IMPROVEMENTS IN LADIES' DRESS SUS- PENDERS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Leslie Fyfe, of Aldersgate Street, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LADIES' DRESS SUS-
PENDERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Leslic Fyfe at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd June 1876.
ALEXANDER LESLIE FYFE, of Aldersgate Street, in the City of London.
"IM-
PROVEMENTS IN LADIES' DRESS SUSPENDERS."
My Invention relates to an improved construction of lady's dress suspender by
which the dress is more securely held than by these articles as at present made.
According to my Invention the suspender, which is attached to a chain provided
with a hook for attachment to the waistband, consists of a spring clip of peculiar
construction by which the dress is held. This clip consists of a pair of jaws
spoon shaped, cupped or hollowed, and having the one a spring pad or cushion,
which fits in the hollow of the other and thus securely retains the dress. The said
pad or cushion consists of a disk of metal, cupped or hollowed, with a spiral spring
behind it, and is fitted in the hollow of one of the jaws, as above mentioned. The
jaws are provided with a runner so formed as to embrace and compress them
firmly together at the point where the dress is held. The runner may be of any
desired form, and the back of the jaws may be corrugated or roughened transversely
to ornament them, and at same time retain the runner more securely in position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Leslie Fyfe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
December 1876.
ALEXANDER LESLIE FYFE, of Aldersgate Street, in the City of London.
PROVEMENTS IN LADIES' DRESS SUSPENDERS."
"IM-
My Invention relates to an improved construction of ladies' dress suspender by
which the dress is more securely beld than by these articles as at present made.
According to my Invention the suspender, which is attached to a chain provided
with a hook for attachment to the waistband, consists of a spring clip of peculiar
construction by which the dress is held. This clip consists of a pair of jaws, cupped

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DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a front view of my improved clip or suspender. Figure 2 a
vertical section through the spring jaws, showing the same in the open position,
and Figure 3 a similar view of the jaws as closed to hold the dress.
A, B, are the two jaws of circular, oval, or other suitable form in face view.
These jaws are attached to a wire spring shank C, which is coiled into a loop at D,
serving to attach it to a chain and to impart the necessary elasticity of the shank
to make the jaws A, B, spring open when released. Each jaw A, B, is made of
thin metal stamped up in the cupped or hollowed form shown, and the jaw B has
fixed in it a spring pad or cushion E, also made of thin metal cupped or hollowed,
as shown, and held in place by the spiral spring F behind it, which is attached
at one end to the jaw B and at the other to the pad E. This pad is received in
the hollow of the jaw B, as shown, and serves, when the jaws are closed on the
dress, to press the latter into the hollow of the jaw A so as to hold the dress
securely, bút with an elastic pressure to avoid injury to the dress. The surface
of the pad E may be corrugated or roughened to assist in holding the dress. G is a
runner sliding on the shank C, and formed so as to embrace the jaws A, B, as shown,
and press them firmly together when slid down to the position shown in Figure 3,
the jaws being thus compressed directly opposite the point where the dress is held.
The runner is made of metal, and may consist of a body part G slotted to slide
on the shank C and formed in one piece with two rigid jaws G¹, G¹, which embrace
the back of the spring jaws A, B, as shown. The latter may have their outer
surface corrugated transversely, as shown in Figure 1, to prevent the jaws G¹, G¹,
accidentally slipping off.
Having described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the the Invention to be protected by
the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, a ladies' dress suspender, con-
sisting of a pair of cupped jaws A, B, provided with an internal pad or cushion,
the jaws being attached to a spring shank, and pressed together by a runner
embracing the backs of the jaws, substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Leslie Fyfe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
A. L. FYFE. (1.8.)