An Improved Skirt Suspender.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL STEUTICA.
An Improved Skirt Suspender.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN of the Firm of Herbert Haddan and Co., of
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Max
Rothenbücher, Merchant of 12, Weisenburgerstrasse, Potsdam, and C. Winckler,
Merchant, of 8, Anhaltstrasse, Berlin, both in the Empire of Germany, to be as
follows:-
The object of the present invention is a skirt suspender which shall be simple in
construction and in use and shall remain hidden within the skirt.
The holder consists of a plate of metal or equivalent material which is provided
with holes for the passage of the thread by which it is sewn on the skirt and with
a slot in the form of a key-hole. Through the latter is passed a chain or strap
ending in a ball or a button and having fixed on it at certain distances smaller
balls or buttons. The end button is of such diameter that it cannot pass through
the key-hole slot whilst the smaller buttons can pass through the round larger part
of the slot but not through the narrower part. The other end of the chain or
strap is united by means of a ring with a plate from which extend a number of
tapes.
In applying the suspender, the tapes, or as many of them as desired, are all sewn
to the interior of the skirt at suitable places and the slotted plate is sewn on about
3 or 4 inches below the waist-band close to the skirt slit or placket-hole. In the
skirt is a hole which corresponds to that in the plate and the chain or strip is
passed through both in such a manner that the button is on the outside. To hold
up the skirt the chain is pulled upwards by the button and fixed in the hole behind
one of the smaller buttons according to the height to which the skirt is to be
raised. This fixing is effected without removal of the hand by simply pulling and
releasing the chain. The letting down of the skirt is effected in a correspondingly
simple manner.
Dated this 2nd day of January 1896.
H. J. HADDAN.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan and Co., of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Max
Rothenbücher, of 12 Weisenburgerstrasse, Potsdam, and C. Winckler, of 8 Anbalt-
strasse, Berlin, both in the Empire of Germany, 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 the present invention is a skirt suspender which shall be simple in
construction and in use and shall remain hidden within the skirt.

page_text: In the annexed drawings, Fig. 1 shows the skirt holder; Fig. 2 illustrates on a
smaller scale the application of it to the skirt.
The holder consists of a plate a of metal or equivalent material, which is
provided with holes b for the passage of the thrend by which it is sewn on the
skirt and with a slot e in the form of a key-hole. Through the latter is passed a
chain e or the like, ending in a ball or a button d and having fixed on it at certain
distances smaller balls or buttons f. The end button d is of such a diameter that
it cannot pass through the key-hole slot e whilst the smaller buttons can pass
through the round larger part of the slot, but not through the narrower part.
The other end of the chain e is united by means of the ring g with a plate h from
which extend a number of tapes i.
In applying the suspender, the tapes, or as many of them as desired, are sewn to
the interior of the skirt at suitable places (see Fig. 2) and the slotted plate a is
sewn on about three or four inches below the waist-band close to the skirt-slit or
placket-hole. In the skirt is a hole which corresponds to the hole c in the plate a
and the chain or strap e is passed through both in such a manner that the button d
is on the outside. To hold up the skirt the chain e is pulled upwards by the
button d and fixed in the hole c behind one of the smaller buttons according to
the height to which the skirt is to be raised. This raising and fixing is effected
without removal of the hand by simply pulling and releasing the chain.
The letting down of the skirt is effected in a correspondingly simple manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A skirt-holder having a plate a to be sewn on the skirt and provided with a hole
in the form of a key-hole, through which is passed a chain e provided with
buttons at desired distances and with a button d at one end, it being connected
at the other end with strips i to be sewn on to the skirt.
Dated this 29th day of September 1896.
H. J. HADDAN.