An Improved Skirt Grip.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1895--Accepted, 7th Dec., 1895
An Improved Skirt Grip.
We BARNARD ALFRED SPAULL of 14 St. Mary Axe, Engineer, and LAWSON
MCCREARY, of 7 Staining Lane, Manufacturer, both in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to an improved grip for attaching the bodices to the
skirts of ladies' dresses.
Our improved grip is constructed of two parts one connected to the bodice and
the other to the skirt. In practice we stamp these parts in the form of plates out
of suitable sheet metal one part being formed with a slot with or without projecting
lips and the other part being formed with a spring tongue or projection adapted to
take or spring into the slot in the first part.
The plates are provided with holes, or other suitable provision is made to allow
of their being attached to the garment.
Dated the 13th day of April 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
An Improved Skirt Grip.
We, BARNARD ALFRED SPAULL, of 14, St. Mary Axe, Engineer, and LAWSON
MCCREARY, of 7, Staining Lane, Manufacturer, both in the City 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:-
This invention relates to an improved grip or fastener chiefly for use in attaching
the bodices to the skirts of ladies' dresses, but also applicable to like purposes.
The improved grip is constructed of two parts connected respectively to the two
parts of the garment or other article of wearing apparel to be fastened together, for
example, say oue to a bodice and the other to a skirt. In practice we stamp these
parts in the form of plates out of suitable sheet metal, one part being formed with
a channel or groove and the other part being formed with a tongue or projection
adapted to take or spring into the channel or groove in the first part.
The plates are provided with holes, or other suitable provision is made to allow
of their being attached to the garments.
To enable the invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is an elevation of our improved fastener as constructed to serve as a
skirt grip:
Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1 :
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figures 1 and 2:
Figure 4 is a view of one side of the channeled or grooved part of the grip:
Figure 5 is a view of the other side of the said part:
Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Figure 4:

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Figure 7 is a view of one side of the tongued part:
Figure 8 is a view of the other side of the said part; and,
Figure 9 is a section on the line 9-9 of Figure 7.
a is the sheet metal plate provided with the channel or groove 6 preferably
stamped in the same, and c is the sheet metal plate provided with the tongue d
stamped from the same; e,e are holes formed in the two plates to enable them to
be attached to the bodice and skirt of the dress respectively.
In the drawing, the channel b is shewn larger at the centre than at the ends so
that the tongue d is gripped towards the two ends only, whereby it can be more
easily removed. It will be obvious, however, that the grip or fastener can be so
constructed that the channel grips the tongue along its whole length.
As above stated the grip or fastener is used by attaching the two parts a and c of
the same to the two parts of the garment or the like to be fastened together. and
then by snapping the tongue d into the channel or groove b. To unfasten the two
parts of the garment or the like the tongue is pulled out of the channel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The manufacture and use of the improved grip or fastener herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing
Dated this 4th dox of Santember 1805
his 4th day of Santember 1805
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.