Trousers or other Garments.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1888
Specification Accepted, 29th Jan., 1889
Trousers or other Garments.
1, EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex,
Fel. Inst. P.A., do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to
me from abroad by Walter Greenshields of Auckland, New Zealand, Bracist) and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention refers to improvements in or connected with suspenders or braces
for trousers and other garments whereby perfection of equipoise and to the wearer a
support to the abdomen and an ease of movement hitherto unattained are produced.
The invention will be best understood by describing same with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a front view, on a small scale, of so much of a pair of suspenders or
braces constructed according to this invention, as will be necessary to describe one
part of same. Figure 14 shews a portion of one of the brace or suspender straps full
size, with pulley applied, on a larger scale than that shewn at Fig. 1. Figure 2 shews
the metal as cut or stamped out for the casing of the centre pulley. Figure 3 shews
the head of the eyelet inserted in the same, and Figure 4 represents the same covered
over. Figure 4A are enlarged detached views of the same, shewing the convex side
of the cover, also the back thereof shewing the edge of the cover turned in, thus
giving a smooth convex surface with rounded edges. Figure 5 is a section through
the centre of Fig. 4 and Figure 6 shews in front and side elevation the convex side
of the centre pulley with button loop attached.
A A are the pulleys attached to the strap or webbing made from metal blanks as
shewn at Figures 2, 3, 4, 44, and B the centre pulley for attaching to the hook or
centre button on the front of the trousers, is the cord which runs through the eyes
of the pulleys, a loop D being formed at each end for attaching to buttons more or
less distant from the sides of the trousers towards the front.
For the back end of the suspenders any suitable arrangement can be made for two
or four buttons as may be desired. When undressing, the front buttons are undone

page_text: and the suspenders thrown back over the head. When putting on the trousers the
two back buttons are undone the back part thrown over the head, then buttoned.
For the movement ordinary pulleys may be used or curved tubes as the Germans
use, the cord running in these tubes instead of pulleys but preferably I use the convex
pulley as described.
I am aware that a centre pulley at the side of the trousers has been in use as in
the well known so called "Argosy " suspender. I am also aware that a centre pulley
at the back has been used in the so called "Diamond" and other suspenders, but
I am not aware of any other invention than this which has a centre pulley at the
front.
I am also aware that in order to do away with the sharp edges of pulleys the edges
in some cases are turned over and formed into a kind of bead on both sides of the
pulleys but I am not aware of any other pulley, than this which has a smooth convex
covering over the head of the eyelet or rivet thus allowing free movement without
cutting or abrading the shirt of the wearer.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In trouser or other braces or suspenders, the cord running in three pulleys
connecting the front of the suspenders to the trousers as above described and shewn
in, Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing
2. The construction and arrangement of pulleys with convex covering as above
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings whether used as pulleys with
attached button loops as shewn at Figure 6 or as shewn at A A at Fig. 1, the convex
side of the pulley resting on the webbing of the suspender, all substantially as and
for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 29th day of December 1888