CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LADIES' DRESS HOLDERS OR SUSPENDERS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Schletter and Thomas Hare, both of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
LADIES' DRESS HOLDERS OR SUSPENDERS."
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Schletter and Thomas
Hare at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th June 1878.
HARRY SCHLETTER and THOMAS HARE, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick. CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LADIES' DRESS HOLDERS OR SUSPENDERS."
Our Invention consists of an apparatus, herein-after described, in the construction
or combination of certain parts for the more effectually holding, suspending, or
looping the dress with grace, and preventing creasing.
We will now describe our Invention. Thus we adopt a series of levers working
freely upon joints or pins at intervals. The lower levers are vowed, each carrying a
disc, the interior surface of which is provided with an elastic material for more
effectually securing the dress, the upper levers carrying a loop to which is affixed
the cord or band and passing to the lady's waist, and this working upon a pin also,
but diverging from the perpendicular when not employed, but by the application of
the dress the weight brings the said loop to its vertical position and the dress is
held as desired.
For additional security we employ a slip-ring which traverses the upper levers
immediately beneath the loop, the upper edge having a notch corresponding to a pin
at the base of the said loop, into which it engages when in a vertical position.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Harry Schletter and Thomas Hare in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th December 1878.
HARRY SCHLETTER and THOMAS HARE; both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick. "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LADIES' DRESS HOLDERS OR SUSPENDERS."
Our Invention consists of an apparatus, herein-after described, in the construction
or combination of certain parts for the more effectually holding, suspending, or
looping the dress with grace, and preventing creasing.
We will now describe our Invention. Thus we adopt a series of levers working
freely upon joints or pins at intervals. The lower levers are bowed, each carrying a
disc, the interior surface of which is provided with an elastic material for more
effectually securing the dress; the upper levers carry a loop, to which is affixed the
cord or band, and this working upon a pin also, but diverging from the perpen-
dicular when not employed, but by the application of the dress the weight brings
the said loop to its vertical position and the dress is held in any desired position.
For additional security we employ a slip-ring which traverses the upper levers
immediately beneath the loop, the upper edge having a notch corresponding to a
pin at the base of the said loop, into which it engages when in a vertical position.
And in order that our said Invention may be fully understood, we shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters of reference indicated
thereon.
Figs. 1, 2, are views in elevation; Figs. 3, 4, are views in elevation; Figs. 5, 6, are
also views in elevation of our improvements in ladies' dress holders or suspenders."
In each of the several Figs. the same letters of reference indicate the same
parts.
"
Fig. 1 shews our Invention closed, Fig. 2 open to receive the dress; "a"a we
will designate the bow crossing each other at the pin or joint "b," upon which they
move or rotate in either direction; c, c, are joints, in principle identical to "b," the
upper levers "d," d," being connected to the same, also moveable while the outside
lever "e," working upon a joint shewn at "f"; the upper part of "e" has a loop for
receiving the cord "A," as usually employed, while at the base of "e" is arranged a
projecting stud "g"; h" is a sliding bar traversing the levers "d," d." By reference
to Fig. "2" it will be seen that the mouth of "a" is opened to receive the dress, the
lever "e" diverged, and the sliding bar "h" carried upwards, but upon moving "e"
a vertical position the stud "g" will travel the convex part of "h," closing the bow
'a," a" (the dress having been previously arranged therein) until reaching the
indent," as shewn at Fig. I., it is then secured or locked.
"
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Fig. 3 shews our Invention closed, Fig. 4 open to receive the dress; "a," a," is
the bow, crossing each other at the box "b," and working upon a pin, as before
described and illustrated by Figs. "1," 2." In the said box "6" is secreted a lamina,
spiral, or other spring, and has for its object the compressing and closing of the
parts "a," a"; to the upper parts of the said "a," a," and those parts indicated
"c," c," is connected the links. " d," d," fed upon the ring "e," to which is affixed the
cord "A"; "f" is a sliding bar traversing the links "d" d," being employed for
additional security; thus, when the dress is arranged in "a," a," and the spring in
the box "6" has closed the same, this bar "f" with pressure is brought downwards,
and engages in the serrations "g," g," upon the surface of the links "d," d," and
becomes locked, a reversell action releases the same.
Fig. 5 shews our Invention closed, Fig. 6 open to receive the dress; "a," a," is
the bow, differing so far from Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 as to work independant of each other
and upon separate pins or joints, as shewn at "b," b"; "c" is a plate with a corre-
sponding plate on the opposite side, and between these plates move in a vertical
line the rod or bar "d," at the base of which is a loop "e" for receiving the one end

page_text: of the links "f"f" while the other end of the said links engages in the loops or
apertures of "a," a," shewn at "g," g." By reference to Fig. 5 the rod or bar "d"
is shewn at its highest point, but by applying an inward pressure to the projecting
arms "h," h," the mouth of "a," a," will open to receive the dress, the rod "d"
descending, as shewn by referring to Fig. 6, until pressure is applied to the cord A,
when the dress is secured.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is or may be performed, we would observe in con-
clusion that we do not limit ourselves to the precise details herein given, and shewn
on the accompanying Drawings, as various modifications may be made therein while.
retaining the essential features of our said Invention; but what we claim as new,
and desire to be secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is
"Certain Improvements in Ladies' Dress Holders or Suspenders," substantially as
described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Schletter, on behalf of myself and the
said Thomas Hare, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth
day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
HARRY SCHLETTER. (L.B.)