US22197A - Lady s hoop-skirt - Google Patents

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S. PEBERDY. 11001 SKIRT.

No. 22,197. Patented Nov: 30; 1858.

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SAMUEL PEBERDY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LADYS HOOP-SKIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,197, dated November 30, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL PEBERDY, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ladies Skirts; 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 A perspective view of a ladys skirt, con structed with my improvement is exhibited.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing the expanding stay or support of ladies skirts of one continuous rod or strip of flexible material which is bent and arranged spirally on the fabric constituting the skirt, or interwoven in a spiral with the same as shown in the accompanying drawing, the spirals of the stay being of gradually decreasing diameters from the bottom to the top of the skirt, as shown. By thus constructing the expanding stays or supports of ladies skirts, a considerable reduction in the first cost of manufacturing the same is effected as the slides which are used for fastening the meeting ends of the hoop or circle stay are dispensed with and the labor and time of applying said slides and fastening the ends of the hoops are saved. It is also found in practice that considerable saving in material as well as time in manufacturing the stays is effected, as a complete skirt having a given number of spirals can be produced from a shorter strip than a stay formed of the same number of concentric circles or hoops, no overlapping being necessary. It is likewise found that to manufacture skirts with a continuous spiral stay requires less labor and time both in the preparation of the stays and the arrangement of the same on the skirt fabric as a less number of pieces have to be handled and adjusted. And in addition to the foregoing items which are by no means of slight importance when we consider the fact that hundreds of dozens are made in some large factories per day.

Skirts made after my invention are more useful than those made on the ordinary plan: 1st. Because they are stayed completely from top to bottom, just as perfectly as if perpendicular stays extending from top to bottom of the fabric were used. 2nd. Because when a lady sits down, if one of the spirals of the stay is collapsed, all the others are mutually affected, and one becomes a support for the other, and consequently while in the act of sitting down, every part of the skirt yields at the same time or winds spirally around the body in a manner to contract the diameter of the spirals and elongate the skirt and thus allow the wearer to sit comfortably and with a consciousness that her dress presents a rounding or symmetrical appearance on all sides and as all parts of the skirt yield together at the same time in sitting down, all necessarily regain their original and graceful appearance on again rising whereas it is found that when a series of separate hoops constitutes the stay, it is difficult to sit comfortably or have her dress present a 'graceful appearance, as one hoop yields or bends independently of another, and bulges out laterally from the body and gives a distorted appearance to a ladys dress and owing to the hoops being capable of yielding separately they have no mutual support from each other and consequently when a lady sits down very often one or more of the hoops are collapsed to such an extent that it becomes necessary on her part in order to give her dress its original and symmetrical set to use her hands and adjust the hoops of her skirt.

The spiral stay B, is to be made of an unbroken or continuous spring formed of one piece or by splicing a series of pieces together and wound from the bottom to the top of the body of the skirt continuously, the continuous spring may thus be extended from the bottom to the waist band or, if preferred, additional hoops may be added as a bustle, in any of the well known modes to the top of the continuous stay, as shown in the drawings. The stay may be either of elastic wood, whalebone, gutta percha, india rubber or metal and the skirt fabric A, may be woven or made in one piece or of a series of pieces or of narrow strips in fact after any of the styles which may be in fashion.

That I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a spiral stay B, with the fabric which constitutes a ladys skirt, where said stay is formed by Winding a flexible strip or rod made of one piece or of a series of pieces spliced or united together continuously around the skirt from the bottom to the top of the body of the same, sub stantially as and for the purposes set forth.

The above specification of my improvement in ladies skirts signed by me this seventh day of October, 1858.

hi SAMUEL PEBERDY.

mark Witnesses:

HUGH CLARK, GEORGE PEBERDY.

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