US34182A - Improvement in skeleton skirts - Google Patents

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.l

MARKS FISIIEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ADOLPH OPPER AND LEO POPPER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKELETON SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,182, dated January 14, 1862.

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARKS FIsHEL, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Skeleton Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the skirt complete, and Figs. 2 to 8 are detail views of the method of securing the hoops to the tapes.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

The nature of my invention consists in securing the hoops to the tapes through two or more eyelets inserted in the tapes for that purpose at each intersection, with suitable means for attaching the hoops to the tape passing through the said eyelets and across a portion of the tape situated between them.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it by the aid of the drawings.

A A A, dac., are the hoops of a skeleton skirt, constructed in the ordinary manner, and B B B are wide tapes which support the hoops A in their proper position. My invention relates entirely to the means of securing these at their intersections. In the tapes B at each line where a hoop crosses the said tape I aiix two or more eyelets O C and pass the fastenings through the said eyelets. In Figs. 2 and 3 the hoop is represented as passing through the eyelets; but I prefer the style shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, in which a clasp of metal D passes through the eyelets and seizes the hoop at each end, as clearly represented in the drawings. By this arrangement there is a given amount of play allowed at the fastening, which causes less strain upon the parts than when they are rigidly secured, while all the wear occasioned thereby comes upon metal surfaces, whereby the construction is made very durable.

Still another style of fastening is shown in Figs. 7 and 8. ln these figures a cord or braid is used to secure the hoops to the tapes, said cord passing through the eyelets in the manner represented. Either of these forms may be used at pleasure; but I prefer that represented in Figs. 4, 5, and 6. I am aware that a fastening has been secured to a tape for a similar purpose by passing an eyelet through both the clasp and the tape, as in the patent granted to W. S. Thomson September 2l, 1858; but such device was not equivalent to mine, inasmuch as the fastening or clasp did not pass. through the eyelet and across any part, as in mine, and the strain in that case carne allupon that portion of the tape which was embraced between the narrow iianges and the eyelet. This fastening was very insecure, from the well known ease with which an eyelet may be torn from a piece of cloth, while the security of my fastening is not dependent upon the attachment of the eyelets to the tape, the eyelets serving merely as metallic linings to the holes through which the fastening passes.

There is in the use of my invention no strain tending to tear the eyelet from the tape; but should one become detached from any cause the fastening remains in the same condition as regards security, except that the hole is liable to become enlarged by Wear; but even in that case the second eyelet would remain for a time and perform duty for both.

My improved means of fastening is believed to be not only simple and cheap, but also to possess advantages in durability over any heretofore known.

Having now fully described my improvement, what I claim as new in the construction of skeleton skirts, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Securing the hoops AA to the tapes B B by means of fastenings D or their equivalents passing through the eyelets C C and across a portion of the tape between them, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARKS FISHEL.

Witnesses:

G. H. BABcocK, D. W. SrETsoN.

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