US20865A - Bustle and skikt - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

H. N. DAGGETT, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUSTLE AND SKIRT.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 20,865, dated July 13, 1858.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANDEL N. DAGGETT, of Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Expansion Bustles or Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view of a skirt having my invention applied to it, while Fig. 2, is a perspective representation of it showing its application to the body of a person.

Then a bustle or skirt is furnished, with an adjusting cord applied to it as represented in the specication and drawings of Letters Patent, numbered 17,082 of United States Patents, there is a diliiculty in maintaining the adjusting cord in a proper position on the back of the wearer, as it is very liable to slip up so that its windings shall gather together into the small of the back and so as to dest-roy or change the desirable adjustment of the bustle.

The purpose of my invention is to remedy this difficulty. To accomplish this I apply to the middle part of the waist-band of the skirt, a stout or stiff and elastic extension therefrom, provided with a series of holes or eyelets, the same when the skirt is worn being made to project down the back or along the spine and receive the adjustable cord, through the said eyelets, they serving to maintain the windings of the cord properly apart around the body and prevent them from slipping upward or getting out of place as described.

In the drawings, A, exhibits an ordinary skirt, of which, al, a, a., are the hoops, Z), the waist-band, and, o, o, o, the connecting bands.

B represents the adjusting cord as roved through eyelets made in two of the adjusting bands. The windings, e, e, e, of said cord are also carried through the eyelets of the strut, C, which extends down from the waist-band and along the back when the skirt is worn on the body of a person.

I wish it distinctly understood, that I lay no claim to the invention of the adjusting cord as applied to a bustle or a skirt, but

The improvement or combination of the back strut, with the bustle or skirt and the adjust-ing lacing such being applied and made to operate as and for the purpose specified.

HANDEL N. DAGGETT. Witnesses:

JOHN DAGGETT, JOHN M. DAGGETT.

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