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2 Sheets-Sheet 1. T. H. ROYCE. BIUYQLE SKIRT.

` Patented Dec. 24, 1895.

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T. H. ROYCE. BICYCLE SKIRT.

No. 552,004. Patented Deo.24,1895.

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BICYCLE-SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,004, dated December 24, 1895.

Application tiled August 14, 1895.

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lie it known that l, THOMAS ll. ROYCE, ot lrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved l'icyele-Skirt, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a bicycle-skirt which will be completelydivided and which, being s0 divided, will be highly convenient and desirable for one riding, and also to make the skirt in such a way that. it will appear as an ordinary or whole skirt so that its divided charactercannotbedcteeted.

'lo this end the invention consists in certain peculiar features of const rnction, whereby the above and. other objects are attained, and these will be fully describedhereinafter, and tinally embodied in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters et' reference indicate corresptinding parts in all the figures.

Figure l represents a front' view of a skirt constructed after the manner of my invention, parts being shown in dotted lilies. Fig. 2 is a rear view thereot. lrig. I3 is a perspective view, showing the folds ot the skirt eX- tcnded and parts thrown open to illustrate construction. Fig. l is a side elevation of the skirt. Fig. is also a side elevation, partially in section; and Fig. G is a plan view of the blank or pattern from which both halves of the skirt are derived.

'l`he skirt is formed of two pieces of cloth, one of which is a duplicate of the other, and Fig. t5 is a plan view ot' one of these parts showing the pattern. There it will bc seen that this comprises a piece having a truly arc-shaped outer edge cl and an are-shaped and eccentric inner edge which is broken by a gore or incision c, the edges a and l being joined by radial edges e and j.

Reference to lfigs. I3 and t3 will show the manner ot assembling the sections of the skirt, and to do this the gorcs c of each section are first closed, forming the plaits r of Fig IS, while the adjacent upper portions of the edges j" are respectively provided with buttons and buttonholesto form the placket g. Directly below the placket the edges f of cach piece are joined to each other for a short distance, after which cach of the edges f is Serial No 559.274. tNo modehl folded toward the edges c of their respective pieces and sewcd to the lower portions of these edges, forming a seam which will be located at the points l in Fig. il. lhe remainderot1 the edges c are nowjoined to each other, forming a seam beginning at the pointy l in Fig. 3 and extending rearwardly and npwardly and terminating at the point il, while the eccentric and arc-shaped edges li of each piece form the waist of the skirt and are held by the band i.

Each division ofthe skirt is provided at its inner rear side with buttons l, which are three foreach section and which have a st rap 4m operating therewith, the said st rap being ol a length equal to the distance between two buttons, so that when the strap iseonnected with one of its buttonholes receiving each button the skirt will be formed with folds which decrease the size ol` the skirt and serve to hold the same in a more contracted form, which is highly desirable when the wearer is on the bicycle. \\'hen, however, the wearer dismounts, the strap m may be disconnected from the three buttons and its ends engaged with two adjacent buttons, which will permit the skirt to assunte its normal position and allow it to hangmore gracefully and exactly like an ordinary skirt.

From the foregoing description and from the drawings it will be seen that a skirt constructed as my invention has all ot the advantages of a completely-divided skirt or bloomers, and vet is in appearance an ordinary or whole skirt, and so complete is this deception that it will be impossible to distinguish thc'character of the skirt.

Fig. l shows how the construction of the skirt completely conceals the placket g, and also the plaits lt', while Fig. l shows the graceful folds at the rear, and Fig. l illustrates the side view of the skirt and shows the aboveexplained similarity to the whole or ordinary skirt.

ll'aving thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secu re by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, a skirt formed of two duplicate. pieces, cach piece having a lower curved edge o and edges c and f approximately radial to the curved edge u, each piece also having an upper curved edge IOO eonlprising n gore c sind curved portion I1, the upper portions of the edges f forming the placket, the eonliguous portions of said edges fbeing,r joined. to earch other for a` short disizinee below the placket, the upper portions of the edges a beingr joined iioleaeh other, the two last named connections :forming the @rotoli sind the lower portions of the edges e und f of euch pieee being respectively joined t0 each other and the upper curved edges of 1o ezieh pieee forming the waist, substantially als described.

THOMAS ll'. ROYCE. iin esses:

SAML. ORPENHEUM, IC. SIIANAHAN.

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