US573729A

US573729A - van hoesen

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Publication number: US573729A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-12-22
Anticipated expiration: 1913-12-22

Description

(No Model.) l C. VAN HOESEN.

SKIRT SLIT HOLDER.`

No.A 573,729. Patented Deo. 22, 1896.

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UNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

CASPER VAN I-IOESEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONEl-IALF TO DAVID HOCHNER, OF SAME PLACE.

SKIRT-SLIT HOLDER.V

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,729, dated December 22, 1896.

Application led April 29, 1896.

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Be it known that I, CASPER VAN HoEsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain n ew and useful Improvements in Skirt-Slit Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of devices for holding closed the slit or placket in a womans dress-skirt at the back, extending down from the waistband. lVhen the fastening is made only at the waistband, this slit is apt to gape and disclose the white skirt beneath 5 and the object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive device which shall hold together the two overlapping plies of the slit, which shall be easily manipulated by the wearer, and which shall be liexible and yielding in all directions, yet stili enough to brace the plies of the skirt fabric.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an embodiment of the invention.

Figure l is a view, on a small scale, of a skirt to which my holder has been applied. Fig. 2 is a view of the completed holder on a large scale. Fig. S shows the wire of one member of the holder without the casing or covering; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same, showing one of the fasteninghooks. Figs. 4 and 5 are views on a comparatively large scale illustrating the mode of securing the holder to the skirt.

In Fig. 1, X represents a skirt, or the waistband thereof, and y and .e the overlapping plies at the margins of the slit at the back of the skirt.

The holderA is best seen as a whole in Fig. 2. It consists of two superposed members d and ct', secured together at their lower ends, as seen at u'. These members lie normally one over the other and face to face, but in Fig. 2 the outer member ct is represented as slightly displaced laterally for purposes of illustration.

I will now explain how I prefer to make the holder and of what it is composed.

I take a piece of light spring-wire l) and bend it to a zigzag form, as seen in Fig. 3, the zigzags forming a flexible wire strip of the desired width-say one inch-and long enough beyond the wire strip inclosed therein.

Serial No. 589,590. (No model.)

to form the two members of the holder. This wire strip is then inclosed in a tubular cover or casing c, of some thin fabric, and the inclosed strip folded at the middle, so that one member will be superposed on or applied to the other, after which the fastening 'w will be made. As shown, the fasteningw is of thread, but an ordinary clip or spangle may be used. The kind of fastening device at w is not material. In bending the wire b to form the zigzag strip at the proper points the bight of the wire is extended, as seen in dotted lines at t' in Fig. 3, and this bight is afterward bent back upon itself to form a hook d on the member a', which is not inclosed within the casing c, but stands free, as seen in Fig. 2. There may be one or more of these hooks d on the inner edge of the inner member a. In the drawings I have shown two. It Will be noted in Fig. 2 that the casing c extends The object of this is to form end tabs c', to be secured in the waistband of the skirt when the holder is applied thereto.

The flexibility of the structure enables the member a to be engaged with the hookscl on the member a (see Figs. '2 and 5) byalateral movement and disengaged therefrom in the same manner.

Fig. 4 illustrates the preferred mode of applying and securing the holder A to the skirt X. The holder is placed in the slit orplacket of the skirt and the ply -y (see Fig. 4) brought over and secured to the outer face of the member a. The ply z is broughtover the outer face of the member co and secured thereto along the outer edge of same, leaving the inner edge of the member a (designated by @X in Fig. 4) free, so as to engage the hooks d, which, as seen in Fig. 5, enter between the outer face of the member ct and ply z.

I will say here that while I prefer to make. the two members a and 0. integral, as eX- plained, they may be made separate and secured together at w. The device may also be made and sold without the casing c, this latter being supplied by the user; but it makes a neater article of trade when inclosed in the casing. The hook or hooks CZ on one of the members will be necessary, and it is conven- IOO of resilient Wire bent into flat zigzag form and inclosedin a fabric casing, the said Wire and x5 its casing being folded centrally to form two members arranged face to face, the folded end of the said closure forming a spring-hinge joint as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed zo my naine in the presence 0f two subscribing Witnesses.

CASPER VAN HOESEN. lVitnesses:

PETER A. Ross, HENRY CONNETT.