US625061A - Grace roberts - Google Patents

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N0. 625,06l. Patented May l6, I899. G. ROBERTS.

SAFETY FASTENER FUR DRESSSHIELDS.

(Application filed Feb. 19, 1898.]

(Model.)

r u N 0 Y s m a A W o H W i o T o H P o c s R c v E P s n n a N z u T UNITED STATES PA ENT OFFICE.

GRACE ROBERTS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-FASTENER FOR DRESS-SHIELDS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent N0. 625,061, dated May 16, 1899.

Application filed February 19, 1898. Serial No. 670,951. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GRACE ROBERTS, of New York, (Brooklyn,) county of Kings, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Dress-Shields and Fasteners 'lherefor, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Dress-shields to be worn satisfactorily must be held smoothly in position in the arm-scye of the dress, and that they may be put into and taken out of a dress readily they must have suitable fastenings, and these fastenings must be so made that they will not contact with the person and so that they will hold and keep the dress-shield effectively in positionin the waist or other article in which they are worn. I have aimed to and have produced fastenings for the purpose of uniting the dress-shield into a waist, and I have so applied the fastenings to the shields that they cannot contact with either the arms or body. I employ two fastenings, one located at the lower edge of the dress-shield and the other at the upper corners of the dress-shield. Herein I shall describe and claim the fastening for the lower edge of the dress-shield, the fastening for the corners of the dress-shield having been made the subject-matter of an application, Serial No. 687,402, filed August 2, 1898. The fastener located at the lower edge of the dress-shield is composed of two pieces of wire bent and adapted to cooperate together to form a safety-pin which cannot be detached in use on the shield. The two parts of the safety-pin are and preferably will be united to the shield by suitable rivets.

Figure 1 shows a dress-shield provided with my improved fastenings. Fig. 2 shows the fastener fully opened. 'Fig. 3 shows the two parts of the safety-pin brought together preparatory to fastening them. Fig. 4 shows the safety-pin fully united. Fig. 5 shows the eye part of the safety-pin much enlarged and detached.

The dress-shield A is and may be of any usual or suitable material and shape. Preferably it will be composed of two thicknesses, the outer one of cloth and the inner one of an india rubber or gutta-percha compound,

the two thicknesses being provided with a binding 13, or there may be alining superimposed on the rubber. For the lower edges of the shield, to attach it inside the sleeve and inside the waist, I have devised a peculiar safety-pin. This safety-pin is composed of two partsviz., a pin part Ct, having a bend or crook at a, and an eye part composed of a piece of wire I), having an intermediate bend b and an open hook 5 Both the pine and the wire I) of the hook have a loop at one end, shown as made by bending the wire into circular form, as represented at 19 Fig. 5, in connection with the eyepiece, into which will be inserted a suitable eyelet, as c or d, said eyelet serving to retain the pin a or the eye I) in operative position on the shield.

Fig. 2 shows the safety-pin opened. To operate it properly, the point a of the pin will be thrust through a small bight or loop of the material towhich the pin is to be fastened, and the point end of the pin, beyond the part thereof engaged by the bight of the material penetrated by the pin, will be made to enter the space 19 of the bend b of the pin, as in Fig. 3, and then a part of said pin between the eyelet d and its end will be laid into the open notch 19 of the eye, as in Fig. 4, which will serve to hold the pin in place. By bending the pin slightly downward, as at a, Fig. 2, the point of the pin when the two parts of the safety-pin are fully engaged, as in Fig. 4, will in case of any longitudinal movement imparted to the pin enter the little space I) in the eyed end 79 of the eye 6 and will meet the eyelet, so that the said eyelet constitutes a shield for the point of the pin, preventing it from entering the body in case of accident.

I have herein shown the grabs, at the corners of the dress-shield; but said grabs do not form a part of this invention, as they have been made the subject-matter of another application, as hereinbefore referred to.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A dress-shield fastening composed of an independent pin, and an eyepiece, the latter presenting at its free end an open hook or pin-rest, and between said hook or rest and the opposite end of said eyepiece a bend to overlap the pin and keep it in engagement with said hook or rest, substantially as deto said pin, each of said parts being adapted to be attached separately to the dress-shield, substantially as described.

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

GRACE ROBERTS.

Witnesses JAMES G. ROBERTS, L. H. VINCENT;

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