US56341A - Improvement in ladies dress-skirt elevators - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC THOS. V. PHELPS, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,341, dated July 10, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, T. V. PHELPS, of the city and county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Self-Adjusting Clasps for Looping up Ladies Dresses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device before it is applied to the dress. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal central section of the device when applied to a dress ready for use in looping up the same. Fig. 3 represents a similar section after the dress has been looped up. The portion of the dress is shown in section in Figs. 2 and 3.

In the drawings, A represents a piece of tape or narrow cloth having a ring, B, fastened to one end-in this case in a fold formed in the tape by the insertion of an eyelet, c, as fully shown in the drawings.

0 and D represent two rings similar to that referred to above. The rings O D are held in loops, the ends of the pieces of tape or cloth forming the loops being fastened together-in this instance by an eyelet, d. The end 0 of tape A is passed up through ring D on the under side,'and then up, over, and back through ring 0, then down through ring B, as fully shown in the drawings. Now, if the ends of the loops which hold the ringsO and D are made fast to anything and the end 0 drawn, the rings 0 and D are caused to close upon the tape which is held from slipping between them but when the end attached to ring B is pulled the end 0 is easily drawn up or through between the rings 0 and D.

The inyention, as applied for the'purpose of looping up a dress, is shown in Figs. 2 and 3, in which E represents the dress in section, near the, bottom of which, upon the inside, the

' and D are fastened end 6 of tape A is fastened, as seen at I), while the ends of the loops which hold the rings 0 to the dress, as seen at (I. Now, by drawing upon the end B the dress will be drawn or looped up, as seen in Fig. 3. The weight of the dress is quite sufficient to keep the rings 0 and B closed upon the tape, whereby the dress wil remain looped up until rings O and D are loos ned or separated by hand,-when the dress falls by its ownweight to its original position shown in Fig. 2. desired 11 umber of these looping devices may be employed.

By the use of ring B in the manner shown no derangement of the device can take place, while the whole arrangement is simple in construction and enables a lady to quickly loop up or unloop her dress, and to any desired height.

The rings O and D, being smooth, do not wear the tape, while they hold the latter securely in any desired position. They may be attached to the dress at any height from the bottom.

The device may be used to advantage for other purposes, taking the place of buckles in many instances.

The clasp is self-adjustingthat is, when the weight of the dress is allowed to hang upon tape A the effect is to draw rings 0 and D together, as shown in the drawings, thereby producing the result above stated.

Having described my improved clasp, what I claim as of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of rings 0, D, and B with the tape A, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the looping device above described with the bottom of the skirt of a dress, substantially as set forth.

THOS. V. PHELPS.

Witnesses THOS. H. DODGE, H. L. FULLER.

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