
slight spring, suction disc, piece, or pieces inside the garter, in order that it may
retain its position on the leg by clinging thereto. By making and wearing garters
as above they will be invisible, being under the sock or stocking. It is obvious that
this Invention will be applicable for various other fastening or holding purposes,
for instance, a belt may be made with the aforesaid pins, points, or projections, and
be used as a substitute for braces, or a band may be similarly made and fastened
round a table to keep the cloth in place; further, this Invention will be found very
desirable for surgical bandages for keeping same in position.
And in order to explain my said Invention more fully I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying Drawing which shows my
Invention as applied to a carter

page_text: stretched and brought over the garter, and when the top of the sock or stocking is
released the spikes on the plate B being turned outwards, as aforesaid, will catch
in and thus keep the sock or stocking firmly up, and by stretching the top of the
sock or stocking out again it will be released from the spikes and can be taken off.
By making and wearing garters as above they will be invisible when on. By
applying plates with spikes (or spikes or points separately) to a band and fastening
it round the waist it will keep trousers up. A surgical bandage made with the
before named springs or suction pieces adapted thereto would also be found
desirable, as it would not be liable to slip on any part.of the body where applied.
A band of similar description might be fastened round a table or room to keep
the cloth or carpet in place; in fact, the same principle may be adapted to various
holding and fastening purposes, the spikes or points being of such size and form
most suitable to the purpose for which it is required.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same may be carried into effect, I would remark that I do not intend to confine
myself to the precise details described and shewn in the Drawing, as the same may
be varied without departing from the principles of my said Invention, which I
declare to consist in and I claim,―
Firstly. Fixing spikes, pins, or their equivalents on to a band or strip for the
purpose of holding a flexible material when brought over it, and specially I claim
this as applied to garters for holding up socks or stockings, substantially as set
forth.
Secondly. Spring or suction piece or pieces fixed inside a garter, band, or
bandage, so that it may adhere firmly to the leg, thigh, or any part of the body to
which such garter, baud, or bandage may be applied, and prevent slipping of the
said garter, band, or bandage, substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugénie Victoria Emery, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
EUGENIE VICTORIA EMERY. (L.S.)