An Appliance for Connecting Braces or other Suspenders to Garments.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Connecting Braces or other Suspenders to Garments.
We, EDWARD LUSCOMBE EVENS, of Clifton Street, Malvern, in the Province of
South Australia, Solicitor, and ALFRED BONNIN, of Waymouth Street, Adelaide in the
Province of South Australia, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an appliance for suspending garments, the special object
being to distribute the strain over a larger extent of the garment than is the case
with ordinary buttons so that the appliance can do the work of two or more buttons,
as for instance those for braces in which case the ends of the braces do not require to
be doubled a single appliance according to our invention being substituted for the
usual pair of buttons.
We shall describe this invention having reference to the accompanying drawings
which illustrate several modifications of the device, and in which similar letters of
reference are used to denote similar parts.
The appliance as shewn in Fig. 1 consists of a metal wire, bar or plate A having a
loop at B and eyes, holes or slots at CC for sewing or otherwise fastening it to the
garment. D is a suspension hook freely connecting the appliance to the buckle E of
a brace or other suspending band. As these several parts can readily move relatively
to each other, the wearer may twist his body into various positions without incon-
venience or discomfort. As shewn in Fig. 3 the appliance may be of metal plate with
eye B and slots C.
As shewn in Fig. 4 the loop B may be made with an eye to swivel or hinge it
to the bar; and as shewn in Fig. 2. the bar A may be jointed at F F to allow of
folding.
The eyes, holes or slots C are not indispensible as a plain bar such as is shewn in
Fig. 6 may have its end sewn into the material of the garment. The bar may be
slightly curved as indicated in Fig. 5.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Connecting Braces or other Suspenders to Garments.
We, EDWARD LUSCOMBE EVENS, of Clifton Street, Malvern, in the Province of
South Australia, Solicitor, and ALFRED BONNIN, of Waymouth Street, Adelaide in
the Province of South Australia, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an appliance for suspending garments, the special object
being to distribute the strain over a larger extent of the garment than is the case
with ordinary buttons so that the appliance can do the work of two or more buttons,
as for instance those for braces in which case the ends of the braces do not require
to be doubled a single appliance according to our invention being substituted for
the usual pair of buttons.
We shall describe this invention having reference to the drawings accompanying
our Provisional Specification, which illustrate several modifications of the device,
and in which similar letters of reference are used to denote similar parts.
The appliance as shewn in Figure 1, consists of a metal wire, bar or plate A,
having a loop at B and eyes, holes, or slots at C C, for sewing or otherwise fastening it
to the garment. D is a suspension hook freely connecting the appliance to the
buckle E of a brace or other suspending band. As these several parts can readily
move relatively to each other, the wearer may twist his body into various positions
without inconvenience or discomfort. As shewn in Figure 3 the appliance may be of
metal plate with eye B and slots C.
As shewn in Figure 4 the loop B may be made with an eye to swivel or hinge
it to the bar and as shewn in Figure 2 the bar A may be jointed at F F to allow
of folding.
The eyes, holes, or slots C are not indispensable as a plain bar such as is shewn in
Figure 6 may have its ends sewn into the material of the garment. The bar may be
slightly curved as indicated in Figure 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what inanner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. An appliance for connecting braces or other suspenders to garments, consisting
of a bar or plate such as A provided with a loop or eyelet such as B substantially as
described with reference to Figures 5 and 6.
2. In an appliance such as is above referred to, eyes, holes or slots, such as C for
fixing substantially as described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Dated this 17th day of June 1897
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.