US404163A - Skirt-belt - Google Patents

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(ModeL) M. BRUNNER.

SKIRT BELT.

Patented May 28, 1889.

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of the skirt attached thereto.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARIE BRUNNER, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

SKIRT-BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,163, dated May 28, 1889. Application filed October 18, 1888- Serial No. 288,420. (Modeh) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARIE BRUNNER, of Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Skirt- Belt, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an elastic belt to which a ladys skirt is to be attached, and which is so constructed that the skirt will not become injured or detached by an expansion of the belt.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of my improved skirt-belt. Fig. 2 is a detail of one of its ends, showing a piece Fig. 3 is a crosssection on line as ac, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a crosssection 011 line y y, Fig. 2.

The letter (1, represents a belt of semi-annular form, that is provided with two concentric curved edges. This belt is made of a double thickness, Fig. 3, and is of such a width that when fastened over the waist it will fall over the hips. Vithin the belt a there are inserted two elastic sections, 1), that will permit the belt to adapt itself to the waist of the wearer. These sections 1) have a straight outer edge, in contradistinction to the main body of the belt, which has a curved outer edge, as already described. Thus the elastic sections are shorter in cross-section than the remainder of the belt. Across the face of each of these elastic sections there is secured, by sewing, a frill or rufile, c, in line with the lower edge of the belt. These frills become straigh ened out to a greater or less extent as the sections 1) expand; but the expansion of the sections will never detach or tear the ruffles. At the outer end each elastic section has a binding or edging, d, provided with eyes or other fastening devices.

In order to attach a skirt, A, to the belt, the skirt is inserted between the two thicknesses of the belt, Fig. 3, and the latter is turned inward along the dotted line 6, Fig. 1. This dotted line should preferably be punctured on the belt. The three thicknesses are now sewed together by a plain seam and without forming any folds in the upper edge of the skirt. As the sections 1) are shorter than the main body a of the belt, the upper edge of the skirt will come to the surface opposite to said sections. Thus the skirt is free to be attached to the ruffles c, fastened across the face of such sections. Here the folds f, that constitute the fullness at the back of a ladys skirt, should be formed.

This improved skirt-belt does not create a tight or oppressive feeling around the waist. The skirt may be attached to the belt without plaits or wrinkles. Moreover, the belt does away with the difficulties experienced in fitting skirts provided with an ordinary belt to the waist.

What I claim isl. The combination of semi-annular belt a with the elastic sections 1) within the body of said belt, and with ruffles c, that extend across such elastic sections and are in line with the lower edge of the belt, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of semi-annular belt a with the elastic sections I), inserted therein, and with the ruffles a, secured across the face of said sections, the belt a being made of a double thickness and being wider in crosssection than the elastic sections, substantially as specified.

MARIE BRUNNER.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIEsEN, A. J ONGHMANS.

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