US629684A - Combined placket-fastener and belt-retainer. - Google Patents

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Patented luly 25, I899.

A. HILDEBHANDT & A. C. UESTEBLA. COMBINED PLACKET FASTENEB AND BELT RETAINER.

(Application filed may 5, 1899.)

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AtLuFu'LE UNITED STATES PATENT .OFFICE.

ALBERT HILDEBRANDT AND ADAM c. ,OESTERLA, on BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND.

COMBINED PLACKET-FASTENER AND. BELT-RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,684, dated July 25, 1899.

Application filed May 5, 1899. Serial No.- 715,652. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT HILDEBRANDT and ADAM C. OESTERLA, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the .State of Maryland, have invented certain new and usef 111 Improvements in a Combined Placket- Fastener and Belt-Retainer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined placket-fastener and belt-retainer for womens garments; and it consists in the novel garment-fastener constructed as hereinafter described.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective rear view of a waistband and skirt provided with our im proved fastening. Fig. 2 illustrates a front and also an edge view of the plate and stud. Fig. 3 illustrates two .views of the hook-plate. Fig. 4 shows the relative position of the'stud and hook when the same are fastened together.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a skirt having the usual waistband b and placket-opening. The placket has the ordinary flaps c c", the latter flap c overlapping onto the flap a when the placket is closed.

A plate 6 of suitable form, but in the present instance elliptical in shape, carries a stud f, which latter may be riveted or otherwise secured to said plate, and said stud is provided on its end with a head g. The plate 6 in the present instance is also provided with holes 72., through which thread-stitches may be taken to secure same to the garment.

The hook-plate t is provided at its upper edge with a downward-projecting hook i, and at its lower edge said hook-plate is provided with a cut-away portion j, wide on the lower edge and gradually contracted as it extends upward and forms a slot, which at its upper narrow part curves laterally and downwardly, as at k, and forms a hooked projection Z. At either side the said hook-plate 11 is provided with holes m, by means of which the said plate may be stitched to the garment.

It is obvious that we might secure the hookplate '5 and the plate a to the garment by other well-known means employed in this class of articles.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that l the plate e, carrying the stud f, is in the present instance secured to the inner flap 0 of the waistband andon the outside of said waistband with the stud projecting outwardly. The hook-plate 'i is secured to the outer flap 0', but on the inside of the waistband b. It will thus be seen by reference to Fig. 4that to fasten together the two flaps of the placketopening it is only necessaryto guide the stud f into the wide lower cut-awayportion j, and the tendency to pull the two flaps apart will serve to seat the said stud in the downwardlycurved slot 70, where it will be retained in po-' sition by the head 9 of the stud taking over the inside surface of the hook-platet'. The book 7: projects above the Waistband l) and is in position to take over an ordinary belt, such as women commonly wear. This hook therefore will prevent the belt from slipping up ward, and it will be seen that the device as a whole serves two purposes.

By our construction a simple, cheap, and

efiective fastening is produced.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A combined placket-fastener and belt= retain er having in combination a stud member secured to one flap of the placket; a hook member secured to the other flap of the placket, said hook member being provided with a wide lower cut-away portion forming a hooked projection, l, which receives the stud, and at its upper edge said hook member provided with a downward-projecting hook adapted to take over the edge of a belt.

2. A garment-fastening havingin combina tion a plate member carrying a stud and pro* vided with means for securing same to the garment; a hook member comprising a plate having its lower edge cut away to form a slot which extends upward and then curves downward and is adapted to engage said stud and a downward projecting hook, 'i, at the upper edge of said plate and means for securingthe plate to the garment, for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof we aflix our signa= tures in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT HILDEBRANDT. v ADAM O. OESTERLA. Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, J r., Gno. KOETHER.

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