US32547A - Hoop-skirt - Google Patents

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s. n. vvinMofr, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

e Hoor-SKIRT.

\ i Specification of LettersiPate'nt No) 32,547, dated Junehlll 1861.,

To `allewim/n 'it may concern:

\ Beit known` that I, S. R. `VILMo'r, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ofNeiv York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in.Tips and Slides for Hoop-Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact den scription ot thesame,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in` Whiche Figure l, is a perspective vieivof a slide, constructed according to my invention. Fig.

i 2, a side vie'vv of tivoof thesame,applied to the ends of ahoop. Fig.` 3, a perspective vieyv of one of the same, appliedto the ends" 0f a hOOP-l Fig e, a sideview of a tipapplied to a`hoop.l` i

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the sexferal figures."

The objectfoltfthis invention is to `provide tipsand slides for thehoops ofskirts, with stops, so `arral'iged as to preventthe hoops `from slipping `through them andat thesame time admit 1 offthef tips andfslides being swaged or e closed "directly on the hoops With-` e outw any previous `manipulation ofyany kind, 1

thereby greatly economizing in time.l a f1 The `Within described invention consists in striking up a lip the outer endofuthe tip or slide, said lipucorresponding in length `er1 depth to the thickness of thehoop as hereinafter described,"whereby the desired` end "is` attained and an improved article otmanu-l facture produced. f f

To enable thoselskilled `in the artto fully my invention "I will proceed to `describeit.` "1 e A, Figs. 1, 2, and 3 representsaslide understand and construct which is `formed `with the three pairs, `of flanges a, a, 5,111 the usual Way; "said flanges \vhen swaged over inclosing the hoop B at opposite ends, asvshoWnWclearly1nFig. 3;

Theflanges b, admit of the hoop `Working or sliding inthem.` rlheseparts hofivever `are .same as that of the slide i i `Irlaving thus described my invention Whath e I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- .e

common to thev ordinary hoop slides and `therefore do not require aiminute` descrip tion. Y i

\ The outer end ofthe slide A, is provided with alip c, which extends up betvveenthe outer iiangesa, a, a` distance `equal to the thickness of the hoop B. `Thelip c, lis

slightly rounded at its top as shown clearly in Figsnl and 3, andis formed orstruck up `with the flanges a., b, the `Whole being of one piece ofmetal.v M

`fhen the end of the hoop B, is inserted in the slide A,ibet\veen` the `flanges `a, a, the fend of thehoop abut-s against the lip "c, and e as said lip does" not extend up anyfarther than the thickness of the hoop it Will not 1 pre` vent the ianges `a., a, being swaged` snugly over them as shown in Fig.` 3. stopt', were used it`W1ll be seen at once that they Would require to be bent over `onvthe i,

`hoop previous to the swaging or bending Ifa long lip or e down of the iianges` ct, and this manipulation i would consume considerable time and iape `preciably augmentl the cost of `manufacture ot' theskirt` anobjeotion which isavoided by `my invention. Another advantage is that the lipcgbeing `quiteshort but? little n additionalstook isl required.` `The lipsc,V eiectuallyprevent the end ofthe hoop slip-` e The tip C, `shown precisely the;

ping through the e slide. in` Fig, 4, has its lip c, formed ters Patent,is,

Constructing `the metallic slides and tips for hoops of skirts,`with ajlip orstop c, of

a length equaljto the thickness of the hoop,

.substantially as and for the `purpose set forth. .e

. i SR. `VILlt/,IO'FQ `Witnesses: y i

.l D. WV. KIssAM,

e M. M."LIvINGsToN.

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