US20561A

US20561A - Skirt-hoops

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Publication number: US20561A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1858-06-15
Anticipated expiration: 1875-06-15

Description

out-side of the hoops.

UNTTED sTATns PATENT lormoni D. HOLMES, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SKIRT-HOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 20,561, dated June 15, 1858; Ressued August 1'?, 1858, No. 585i.

10 part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a side view of a skirt with my improvements. Fig. 2, exhibits full size the manner of applying the connecting loops to connect the hoops together, as seen on the Fig. 3, is a section corresponding with Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is a face view of one of the clasps which attach the connecting loops to the hoops, representing it in its first condition or before its application. Fig. 5, is a transverse section of the same exhibiting the manner in which it is bent before being applied. Fig. 6, exhibits my improved method of forming the slides.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in connecting the hoops together by a series of interlacing loops in the manner substantially as hereinafter described. It also consists in the employment of a peculiar kind of clasp for attaching the connecting loops to the hoops. And it further consists in forming eyes in the braiding at the extremities of the hoops to serve as slides.

To enable others to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A, A, are the hoops supposed to be covered by braiding thread upon them as is generally done for skirts of the best quality.

made to connect the hoops together by drawing those of each hoop through those of the hoop below it, as shown in Figs. l and 2. The loops of the uppermost hoop also serve to attach the hoops to the waist band B, the

said loops being passed through eyelet holes Z), b, in the band and secured by passing a tape or lace through them to prevent them being withdrawn from the eyelet holes.

The loops a, a, might be sewed to the braided covering of the hoops but as a more secure means of attachment I have invented the clasp E, shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and shown applied' in Figs. 2 and 4. The loops in Fig. l, are supposed to be attached by similar clasps, but in that figure, the clasps are concealed by the connect-ing loops a, a. The clasp consists of a piece of thin sheet brass or other metal of nearly square form of a width about or nearly equal to three times that of the hoops, having/a piece cut from one side of a width equal to the tape of which the loops are to be formed and of a depth about equal to the width of the hoop, leaving two lips Z, Z, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5. To attach a loop a, by means of this clasp, the plate E, constructed as shown in Fig. 1, to form the clasp has the edge opposite to the lips Z, first bent up as shown at m, Fig. 5. A piece of tape of sufcient length is then taken and doubled to bring its ends together, and its ends applied to one side of and lapped under the hoop as shown in red outline in Fig. 3. The clasp in the condition shown in Fig. 5, is then taken and applied to the lapping portion of the loop, with the lips Z, Z, one on each side of the loop. The part m, is then pinched up close with the fingers or with pliers and then the lips Z, Z, folded over and pinched up tightly in the same manner, which finishes the attachment and brings the clasp to the condition shown in Figs. 2 and 3, in which condition it secures the loop much better than can be done by sewing.

rIhe braided eyes at the extremities of the hoops are indicated by c, e, in all the iigures. These are formed of proper size for the braided hoops to slide through them. They are produced at the commencement of the braid in a manner well understood by persons skilled in the art of braiding. The slides constituted by these eyes are much better than metal slides, as, though they permit the adjustment or variation of the sizes of the hoops, they are less likely to slide accidentally. The loops c, e, cannot be conveniently formed at both extremities of a hoop, so I use at one end a slidinghoops by two-lipped clasps E, E, applied in 1Q metal clasp f, of the usual or other constructhe manner substantially as described.

tion.- 3. The formation of eyes e, e, in the braid- Vhat I claim as niy invention and desire ing at the extremities of the hoops to serve 5 to secure by Letters Patent, isas slides substantially as herein specified.

l. The connection of the hoops by inter- DAVID HOLMES. lacing loops in the manner substantially as Witnesses: described. W. TUsoH, 2. The attachment of the loops to the W. HANFF.

[FIRST PRINTED 1911.]