A New or Improved Belt for Supporting and Holding Sanitary and other Towels and Pads worn by Women.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th June, 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Belt for Supporting and Holding Sanitary and
other Towels and Pads worn by Women.
I CHARLES AUGUSTUS BROWN of No. 17 Northampton Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturing Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a belt for supporting and holding sanitary and other
towels and pads worn by women during menstrual or other discharges the parts of
the said belt being constructed and combined and used substantially as hereinafter
described.
Belts for the purposes described constructed according to my invention are readily
applied and when fastened to the body of the wearer very efficiently support and
secure the towel or pad they also fit the body without discomfort and adjust them-
selves to different sized persons.
A belt constructed according to my invention is worn around the waist of the
woman and has combined with it the appliances hereinafter described for supporting
and holding the sanitary or other towel or pad in its place on the person. I use a
belt made of any desired flexible fabric or material but in order to make the belt
capable of extending or expanding to fit persons of different sizes I make it in three
parts namely of a middle part and two ends and connect the three parts together
by two or more narrow elastic straps or bands. Or the belt may be made in two
parts connected together at their inner ends by narrow clastic straps or bands.
The belt is fastened around the waist by means of eyeletted straps or narrow bands
at one end of the belt being engaged with hooks at the other end of the belt or
buckles hooks and eyes clasps or other fastenings may be used to fasten the belt
around the waist.
For the purpose of supporting and fastening the sanitary or other towel or pad
to the waist belt I apply to the middle of the belt an eyeletted flexible
and elastic depending strap attached to a loop which can slide on the belt.
A hook is attached to the lower edge of the belt for the eyeletted strap to be
engaged with. At one end of the belt a similar depending strap but fixed is
applied.
When the belt is fastened around the waist the middle depending strap is situated
at the front of the person and the end depending strap is situated at the back of
the person.
By means of these two depending straps and their fastenings the
sanitary or other towel or pad is supported and fastened to the waist belt at front
and back. This is effected by passing the ends of the flexible straps through loops
at the front and back of the towel or pad and engaging the turned back ends of the
said flexible straps with the hooks (or other fastenings) at the lower edge of the waist
belt.
I do not limit myself to the use of the particular kinds of fastenings I have
described.
Dated this 26th day of October 1889.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Belt for Supporting and Holding Sanitary and
other Towels and Pads worn by Women.
1, WILLIAM ERNEST FULFORD BROWN, of 17, Northampton Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, executor of the late Charles
Augustus Brown deceased, late of 17, Northampton Street, aforesaid, 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 consists of a belt for supporting and holding sanitary and other
towels and pads worn by women during menstrual or other discharges the parts of the
said belt being constructed and combined and used substantially as hereinafter
described.
Belts for the purposes described constructed according to my invention are readily
applied and when fastened to the body of the wearer very efficiently support and
secure the towel or pad they also fit the body without discomfort and adjust themselves
to different sized persons.
The said invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 is a general view of the belt as worn with a sanitary or other towel shewn
by dotted lines;
Fig 2 represents the same belt unfastened and
Fig. 3 is a modified form of the same.
The said new or improved belt is worn around the waist of the woman and has
combined with it the appliances hereinafter described for supporting and holding the
sanitary or other towel or pad in its place on the person. I use a belt made of any
desired flexible fabric or material but in order to make the belt capable of extending
or expanding to fit persons of different sizes I make it in three parts namely of a
middle part a and two ends marked respectively a² a³ and I connect these three
parts together by two or more narrow elastic straps or bands marked 162. Or as
illustrated by Fig. 3, the parts a' a² may be made together and connected to the
part a by a narrow elastic strap or band 12; or the belt may be made in a single
piece by omitting the elastic strap 2. The belt is fastened around the waist by means
of eyeletted straps or narrow bands c¹ c² at one end of the belt being engaged with
hooks d' d' at the other end of the belt; or buckles, hooks and eyes clasps, or other
fastenings may be used to fasten the belt around the waist as are commonly used with
other belts or bands.
For the purpose of supporting and fastening the sanitary or other towel e or pad
to the waist belt the latter is provided with two eyeletted flexible depending straps
markedff2 attached to the front and back of the belt respectively which can be
engaged with hooks g fixed to the belt; or instead of the hooks buckles h or
other fastening means may be employed for engaging with the straps fƒ³.
I
To support and fasten the sanitary or other fowel or pad to the waist belt at front
and back the ends of the flexible straps f1f2 are respectively passed through the
usual loops at the front and back of the towel or pad and the turned back ends of the
said flexible straps are engaged with the hooks g (see Fig. 1) or with the buckles h
or other fastenings.
In conclusion I would have it understood that I make no exclusive claim to the
use of the elastic strap bor straps 12 in a belt for the purpose described as I am
aware that belts for this purpose provided with an elastic strap or straps were known
prior to my invention hereof, nor do I limit myself to the precise form of belt illus-
trated by the drawing as the shape may be modified according to taste and instead of
employing. two flexible straps f¹f the belt may be made with one only of such
straps to pass through a loop at one end of the sanitary or other towel or pad the
other end of the sanitary or other towel or pad being attached to the belt by a buckle
or other ordinary fastening.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is :-
1st. The new or improved belt for supporting and holding sanitary and other towels
and pads worn by women hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing, that is to say, a belt for the purposes described provided with two flexible
depending straps adapted for passing through loops at the front and back of the towel
pad the said belt being also furnished with hooks, buckles or other fastening
devices for securing the turned back ends of the said depending straps sub-
stantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and illustrated,
and,
or
2nd. The modified form of the belt denoted under claim one which is provided with
only one of the said flexible depending straps for the purposes and substantially as
herein before set forth.
Dated this 27th day of June 1890
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.