US870452A - Shirt-waist-retaining belt. - Google Patents

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No. 870,452. PATENTED NOV. 5, 190 7.

E. J. MONTIGNY.

SHIRT WAIST RETAINING BELT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1907.

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SHIRT-WAIST-RETAINING BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed June 12. 1907. Serial No. 378,488.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE J. MONTIGNY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of Newv York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirt-Waist-Retaining Belts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a belt especially designed to be worn in engagement with the outside surface of a shirtwaist, that is, between the waist line of the skirt and the shirtwaist, which belt will effectually hold the shirtwaist down and will not at any point in its length have a tendency to Work upward so as to appear above the skirt waist-band.

It is a further purpose ofthe invention to so construct a belt of the character described, that it will be light, well ventilated, and readily applied to or removed from the person, and also so that the belt will automatically reduce its width at its sides to conform to the contour of the corresponding portions of the waist of the wearer, and yet be worn with comfort.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the belt laid flat; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the belt applied to the person; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the central rear portion of the belt, illustrating the means employed for attaching it to the skirt band.

The body of the belt consists of two or more, preferably three, strips designated respectively as A, B and C, which strips are in the form of elastic tapes and are of medium width. These strips or tapes are of equal length and are independent of each other, and the longitudinal edges of the said elastic tapes when arranged to form a belt somewhat closely approach each other, but do not overlap, therefore normally the belt when stretched out lies fiat, as is shown in Fig. 1.

Binding strips 10 and 11 of a suitable fabric connect the body strips or tapes at their end portions, as is also best shown in Fig. 1, and the binding strip 10 is provided with eyelets 12, usually two in number, and the opposing binding strip 11 has a corresponding number of hooks 13, similarly arranged, adapted when the belt is worn to enter the eyelets 12, and hold the l belt upon the person. A central binding strip 14 also of fabric, is employed. This binding strip 14 extends around the grouped body strips or tapes, passing however, from the front to the back, and is attached to all of the strips or tapes by a central transverse line of stitching 15, and at each side of this line of stitching an eyelet 16 is located in the intermediate binding strip 14, the said eyelets being passed through the intermediate body tape or strip B, as is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. These eyelets 16 are adapted to receive a member of a safety pin or hooks upon the waist band of a skirt to hold up the latter.

When the belt has been fastened upon the person, its body tapes are necessarily placed under tension and they serve to hold the shirtwaist effectually down in place at the waist line, and the separated body tapes or strips serve to render the belt hygienic, since it affords means for ventilation, and at the same time the body strips or tapes at the sides or points centrally between the intermediate binding strip and the end binding strips gradually overlap, as is shown at 18 in Fig. 2, and in this manner the belt is comfortably contracted as to width at the side portions of the waist and is made to comfortably and truly conform to the con tour of the wearer above the hip points.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. As an improved article of. manufacture, a shirt-waist retaining belt consisting; of a series of independent elastic tapes of uniform length laid in parallelism, and in substantially close relation one to the other, binding strips for the ends of the body tapes, an intermediate binding strip for the said body tapes. the intermediate binding strip beingprovided with eyelets for the reception of hooks, and means carried by the end binding" strips for connecting the end portions of the belt when worn.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a shirt-waist retaining belt consisting of a series of elastic body tapes of equal length and-equal Width laid one close to the other in parallelism, binding strips for the ends of the said tapes connecting all of them at such points. eyelets lo cated in one end binding strip, hooks carried by the other binding strip to he received by the eyelets, an intermediate binding strip attached transversely to all of the said body tapes and located centrally between the ends of said tapes. and eyelets located in the said intermediate binding strip.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE .T. MONTIGNY.

Witnesses R. E. JACKSON, W. VON GERICHTEN.

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