US820856A - Garment-supporting device. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD MAY 15, lada.

J. BTTINGER. GARMENT SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2, 1905.

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UNlTF JOSEPHINE ETTINGER, OF UORTLAND, NEW YORK.

GARNIENT-SUPPORTING DEVIIOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed Tune 2, 1905. Serial No. 263,458.

.T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrnnvn ETTINGER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Cortland, in the county of Cortland and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to belts, and has for its object to produce a comparatively simple inexpensive device of this character designed especially for use in connection with shirtwaists, one whereby the waist will be properly held to the waist-line, one with which a skirt may be readily engaged, and one wherein the back of the skirt` will be properly supported to prevent sagging.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a waist and a belt embodying the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the belt. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. i is a perspective view of one of the belt-engaging hooks. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the combined buckle and hook employed for connecting the ends of the belt. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the front hook removed from its buckle.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the back portion of a waist of any ordinary construction and material having sewed thereto along its longitudinal edges, as at 2, a strip of material 3, constituting a belt retaining member or casing, there being formed in said material at appropriately-spaced intervals and upon opposite sides of the central back line openings or buttonholes 4.

Entered longitudinally through the casing 3 is a belt 5, of any suitable material, there being carried by said belt and within the casing 3 a sheet-metal portion or member 6, provided adjacent its ends with transverselyextended openings or slots 7, through which the belt 5 is threaded, and with oppositelydisposed clamping portions or tongues 8, adapted to be folded downward upon the belt after its passage through the slots 7, thus to maintain the plate 6 and belt fixedly against relative longitudinal movement, while struck from or otherwise formed in the late is a pair of longitudinally disposed oops 9, designed to register, respectively,

with the buttonholes 4L and to project outwardly through. the latter.

Adapted for engagement with the skirt (not shown) is a pair of supporting members or hooks 10, formed from sheet metal and each comprising a plate having struck therefrom a tongue 11, designed to enter through one of the loops 9, these supporting members being preferably attached to the skirt by means of pins 12, engaged with their respective plates by folding the normally upper edges of the latter around one arm or bar 13 of the pins.

The front ends of the belt 5 are connected, as illustrated in Fig. 5, by means of a buckle 14, which carries a hook 15, formed from sheet metal and having engaging portions or ears 16, adapted to be folded around one bar of the buckle, as illustrated, the hook 15 be-"f ing adapted for engagement with the front portion of one of the garments of the wearer for giving the proper downward slope to the belt and a long-waisted effect to the front of the shirt-waist.

ln practice the belt may be readily engaged with a waist equipped with one of the retaining members or casings 3 by threading the belt longitudinally therethrough, it being apparent that this operation may be readily effected through the medium of the plate 6 by folding the belt backward thereon at one end, and, furthermore, that the supporting members 10, may owing to their detachable engagement with the skirt, be readily changed from one skirt to another. When the belt is properly engaged with the waist, the latter will be drawn downward to the waist-line and maintained in proper position to prevent its riding upward, while the skirt will through the engagement of the supporting members 10 with the loops 9 be properly supported to insure comfort to the wearer and prevent sagging.

From the foregoing it is apparent that l produce a simple device which may be readily and inexpensively applied and one which in practice will admirably perform its functions to the attainmentlof the ends in view, it being understood that minor changes in the details of construction herein set forth may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim is-- The combination With a garment having a strip of material attached thereto to form a IOO IOS

Casing, the 'latter being provided With longitudinal openings, of a metal strip seated in the easing and having outstruek loops arranged to register with and project through said openings7 said strip being also provided adjacent itsends With transverse openings and having oppositely-disposedtongues situated adjacent said openings, a belt threaded through the openings foreonneotion With the strip and the tongues being folded into elamping engagement With the belt, and garmentsupporting hooks adapted for engagement with a Second garment and having tongues designed to enter and for engagement With said loops.

In testimony whereof I ai'lX my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

JOSEPHINE ETTINGER.

Witnesses: o

CLarroiv R. LUSK? o ARLETTA W. B. PRATZ.

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