US643670A - Skirt-supporter and waist-holder. - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 20, I900. A. MILLER.

SKIRT SUPPOBTER AND WAIST HOLDER.

(Application filed May 15, 1899.)

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ANNIE MILLER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SKlRT-SUPPORTER AND WAIST-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 643,670, dated February 20, 1900.

Application filed May 15, 1899. Serial No. 716,854. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNIE MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Skirt-Supporters and Waist-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in skirt-supporters and waistholders, and has for one object to provide a simple and effective device which will securely hold the waist in position and support the rear portion of the skirt at the placket, preventing sagging at this point, and a further object of my invention is to accomplish these results by concealing the device, so as not to detract from the appearance of the garinents.

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents my improvement in use, the skirt being opened at the placket, showing the buttons thereon for attachment to the supporting-plate; and Fig. 2, aperspective of my improvement, showing the belt by which it is attached to the wearer.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied I provide a plate A, which may be made of sheet metal or other suitable material, and this plate has formed therein the notches B and 0, arranged as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The plate also has formed therein the slots D, by means of which the sections of the belt E are attached thereto, a buckle F being provided for the securement of the belt around the Waist of the wearer.

A suitable button G is secured to the waist at the proper point, and corresponding buttons H are secured to thewaistband of the skirt, so that in practice when the belt is secured over the waist the button Glies within the notch O, which prevents the riding upward of the waist, and the buttons H are then engaged with the notches B, which securely support the skirt, and an important feature of my invention is that the weight of the skirt does not come upon the belt, which would tend to drag upon the wearer; but this weight is supported by the waist through the plate, since the skirt and waist are tied together by this arrangement.

Another important feature to be noted is that as the plate is attached to the waist at one point and the skirt at two points said plate is free to rock upon the button G and gives it the action of an equalizer and prevents undue strain from coming upon either the waist or the skirt by the movements of the wearer.

N o efiort or skill is required to detach the skirt from the belt, since it only requires the lifting of the buttons H out of engagement with the notches B, when by unfastening the belt the device may be removed.

It sometimes happens that it is preferable to attach the waist at two points to the plate and the skirt at but one point, in which case the plate is secured upon the wearer in the reverse position shown and the buttons properly set to correspond therewith.

The cost of manufacture of my improvement is exceedingly small, since the plate may be stamped from sheet metal by automatic machinery, requiring only that the belt-sections be attached thereto.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new and useful is 1. In a device of the character described, a plate having a notch in its lower edge centrally of its length, and tWo notches in its upper edge equidistant from the center, and means for retaining the plate in position.

2. In a device of the character described, a plate having a notch in its lower edge adapted to receive a button of a shirt-waist, and two notches in its upper edge equidistant from the center to receive the buttons of a skirt, said plate having a slot in each end and belt-sections with their ends secured in the slots.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing wituesses.

ANNIE MILLER.

Witnesses:

ELLWOOD BYERS, E. F. STERNER.

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